How To Use Idiocy In A Sentence

Tea has 4000 years of History and very few associated Deaths or maimings whilst H&S has knocked countless souls in catatonic stupification with its idiocy. Nanny Knows Best « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The particular form of idiocy known as cretinism is the result of this deficiency, which produces an arrest of the development of the brain cells. The Pivot of Civilization
Socialism is obviously superior to that classical liberal idiocy, so quit the whingeing.
It's one thing to bowdlerize copy for family consumption, it's quite another to make it sound like someone is being suspended in an act of ultra-PC idiocy because you don't print the actual quote that got them in trouble.
I'm quite happy to let the right wingers be the "tolerant" ones, especially if what they tolerate is idiocy, mediocrity, and the destruction of what this country has and should stand for. In Eugene, Palin says she eats granola too

Now, some of his foreign policies are still idiocy -- such as balking at distributing condoms, or the global gag rule on abortion -- but at least Bush did some things that were helpful, and he spent a lot of money on it. Chris Weigant: My 2008 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]
He may be fat, but he is not soft, not stupid, not lazy, he knows his business and he probably doesn't have patience for idiocy.
The duo display a likable rapport and a healthy sense of irony, and their show is punctuated by flashes of invigorating idiocy.
Now, there is no idiocy on the left, except the worship of Stalin, that is not mirrored on the right.
With an idiocy that may seem almost incredible, the many examples of this had been carefully copy-edited to make them conform to the usual conventions of printed academic prose, ruining their whole point.
And, in the face of such unfeeling, unthinking idiocy, how can old Britons remain hopeful?
The idiocy, and it is perennial, is to look at polls three or six or nine months out and make these pretentious and portentous conclusions before any human being has voted.
In fact it is seen as an act of idiocy if a filmmaker insists on having all of them present to get a ‘good effect’.
In only one case, that of the grant of the estate of John Brewes to Thomas Brewes on account of the idiocy of the former, can blood lineage have said to have played a significant part in determining the fate of a grant.
He even goes as far as to proclaim that we are foolish, imbeciles, insane and lunatics, if that what his term ‘idiocy’ translates as.
Oh, and the 'NWO' .... still a phrase objected to by OEN idiocy - it appears OEN staffers continue to ignore reality as well as so many world 'leaders' calling for the NWO. by richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 1516 comments [542 recommended, 13 rejected]) on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 6: 19: 06 AM America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying
Besides the idiocy of thinking that an Amendment that directs a Court to "construe" something a certain way would actually work, it suffers the additional problem that it has NO POLITICAL APPEAL whatsoever. Libertarian Blog Place
It's sheer idiocy to go climbing in such bad weather.
His offenses against the Peronistas up to that time had apparently consisted of little more than adding his signature to pro-democratic petitions, but shortly after his resignation he addressed the Argentine Society of Letters saying, in his characteristic style, “Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.” Jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Being outside of the beltway, and thus shielded from the standard idiocy, I have no idea what 24AheadDotCom is trying to say. Matthew Yglesias » Surveillance
Willing blindness seems to prevail among farmers who refuse to understand the idiocy of pricing milk at wildly differing price levels.
The scale rewards honor, chivalry and courage, but also deducts for blatant foolishness and sheer idiocy.
My skin crawled when I heard DC asking for that sect to be banned - more rigorous would be to expose the idiocy of what they preach. Religious Intolerance is a Good Thing
“I have worked, I do work,” I cried impetuously, as though he were my judge and I required vindication, and at the same time very much aware of my arrant idiocy in discussing the subject at all. Chapter 3
Ms. Coelho, who not only can wax poetic about the female epiphytic cycad in the Botanical Garden's New World Lowland Rainforest exhibit or the incendiary Capsicum chinense peppers in the Edible Garden area but who also spars gamely with chipmunks on her own property, in Putnam Valley couldn't have been more generous with her time or patient with my level of horticultural idiocy. Growing Tomatoes With a Pro
A few bright spots relieve the sustained-release idiocy. Shock, awe, brilliance
That sharp-featured but charming face failed to conceal his idiocy, but apparently the looks and rumors of heroism was enough for the equally idiotic public.
