Word: nitwitful
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...that the purpose of these diminutions is to assert the superiority of lover to loved one ("my pet"), but the effect diminishes all parties. We have created these words as verbal comforters, warm safety zones, wherein anyone, no matter how high and mighty, is free to sound like a nitwit...
...carpet. His point here seems to be that voyeurism can induce a trancelike emotional paralysis-a message feminists could appreciate if Body Double took less pleasure in the mechanics of mutilation, and that ordinary moviegoers could ponder if the characters' motivations were not so numbingly nitwit. Upscale sleaze-so what else...
...moving force of Hotel New Hampshire is a sweet though dangerous dreamer named Winslow Berry (Harvard, 1946), who transports his household to the city of waltzes and Wittgenstein. There he buys a hotel that is part brothel and part headquarters for nitwit anarchists. Berry has previously failed in this line of work. In the first half of the novel, the superbly elegiac voice of the narrator, Win's son John, describes his father's attempts to convert a second-rate private school in "Dairy, N.H." into the first Hotel New Hampshire. Berry's business decisions include leaving...
...foreign reaction was more acerbic. The Amsterdam daily Volkskrant called Clark a nitwit. The Johannesburg Citizen labeled him the "Don't Know Man." Editorialized the London Daily Mirror: "America's allies in Europe-Europe, Mr. Clark, you must have heard of it -will hope he is never in charge at a time of crisis." Yet the Daily Mirror joked that Britain once had a Foreign Secretary who was "alleged to believe that Sodom and Gomorrah were sisters...
...express her love. He makes and loses a great pile of money, and eventually is rescued from drunken bumdom by his black parents, who are now rich from the money he has been sending home. The rube role works fairly well when Martin remembers to play a harmless nitwit of the Jerry Lewis variety. But that really is not his kind of humor. During most of this film he is way out of character (so is his rough language). He does not impersonate a rube or a lovable nitwit; his twitchy, leering mug is that of a loony...