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"witless" Definitions
  1. silly or stupid; not sensible

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Often those acts have a pathetic, witless spontaneity to them.
"Oh, he's pulled his arms off!" the witless announcer yells.
On Netflix, though, the treatment of this witless teen is downright brutal.
It's the same dreary hooey, made more tedious and witless through repetition.
Americans are paying to scare themselves witless, and not just on Halloween.
Republican senators led the witless Donald Trump to pull out of the Paris Agreement.
But I don't mean [a] sort of witless optimist [that] everything will work out regardless.
Kindly keep witless editorializing out of the news and place it in your Sunday Review section.
It's about taking the reins, that's it, which is worth doing, even when it scares us witless.
"It is extremely difficult to prepare for and it worries me witless," said the owner of PK Engineering.
The witless Mr Corbyn was at least right when he promised his followers a "new kind of politics".
"The stock market was in free fall, and everyone was scared witless," said Kim Weaver, a T.S.P. spokeswoman.
Critics said that "Black Christmas" suffered from a poorly thought out plot, weak characters, and a witless script.
The interview did not fit their narrative of Barr being a witless Trump troll so it was ignored.
But she's not witless and she obviously knows that birth control plays an important role in working women's lives.
A computer as witless as I am—how can we maintain our irreducible humanity in the face of that?
A search of my own name returns a post calling me "a witless handmaiden" for supporting trans people on Twitter.
She is contemptuous of her charges, referring to one as an "ignorant little slug", a "witless weed" and "empty-headed hamster".
Enduring this witless show, you have to wonder about the selection process of the festival's producing artistic director, Elena K. Holy.
"[S]he's not witless and she obviously knows that birth control plays an important role in working women's lives," Collins wrote.
To many, Christians appeared to be either deluded or witless to claim that this man really was the Son of God.
But in case you need a reminder, recently released video of a near-crash from a rescue helicopter should scare you witless.
These women are not ideals; they are witless, erotic archetypes that have escaped into our brains from old girlie magazines our parents owned.
The player steps into the shoes of Joey LaRocca, a blank-faced and witless goon who does not appear in the actual show.
What motivates this vigilantism is anyone's guess: back stories are not Raymond's forte, at least on the evidence of this witless first feature.
As Dennis Harvey from Variety wrote, "A witless script wrings few laughs from its retread conceits, but it too often doesn't even try."
"In every calm and reasonable person there is a hidden second person scared witless about death," says the narrator of a Philip Roth novel.
Dan and Joyce seem too distracted by their anniversary to notice their new sitter's weird vibe, but they also come off as fairly witless.
Witless, soulless, often amateurish and filled with product placements (nice going, Coors), the movie has nothing going for it other than some wasted talent.
"I think (Yum's) KFC and McDonald's are scared witless in China," posted one user on microblog Weibo under the handle 'Fei Na Xiong An'.
It grossed $24 million less than its production budget, and critics dismissed the concept as "witless" and the music as "brainless pre-teen fodder".
In this scene, she introduces a potential suitor, the witless Sir James Martin, to her in-laws, and the meeting does not go as planned.
A recent example: Has there ever been a more infantile, witless, impotent, self-obsessed, intellectually-bankrupt pus-filled cockstump to perch, temporarily, on a seat of power?
It was enough, for now, that a witless game given a mindless denouement by Marouane Fellaini's dimwitted head butt on Sergio Agüero had not ended in defeat.
As a couple (platonic, though the movie hints at more) the two have brass and guile, transforming the men around them into hapless victims or witless dupes.
More than 8,000 people gathered in Birmingham for a common cause: not to trade barbs and witless repartee, but to celebrate the game that they (we) all love.
Every year, Cannes presents an overstuffed, witless event movie that generates publicity for the festival and reminds the world that the event can go commercial when it wants.
"The torrent of informative abuse that will come your way from people who want to tell you how stupid, witless, and uninformed you are will be very instructive," he says.
" Alex Ross, in The New Yorker, went so far as to say, "Pound for pound, ton for ton, it is the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history.
"Witless, soulless, often amateurish and filled with product placements (nice going, Coors), the movie has nothing going for it other than some wasted talent," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
I saw a phenomenal production of it recently at the Almeida Theater in London, with Bertie Carvel as Pentheus and Ben Whishaw as Dionysos and discovered it still scared me absolutely witless.