Moore is also adept at letting assorted crazies expose their idiocy on camera.
It's idiotic, but idiocy in the defence of freedom is no vice.
I can see myself now, worn out and dog-tired after the long day, lying on the mats of the palace veranda and gazing upon her at the piano, myself in a perfect idiocy of bliss. THE PRINCESS
Right, like he wants to come back here and deal with the idiocy that supersaturates the most important forum here (potentially anyway). Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com
As a prominent figure in Rottweiler rescue, she's stubbed her toe on more unfair bullying and downright idiocy than most.
Throw in the cars 'product-placement appearances on "Entourage," "The Sopranos" and "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" and you paint a picture of a brand that is becoming synonymous with a kind of pitiable narcissism, a gum-smacking, Garden State idiocy. A Shapely Visitor From Planet Maserati
The Professor could go on, but doesn't want to spoil the fun readers will have at plumbing the depths of prevailing educational idiocy for themselves.
I also speed read and type faster than you can probably read … What you don’t realize being a nitwit, is that it takes me virtually no time to dismiss your idiocy. Think Progress » White House Continues to Exploit Miers’ Religion
I fear that Dubya will get his testosterone stirred up again and make some kind of oafish, I'm a tough-ass from Crawford remark, like his moronic "Bring it On" dalliance with idiocy. Is Bush China Competent?
There are multitudes of cases in which, when too great a weight has been crowded on the delicate organism through which thoughts move, its balance has been upset, and it has drivelled into idiocy. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
At the end, though, sectarian idiocy gave way to mass jubilation.
The idiocy of voting for "change" is its amorphousness: he promised change, not that it would be change for the better. Obama wants to turn his "YouTubing-Facebooking-texting-Twittering grass-roots organization ... into an instrument of government."
So please your idiocy, thou art an ass," said Cromwell; but, instantly recollecting that the corporal had been one of the adjutators or tribunes of the common soldiers, and was therefore to be treated with suitable respect, he said, "Nevertheless, if it be the device of Satan, please it the Lord we will resist him, and the foul slave shall fly from us. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for things to begin the slippery slide into mediocrity before plunging off a precipice into idiocy.
People call authoritatively for the 'Joy of Life' and theatrical managers call for farces, as though the Joy of Life lay in being foolish, and in describing people who each and every one are suffering from St. Vitus 'dance or idiocy. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
Actually, I've found situations like this are an almost perfect barometer of idiocy.
We show MANY civilizations that outlasted this arbitrary two hundred years idiocy and your answer is he is the best and to call us names? Think Progress » Gov. Parnell concedes Palin’s spotlight-seeking has brought ‘some sour’ attention to Alaska.
Apparently it's better to be in favour of marriage than to be against outrageous idiocy.
Indeed through all the mayhem and idiocy, Blue prove perfectly captivating.
Rolling her eyes and shaking her head at her own idiocy, her thoughts returned to the subject.
The idiocy of his behaviour appalled her.
The stark, naked idiocy of this notion keeps me up at night.
But this is more a case of a junior minister trying to hog the limelight and getting frazzled through idiocy.
Most of your run of the mill idiocy falls into a middle category somewhere between frightfully dim to downright dense.
Both exemplify the autodidactic combination of total conviction, terrifying erudition and occasional utter idiocy that so fascinates me, despite being decidedly over-educated.
But this is idiocy, discovery will prove this isn't an isolated incident.
Stealing a car and then driving it drunk was the ultimate idiocy.
The condition differs from the other forms of amaurotic idiocy by virtue of lack of fundal changes and the presence of significant cerebellar dysfunction.
I've seen people react to the opportunists with even more idiocy.
To know this and yet continue on the crusade is a logic of cowardice and extreme idiocy. Think Progress » House passes sham Iraq resolution.
