Word: idiotically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death, was a chilling and all-too believable allegory for the worst kinds of excess in the Chinese countryside. Then Premier Zhu Rongji entered the picture, and the tragedy seemed to slide from debacle into farce. He surprised the villagers?and the rest of China?by blaming the village idiot. According to Zhu, the only fireworks in the building were brought in by a madman who wanted to blow up the school. In conversations with reporters, outraged peasants stuck to their story?they lived in the village after all, they knew their kids were regularly assembling fireworks and they...
...Their portrayal of a White House in disarray--the Final Daze--sounded so plausible that some thought it explained why Clinton waived his Executive privilege and allowed his counselors to testify. This is what passes as the best defense--not that he was venal but that he was an idiot. "I think that people are finally tiring of it," Podesta told Time, "but as long as it's still selling cable-TV rating points, it will probably go on a little longer...
...lonely time." In June he suggested that a Palm VII wireless organizer might improve secure communication. While he mocked the U.S. as a "powerfully built but retarded child, potentially dangerous but young, immature and easily manipulated," he worried, "it is also one that can turn ingenious quickly, like an idiot savant." And in November, even as he joked about retiring to Moscow to teach Spying 101, he wrote: "I ask you to help me survive... Wish me luck...
...bracing to come upon an intelligent elitist long, long dead, especially when we live in an Ephesus of our own, filled, as his was, with mediocrities and idiot intoxications. Haxton writes in his introduction: "To a sober mind, the drunkenness of cultic worshipers must have been particularly unappealing in a cosmopolitan city like Ephesus, with gods of wine on every side, drunken Greeks initiated into the Thracian ecstacies of Dionysius running amok with drunken Phrygians worshipping Sabazius, Lydians possessed by Bassareus, and Cretans in the frenzy of Zagreus, all claiming in their cups to have transcended understanding...
...family, devout Baptists and pious Muslims, diabetics and schizophrenics and several of my more, um, belligerent friends--for these folks and others, my solution to the Harvard blues is out of bounds. And of course, of course it isn't a good idea to be a blithering idiot and drink yourself into a stupor and end up at UHS, any more than it's a good idea to go skinny-dipping in shark-infested waters or eat those 49-cent McDonalds cheeseburgers until you vomit...