Word: witlessness
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Unkept Promise. As a member of the Senate's inner sanctum, Bridges had a strong sense of loyalty to his colleagues, regardless of party or politics. He tried hard to save Joe McCarthy from the Senate's censure, and might have succeeded had not McCarthy made a witless remark about the panel of Senators investigating him being the "unwitting handmaiden" of Communism. When asked to campaign against Democrat Scott Lucas in Illinois in 1950, Bridges was furious. "Scott Lucas refused to come to New Hampshire in 1948 and campaign against me," he sputtered. "I'll never...
...have these soldiers scared witless...
...signifies, too, an impatience with using the future as an excuse for dull ritual or as a grim projection of personal disappointments. As an excuse, the future is often invoked to sanction a witless routine leading to rewards, honors, appointments--the joke being that "status" as a goal, like grades, is a confusion of sign for substance...
...Double. Danny Kaye wastes himself on a witless script built around a potentially funny idea, but some of Danny's routines-perhaps 20 minutes' worth-nearly make the film worthwhile...
...craftsy exotica of Trader Vic's. The book's Anna Vorontosov was an interestingly unbalanced woman whose salvation came from the joyous dangers she found in teaching; the movie's Anna alternates between being cute and fighting for her virtue. One moment she plods through a witless musical routine about Pogo, the next she is braining Hero Harvey for ripping open her blouse (with cretinous whinnies of "Open sesame!"). And where it was right for the hero to blow his brains out in the book, it seems pure melodrama for him to rage off in the film...