Now, Dave's column is rank idiocy.
I have no doubt her guests were regaled with tales of the idiocy of the yard crew, a rehearsal I am sure for the earful Rick is going to get bright and early in the morning.
Asylum doctors divided mental illness into four categories: mania (with an important subcategory, monomania), melancholia, dementia, and idiocy.
It's idiotic, but idiocy in the defence of freedom is no vice.
Originally Posted by SiliconJon deal with the idiocy that supersaturates the most important forum here (potentially anyway). could not agree more Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com
“So please your idiocy, thou art an ass,” said Cromwell; but, instantly recollecting that the corporal had been one of the adjutators or tribunes of the common soldiers, and was therefore to be treated with suitable respect, he said, “Nevertheless, if it be the device of Satan, please it the Lord we will resist him, and the foul slave shall fly from us. — Woodstock
We've got huge problems with the economy (which hopefully is now turning around), Iraq (thanks to Bush's idiocy), Afghanistan (again, thanks to Bush), North Korea - it's good to see that there are people still paying attention to the smaller problems and trying to find ways to fix them. Franken's first goal: Dogs for vets
Before coming to America, those living in small communities in Europe occasionally suffered from amaurotic idiocy, an inherited pathology attributed to inbreeding.
Figure 11 - 2 : This is an ugly, useless error message box that stops the proceedings with idiocy.
I'm fairly certain snob was referencing the idiocy of "alp duez" by comparing him to an Egyptian president. Sexy Beast: Everyone's a Rock Star
I smell bullshit and insincerity wrapped in coating of complete nonsense and idiocy …. Think Progress » Former Bush officials rip Tea Parties: They’re ‘outrageous,’ based on ‘fear and hatred,’ bad for GOP.
Blogging Tory and official Stephen Harper fellatrix Sandy Crux takes her normal level of batshit crazy idiocy and cranks it up to 11: "... the notion that a minority is the best thing for this country is a fallacy. Archive 2008-10-01
But the stories of avarice and greed and frat boy idiocy are only a part of the tale.
Asylum doctors divided mental illness into four categories: mania (with an important subcategory, monomania), melancholia, dementia, and idiocy.
For grownups fated -- or maybe even compelled -- to see "Revenge of the Fallen," a few bright spots and oddities may relieve the sustained-release idiocy. Machines vs. Machines in Machine-Made 'Transformers'
However, the good old boy network holds the real power --- and the individual who owns a relatively few shares is forced to engage in altruistic behavior to combat this idiocy. Public Transit and Public Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It takes something close to idiocy to think that Shaw's comedy Arms and the Man can be played as knockabout farce.
That sentence is worth reading a couple of times, if only to savour its breathtaking idiocy and vacuity.
Does that idiotic Think Progress Watch aspect of your live embarass you? teleman - no problem … but, yes, when i heard it, the guy was making excuses for her idiocy … Center for American Progress Action Fund
I love the way people like you are so stupid you do NOTHING but recycle idiocy then snivel that others dont come up with shiny new rebutals to your same old same old idiocy day after day. Think Progress » Democratic congresswoman proposes pay cut for members of Congress.
A statement which so mischaracterised the nature of the relationship between any supporters and their national side that it threatened to subsume all legitimate definitions of trust into its black hole of idiocy. Why John Terry has done his 'fronting up' for the last time | Marina Hyde
Dobbs defending the incredibly stupid birther idiocy is the topic. Think Progress » Dobbs Defends His Birther Advocacy: ‘Seems To Me Still A Perfectly Commonsense Question’
I made my own contribution to the general idiocy when a Frenchman with a black polo neck and a pipe began berating the governor in language that was ingenious in its obscenity.
I'll admit to the thrill of scoring what I consider a direct hit against some fashionable idiocy.
