英语词汇“half-wit”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

“I—I’m a half-wit?” stuttered Argon, equally ignorant. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Four and a half-wit make seven,” says Kat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a local half-wit who spends his time on the beach,” said Favell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I bet she can’t wait to get back to her know-it-all friends and tell them how Jane McKeene is a mad half-wit that believes in invisible creatures swimming around in our blood. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He beat Jack, and the lad is a half-wit. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“A plot against me. You're all in it, every one of you. Someone’s paid this half-wit, I tell you. Paid him to tell his string of dirty lies.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Better his precious baby Cora grow up with new parents who could give her everything she wanted than with a half-wit like him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Father spoke slowly, as if to a half-wit, “Elections are good, and Christianity is good. Both are good.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never before had I seen my family as such half-wits, such hayseeds, such dolts. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At length a bumbling hairy half-wit was brought in for questioning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“For the afternoon, you gormless half-wit! They stop serving till evening!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“The good doctor is a half-wit,” said Cumulus, unfamiliar with the commander’s temper. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There’s something ’bout the way those half-wit horseflies move on the water that scares the small fish away and drives the big fish berserk! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Alexander’s official descendants, his infant son Alexander IV and his “half-wit” half brother Philip Arridaeus, were quickly pushed aside. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I enjoy him as a goof on the colorful history of actual half-wit nobles and monarchs — and thus as a dead-eyed critique of the very concept of royalty by birth. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 4: An Hour of Ice and Fire 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Will he be facing off against sophisticates rather than half-wits like Dewey Crowe? 'Justified' Recap: Decline, Loss and the Good Cheer of Dewey Crowe 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

There are obviously those who will view this book – like so much of the output of Simon Cowell's global media empire – as an entity aimed solely at the lucrative "irredeemable half-wit" market. Britain's Got Talent – and Pudsey has an entourage 2012-07-19T19:00:09Z

It is left to Geraldine Fitzgerald as a pipe-smoking Scottish school teacher and Christopher Godwin as a widely travelled know-all to persuade us that the English countryside is not populated entirely by half-wits. The Invisible Man ? review 2010-11-24T21:45:00Z

"Think of the Goof as a composite of an everlasting optimist, a gullible Good Samaritan, a half-wit, a shiftless, good-natured colored boy, and a hick," Babbitt told his staff in 1934. Sometimes we can go home again: “Atlanta” comes full circle in its final season, only richer 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Ken, Rome, and Shiv suspect that if they put their three half-wits together, they'd figure out how to keep Daddy's multibillion-dollar conglomerate afloat. On "Succession," why bother simply surviving when you can fake what it means to be living ... plus? 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Richard Armstrong conducted with incisive intelligence, the orchestra was phenomenal and the lineup of creepy, half-wit suitors, led by Andrew Shore, Christopher Turner and Ryland Davies, completed a mesmerising night. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

“I thought he was a little snooty,” he said of Mr. Colbert, “and I think he thought that I was a half-wit thug.” Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

With a broad, cherubic face, dimpled chin, unruly hair and a charismatic presence described as “gnomelike,” Mr. Pollard excelled at playing imps, half-wits and outright weirdos. Michael J. Pollard, scene-stealing actor in ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ dies at 80 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Morgan’s audacity lay in his restraint: He wanted to see the Windsors steadily and to see them whole, as neither pampered half-wits nor infallible deities. How the Man Behind ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

He recommends that the left not ridicule Trump supporters, only to characterize them several pages later as a basket of “half-wits, Christian fascists, criminals, racists, and moral deviants.” Review | A relentlessly dark indictment of global capitalism 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

America has been appropriated by half-wits and their elected representatives. Republican Senators Raise Possible Charges Against Author of Trump Dossier 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

In his withering 1950 essay “The Simple Art of Murder,” Raymond Chandler wrote that the solution to Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” was so far-fetched that “only a half-wit could guess it.” Kenneth Branagh gives good Poirot, clumsy direction in 'Murder on the Orient Express' 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Every half-wit on Twitter is asking if Hefner will go to heaven when he already lived in it. I called Hugh Hefner a pimp, he threatened to sue. But that’s what he was | Suzanne Moore 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Nobody trusts anybody else very much, and when two half-wits start throwing punches and imprecations, things quickly escalate and the warehouse becomes a shooting gallery. ‘Free Fire’ review: B-movie goes trigger-happy 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

