To colonists, idiocy was a pitiable and vulnerable condition, one more manifestation of God's diverse creations. |
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I think it was Mark Twain who said nobody ever went broke overestimating the idiocy of the American television punditocracy. |
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Most of your run of the mill idiocy falls into a middle category somewhere between frightfully dim to downright dense. |
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Be prepared for dizzying diatribes, the full range of human capability and frailty, idiocy and intelligence. |
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I don't get the constant double standards and idiocy of this aesthetically obsessed society we live in. |
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There is a fine line between sweet glorious cheese and eye-rolling, forehead-slapping idiocy. |
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In time, idiocy, defined once again as permanent and untreatable, became identified with degeneracy, willful noncompliance and moral corruption. |
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The image of idiocy was well suited for the scriptural style of antithetical positions represented in Hooker's sermon. |
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And, in the face of such unfeeling, unthinking idiocy, how can old Britons remain hopeful? |
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Apparently it's better to be in favour of marriage than to be against outrageous idiocy. |
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Now, I've hardly lived a blameless life when it's come to pyrotechnics, but this kind of rampant idiocy really has got me angry. |
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That sentence is worth reading a couple of times, if only to savour its breathtaking idiocy and vacuity. |
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It's that feeling one gets in the pit of one's stomach, a combination of embarrassment and anger at the idiocy of it all. |
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I usually keep it civil in here, but some idiocy is just so intolerably idiotic, that its author needs to be verbally slapped around. |
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Willing blindness seems to prevail among farmers who refuse to understand the idiocy of pricing milk at wildly differing price levels. |
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It takes something close to idiocy to think that Shaw's comedy Arms and the Man can be played as knockabout farce. |
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But this is more a case of a junior minister trying to hog the limelight and getting frazzled through idiocy. |
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But the stories of avarice and greed and frat boy idiocy are only a part of the tale. |
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It was good to see them all again, and they were remarkably tolerant of my motormouthed idiocy. |
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Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for things to begin the slippery slide into mediocrity before plunging off a precipice into idiocy. |
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This isn't just about the above low-life, ungrateful repugnant creatures who participated in this display of idiocy. |
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Surely you would agree that this is either breathtaking idiocy or yet more brass-necked cynicism. |
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He may be fat, but he is not soft, not stupid, not lazy, he knows his business and he probably doesn't have patience for idiocy. |
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The scale rewards honor, chivalry and courage, but also deducts for blatant foolishness and sheer idiocy. |
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Like his previous idiocy it is the sort of political trick that looks clever for 10 minutes. |
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Indeed through all the mayhem and idiocy, Blue prove perfectly captivating. |
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Yes, I recently put myself in a possibly vulnerable position and got the backlash of my idiocy. |
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Socialism is obviously superior to that classical liberal idiocy, so quit the whingeing. |
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That would seem to be either the highest levels of idiocy, or the deepest level of conspiracy. |
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Actually, I've found situations like this are an almost perfect barometer of idiocy. |
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Crazy wisdom versus sane idiocy is a recurring tendency in modern American poetry. |
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Now, there is no idiocy on the left, except the worship of Stalin, that is not mirrored on the right. |
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Moore is also adept at letting assorted crazies expose their idiocy on camera. |
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The duo display a likable rapport and a healthy sense of irony, and their show is punctuated by flashes of invigorating idiocy. |
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Rolling her eyes and shaking her head at her own idiocy, her thoughts returned to the subject. |
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I'll admit to the thrill of scoring what I consider a direct hit against some fashionable idiocy. |
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I let the idiocy, carelessness and inconsiderateness of some drivers get to me. |
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It would be idiocy to rule out nuclear power: it would do security of supply a serious disservice. |
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At the end, though, sectarian idiocy gave way to mass jubilation. |
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But this is idiocy, discovery will prove this isn't an isolated incident. |
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The idiocy, and it is perennial, is to look at polls three or six or nine months out and make these pretentious and portentous conclusions before any human being has voted. |
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I have no doubt her guests were regaled with tales of the idiocy of the yard crew, a rehearsal I am sure for the earful Rick is going to get bright and early in the morning. |
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I've seen people react to the opportunists with even more idiocy. |
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It assumes that all colonists had a unitary concept of idiocy. |
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Before coming to America, those living in small communities in Europe occasionally suffered from amaurotic idiocy, an inherited pathology attributed to inbreeding. |
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The condition differs from the other forms of amaurotic idiocy by virtue of lack of fundal changes and the presence of significant cerebellar dysfunction. |