Every time some gang of witless, terrifying Poujadists ends up steering another country into a lake, the proximal cause is always the same: one puffed up politician and their very clever plan.
I was able to see First Contact on the big screen, and the Borg scared me witless; on a subconscious level there was a message there too, that has taken me years to digest.
No self-respecting gangster would walk away without some concrete gain, or would enter the discussions with the witless naïveté and lack of preparation displayed by President Trump at last month's Singapore summit meeting.
And he wrote another about a cynical, power-grubbing king scared witless that he isn't a legitimate ruler — who turns out, in a twist only Shakespeare could imagine, to be the president's distant cousin.
Despite being scared witless, most drug users McAuley spoke to said they felt relief and pride after saving lives with naloxone, and that some had gone on to form close bonds with those they assisted.
At her best, she's got a hardened, embarrassment-proof way of carrying her share of witless romantic comedies ("Something Borrowed"), semi-racist bayou horror ("The Skeleton Key") and the worst movie I've ever seen ("Bride Wars").
Like "Cursed Child," it rewards the bookish connoisseur of arcana; unlike the witless "Cursed Child," however, "Travesties" has a verve and humor that stand on their own, and a truly delicious lead performance by Tom Hollander.
Both films concern conveniently witless members of the upper-middle class — a Swedish museum curator in "The Square," an apparently American heart surgeon and his family in "Sacred Deer" — whose privilege begets a crucible of suffering.
"The digital duopoly clearly benefited from commodifying content and rewarding sites, fake or flawed, that gamed search engines and peddled witless clickbait at the expense of provenance and professional journalism," Thomson told BuzzFeed News in a statement.
It said the attack was "a response to the witless remarks of U.S. president, Donald Trump, and his declaration", and that it was targeting "Western and Zionist interests worldwide and in support of our Muslim families in Palestine".
Today, in Donald J. Trump, we have a genuine impresario of the mob — an instrument of the crowd who feels its resentment, its impatience, its distrust, and returns them all in slogans, epithets and witty (or witless) taunts.
The rest of the time it resembles one of those compilation videos of football bloopers that a flustered aunt has bought you as a last-minute birthday present—albeit with none of the witless C-list celebrity commentary.
Such blitheness could easily seem heartless, or witless, but so winning is McConaughey that we come to accept this mirthful hippiedom, which allows him to greet all slings and arrows with an uncomplaining shrug, as a sensible course of action.
They are so superb that they have made it easy for civilian officials to take a facile and witless approach to foreign policy, because they think they can always send in our reliable boys and girls to salvage the situation.
The primary issue is the affront to protocol, as well as reported concern for the safety of the intelligence source, which was compounded by the impression that the leak came from a witless leader oblivious to the gravitas of his office.
Although he has repeatedly urged his party to stop "banging on about Europe", his Eurosceptic backbenchers, scared witless by the rise of Nigel Farage's virulently anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), have constantly hassled him to adopt a tougher line with Brussels.
The show accordingly gives us wedding massacres, Byzantine plots devised by silver-tongued rich people, women killing witless and cruel men with fire, a dozen pairs of star-crossed lovers, repetitive incest, gouged eyes, gorgeous vistas with ancient castles, and disgusting morbidity.
Her writing about their ardor is as vivid and true as anything in Scott Spencer's great "Endless Love" (1979), that audacious teen novel that comes with a permanent asterisk attached, reminding you not to confuse it with the damp and witless Brooke Shields movie adaptation.
For many years, though, Trump lived in a strange public inversion of the usual superhero routine—his secret identity as a witless and grandiose scam artist was widely known, while his identity as an Extremely Impressive Person was known only to himself and a few loyal retainers.
Thus, Hillary Clinton should be "locked up" for her witless handling of her email server years ago, but Donald Trump Jr. should not be called to account for meeting last year with Kremlin agents to get "dirt" on Clinton, or later telling tall tales about the meeting.
The reawakening of the slumbering franchise in 2015 gave birth to "Jurassic World," one of the highest-grossing terrible movies of all time, a lumbering walk in the rebooted park that squandered the charisma of the big lizards and the charm of the human cast in a witless farrago of blockbuster self-importance.
They highlighted a curious chastening of the characters, only mildly adult to begin with, including the sudden disappearance of teacher Ms Keane's breasts, and the absence of the scheming, seductive Miss Sara Bellum, one of the old series' defining female presences, who controls the town in secret from the office of the witless Mayor.
