Eksempler på stupidity

• Rather than directly indict the fashionable elite, critics of the bearing rein were quick to attribute its prevalence to working class cruelty and stupidity.

• The histrionics of the lead guitar, the excesses of the drummer, and the stupidity of the bass player have to mix on equal footing.

• The letter asserted that ' ' a very small band of hoodlums cannot be allowed to upset our economy by their childish acts of stupidity.

• The council persists in the view that the applicants' stupidity is to blame.

• The reason, he hypothesizes, is that excess food produces moisture that causes obesity and, as the moisture rises to the brain, stupidity.

• This was ridiculous; he was going to die from stupidity.

• Sometimes his shyness was even interpreted as stupidity, an error that heightened his feelings of inferiority.

• Most of the moral literature perceives youth as the negative pole of adulthood and old age and describes it in the most negative terms : of stupidity, sleep, intoxication and perversion.

• About 30 % could not supply any 'explanation' for their conduct, and admitted to stupidity, rather than to negligence, when we suggested that they may have been careless.

• Young men, then, are associated with foolishness, their gaiety equivalent to stupidity, while adults are associated with wisdom, humility and spiritual perfection (temimut).

• In several key instances, monolingualism is associated with ignorance, and individuals are described as being in a state of "monolingual stupidity" (p. 644) or "suffering from monolingual stupidity" (p. 662).

• Rassundari's account of her childhood projects an image of total innocence verging on stupidity.

• But to me they were tragedies, monuments to our stupidity, our lack of planning and lack of land resources.

• Unfortunately, liberalism of this kind is apt to verge on stupidity, and such openness of mind really means emptiness.

• That was an act of stupidity and environmental vandalism.