Sentences with phrase «as dunces»

Even here though it is not fair to dismiss those who followed Buy - and - Hold strategies as dunces.

No matter what the truth, the thinking classes, with the sophisticated journalists following obediently behind, have regarded the Democrats as their kind and most Republicans as dunces.

Other settings include a schoolroom with a chalkboard and a chair set up as a dunce in the corner, and a disco ball - lit psychoanalyst chair (Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand) in conversation with another chair, one with an orange ball substituted for one of its four feet (Peter Shire).

Not exact matches

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

But to keep beating on the man as if he is a dunce, beats me.

With a manager (described in one national newspaper as a tactical dunce) in the last year of his contract he is a dead - man walking and unlikely to command any respect from his players.

Playing like a demi - god aside, Cesc Fabregas is no dunce when it comes to words as well.

Ed Miliband has branded David Cameron a «dunce» over his handling of the Royal Mail privatisation, prompting the Prime Minister to attack his Labour opponent as a «muppet» over his role in selling off the UK's gold stockpile.

Harriet Harman's hubris in trying to strong - arm her colleagues into supporting the bill, before being forced to relent, has shown her up as the tactical dunce she is.

Paul Jesson gives a lovely performance as Turner's beloved elderly widowed father, who is content to live with him as his manservant and factotum, and has relapsed into what Turner shrewdly identifies as the false persona of a «dunce» — despite the fact that he taught Turner to read and write.

Masquerading as a kind of home movie - turned - documentary, the film presents Levy as a wannabe - artist dunce who is chronicling his every mundane act.

Strange starts out thoroughly humbled as the bumbling tyro among smarter, less lippy disciples; then, as so often happens in these apprenticeship myths, the dunce becomes the star pupil, the Sorcerer Supreme, no less.

In general, I can accurately state that almost every person I ever met in my career who had started out as a classroom teacher, (and some even skip that step), and «rise» in the hierarchy of lapdogs, «yes» men and women, education stooges, and hatchet men and women for their «higher ups» and «betters», all wear that same annoying «mask» that passes for a human face as exemplified and perpetually worn by Duncan the Dunce.

Treating each member of that crowd as a replaceable widget or a dunce incapable of understanding what it takes to forge a bestselling book is not the answer.

Also known as «Boobies», the Booby Bird can be found in Cayman and were given their name from the Spanish slang term «bobo», meaning «dunce».

As ever you're tasked with re-jigging the environment to coerce your troop of mechanical dunces to safety, gobbling up as many collectables as possible along the waAs ever you're tasked with re-jigging the environment to coerce your troop of mechanical dunces to safety, gobbling up as many collectables as possible along the waas many collectables as possible along the waas possible along the way.

Only a dunce would deny the role European culture played in Kelly's maturation as an artist, but this emphasis has been overplayed.

In 1975, Wiley created his persona «Mr. Unnatural,» who has appeared in a hilarious series of portraits of the artist as an idiot savant, with dunce cap, kimono, and geisha sandals.