Whether he's playing a business-savvy drug lord in inner-city Baltimore ("The Wire"), a brilliant but flawed London detective ("Luther") or a working professional in rural Pennsylvania subject to the jibes of a witless boss (the American version of "The Office"), Mr Elba can likely draw on a pool of frustrations and emotions.
One would like to mentally separate the game from its marketing campaign—​you've only to play Battlefield 1 to know it isn't as witless as its advertising—​but anything admirable about how the First World War is depicted, by Battlefield, is ultimately overshadowed and caveated by awareness that the war is being used, nakedly, as a selling point.
"From the perspective of the Republican leadership's duty to their country, and indeed to the world that our imperium bestrides, leaving a man this witless and unmastered in an office with these powers and responsibilities is an act of gross negligence, which no objective on the near-term political horizon seems remotely significant enough to justify," he wrote.
Meanwhile, from the perspective of the Republican leadership's duty to their country, and indeed to the world that our imperium bestrides, leaving a man this witless and unmastered in an office with these powers and responsibilities is an act of gross negligence, which no objective on the near-term political horizon seems remotely significant enough to justify.
The season is best summarized by viral sketches that, boiled down, were just the easiest, most Facebook-shareable joke to make about the most ridiculous thing that happened in the preceding week: If Russia's influence on the election or the administration was in the news, Putin would pop up shirtless in the White House and kiss up to a witless Trump.
"[F]rom the perspective of the Republican leadership's duty to their country, and indeed to the world that our imperium bestrides, leaving a man this witless and unmastered in an office with these powers and responsibilities is an act of gross negligence, which no objective on the near-term political horizon seems remotely significant enough to justify," wrote Ross Douthat at the New York Times.
As such, they call to mind figures like Donald Trump Jr. and the music promoter Robert Goldstone, who were witless enough to discuss over email the Russian government's support of the Trump campaign: GOLDSTONE: The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.
The terrain varies from woods, meadows and cliffs. The islands of the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, can be seen, and there red sandstone cliffs, and views of coves, sea stacks, gulches. In season there are boat trips from Witless Bay and Bay Bulls to view icebergs, whales, and the seabird colonies on the island's offshore.Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Gull Island, Witless Bay, part of the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve Beaches Path 7.1 km (Witless Bay - Mobile) An easy hike, taking 2–3 hours.
Witless Bay is a town on the Avalon Peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Located on the Irish Loop, 35 km south of the provincial capital, St. John's, Witless Bay is a small, scenic, traditional Newfoundland outport community. The town had a population of 1619 in the Canada 2016 Census. It is connected to the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve.
Witless Bay Ecological Reserve is an ecological preserve close to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The Witless Bay Ecological Reserve consists of four islands: Gull Island, Green Island, Great Island, and Pee Pee Island. Immense numbers of birds nest on these islands during the seabird breeding season, roughly from 1 April through 1 September. The Witless Bay reserve contains North America´s largest Atlantic puffin colony.
1986, Witless Bay is incorporated, 1986 - The first town Manager of the Town of Witless Bay is Joan Marie Yard (1943-1999) 2016, population reaches 1619, population grows by 38.7% from 2011, making it the fastest growing town in the province.
Gull Island, Witless Bay Witless Bay is a fishing community, first established because of its closeness to the rich fishing grounds on the Grand Banks. Tourism is an important part of the community as well, since the community is home to the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, which contains North America's largest Atlantic Puffin colony and the world's second-largest colony of Leach's Storm-petrels. The presence of these bird colonies has given birth to the Witless Bay Puffin and Petrel Patrol, a volunteer organization aiming to save stranded chick and return them safely to the ocean. Bed-and-breakfast establishments, coffee shops, a whale and puffin tour operator, several craftspeople, and the Witless Bay and Area Puffin and Petrel Patrol attract visitors from all over the world.
1845, Roman Catholic Church opens. 1860, the Presentation Sisters open a convent and a school for girls. 1871, population reaches 928. 1960s, people are re-settled from Gallows Cove at the southern headland of Witless Bay to the community of Witless Bay.
A tourism information centre is located in the reserve, by Lower Pond in the town of Witless Bay.
The Los Angeles Times called it "witless".MOVIES OF THE WEEK Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times 22 June 1975: p4.
Battersby, Eileen (25 January 2014). "A visit to the court of King Witless". The Irish Times. Retrieved 27 April 27 2019.
