Sentences with phrase «for imbecility»

In Buck v. Bell (1927), the majority decision, written by Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., used modern opinions of science to support the Virginia sterilization law: «It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from breeding their kind.

The court's majority opinion was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes: «It is better for all the world,» Holmes wrote, «if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.

Justin Chang, the Los Angeles Times: «Like few auteurs or hacks before him have managed, Bay has a genius for imbecility; he turns incoherence into its own form of hyperkinetic abstract art.

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And now that, thanks in large part to the internet, it's imbecilities have been held up to the light for easy analyses, it's quite interesting to see how all the rubbish originated.

Or is this too hard for people whom Malcolm Muggridge describes as being «educated to imbecility».

This might be an acceptable premise for a comedy except for one thing: The filmmakers endorse the imbecility.

As if in a reportage, it invites the viewers to immerse themselves in the bustling activities of Onomatopoeia (the term for a word sounding like the sound it describes), the capital of this world, where objectivity is believed to indicate imbecility.