Back to playing a man-child very much in the mold of his “Hangover” character, which is to say someone who is a quarter of the way to being a half-wit. ‘Masterminds’: a pretty brainless heist comedy 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

But these people are the hopeless duds who figured if they couldn't do well at life, they might as well try to disrupt someone else's: set off a half-wit bomb or drive like a maniac. Manhattan Bombs Provide Trove of Clues; F.B.I. Questions 5 People 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Rather, she is calling our attention to a real threat, one that is being validated, not by her, but rather by the amoral, incompetent half-wit, Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton Denounces the ‘Alt-Right,’ and the Alt-Right Is Thrilled 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

“From you, of all people, I would never have expected such a thing. Bonuses … You’re a disappointment, a defeat from the moment you open your mouth. Just like all the rest of these half-wits.” Antonio Conte: the volcanic manager who will never settle for second best at Chelsea | Paolo Bandini 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

The sweet poetry of watching the half-wit son cost his father his job was sublime tragi-comedy. Six reasons it went wrong for England 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Some peasant department of France full of half-wits in chateaux; some crumbling Indian palace-city, or some dead colonial town in a hopeless South American country. The Courage of Migrants 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

“Who would topple me? What half-wit would do anything like that?” he asked reporters recently. Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand coup leader, tightens grip amid turmoil one year later 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Actually, in Venezuela, calling them half-wits is probably a mite too polite. The Ghastly Economic Mess In Venezuela And How To Avoid It (Hint, Don't Raise The Minimum Wage) 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

What the poor half-wit did not understand is that I only got involved in projects outside my own cubicle when people asked me for help. If You Did It, Claim It On Your Resume! 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

That too was done in a relatively timely manner so we were spared the spectacle of a dozen half-wits bouncing behind an over-excited, yellow-tied, reporter. Transfer window fans’ verdict part 1: Arsenal to Manchester City 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Wake up you half-wit and smell the government issue coffee. Abused Kids May Get Unique Form of PTSD 2013-04-30T09:00:00Z

Erring bankers lashed as "half-wits" and crime "accomplices." Insight: Blunt talk from China ex-premier stirs reform pot 2011-09-27T06:03:56Z

And once in a while there is a monster born, sometimes a man, more often a woman, who is born really cold—like a born half-wit or a two-headed cat. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z

He felt “Soapy’s” pulse, and talked of the stomach-pump, which did not in the least alarm the half-wit, who declared that he “could eat a wheelbarrow full of them.” The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z

Your half-wits who sit and turn first one cheek and then the other to be slapped are not the sort for me. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z

Poor half-wit Benny, whose only blessings were a dim little old mother and a new red necktie! Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z

And, as Fibsy had declared, he knew the half-wit now well enough to feel pretty sure when he was telling the truth and when not. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z

“Any half-wit knows Connecticut will not vote for a professional wrestling ‘impresario’ for the U.S. Our Towns: Rob Simmons Rallies in Connecticut Senate Primary 2010-06-14T00:20:00Z

The team says its find buries "the view of Neanderthals as half-wits" and shows they were capable of symbolic thinking. 2010-01-09T01:47:00Z

Another is that, as a family, we all have straight backs and moderately developed intellects; that we are neither dime museum freaks, lunatics, nor half-wits. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z

The old grandmother, looking very tiny and old-fashioned in rustling black taffeta, had gone to church, too, leading her middle-aged half-wit son by the hand. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z

Indeed, nobody seems able to serve him as well as that poor half-wit. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch

The half-wit, although manacled, managed to reach Santiago and related his experience to the great delight of the governor and the residents. The History of Cuba, vol. 1

They saw her and the tall young stranger halt suddenly—saw the young man gently push the woman back of him and stand full front, frowning, questioning, almost directly against the half-wit. The Broken Gate A Novel

“We act like a crowd o’ half-wits, a-thryin’ to boost his spirits a bit, an’ all the time he grows whiter an’ quieter.” Leerie

At sight of Sally, shrinking timidly against the chair which was to be hers, the half-wit lunged toward her like a playful, overgrown puppy. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z

Heed not if half-wits mock your broken blade: Mammon our master doeth all things ill. Poems

