Sentences with phrase «of dunces»

It can be a «confederacy of dunces» instead.

A confederacy of dunces, rather — for, if there is a collective thinking, it's pretty asinine.

I am not supportive of the idea that human beings choose to ignore good science regarding human limits and Earth's limitations, to continue down a patently unsustainable «primrose path» of endless economic growth, and to adopt the posture of dunces by foolishly waiting for the world to change....

But that makes sense, since «I, Tonya» is primarily about a conspiracy of dunces, led by Gillooly and his friend Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser), whose delusions of international espionage prompt him to hire two idiots (Ricky Russert and Anthony Reynolds) to maim Kerrigan and open the way for Harding to dominate the trials for the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer.

The second thing is: If you thought Chris and Ansel were a confederacy of dunces, get a load of Frank (Frank Hvam) and his friend Casper (Casper Christensen), the least great Danes ever whelped.

He is witheringly critical of astrology, dubbing it, with the rest of occultism, a «metaphysic of dunces», suggesting «a climate of semi-erudition is the fertile breeding ground for astrology.»

Given the natural limitations of data recall, you are actually a bit of a dunce, by the standards of the gods.

Oh good golly, I was far too much of a dunce to get the reference (it's Shakespeare, isn't it??).

I can't help feel like a bit of a dunce, but that's why you're the doctor and I'm not!

Two of Wiley's constructions from the 1970s are also included in the show, the most elaborate of which is Hard Lesson for the Dunce (1977), which incorporates a tree stump, a carved wooden head, a spindly branch decorated with strung together metal lettering, and a chalkboard all accompanied by a watercolor of a dunce - capped log.

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.

The cliché «ignorance is bliss» calls up images of the poor benighted dunce blithely sailing through life, unaware of the perils and ambiguities that surround him.

Your desires to wear a dunce cap is duly noted... My religious belief is contiguously referenced thru my many postings here and your depraved wordage is not a welcoming issue but is unsound cynicism unworthy of reading... Your abusive connotations wreaks of analytical dementia and oozes of delirium...

Sarah is a dunce of the highest order.

The fact that the word «dunce» is derived from his name is an indication of opinions of later critics — and the critics of the scholastic method — of what seemed to them to be futile hairsplitting.

Toguether they are trying to plan how to stay coach of a football club with no ambition of winning anything but fooling dunces with sweet dictionary words.

For dunce and make him stand in the corner of the classroom with one of those pointed hats on his head.

He'd have made contributions on both ends of the field and only a deluded dunce playing favorites wouldn't have known that.

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.

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.

He calls him the dunce of Downing Street.

Or should they just pop their dunce caps on and retreat to the corner of the room?

Sure, Gaetana didn't win the election last year for town supervisor, but now that Donna has her column, and Gaetana's writing just about every week, they're going to get us all to put on our «dunce caps» and «listen up» to their sage words of wisdom, fear and loathing, and we will, together, take this country by storm, starting right here in Saugerties!

Some of these include dunce, rutabaga, DCO, and CREB.

Molecular cloning has demonstrated that dunce codes for the enzyme, cAMP phosphodiesterase; rutabaga codes for adenylyl cyclase; DCO codes for the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A, and CREB a transcription factor that is phosphorylated and activated by protein kinase A.

(of course, if you manage to lose 100 % muscle, you will be forced to wear the Dieter's Dunce cap)

That's madness...) has given me a real love for all things beauty and skincare related, and whilst I still consider myself a total dunce on the subject, I'm always so interested in testing new products, finding myself the perfect skincare routine, and perfecting the art of creating a beautiful day - to - day makeup look.

The actor, best known to Americans for his role in Guardians of the Galaxy, brings nuance to the character, infusing the lovable muscle - bound dunce (the prevailing feature of Patrick Warburton's 2001 take on The Tick) with a more human and empathetic element.

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.

«Burn After Reading» is a blackly comic illustration of Murphy's Law, set in the Washington world of CIA espionage, and populated with a cast of delusional dunces who are a wonder to behold.

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.

Summary: A nerdy, romantic dunce who has never had sex plunges headlong into a relationship with a 40 - year - old mother of three.

Even the dunce, joker, bully or victim enjoys success of sorts.

We've known since the days of the one - room schoolhouse and dunce caps that student behavior issues eat up classroom time (the BBC reported a survey suggesting that it's five weeks out of the school year) and frustrate teachers (a report by Public Agenda [PDF] suggests that one in three teachers want to quit because of them).

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.

I'm pretty much a techno - dunce when it comes to a lot of things online.

The Transformer is already a large device, and sticking this plastic tumor on top like some sort of squashed dunce cap is beyond inelegant.

I dream of the tall dunce hats on our former teachers» ink - smeared heads, the placards around their necks.

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.

But at least PTR has reserves to report, which the rest of the bunch can mostly dream about... And how about a cheer for plucky little US Oil & Gas (USOP: G4)-- which, to date, appears to only have bullshit & water to report — rather surprisingly, it's managed to avoid the dunce's hat.

The dunce hat should really go to the message boarder who came out with that old chestnut: Plenty of upside here, folks, and only 0.4 p of downside — worth a punt!

Or perhaps I was supposed to assume that the drunken state of the Nameless Hero at the beginning was the cause of him losing all of his skills and becoming dunce.

Of course, Snow's a dunce, and Lightning needs to grow up, and they're all way too dramatic, but the game seems to realize a lot of that and doesn't let the characters get away with it just because «that's the way they are»Of course, Snow's a dunce, and Lightning needs to grow up, and they're all way too dramatic, but the game seems to realize a lot of that and doesn't let the characters get away with it just because «that's the way they are»of that and doesn't let the characters get away with it just because «that's the way they are».

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 way.

Of course, Nintendo knows that a lot of you are stupid, and so it's provided a comprehensive guide regardless, just to make sure that you dunces get it righOf course, Nintendo knows that a lot of you are stupid, and so it's provided a comprehensive guide regardless, just to make sure that you dunces get it righof you are stupid, and so it's provided a comprehensive guide regardless, just to make sure that you dunces get it right.

The students, some wearing dunce caps, refused to leave and organised a series of life drawing classes near the entrance to the central London gallery.

«I was Albers's dunce,» Rauschenberg later told his biographer, «[But] years later I am still learning what he taught me... the development of your own personal sense of looking...»

«I was Albers's dunce,» Rauschenberg later told his biographer Calvin Tomkins, «the outstanding example of what he was not talking about.

Not knowing exactly what you are doing and not relishing the possibility feeling like a dunce for trying to shop there (not uncommon in high end stores in the USA) is a threshold big enough to often keep me out of a market.

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).