Word: inept
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...this be said once more, in unmistakable language: In May of 1954, that inept fraternity of politicians and professors known as the United States Supreme Court chose to throw away the established law. These nine men repudiated the Constitution, spit upon the tenth amendment, and rewrote the fundamental law of this land to suit their own gauzy concepts of sociology. If it be said now that the South is flouting the law, let it be said to the high court: you taught...
...that he told Corsi: "Title-schmitle-what do we care about title. If you want a big title, we'll get you one." Nevertheless, Dulles and McLeod waited until Corsi came under attack from Pennsylvania's security-sensitive Democratic Representative Francis Walter before they dropped him, with inept and conflicting accounts of their reasons...
...F.D.R. not only confused his enemies; he made them look politically inept in the eyes of the world. Their hope was that they could hew him down to their own pigmy size, but he died while still towering over them, loved by millions, and respected by multitudes...
Churchill worried: "In Parliament I must be able to say that the elections will be held in a fair way." Perhaps it was his frustration that led him then to an incredibly inept remark: "I do not care much about Poles, myself...
...tingle up and down my spine . . . The tingle is created by some element of beauty." But there is a drawback: "I'm very sentimental, and sometimes I get the tingle from schmalz." Occasionally, the tingle is replaced by a cringe. Says Liebman: "I cringe at bad taste, at inept jokes, at sloppiness or any lack of fastidiousness." This season Liebman cringed during rehearsals of his swing production of Pinafore "because it was too bop. We had the contemporary beat but we had lost Gilbert & Sullivan." Once in a while, Liebman tingles but the viewers don't-they dialed...