In September 2013, Action Canada fellow Sébastien Després was elected as mayor. Witless Bay is the setting for Howard Norman's novel, The Bird Artist.
The blog stated that "we at UN Dispatch refuse to let Megadeth's witless screed go unchallenged. We listened [to the song] so you don't have to".
This 1970s English band should not be confused with the Byzantium formed in Galway, Ireland in 2006, who won the Witless ‘07 "Battle of the Bands" competition.
Witless Protection is a 2008 American comedy crime film written and directed by Charles Robert Carner and starring Larry the Cable Guy and Jenny McCarthy. Whitney plays Larry Stalder, a small-town deputy in Mississippi. Distributed by Lionsgate, the film was released in theatres on February 22, 2008. Witless Protection received negative reviews from critics and was a commercial flop, grossing $4.1 million against a $7.5 million budget.
Survival of the Witless is a card game produced by Avalanche Press about tenure. Released in 1997, the game was created due to Avalanche Press founder Mike Bennighof's anger at being fired from his teaching job at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) for winning a teaching award as an untenured professor. Survival of the Witless was Avalanche Press' hottest selling game, but as of 2007 is out of print.
In 2008, the NDP won two polls, one was a mobile poll, and the other contained the community of Hopeall. The Greens also won a poll in Witless Bay.
Suddenly my own face, reflected, startles me witless. Those snails have been tracking my face! Finally, with a shuddering wrench of the will, I see clouds, cirrus clouds. I'm dizzy.
Tania Miller is an English actress, known for her appearances in television series including Witless (2016–2018), Years and Years (2019), Free Rein (2019) and The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020).
Route 13, also known as Witless Bay Line, is a , uncontrolled-access highway in Newfoundland and Labrador. Its western terminus is at Route 1 (TCH) in Holyrood and its eastern terminus is at Route 10 in Witless Bay. The route travels a generally straight line through the centre of Avalon Peninsula and is completely in Division No. 1. The entire route Route 13 is rural, with no other major communities or services of any kind along its length.
St. Bernard's Elementary School, part of the Eastern School District, is located in Witless Bay. The town is also home to one of the three surviving crab processing plants of the Irish Loop.
Roger Ebert gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four, commenting that "neither [Aniston nor Butler] is allowed to speak more than efficient sentences to advance the plot" and that it is rife with "exhausted action clichés." A.O. Scott of The New York Times gave the film a completely negative review and said it was rated PG-13 for "witless sexual innuendo and witless violence.""Aniston and Butler as Battling Exes - NYTimes.com" The New York Times, March 18, 2010.
Inverdale is now a member of the main commentary team. He appeared as himself in five episodes of 2016 BBC Three comedy Witless as the presenter of 'Witpro', a spoof video series about witness protection.
The Globe and Mail, May 18, 2001. A science fiction film set on a space station, the film starred Bertalan, Gerard Gagnon and Pascale Bussières."Wacky and witless with fine acting". The Province, June 1, 2001.
Other reviews were not so positive. Writers for Motion Picture Guide focused more on the negative stereotypes presented in the film. “Stereotypes abound in this foolish, witless western, a production misusing the fine black talent in its cast.
On his first visit to London, a witless American gets involved with a gang of crooks and with the help of a Canadian girl they con their way through a maze of false clues and bungled attempts to find the truth.
After Agrippina's death, Nero viewed her corpse and commented how beautiful she was, according to some.Tacitus, Annals XIV.9 Her body was cremated that night on a dining couch. At his mother's funeral, Nero was witless, speechless and rather scared.
Wild-and-Witless appears to be so. But you and I in the end are > nowhere near it. Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know. > Therefore the sage practices the teaching that has no words.
He also briefly worked for a white supremacist supervillain named "Super Caucasian", but was swiftly fired for being half- Japanese. Eventually, this scheme went awry when they became employed by Willy Pete. Rather than driving Willy Pete into bankruptcy and forcing him to give up his schemes due to a lack of funding and support, it incensed Willy Pete so much that he decided to track down and kill every last member of the Witless Minions. In this, Willy Pete was nearly successful; after having sodomized every other Witless Minion, Willy Pete was temporarily incapacitated by being frozen.
Witless is a British thriller sitcom created by Lloyd Woolf and Joe Tucker, produced by Objective Fiction, part of Objective Media Group, for the BBC. The first episode of the first series was released on 22 April 2016 on BBC Three, with a new episode weekly. A second series was commissioned prior to the series finale to air in early 2017, with the full series released on 25 January 2017. A third series was commissioned on 23 February 2017, in a statement co-star Kerry Howard said she was "beyond thrilled that Witless has a third series".
