Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complaint, in the Atlantic, Caribbean and the Pacific—wherever they chose to send me. I believe that it is my duty to serve my country in whatever capacity I am best suited and at present that is as second mate aboard this oil tanker. But, if some of these stupid politicians think that it is my duty to risk my life in order to fill the tanks of pleasure cars to the brim, they will have another think coming. I believe that they will soon find out that there are quite a few more seamen who feel this...
...Raphael's Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel in the Dresden Museum before Raphael's Sistine Madonna, could say only: ". . . Fundamentally dull. ... In color it is stupid. . . . The cherubim faces are downright ugly, the infant Jesus equally...
Clive Briggs (Tyrone Power) raises the question, and he has a right to. He had fought hard and well at Dunkirk. Home again, on sick leave, in civvies, he grouses about the men who led him: ". . . stupid, complacent and out of date, with no claim to leadership but birth and class and privilege ... in a struggle to preserve the same rotten, wornout conditions that had kept their class in comfort. . . ." When his leave is up, he decides not to go back to the army, becomes a deserter...
...there's no suspense. The audience knows that the six are marked men. All it has to do is sit back and gloat while six mouthsful of dust are bitten at pleasantly alternating intervals. The democratic shepherd and his sheep seem so safe from the pranks of these stupid little heilers. But it's fun, if you've had an exam and are feeling mildly sadistic...
Doriot's claim, as Vichy had tried in farcical vain to prove at the discontinued Riom war-guilt trial, was that France-far from having been sabotaged by stupid militarists and demagogues of his own changeable colorations -had been "be trayed" by democratic leaders. A bomb tossed at him on April 20 had missed its mark. Frenchmen read into his Bayonne speech not only The Great's reply to the bombing but a new bid for power...