Cold and unfeeling at best, these men had no sympathy with their young charge whom they naturally believed to be one of the harpies or half-wits caught in the police dragnet. Orphans of the Storm

You see, he confessed—the half-wit did—before he was killed. The Broken Gate A Novel

Seem’s if the Evil One had been let loose, here at Sobrante, when the word of a half-wit––poor half, at that––is held proof against the entire life of an honest old man.” Jessica, the Heiress

Carnes, a brainless fool who does only as you tell him, a few half-wits in the Bureau of Standards, some of them already in my pay, and one renegade girl. The Great Drought

If he were not the poor half-wit he is, we would by all means. Sunlight Patch

The half-wits are always suspicious of others’ wits. Seven Miles to Arden

"Hello, Pa," exclaimed the half-wit, and laughed long and loud. The Broken Gate A Novel

Seems if even a half-wit would steal from his own brother, and it must have passed through Antonio’s hands first.” Jessica, the Heiress

The object was the incipient statesman, and in a second more the half-wit had also reached the kitchen floor and had shut the door behind him. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life

For the instant he partially suspected mischief and wheeled about, but one look at the half-wit dissipated all doubt. Sunlight Patch

Pick out some harmless lad that was saucy to Rackham in the Revenge, a half-wit like that Robinson younker that was the sailing-master's own cabin boy. Blackbeard: Buccaneer

A sudden terror caught Aurora Lane's soul as she realized that the addled mind of this half-wit was more than to a usual extent gone wrong. The Broken Gate A Novel

But the poor lad, my half-wit brother Ferd, ugly, sinful, desolate––he will be left alone. Jessica, the Heiress

Within a day or two he had had occasion to suspect that the half-wit had some uncanny scheme on hand. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life

When I was at school, the kind of boy who liked teasing half-wits was not the sort that stood up to bullies. Eugenics and Other Evils

For a moment it occurred to Seaton that the cunning half-wit, apprehensive lest too great a share of the savoury victuals should fall to their lot, had contrived to forbid this appropriation. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2

For what the half-wit did was what he had seen these others do. The Broken Gate A Novel

The victims, in the main, were half-wits suffering from the martyr complex; it was their admitted desire to sacrifice themselves for the Larger Good. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

In bestowing his gift he had provided to have it in such shape as he knew the half-wit would best comprehend. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life

She is almost a half-wit," he had said to himself, "but she can cook and clean and seems to have the kindest heart in the world. Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman

For even if one calls him a half-wit, it still makes a difference that he keeps the right half of his wits. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

"Now you—now you throw it at me—and I'll hit it," said the half-wit. The Broken Gate A Novel

She'll be in Dalness yet, perhaps better off than scouring the wilds, for after all even the MacDonalds are human, and a half-wit widow woman would be sure of their clemency. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

Then she seemed to see her mother's gentle face and, conquering the aversion she felt, she pulled out her handkerchief and began to wipe the discolored, ill-shapen lips of the half-wit. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life

At that very moment the so-called half-wit was boarding a train for the village in Indiana where a certain sanitarium was situated. Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman

Touting for German trade, always for his advantage, he twists the poor half-wit of the Winter Palace like a piece of straw. Face to Face with Kaiserism

Ephraim Adamson followed him; but still evading, the half-wit passed out through the gate which led into the garden patch at the rear of the house. The Broken Gate A Novel

These were thoughts suited to a homicidal half-wit. The Tyranny of Weakness

The library door was open, and it seemed as if the half-wit were trying to force the other backward into the building. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life

You probably saved my life, for you can't tell what a half-wit will do, when in a tantrum and armed with a knife. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story

He might have been commenting on the antics of the village half-wit, from his tone. Omnilingual

The half-wit, cracking his knuckles now yet more loudly, and knocking his fists together, had wholly lost his amiable smile. The Broken Gate A Novel

With huge satisfaction he looked upon the sparkling sea, the little vessel which scooned across it, his traveling mate, the big negro and the half-wit Philippine cabin boy. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure

From that it was rescued by the half-wit and treasured carefully; for to the purpose formed in his mind it would prove a great help. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life

Two great wits may increase each other's brilliancy, but two half-wits will not make a single whole one. Is Life Worth Living?