Witless Bay is a natural bay off of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is located on the eastern coast of the Avalon Peninsula, south of Bay Bulls and north of La Manche Provincial Park.
"Bill Lamb. Cobra Starship - "Good Girls Go Bad" featuring Leighton Meester About.com. Retrieved August 16, 2009. However, Mayer Nissim of Digital Spy gave the song one star out of five, saying it is "one of the most boorish, witless singles in recent memory.
The reviews in the press ranged from unenthusiastic to hostile. In The Saturday Review, Ivor Brown called Home Chat "only the shadow of a play" and the character "witless fragments of negativity".Brown, Ivor. "The Theatre", The Saturday Review, 29 October 1927, pp.
Eaton is most widely known for her role as Terri Dyke in ITV series, Benidorm but has previously landed roles in Bad Girls, Doctor Who, Gambit, Doctors, Mrs Biggs and Call the Midwife . Charlotte is also known for playing Jackie in two series of Witless.
The program lasted only a single season on CTV. Macpherson subsequently went on to host a British adaptation of Twenty Questions for Associated-Rediffusion. Les Wedman, television columnist for The Vancouver Sun, deemed the production to be a "dull, witless presentation of a parlor [sic] game".
Laura Miller of Salon.com called Spawn "a witless exercise in reheating leftovers". Miller called the comic character "a rehash of Spiderman"(sic) and the film a poor man's Batman. She declares "This movie sucks" and criticizes the special effects, compounded by the film taking itself too seriously.
The second Baronet also became Member of Parliament for Portsmouth—from 1782 to 1796, although never once speaking in the House of Commons. Indeed, he has been described as a "witless playboy". The title became extinct on his death in 1846. The family surname was pronounced "fan-shaw".
It is a shoreline walk with mild elevation changes and there are a picnic area, and Mobile Beach. Witless Bay Ecological Reserve lies offshore. Tinkers Point Path 5.0 km (Mobile - Tors Cove) A easy hike that takes 2–3 hours. There is beach access, picnicking, and seasonal bird and whale watching.
The wisecracks so witless? If this movie were > a vaudeville act, you'd be yelling "Give 'em the hook!" after 15 minutes. > Maybe that's Blue City problem: too many hooks. It's a high-concept "Young > '80s" reworking of MacDonald's 1947 Hammett-style thriller--with no Lew > Archer, no metaphor and no edge.
The movie, "Witless Protection" was filmed in Plano, using the train station as the Police Headquarters in the movie. The station was also featured in the 2013 Superman movie, "Man of Steel", which was filmed in Plano. The station was used as the Village Hall for Superman's hometown of Smallville, Kansas.
March 27, 1985. 16. Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times called it "a sorry excuse for a movie: loud, lewd, witless and crass ... you might be advised to skip the movie and go directly to the sound-track album."Wilmington, Micheal (March 27, 1985). "'Porky's Revenge' Loud, Lewd, Crass".
I did though, witness one distressing event. An African was walking along a town street (in Nachingwea), minding his own business, when an Alsatian leapt at him from the back of a pick-up truck. The African was shocked and scared witless. He leapt out of the way and into the road.
Kerry Elizabeth Howard (born 24 March 1982) is an English actress. She played Laura in the BBC Three comedy series Him & Her and Leanne in Witless. She also appears in BBC Three "Feed My Funny" comedy sketches with Lu Corfield and acted as courtroom clerk in the first series of Judge Romesh.
Túrin, mistaking Beleg for an orc, kills Beleg with his own sword. When a flash of lightning reveals Beleg's face, Túrin realises his mistake and falls into a frenzy. He refuses to leave Beleg's body until morning, when Gwindor is able to bury the elf. Túrin takes Anglachel but remains witless with grief.
Laughing, Gudrun taunts him with the news that his funeral pyre has already been kindled. Within moments, a blazing inferno consumes Atli's palace and the surrounding town. The night that has proven so fatal to so many at last ends in dawn. In the aftermath, Gudrun again wanders witless through the forest.
Vincent Canby of The New York Times panned the film as "a collection of witless blackout sketches dealing with infidelity, wedding nights, impotence and masturbation, played by a small cast of not very talented actors."Canby, Vincent (November 30, 1975). "Now for a Look at Some Really Bad Movies". The New York Times. D13.
