Word: inept
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...Europe, the Arabs managed to arouse considerable hostility by taking over fewer than a dozen relatively minor U.S. banks. The largest: Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth, with assets of $1.1 billion. The main reason is that the Arabs have been unusually insensitive to community feelings and inept in selecting friends...
...Life of Brian had possibilities: Dudley Moore, fresh from his conquest of Bo Derek, plays Herschel, a comic biblical figure who never quite made it into the Bible. Instead he meets a fatherly slave (James Coco), a feisty pharaoh (Richard Pryor), a counterfeit beggar (David L. Lander), an inept angel of the Lord (Paul Sand), a show-bizzy Arab (Dom DeLuise) and an ornery young woman (Laraine Newman) who leaves Herschel to tryst with Goliath and is turned into a pillar of salt. Even in A.D. 1980, the wrath of God should not be ignored: for He brought upon this...
...these pirates have no relation with common experience. They cannot even be defended, like the great white shark Benchley invented for Jaws, as projections of a deep-rooted unconscious fear. They carry no symbolic weight, and can be seen only as the figments of a desperately groping but entirely inept imagination-a hack's fever dream. It is difficult to see why anyone would volunteer money to watch this film, but it is harder still to understand why grown men would want to devote a year of their lives to making...
...current Republican Administration did not invent inept Government, but it has saddled the country with ineffective Government . . . We pledge a Government in which the new Democratic President will work closely with the leaders of the Congress on a regular, systematic basis so that the people can see the results of unity...
...courage of the British in freeing the Iranian embassy in London [May 19] is ample evidence that it is not socialism that ruins the courage of a nation, but rather capitalism under inept leadership...