Policy in the hands of a diplomat is like a sharp sword in the grasp of an able fencer, but policy in the hands of fools, is like a good knife wielded by a half-wit. A String of Amber Beads

They saw the half-wit boy now advance upon Don Lane with a roar or bawl of rage, his arms swinging flail-like. The Broken Gate A Novel

I praise heaven I never met but with two half-wits in my life, and my master's one of them; I will not name the other at this time. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04

All the fairy tales of her beloved Ireland rushed through her mind, and she regarded the half-wit with a new veneration. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life

"Nay," returned the leering half-wit, "I was but a-thinking, that if he does, may be his master too will want a heriot." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1

Willie, the half-wit, one of the sheep outfit, had readily taken the oath of allegiance; beyond that, however, there had been a hitch in the proceedings. Heart's Desire

"No, you don't—just you leave him be!" called out Eph Adamson, as the young man pushed the half-wit back from him, his own blue eyes now beginning to glint. The Broken Gate A Novel

Bill was a half-wit but as strong as an ox; and, once set upon a task, managed it in a way that had given him a secure position in the community. The Man Thou Gavest

"I'm not so sure you are a half-wit, Johnny," said Douglas sincerely. Judith of the Godless Valley

To say you have read a book and then seemingly to understand nothing of what you have read, proves you a half-wit. Etiquette

That was before he was married upon the wife he took later—" Here Mr. Saul nudged me, and whispered: "The old Laird—had her married to that daunderin' old half-wit Duncan, to cover things up. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales

He wants to fight, as usual, him and his half-wit boy. The Broken Gate A Novel

She wrote and sent the letter long of—of Bill Trim, a half-wit—but trusty. The Man Thou Gavest

If she hadn't been on her guard or had been born a half-wit she could have easily believed in love and bliss at every turn. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

On the other hand to say needlessly "What an ugly girl!" or "What a half-wit that boy is!" can be of no value except in drawing attention to your own tactlessness. Etiquette

Crane was a harmless half-wit who lived alone in a shanty at the back of Deacon Gramps' field. The Deacon of Dobbinsville A Story Based on Actual Happenings

It's got so lately, every Saturday afternoon regular, him and his half-wit yonder stands off the whole town. The Broken Gate A Novel

Oh, occasionally one of our bright young men digs up a half-wit who's willing to try anything once. The Go-Getter

His pedigree," answered the half-wit, gravely, "goes back for three hundred years. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire

Not long ago a little Duke who owes his title to the fact that his great-grand-aunt was the paramour of a half-wit prince, kindly condescended to marry an American girl to recoup his failing fortunes. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12

It was even more ridiculous than the social performance of that other half-wit, Little Billee, in Carrel's atelier. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01

"He don't know but I know," he shouted, stopping to gaze down into the dumb, unresponsive face of the half-wit. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life

Who is the half-wit who could make Your Majesty believe that a knight exists who can even compare to him in glory, honor and virtue? The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc

The fool priest will upset the whole work to which I have devoted near twenty years," he muttered, "if I find not the means to quiet his half-wit tongue. The Outlaw of Torn

"You shall die for that, you half-wit," he cried. The Mad King

There he began to think less about the half-wit, with his livid face and mouth like a fish. The Innocence of Father Brown

Beside being a half-wit he had something the matter with his legs. Poor White

I append the comeback: I mean come at once, you maddening half-wit. Right Ho, Jeeves

I been putting this Bull Hunter down for a half-wit, pretty near. Bull Hunter

It was pitiful to think that this big, handsome young man, for whose return to the throne all Lutha had prayed for ten long years, was only a silly half-wit. The Mad King

The law has always behaved as if a woman became a half-wit the moment she married. Nonsenseorship

Allie Mulberry the half-wit was one of the highlights of life in the town. Poor White

One of them is a half-wit, and the other"—he hunched his shoulders—"is worse. The Honor of the Big Snows

But I'd be a half-wit to sit in one room and count the sunflowers on the wall-paper while I waited for you. Flappers and Philosophers

But Timothy is but a half-wit; and he has a wife and children. Cousin Phillis

It was a near thing, a very near thing, but I'm not the half-wit I've feigned to be for years. The Lady of Blossholme

No one but the half-wit and Steve Hunter were admitted to the society of the telegraph operator. Poor White

How did he get that quantity of half-wit, that sort of stupid cunning, into his little brain, and yet get no more? Madam How and Lady Why

For democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces. In Defense of Women