Chatterjee also responded negatively to the change in tone of the narrative in the film's latter half. He was enthusiastic about the film's inoffensive nature, calling it a rarity in comedy films and saying its inoffensiveness "add[s] up to a lot". Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com was largely dismissive of the "witless and flimsy" plot.
He "never looked at a book; he gave himself up for sport in the woods with elephants and horses; he searched for shellfish and crabs; he was like one witless".Harvey 1925: 120 He was not respected by his vassals. His brother-in-law Saw Binnya ruled the province of Martaban (Mottama) like a sovereign.
The unnamed critic for The New York Times gave The Cheaters a scathing review: > Republic wasn't kidding when it titled the vapid little film which it > delivered yesterday to the Gotham "The Cheaters." It's a swindle, all right. > ... the whole thing is trashy—just a compound of witless platitudes. And > several good actors are wasted in it.
The Other Man received negative reviews from film critics. It currently holds a 15% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus: “Despite the best efforts of a talented cast, The Other Man is talky, witless and tension-free.” It was a box office bomb as well, earning just over $1 million against its $15 million budget.
It takes 5–8 hours. The path passes the Spout, historic lighthouses, waterfalls, sea cliffs and sea stacks.The trail can be accessed via Shoal Road () from the highway. "Discover The East Coast Trail"August 10, 2018 Newfoundland Herald Mickeleens Path (Bay Bulls - Witless Bay) A walk of easy to moderate difficulty that takes 2–4 hours.
S. TV series) entitled "Guillotine". He also appeared in three episodes of Bonanza from 1960 to 1967. Middleton appeared as defendant "Judge Daniel Redmond" in the 1963 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Witless Witness". In the early 1950s, Middleton appeared on Broadway in Ondine (1954), A Red Rainbow (1953), and The Wild Duck (1951).
The film was poorly received by critics, described as an "appalling rehash" of Casablanca and as "indescribably inept" by Time Out.Time Out Film Guide, Penguin, 1989, p.96. Halliwell's Film Guide described it as a "witless spoof of Casablanca which seems to have been cobbled together from a half-finished negative."Halliwell's Film Guide, 16th edition, 2000, p.126.
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on 4,371 reviews, scoring a lowly 13% on the Tomatometer. The site's critics are mainly negative describing the film as a "Fairly witless romantic heist comedy combo." IMDB has given it a score of 5.6 (out of 10) based on 2,604 user reviews.
Writing for The Monthly Film Bulletin, David McGillivray listed the film's "fundamental deficiencies" as "dreary sexual encounters, rudimentary direction and 94 minutes of witless Old English puns (the title is a fair example)." He likened the episodic "plot" to those of other sex comedies Secrets of a Door- to-Door Salesman (1973) and Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974).
In late 2008, it became their first chart single, as well as their first number- one hit on the Billboard country charts. The Zac Brown Band version was also featured in the 2008 film Witless Protection, starring Larry the Cable Guy. The song has also been placed at number 39 for the Taste of Country's "Top 100 Country Songs of all Time" chart.
The Cuneo Museum has been the backdrop of several noteworthy films set in Chicago. Specifically, many of the outdoor wedding scenes and reception shots for the 1997 romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, starring Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz, were filmed at Cuneo Museum. The museum was also the setting for Witless Protection, starring Larry the Cable Guy, which appeared in 2008.
The film was panned by audience entirely and was mocked in every manner for its amateur depiction and witless technical aspects (sound, cinematography, script, story, acting, editing). Sam Anderson proved himself nothing more than an untrained actor, all that he received for his work were mockery and memes. The song Raasaathi was frequently trolled in later Tamil films, most notably Thalaivaa (2013).
Empowered Vol.1, page 153 For Emp, Thugboy’s Spartan 3000 costume is very arousing and something of a fetish; much like how Emp's Sexy Librarian costume is for Thugboy.Empowered Vol.1, page 153;Empowered Vol.5, pages 59-68 :Like most villains that Thugboy had worked under, Spartan 3000 was eventually driven into bankruptcy by the underhanded dealing of the Witless Minions.Empowered Vol.
1675, the population of Witless Bay is 34. 1700s, Irish fishing servants begin arriving in the area and quickly start to outnumber the English. 1755, as Roman Catholicism is still outlawed in Newfoundland, priests disguised as fishermen, minister to the spiritual needs of the community. 1836, the first official census of Newfoundland puts the population at 542, of which 540 were Roman Catholic.
