Word: witlessness
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...cinema resists rational criticism almost as firmly as a six-day bicycle race, or perhaps love. . . . The common level of intelligence in the world is presumably that of the normal adolescent. . . . Ninety percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing...
...ANTI-SEMITISM,' SAYS PREXY." Next day PM, the Post's rival tabloid, took it up, running Hopkins' picture side by side with Nazi Jew-baiter Alfred Rosenberg. PM accused President Hopkins of "spouting the Hitler-Rosenberg line," or at best-talking "well-meaning but witless" nonsense...
...northern France they faced a crushing defeat, tried to stave it off by witless, expensive gambits without hope of success. In Italy, where the battle stood temporarily in stalemate, they had latterly shown no tactic but to retreat, fight, retreat again. On the Eastern Front they fought as if salvation depended only on spending everything they had left...
...Unspeakable design . . . horrible example . . . palm-leaf bauble . . . witless bit of trash...
Home Is the Sailor. For its unpreparedness to make weapons the U. S. could blame its witless conviction, bolstered wishfully after every war, that there would never be another. But for its unreadiness to put ships on the sea it had a sounder reason: for the past 80 years the call of its own domestic empire had increasingly drowned out the call of the sea. The U. S., which had once been a nation of seamen, had become a nation of landlubbers. There had been too much to do at home. And as domestic prosperity heightened, its prices...