The substance of the job was handling various stupidities, my own included.
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All the ads, all the information—it's just stupidities intended for the middle class.
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For all the avant-garde personal stupidities that youth allows, there is a hangover.
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It's a chain of stupidities, complicities and errors from the legislative power to the executive.
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You know, I assembled a number of stupidities, which took up a lot of my time.
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On screen, its screamy satire seemed too blunt; in mocking the obvious stupidities of television it also mocked its viewers.
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He's done a lot of work on his end to earn that title, too, joining the meme generation and protesting America's increasing stupidities.
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The men now claim to reject Islamic State ideology and tactics and profess regret for their "stupidities," as one put it under questioning.
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So the function of all of these dirty jokes and stupidities is to cover up that he is really a pretty ordinary, centrist politician.
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As a result of the vote, "I have been accused of being a fascist mayor and all sorts of other stupidities," Mr. Bel said.
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One of the great enduring stupidities of modern economic life is the belief that buying American is somehow beneficial to the United States as a whole.
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"There are lots of disadvantages to social media, lots of stupidities that get passed around and lots of people who criticize us players on social media," she said.
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On Wednesday night, during a televised debate, Mr. Macron repeatedly dismissed her ideas as "stupidities," but she struck back with equal force, skewering him as soft on terror and a heartless capitalist.
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But the anxieties that generate this sort of furious macho semaphoring and overdetermined posturing are the anxieties that animate many of the worst and smallest stupidities in a national life that's warped by greed and guilt.
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Pensioners by comparison have seen income soar: Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek explains why he wants to 'problematise' Europe and why 'the Donald' is something of a paradox: "Read Trump closely – it is difficult to do, I know – and if you extract his total racist and sexist stupidities, you will see that here and there, where he makes a complete proposal, they're usually not so bad," said Žižek.
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In 1979, Sanders issued an apology for his "past hurts" and "many public stupidities" and tried to encorouge co-operation between Gardnerians and Alexandrians. He died in 1988.
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Perhaps because the 1761 coronation of George III had been beset by "numerous mistakes and stupidities",Gosling pp. 54–55 the next time around, spectacle overshadowed the religious aspect of the service. The coronation of George IV in 1821 was an expensive and lavish affair with a vast amount of money being spent on it.
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After St. Louis University granted an honorary doctorate of laws to the liberal theologian Hans Küng, Staffa claimed that Catholic universities had been giving out several honorary degrees to those "not worthy of merit". He also said that "there are many periti of the Council who speak stupidities" and that "if we give honorary doctorates to him, it would seem that we approve his ideas".
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Benito Mussolini, an important Socialist Party editor, took a leadership role, but he was expelled from the party by state, and only a pro-war minority followed him. Apart from Russia, it was the only leftist political party in Europe that openly opposed the war. The fervour for war represented a bitterly-hostile reaction against politics as usual and the failures, frustrations, and stupidities of the ruling class.Martin Clark, Modern Italy: 1871-1995 (1996), pp. 180-5.
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So we took a long walk on > that Minister's farm and, as it often happens, both of us suddenly were just > kind of flooded and let go. I somehow, for some reason, threw caution to the > wind and started telling him about what I considered to be utter stupidities > in the area of foreign affairs, especially about those SS-20 missiles that > were being stationed in Europe and a lot of other things. And he did the > same thing. We were completely frank.
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He described Trump as a paradox, basically a centrist liberal in most of his positions, desperately trying to mask this by dirty jokes and stupidities. In an opinion piece, published e.g. in Die Zeit, he described the then frontrunner candidate Hillary Clinton as the much less suitable alternative. In an interview with the BBC, Žižek did however state that he thought Trump was "horrible" and his support would have been based on an attempt to encourage the Democratic Party to return to more leftist ideals.
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Rincewind is also fairly streetwise. He is often depicted as a harsh critic of the selected stupidities surrounding him, even though he can't help but comply with whatever absurdity that arises. For example, in the computer games starring him, he consistently spotted the ludicrous events around him and would then make jokes and puns to the unaware participants. He also seems to display, despite his apparent failure as a wizard, a fairly extensive magical knowledge, recognizing various spells, magical artefacts and concepts throughout his escapades.