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Both exemplify the autodidactic combination of total conviction, terrifying erudition and occasional utter idiocy that so fascinates me, despite being decidedly over-educated. |
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Those of us unfortunate enough to be afflicted with idiocy are not grotesque caricatures or figures of fun. |
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Frankly, we are not bothered by it, since he who laughs at what he does not know is an ignoramus who walks the path of idiocy. |
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It's idiotic, but idiocy in the defence of freedom is no vice. |
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If bad things are happening in the world, there must be someone to blame, someone whose malevolence or idiocy must be called out. |
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The Daily Beast spoke with Kitsch about his exciting new role, the idiocy of gay-bashing, and much more. |
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And that, just when you think football's governing bodies have run out of ways to display idiocy, they find a new one. |
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Related: California drought spurs protest over 'unconscionable' bottled water business There's an obvious idiocy here. |
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All this law has provided ample fodder for late-night comedians, who regale us with the latest legal idiocy. |
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I do not know if it shows a lack of thoughtfulness on the government's part or the absolute idiocy of some of its writers. |
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The GST was idiocy from the standpoint of intelligent management of the nation's finances. |
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Yet this is exactly the same kind of idiocy perpetrated by collective absolutions. |
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This morning we witnessed a moment of particularly extreme parliamentary idiocy. |
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The stark, naked idiocy of this notion keeps me up at night. |
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Do I really need to point out the idiocy of shrink-wrapping our houses? |
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The full idiocy of conspiricism at its dreariest has thus been summoned to relativize the crime and, in so doing, deny it. |
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To watch a movie truly stoned was not simply to enjoy more vivid color and oceanic sound, but, it was to experience a state of acute defamiliarization mixed with heightened idiocy. |
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The Professor could go on, but doesn't want to spoil the fun readers will have at plumbing the depths of prevailing educational idiocy for themselves. |
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This particular piece of idiocy is a direct consequence of the Labour Government's decision in 1998 to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into English law. |
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Mr. Monte Solberg: Mr. Speaker, clearly my friend has pointed to another example of the idiocy that occurs on a daily basis in the ranks of government. |
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Going out to dinner with friends — for, say, two hours of convivial overfamiliarity and banal, rehashed conversation — seemed like idiocy, and the emptiness was only exacerbated when my friends jumped for the check. |
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I approach different types of movement, expressive, sensitive and emotional to create dance performances where reality and fiction, truth and lies, cleverness and idiocy come together. |
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It is due to the idiocy of subjecting ourselves to qualified majority voting that we find ourselves in this position, and yet some under Lisbon would say we should hand over more and more subjects to that category. |
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Once again we see the absurdity of extrapolation because to continue a line beyond the zero line is clearly incorrect and to draw conclusions from this verges on idiocy. |
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Mr. Speaker, I came into the House today prepared to do battle, as it were, with the NDP and the idiocy of this particular motion that says that there is a problem and that we must address the problem. |
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The present will dish up plenty of its own idiocy to hold our attention. |
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The older I grow, the more blithe idiocy seems the route to sanity. |
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The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy, put a new policy in place. |
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The condition known as trisomy 21 syndrome or mongolian idiocy had long been an enigma. |
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The Mongolian type of idiocy occurs in more than ten per cent. of the cases which are presented to me. |
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Voltaire distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the masses. |
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Despite an idiocy metastasized into the marrow of its script impervious to any radiation, there is, as with many of Sandler's productions, at least something of an upbeat quality to its reprehensibility. |
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That is the kind of idiocy we have been presented in the budget bill. |
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He had collected thirty-three cases of craniotomy for idiocy and macrocephalus, and found that the results were always negative. |
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Charlie blushed as if he had been caught in the act of dead-handed idiocy. |
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In process of time, by studying the symptoms in life and the lesions after death, we may be able to resolve genetous idiocy into some new or old classes. |
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Conversely, I think that Logan is completely lost within his scumbagginess and has potential as character if he'll just start owning up to his idiocy. |
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They regarded the very word Turk as synonymous with ignorance, impoliteness, and idiocy. To call a man 'Turk' was regarded as a great dishonour to him. |
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It gently but firmly satirizes pop-culture idiocy, from the poofy-shirted cheesiness of Alex's old group, PoP, to today's infinitely more vulgar, fake-reality entertainment. |
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Which is why the cartoonist Garry Trudeau coined this apt bit of idiocy to lampoon the original hand-held Newton computer's difficulty in deciphering handwriting. |
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