One day when a part Hugh had fashioned would not work the half-wit himself made the model of a part that worked perfectly. Poor White

单词	half-wit
例句	half-wit “I—I’m a half-wit?” stuttered Argon, equally ignorant. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Four and a half-wit make seven,” says Kat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a local half-wit who spends his time on the beach,” said Favell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I bet she can’t wait to get back to her know-it-all friends and tell them how Jane McKeene is a mad half-wit that believes in invisible creatures swimming around in our blood. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He beat Jack, and the lad is a half-wit. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “A plot against me. You're all in it, every one of you. Someone’s paid this half-wit, I tell you. Paid him to tell his string of dirty lies.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Better his precious baby Cora grow up with new parents who could give her everything she wanted than with a half-wit like him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Father spoke slowly, as if to a half-wit, “Elections are good, and Christianity is good. Both are good.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Never before had I seen my family as such half-wits, such hayseeds, such dolts. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z At length a bumbling hairy half-wit was brought in for questioning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “For the afternoon, you gormless half-wit! They stop serving till evening!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “The good doctor is a half-wit,” said Cumulus, unfamiliar with the commander’s temper. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z There’s something ’bout the way those half-wit horseflies move on the water that scares the small fish away and drives the big fish berserk! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Alexander’s official descendants, his infant son Alexander IV and his “half-wit” half brother Philip Arridaeus, were quickly pushed aside. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I enjoy him as a goof on the colorful history of actual half-wit nobles and monarchs — and thus as a dead-eyed critique of the very concept of royalty by birth. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 4: An Hour of Ice and Fire 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Will he be facing off against sophisticates rather than half-wits like Dewey Crowe? 'Justified' Recap: Decline, Loss and the Good Cheer of Dewey Crowe 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z There are obviously those who will view this book – like so much of the output of Simon Cowell's global media empire – as an entity aimed solely at the lucrative "irredeemable half-wit" market. Britain's Got Talent – and Pudsey has an entourage 2012-07-19T19:00:09Z It is left to Geraldine Fitzgerald as a pipe-smoking Scottish school teacher and Christopher Godwin as a widely travelled know-all to persuade us that the English countryside is not populated entirely by half-wits. The Invisible Man ? review 2010-11-24T21:45:00Z "Think of the Goof as a composite of an everlasting optimist, a gullible Good Samaritan, a half-wit, a shiftless, good-natured colored boy, and a hick," Babbitt told his staff in 1934. Sometimes we can go home again: “Atlanta” comes full circle in its final season, only richer 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Ken, Rome, and Shiv suspect that if they put their three half-wits together, they'd figure out how to keep Daddy's multibillion-dollar conglomerate afloat. On "Succession," why bother simply surviving when you can fake what it means to be living ... plus? 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Richard Armstrong conducted with incisive intelligence, the orchestra was phenomenal and the lineup of creepy, half-wit suitors, led by Andrew Shore, Christopher Turner and Ryland Davies, completed a mesmerising night. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z “I thought he was a little snooty,” he said of Mr. Colbert, “and I think he thought that I was a half-wit thug.” Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z With a broad, cherubic face, dimpled chin, unruly hair and a charismatic presence described as “gnomelike,” Mr. Pollard excelled at playing imps, half-wits and outright weirdos. Michael J. Pollard, scene-stealing actor in ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ dies at 80 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Morgan’s audacity lay in his restraint: He wanted to see the Windsors steadily and to see them whole, as neither pampered half-wits nor infallible deities. How the Man Behind ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z He recommends that the left not ridicule Trump supporters, only to characterize them several pages later as a basket of “half-wits, Christian fascists, criminals, racists, and moral deviants.” Review \| A relentlessly dark indictment of global capitalism 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z America has been appropriated by half-wits and their elected representatives. Republican Senators Raise Possible Charges Against Author of Trump Dossier 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z In his withering 1950 essay “The Simple Art of Murder,” Raymond Chandler wrote that the solution to Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” was so far-fetched that “only a half-wit could guess it.” Kenneth Branagh gives good Poirot, clumsy direction in 'Murder on the