It revealed a fine man, who was also the epitome of English eccentric dottiness. |
But this verdict, arrived at by the 600 experts, contains the same level of dottiness at play in all the other crass errors of judgement on the list. |
On one level, of course, as an outsider, one is tempted to follow Bowra's own prescription and delight in the comedy of it all, the dottiness of human behavior. |
I had hopes that she would develop her twin strains of doughtiness and dottiness and become a thorn in the flesh. |
An upset reminds us that any game can turn on a moment of skill carried off by the unfancied, or of unaccountable dottiness displayed by the favourites. |
If anything it was about the dottiness of Britain, about the very notion of having a queen. |