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"Einstein, Albert (1999). The World as I See It. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, p. 5. Einstein was averse to the Abrahamic conception of Heaven and Hell, particularly as it pertained to a system of everlasting reward and punishment. In a 1915 letter to the Swiss physicist Edgar Meyer, Einstein wrote, "I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.
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London: Children of Artemis. In 1979 Sanders announced to the witchcraft community that he wished "to make amends for some of the past hurts that I have given and many public stupidities I created for others of the Craft", and expressed his desire that the Wicca should some day put aside their differences and "unite in brotherly love before the face of the Lady and the Lord", allowing them to become great again and respected in the outside world.Sanders, O. Alexander (1979). "The Many Paths of Wicca" in The Cauldron issue 15, Lammas 1979.
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Ugrešić’s “creative work resists reduction to simplified isolated interpretative models”. Her collection Have A Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream () consists of short dictionary-like essays on American everyday existence, seen through the lenses of a visitor whose country is falling apart. The Culture of Lies is a volume of essays on ordinary lives in a time of war, nationalism and collective paranoia. "Her writing attacks the savage stupidities of war, punctures the macho heroism that surrounds it, and plumbs the depths of the pain and pathos of exile" according to Richard Byrne of Common Review.
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Pro-war supporters mobbed the streets with tens of thousands of shouting by nationalists, Futurists, anti-clericals, and angry young men. Benito Mussolini, an important Socialist Party editor took a leadership role, but he was expelled from the Party and only a minority followed him. Apart from Russia this was the only far left party in Europe that opposed the war. The fervor for war represented a bitterly hostile reaction against politics as usual, and the failures, frustrations, and stupidities of the ruling class.Martin Clark, Modern Italy: 1871–1995 (1996) pp 180–85Dennis Mack Smith, Italy: A Modern History (1969) pp 292–305.
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Riobaldo's account frequently returns to the central topic of his discourse, which he proclaims as the reason for his telling his life-story, as he expects, albeit ironically so, an answer from his listener: whether or not the Devil, and therefore evil, exists. Riobaldo is anguished by the idea he may have conducted a pact with the Devil, although he is uncertain, and he often dismisses the superstitions and beliefs of the "sertanejos" as stupidities. The interpretation of this supposed pact vary widely. Antonio Candido viewed it as an act of self-assurance, a symbolic deed by which Riobaldo can take hold of himself and of all his potential, something which allows him to become a powerful warrior who can extend vastly the power of his gang and avenge the betrayal of Joca Ramiro.
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At that time, he remarked on the emergence of progressive American artists who studied abroad but who did not succumb to French traditions: > The American Section...has convinced me for ever of the capability of > Americans to claim a school. Inness, Whistler, Sargent and plenty of > Americans just as well able to cope in their own chosen line with anything > done over here...An artist should paint his own time and treat nature as he > feels it, not repeat the same stupidities of his predecessors...The men who > have made success today are the men who have got out of the rut. As for the French Impressionists, he wrote "Even Claude Monet, Sisley, Pissarro and the school of extreme Impressionists do some things that are charming and that will live." Hassam was later called an "extreme Impressionist".
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The title made reference to a once-popular form of busking and fortune telling, one involving a person playing a barrel organ while a trained parrot would pick up predictions written on scraps of folded paper that were placed in an open box (the notes were known as bilete de papagal - "parrot tickets"). The use implied a very small format; Arghezi, who later adopted the bilet as an original form of short prose, explained his style choices in the editorial for the first issue (2 February 1928): > "A newspaper this small has never before been published, not even among > ants. Lacking a large newspaper in which to write important stupidities, the > editor of this rolling paper gives light to what is less than a flyer and > confines himself to publishing grinning tidbits."Arghezi, Bilete de papagal, > in Din presa..., p.