Tucker Carlson's efforts to dehumanize Vick and paint him as a disposable, killable individual cuts in a way that transcends the idiocy of Murdoch's 50-state southern strategy of dimples and dog whistles. Dave Zirin: On Dimples and Dog Whistles: Why Tucker Carlson Dehumanizes Michael Vick
Driving home, I could see that my idiocy wasn't as severe as Burress 'FAIL, but it felt similarly significant and intrinsically linked to the surname of my unconceived seed. Brandon Perkins: Please Don't Call My Unborn Son "Cheddar Plax"
Now, I've hardly lived a blameless life when it's come to pyrotechnics, but this kind of rampant idiocy really has got me angry.
This account refutes the common myths that portray idiocy in colonial America as a unitary concept and it contradicts the notion that the settlers' views on idiocy changed markedly during the colonial period.
August 19th, 2009 5: 51 pm ET more party of no idiocy. when will they try to work at providing a solution? currently, all they are good at is speaking in incendiary terms and causing problems. DeMint blasts Obama's 'false promises'
There can only be a handful of people in the land that would find that sort of idiocy impressive - but trust Hari to know every one of them.
That sentence is worth reading a couple of times, if only to savour its breathtaking idiocy and vacuity.
There was also in the look a slight something like idiocy, for his soul was not precisely with his body; his thoughts, though concerning his father, were elsewhere; the circumstances of his soul and of his body were not the same; and so, being twinned, that is, divided, _twained_, he was as one beside himself. Weighed and Wanting
The remainder of the verses -- with which the suburban sopranos will doubtless break the serenity of the suburban nights this summer -- were of a "sloppy" sentimentality combined with a kind of hypersexual idiocy unparalleled except in an English ballad of the popular order. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
Touch of Idiocy no longer permits Heighten, as it has no save.
Crazy wisdom versus sane idiocy is a recurring tendency in modern American poetry.
Is there any point in the usual method of the blogger - dealing point by point with such idiocy and delusion?
To colonists, idiocy was a pitiable and vulnerable condition, one more manifestation of God's diverse creations.
a ghastly idiocy, and would fall on its professors slaughterously in public discussions. Back to Methuselah
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
What evil idiocy has gripped this shitforbrainz of a government for the last 80 years, that continues to outlaw a plant that the Chinese once called tai ma or just "ma"? AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Yes, I recently put myself in a possibly vulnerable position and got the backlash of my idiocy.
This isn't just about the above low-life, ungrateful repugnant creatures who participated in this display of idiocy.
Maria Friedman makes the innkeeper the epitome of narrow-minded prejudice, Jo Stone-Fewings embodies the idiocy of the local squirearchy and Teddy Kempner is the boobyish village bobby. The Invisible Man – review
Like his previous idiocy it is the sort of political trick that looks clever for 10 minutes.
Thyroid deficiency in children gives rise to a form of idiocy, bodily malformation and degeneracy known as cretinism, while in adult life it is associated with a similar disorder known as myxedema. Vitality Supreme
But the stories of avarice and greed and frat boy idiocy are only a part of the tale.
Perhaps the film's biggest problem is that it strands itself between the cleverness of the source material and the idiocy of a summer actioner - a mess that's sure to satisfy no one.
Of course, the feminist in me rolls her eyes and mutters some unrepeatable comments about the stupidity of men during this and other scenarios that can only be classed as pure male idiocy.
Klenk found no increase in the total amount of gangliosides; but Cumings reported an increase in the neuraminic acid level in the cortex in adult cases of amaurotic family idiocy.
False equivalency is when you baselessly assert that the idiocy and dangerous thinking in plain view at any number of tea-bagger assemblies is evident at similar (unspecified) rallies “on the left”. Think Progress » Blackburn Won’t Endorse Bachmann’s ‘Gangster Government’ Rhetoric
In time, idiocy, defined once again as permanent and untreatable, became identified with degeneracy, willful noncompliance and moral corruption.
I refuse to forgive the rank idiocy of this dog's owner.