Orient Express' 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Every half-wit on Twitter is asking if Hefner will go to heaven when he already lived in it. I called Hugh Hefner a pimp, he threatened to sue. But that’s what he was \| Suzanne Moore 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Nobody trusts anybody else very much, and when two half-wits start throwing punches and imprecations, things quickly escalate and the warehouse becomes a shooting gallery. ‘Free Fire’ review: B-movie goes trigger-happy 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Back to playing a man-child very much in the mold of his “Hangover” character, which is to say someone who is a quarter of the way to being a half-wit. ‘Masterminds’: a pretty brainless heist comedy 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But these people are the hopeless duds who figured if they couldn't do well at life, they might as well try to disrupt someone else's: set off a half-wit bomb or drive like a maniac. Manhattan Bombs Provide Trove of Clues; F.B.I. Questions 5 People 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Rather, she is calling our attention to a real threat, one that is being validated, not by her, but rather by the amoral, incompetent half-wit, Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton Denounces the ‘Alt-Right,’ and the Alt-Right Is Thrilled 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z “From you, of all people, I would never have expected such a thing. Bonuses … You’re a disappointment, a defeat from the moment you open your mouth. Just like all the rest of these half-wits.” Antonio Conte: the volcanic manager who will never settle for second best at Chelsea \| Paolo Bandini 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The sweet poetry of watching the half-wit son cost his father his job was sublime tragi-comedy. Six reasons it went wrong for England 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Some peasant department of France full of half-wits in chateaux; some crumbling Indian palace-city, or some dead colonial town in a hopeless South American country. The Courage of Migrants 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “Who would topple me? What half-wit would do anything like that?” he asked reporters recently. Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand coup leader, tightens grip amid turmoil one year later 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Actually, in Venezuela, calling them half-wits is probably a mite too polite. The Ghastly Economic Mess In Venezuela And How To Avoid It (Hint, Don't Raise The Minimum Wage) 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z What the poor half-wit did not understand is that I only got involved in projects outside my own cubicle when people asked me for help. If You Did It, Claim It On Your Resume! 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z That too was done in a relatively timely manner so we were spared the spectacle of a dozen half-wits bouncing behind an over-excited, yellow-tied, reporter. Transfer window fans’ verdict part 1: Arsenal to Manchester City 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Wake up you half-wit and smell the government issue coffee. Abused Kids May Get Unique Form of PTSD 2013-04-30T09:00:00Z Erring bankers lashed as "half-wits" and crime "accomplices." Insight: Blunt talk from China ex-premier stirs reform pot 2011-09-27T06:03:56Z And once in a while there is a monster born, sometimes a man, more often a woman, who is born really cold—like a born half-wit or a two-headed cat. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z He felt “Soapy’s” pulse, and talked of the stomach-pump, which did not in the least alarm the half-wit, who declared that he “could eat a wheelbarrow full of them.” The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z Your half-wits who sit and turn first one cheek and then the other to be slapped are not the sort for me. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Poor half-wit Benny, whose only blessings were a dim little old mother and a new red necktie! Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z And, as Fibsy had declared, he knew the half-wit now well enough to feel pretty sure when he was telling the truth and when not. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z “Any half-wit knows Connecticut will not vote for a professional wrestling ‘impresario’ for the U.S. Our Towns: Rob Simmons Rallies in Connecticut Senate Primary 2010-06-14T00:20:00Z The team says its find buries "the view of Neanderthals as half-wits" and shows they were capable of symbolic thinking. 2010-01-09T01:47:00Z Another is that, as a family, we all have straight backs and moderately developed intellects; that we are neither dime museum freaks, lunatics, nor half-wits. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z The old grandmother, looking very tiny and old-fashioned in rustling black taffeta, had gone to church, too, leading her middle-aged half-wit son by the hand. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Indeed, nobody seems able to serve him as well as that poor half-wit. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch The half-wit, although manacled, managed to reach Santiago and related his experience to the great delight of the governor and the residents. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 They saw her and the tall young stranger halt suddenly—saw the young man gently push the woman back of him and stand full front, frowning, questioning, almost directly against the half-wit. The Broken Gate A Novel “We act like a crowd o’ half-wits, a-thryin’ to boost his spirits a bit, an’ all the time he grows whiter an’ quieter.” Leerie At sight of Sally, shrinking timidly against the chair which was to be hers, the half-wit lunged toward her like a playful, overgrown puppy. