| Nothing will pierce the thick skins of the nincompoops that lord over us. |
| How do you dramatize dullards, weaklings, and nincompoops and not wind up with a movie theatre full of gentle snoring? |
| Her colleagues are lampooned as propeller-headed nincompoops or scheming mini-Rasputins. |
| I have given up trying to send telepathic messages about deportment and responsibility through my TV to these two post-adolescent nincompoops and have accepted them for the untrainable house pets they are. |
| Shapps, and those who agree with him, are malignant, blithering nincompoops. |
| But it is fun to think of the worst American newsrooms as comprising a bunch of jerks working for an elite corps of nincompoops. |
