Sentences with phrase «dullards in»

In the distant past the village elders convened to discuss what to do about the occasional deluded, obsessive dullard in the community who thinks he talks to god.

You may recall that Canadian Pacific Railway was something of a dullard in the stock market of the 1980s.

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I challenge any of these dullards to explain precisely how things are presumably, in their opinion, NOT a mess.

These dullards are the folk we, all who despise the present regime, have to convince to help us in our important social campaign to rid the club of these cancerous people; Kroenke, Wenger, Gazidis and most of the board.

WALL STREET JOURNAL — Feb 15 — Among the 125 million people in the U.S. who visit online dating and social - networking sites are a growing number of dullards who steal personal profiles, life philosophies, even signature poems.

There are so many complexities to the levels of understanding of the future and the way in which it is represented, that this film, for all its dullard sensibilities and lewd language, is as thought provoking as any film about dystopias and the erosion of our societal standards.

by Walter Chaw You mark off certain literary flourishes in Neil LaBute's remake of Robin Hardy's classic The Wicker Man, and then you can't help but note that beneath the pagan matriarchy that is its villain and the hangdog cop (Nicolas Cage) that is its dullard hero, the film is just the auteur's latest unnecessarily reductive gender deconstruction.

In the mid-1950s, the 40 - ish Ginny is stuck in a marriage of convenience with her dullard husband Humpty (James BelushiIn the mid-1950s, the 40 - ish Ginny is stuck in a marriage of convenience with her dullard husband Humpty (James Belushiin a marriage of convenience with her dullard husband Humpty (James Belushi).

During these times, he is also supported by his mother, Louise (Katey Sagal, «Pitch Perfect 2,» but forever known as Peg Bundy on «Married with Children»), a wise - cracking sister and a dullard of a brother - in - law.

A lot of these questioned are given half - hearted answers in a dullard opening narration by Jaden Smith, but unfortunately it plays like a bad Syfy movie rather than a major motion picture.

That willful self - deception is beautifully summed up by a single sequence in which Harley, in rare voiceover narration, sighs about the worlds Ilya opened up for her, and about how there was «an elegance» to him, while the pictures tell the story of two lank - haired dullards stealing bottles of 5 - Hour Energy from drugstores to fence to kiosk vendors.

More pointedly, I remember walking into physics every day and, with the mouth - agape look of a dullard, watching my teacher explain generalities, regimes and equations that apply in various situations.

G. Stanley Hall, a noted psychologist and president of Clark University, denounced the Committee of Ten's curriculum recommendations, because, he said, most high - school students were part of a «great army of incapables... who should be in schools for the dullards or subnormal children.»

Unlike me, however, the magazine had major problems with Arno, their own review spending very little time on his personality in favor of describing him as a, «full - blown dullard.»

Like any visionary, Games Journalism has had some serious setbacks in the recent past thanks to aggressive and criminal harassment campaigns from the dullards of the world.

For a start, how about teaching art history in art lessons from the point of view of the artist, tell them Francis Bacon hung about with the Krays, or that Caravaggio murdered someone, let them know that the stuff about the vanishing point and composition are tools for conveying aspects of life, death, fear, sex - god forbid, humour - and those po faced dullards with posh voices that stand in front of great works pointing at background views of Tuscany are no more to do with painting pictures than I am an art historian.

I would warrant to say that striving to sharpen that edge again shows merit as exceptional - but in the meanwhile are you truly a dullard?

The Arts Foundation Awards is a celebration of the vibrant creativity that underpins our economy and culture and it stands in sharp relief to the destructive lack of vision displayed by the philistines and dullards who we currently allow to run this country.

But their bosses employed dullards, whereas in the past one had to be at least slightly brighter than average to catch a job on a national daily.