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Heed not if half-wits mock your broken blade: Mammon our master doeth all things ill. Poems Cold and unfeeling at best, these men had no sympathy with their young charge whom they naturally believed to be one of the harpies or half-wits caught in the police dragnet. Orphans of the Storm You see, he confessed—the half-wit did—before he was killed. The Broken Gate A Novel Seem’s if the Evil One had been let loose, here at Sobrante, when the word of a half-wit––poor half, at that––is held proof against the entire life of an honest old man.” Jessica, the Heiress Carnes, a brainless fool who does only as you tell him, a few half-wits in the Bureau of Standards, some of them already in my pay, and one renegade girl. The Great Drought If he were not the poor half-wit he is, we would by all means. Sunlight Patch The half-wits are always suspicious of others’ wits. Seven Miles to Arden "Hello, Pa," exclaimed the half-wit, and laughed long and loud. The Broken Gate A Novel Seems if even a half-wit would steal from his own brother, and it must have passed through Antonio’s hands first.” Jessica, the Heiress The object was the incipient statesman, and in a second more the half-wit had also reached the kitchen floor and had shut the door behind him. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life For the instant he partially suspected mischief and wheeled about, but one look at the half-wit dissipated all doubt. Sunlight Patch Pick out some harmless lad that was saucy to Rackham in the Revenge, a half-wit like that Robinson younker that was the sailing-master's own cabin boy. Blackbeard: Buccaneer A sudden terror caught Aurora Lane's soul as she realized that the addled mind of this half-wit was more than to a usual extent gone wrong. The Broken Gate A Novel But the poor lad, my half-wit brother Ferd, ugly, sinful, desolate––he will be left alone. Jessica, the Heiress Within a day or two he had had occasion to suspect that the half-wit had some uncanny scheme on hand. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life When I was at school, the kind of boy who liked teasing half-wits was not the sort that stood up to bullies. Eugenics and Other Evils For a moment it occurred to Seaton that the cunning half-wit, apprehensive lest too great a share of the savoury victuals should fall to their lot, had contrived to forbid this appropriation. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 For what the half-wit did was what he had seen these others do. The Broken Gate A Novel The victims, in the main, were half-wits suffering from the martyr complex; it was their admitted desire to sacrifice themselves for the Larger Good. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind In bestowing his gift he had provided to have it in such shape as he knew the half-wit would best comprehend. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life She is almost a half-wit," he had said to himself, "but she can cook and clean and seems to have the kindest heart in the world. Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman For even if one calls him a half-wit, it still makes a difference that he keeps the right half of his wits. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens "Now you—now you throw it at me—and I'll hit it," said the half-wit. The Broken Gate A Novel She'll be in Dalness yet, perhaps better off than scouring the wilds, for after all even the MacDonalds are human, and a half-wit widow woman would be sure of their clemency. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Then she seemed to see her mother's gentle face and, conquering the aversion she felt, she pulled out her handkerchief and began to wipe the discolored, ill-shapen lips of the half-wit. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life At that very moment the so-called half-wit was boarding a train for the village in Indiana where a certain sanitarium was situated. Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman Touting for German trade, always for his advantage, he twists the poor half-wit of the Winter Palace like a piece of straw. Face to Face with Kaiserism Ephraim Adamson followed him; but still evading, the half-wit passed out through the gate which led into the garden patch at the rear of the house. The Broken Gate A Novel These were thoughts suited to a homicidal half-wit. The Tyranny of Weakness The library door was open, and it seemed as if the half-wit were trying to force the other backward into the building. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life You probably saved my life, for you can't tell what a half-wit will do, when in a tantrum and armed with a knife. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story He might have been commenting on the antics of the village half-wit, from his tone. Omnilingual The half-wit, cracking his knuckles now yet more loudly, and knocking his fists together, had wholly lost his amiable smile. The Broken Gate A Novel With huge satisfaction he looked upon the sparkling sea, the little vessel which scooned across it, his traveling mate, the big negro and the half-wit Philippine cabin boy. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure From that it was rescued by the half-wit and treasured carefully; for to the purpose formed in his mind it would prove a great help. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Two great wits may increase each other's brilliancy, but two half-wits will not make a single whole one. Is Life Worth Living? Policy in the hands of a diplomat is like a sharp sword in the grasp of an able fencer, but policy in the hands of fools, is like a good knife wielded by a half-wit. A String of Amber Beads They saw the half-wit boy now advance upon Don Lane with a roar or bawl of rage, his arms swinging flail-like. The Broken Gate A Novel I praise heaven I never met but with two half-wits in my life, and my master's one of them; I will not name the other at this time. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 All the fairy tales of her beloved Ireland rushed through her mind, and she regarded the half-wit with a new veneration. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life "Nay," returned the leering half-wit, "I was but a-thinking, that if he does, may be his master too will want a heriot." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Willie, the half-wit, one of the sheep outfit, had readily taken the oath of allegiance; beyond that, however, there had been a hitch in the proceedings. Heart's Desire "No, you don't—just you leave him be!" called out Eph Adamson, as the young man pushed the half-wit back from him, his own blue eyes now beginning to glint. The Broken Gate A Novel Bill was a half-wit but as strong as an ox; and, once set upon a task, managed it in a way that had given him a secure position in the community. The Man Thou Gavest "I'm not so sure you are a half-wit, Johnny," said Douglas sincerely. Judith of the Godless Valley To say you have read a book and then seemingly to understand nothing of what you have read, proves you a half-wit. Etiquette That was before he was married upon the wife he took later—" Here Mr. Saul nudged me, and whispered: "The old Laird—had her married to that daunderin' old half-wit Duncan, to cover things up. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales He wants to fight, as usual, him and his half-wit boy. The Broken Gate A Novel She wrote and sent the letter long of—of Bill Trim, a half-wit—but trusty. The Man Thou Gavest If she hadn't been on her guard or had been born a half-wit she could have easily believed in love and bliss at every turn. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America On the other hand to say needlessly "What an ugly girl!" or "What a half-wit that boy is!" can be of no value except in drawing attention to your own tactlessness. Etiquette Crane was a harmless half-wit who lived alone in a shanty at the back of Deacon Gramps' field. The Deacon of Dobbinsville A Story Based on Actual Happenings It's got so lately, every Saturday afternoon regular, him and his half-wit yonder stands off the whole town. The Broken Gate A Novel Oh, occasionally one of our bright young men digs up a half-wit who's willing to try anything once. The Go-Getter His pedigree," answered the half-wit, gravely, "goes back for three hundred years. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire Not long ago a little Duke who owes his title to the fact that his great-grand-aunt was the paramour of a half-wit prince, kindly condescended to marry an American girl to recoup his failing fortunes. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 It was even more ridiculous than the social performance of that other half-wit, Little Billee, in Carrel's atelier. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 "He don't know but I know," he shouted, stopping to gaze down into the dumb, unresponsive face of the half-wit. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Who is the half-wit who could make Your Majesty believe that a knight exists who can even compare to him in glory, honor and virtue? The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc The fool priest will upset the whole work to which I have devoted near twenty years," he muttered, "if I find not the means to quiet his half-wit tongue. The Outlaw of Torn "You shall die for that, you half-wit," he cried. The Mad King There he began to think less about the half-wit, with his livid face and mouth like a fish. The Innocence of Father Brown Beside being a half-wit he had something the matter with his legs. Poor White I append the comeback: I mean come at once, you maddening half-wit. Right Ho, Jeeves I been putting this Bull Hunter down for a half-wit, pretty near. Bull Hunter It was pitiful to think that this big, handsome young man, for whose return to the throne all Lutha had prayed for ten long years, was only a silly half-wit. The Mad King The law has always behaved as if a woman became a half-wit the moment she married. Nonsenseorship Allie Mulberry the half-wit was one of the highlights of life in the town. Poor White One of them is a half-wit, and the other"—he hunched his shoulders—"is worse. The Honor of the Big Snows But I'd be a half-wit to sit in one room and count the sunflowers on the wall-paper while I waited for you. Flappers and Philosophers But Timothy is but a half-wit; and he has a wife and children. Cousin Phillis It was a near thing, a very near thing, but I'm not the half-wit I've feigned to be for years. The Lady of Blossholme No one but the half-wit and Steve Hunter were admitted to the society of the telegraph operator. Poor White How did he get that quantity of half-wit, that sort of stupid cunning, into his little brain, and yet get no more? Madam How and Lady Why For democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces. In Defense of Women One day when a part Hugh had fashioned would not work the half-wit himself made the model of a part that worked perfectly. Poor White
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