Meanwhile, Not Saussure writes in defence of Jade and her coven and RabbitStike takes on idiots and idiocy incudes hi-octane swearing. Saturday Blogging round up
Fortunately, for once I don't seem to be the only one convinced of his idiocy - most of his backbenchers are too.
Global village idiocy, banalisation, hive mind, self censorship and chasing popularity are all real problems. Expertise and historical perspective
Be prepared for dizzying diatribes, the full range of human capability and frailty, idiocy and intelligence.
Apparently it's better to be in favour of marriage than to be against outrageous idiocy.
All of this idiocy is a major reason why I moved out of the state in June. Sound Politics: George Will on Censorship of Political Speech
Marx wrote in German “Idiotismus” rather than the usual word for idiocy, which is “Idiotie”, and probably meant it in the original Greek sense of disengagement from the public sphere rather than stupidity. Matthew Yglesias » Time Is Not On Our Side
I thought it turned out that Krauthammer, for all his idiocy, was actually just a desperate starfucker. Matthew Yglesias » A New Tone
A good example: Bruce Anderson, the 70-year-old owner and editor of the Anderson Valley Advertiser the name repetition is just a coincidence, routinely takes on the powers that be in Northern California's pot-growing paradise of Mendocino County, and he does so with pitbull tenacity, exposing official abuse and garden-variety idiocy with equal relish. The Reporter Next Door
It assumes that all colonists had a unitary concept of idiocy.
Given the anonymous manner of submission, the cutesy little O-shaped riff on the old Apple logo at the end, and the idiocy of the message, I think it's plainly obvious that this was a Republican ratf*cking exercise. Hillary Speaks Out On "1984" Video
His book is a tale of cowardice, perfidy, hubris, idiocy and occasional heroism - told with considerable panache.
Oh, and the 'NWO' .... still a phrase objected to by OEN idiocy - it appears OEN staffers continue to ignore reality as well as so many world 'leaders' calling for the NWO. by richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 1523 comments [548 recommended, 14 rejected]) on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 6: 19: 06 AM America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying
Thyroid deficiency in children gives rise to a form of idiocy, bodily malformation and degeneracy known as cretinism, while in adult life it is associated with a similar disorder known as myxedema. Vitality Supreme
But that, of course, you term idiocy -- and maybe it is. The Idiot
There can be 2 reasons only for not accepting humans as the main source of global warming: idiocy and malignance. Think Progress » CNBC Anchor Argues ‘Puny, Gnawing Little Humans’ Can’t Change The Climate
Mexico border fence, which he calls "idiocy," instead wants more border agents. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Blindness, Feeblemind, and Touch of Idiocy are now removed by Rest Shrines.
The idiocy of his behaviour appalled her.
That would seem to be either the highest levels of idiocy, or the deepest level of conspiracy.
Beer ads show men grunting like neanderthals, repeating the same word moronically, and generally reveling in a kind of apelike idiocy. Philip Slater: Do you have to be Dumb to be a Man?
And, although I don't speak Italian, I do speak Spanish, and I've listened to enough Italian opera to have picked up a lot of vocab from it; I find myself hanging on every word of that, again, despite the idiocy of many libretti I'm sorry, but "Mille serpenti mi devoran il petto", anyone? A mixed evening...
Killing Johen would result in Hannu throwing its allegiance toward New Daneland, but the jarl of New Sweden was known for his idiocy. Playing Easy to Get
With an idiocy that may seem almost incredible, the many examples of this had been carefully copy-edited to make them conform to the usual conventions of printed academic prose, ruining their whole point.
The image of idiocy was well suited for the scriptural style of antithetical positions represented in Hooker's sermon.
As a prominent figure in Rottweiler rescue, she's stubbed her toe on more unfair bullying and downright idiocy than most.
I learn from this that Mr Opik believes a speed limit on roads with no lighting, blind corners, and very little room for passing let alone overtaking is "idiocy with no limit". Read Lembit Opik's Daily Sport columns online

How To Use Idiocy In A Sentence

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