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Originally a Banco do Brasil clerk, Jaguar started sketching on a professional basis in 1952, when he offered the weekly magazine Manchete some cartoons loosely inspired by the work of the French-Hungarian cartoonist André François. After working for Manchete and the culture monthly Senhor, he became famous in the 1960s for his works, among whose highlights were his illustrations to the collections of satirical chronicles by Sergio Porto entitled FEBEAPÁ (acronym for "The Festival of Stupidities that plagues our country" - the chronicles dealt mostly with the petty ridicules of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil), as well as his cartoon anthology "Átila, você é bárbaro" ("Attila, you're barbarous!"Bárbaro", besides being Portuguese for "barbarian", at the time was also a Brazilian vernacular slang for "cool""). In 1969 -together with his fellow cartoonists Millôr Fernandes, Ziraldo and others journalistic celebrities, he founded the groundbreaking satirical newspaper O Pasquim.
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November 1957 photograph of a group of 22 SAS troops in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency In 1957, wanting to escape the "stupidities of drill" and the "bullshit" of the regular Army, Large volunteered for the SAS; however, while riding home from the Brecon Beacons within hours of successfully completing the notoriously tough selection course, he crashed his motorbike, and, having injured his ankle, he had to repeat selection – this time with one boot two sizes larger than the other to accommodate the bandages and swelling. He went on to serve with 22 SAS in Malaya, Oman, Borneo and Aden. Large's first operation with the SAS was in Malaya, hunting the Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) guerrillas engaged in the Malayan Emergency uprising. By the time of Large's involvement there was little communist activity and, despite months of jungle patrols and encounters with leeches, scorpions, civet cats and tigers, he never had any contact with MRLA guerrillas.
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Noyes remained in retirement in California for some years. In 1943, he published The Secret of Pooduck Island, a children's story set off the coast of Maine. It features a family of squirrels threatened by natural enemies (skunks, weasels) and humans, the ghost of a Native American man who suffered a terrible sorrow in the colonial era, and a teenage boy who has ambitions to be an artist and who is able to help both the squirrels and the ghost. It is, however, far more profound and terrible than the lighthearted accounts of animal behaviour seem on the surface to indicate; a mysterious voice keeps whispering words of mystery to the artist Solo, and most of the characters turn out to be incarnations of the various follies and stupidities of mankind: the fierce lonely boy-artist (who is nearly locked up as insane by the petty spiteful villagers) and the pudgy but wise priest, as well as the solemn ghost of Squando, being the only exceptions against which the others are contrasted.
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Linked to his fear of China was Gobineau's fear of Russia. During his visit to Russia in 1876 he wrote to a friend: "It is undeniable that this country is well on the way to power and aggrandizement" and in 1879 wrote Russia was about to present "the spectacle of the creation of the greatest empire that the Universe will ever have seen". He saw the growth of Russian power as opening the door for a Chinese invasion of Europe, writing to Pedro II in 1879: > What the Russians will have done within ten years will be to have opened > towards the West the flood-gates to the vast human horde that we find so ill > at east in China; and it is an avalanche of Chinese and Slavs, mottled with > Tartars and Baltic Germans, that will put an end to the stupidities and > indeed to the civilization of Europe. The United States, which fears a > yellow invasion from the direction of California, will gain little from all > this.
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Gardner Sullivan] is found at his best, it is said, in his newest drama, 'Sahara' ... Press notices in the East indicate that 'Sahara' is unquestionably one of the most luxurious motion pictures of the year." It was also described as "a masterpiece" and a film "as brilliant and gorgeous as the colorful Egyptian desert." A syndicated review published in several newspapers called it the "Biggest Picture of the Year" and praised it as one of the great dramas of recent years: > "All who see Louise Glaum in 'Sahara,' a powerful emotional drama of Paris > and Cairo by C. Gardner Sullivan and supervised by Allan Dwan will regret > the days that she has spent in other pictures which failed to give her the > opportunities of 'Sahara' ... This big J. Parker Read, Jr., production > distributed by W.W. Hodkinson is entitled to rank as one of the really great > dramas produced in motion pictures in recent years. ... The achievement of a > picture like 'Sahara' represents the triumphs of brains of an author, star, > director and producer over the mountain high stupidities that have become > involved in motion picture making.
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