Northamptonshire Record Office, Cartwright papers, Josh Burton 1722–35 In 1766 their 'Squire' was arrested in Oxford for his insolence and committed to Bridewell as a vagrant. In 1866 an article in the Oxford Chronicle reported on their performance in Banbury, describing their 'many coloured ribbons and other gaudy finery', and the 'witless buffoonery' of their 'fool'. The side still performs today.
Chauvelin offers to trade Armand's life for her help against the Pimpernel. Contemptuous of her seemingly witless and unloving husband, Marguerite does not go to him for help or advice. Instead, she passes along information which enables Chauvelin to learn the Pimpernel's true identity. Later that night, Marguerite finally tells her husband of the terrible danger threatening her brother and pleads for his assistance.
During a battle of the English Civil War, an alchemist's assistant named Whitehead flees from the strict Commander Trower. Whitehead is saved by a rough soldier named Cutler, who kills Trower before he can apprehend Whitehead. Whitehead then meets two army deserters, the veteran Jacob and the witless Friend. The four leave the battleground in search of an ale house that Cutler claims is nearby.
The film has a 7% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 27 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Thoroughly witless and thuddingly unfunny, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot gives its mismatched stars very little to work with - and as a result, they really don't work." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
Witless Protection received near unanimously negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 4% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 2.12/10. The site's consensus states: "Larry the Cable Guy continues his critical losing streak with this insipid, tasteless caper comedy." On Metacritic it has an average score of 17 out of 100, based on 6 reviews.
Feeling vengeful, Hak sets "Four Seasons Weave" on fire to vent his anger. Fung-yiu, who is witless, dazed and confused, gets up to the fighting arena, and was lured by Hak where he kills his friend's father. Fung-yiu had fallen further and further into a quagmire of confusion. He also reveals Tuen's past identity as a killer and Tuen is wanted by officials.
Bergere debuted on television on an episode of the live series Studio One with James Dean. He made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, two in 1963. In "The Case of the Witless Witness" he portrayed James Wall, a Congressional committee examiner. Later that year he played Dr. Charles Nevin, brother-in-law of convicted murderer Janice Barton, in the episode, "The Case of the Deadly Verdict".
Rex Reed called it the most terrifying film he had ever seen.Muir 2002 p. 17 Empire described it as "the most purely horrifying horror movie ever made" and called it "never less than totally committed to scaring you witless". Reminiscing about his first viewing of the film, horror director Wes Craven recalled wondering "what kind of Mansonite crazoid" could have created such a thing.
She and Wix also appeared together in the Harvey's Furniture Store sponsorship bumpers for Coronation Street until the sponsorship deal ended in 2012. She plays Mel Gatwick in Tom Basden's sitcom Party for BBC Radio 4. On 22 June 2012, she played Gertrude Wermers in the third episode of BBC series Dead Boss. In 2016, she appeared in an episode of BBC Three's comedy series Witless.
She is offered the hand of the Haugkall (mountain king). She resists, and is found witless and brought home sick. At the end of the book, her sister consoles her once again, telling her to be of good faith, and to prepare for a descent into Hel, guarded by a völva, who will teach her "through fear, the work which will become your honour".
Benger and Bunce go after her. As Tracey, Towser, Edward, and Lord Dark emerge from Dark Towers, the Tall Knight arrives, and scares the bad guys witless. As Benger, Bunce, and Miss Hawk are arrested, and the darkness lifts, Tracey gives Lord Dark the Golden Book of the Tall Knight. The Tall Knight has vanished, but throughout the house are strange sounds like laughter.
Woolf and Tucker created and wrote the comedy thriller Witless, starring Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle, for BBC Three (online). The show ran for three series between 2016 and 2018, and was nominated for the Rose d'Or. Again, Woolf appeared in the show as PC Ferns. Woolf and Tucker wrote and created Click & Collect starring Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry, a one-off Christmas Special for BBC One.
On TV, the children can watch people > murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch > two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that > doesn't make any sense, does it? An edited version of The Fearless Vampire Killers was released, and Polanski expressed disgust at Ransohoff for "butchering" his film. Newsweek called it "a witless travesty", and it was not profitable.
Fable Legends takes place several hundred years before the events of the original trilogy. This is a period of magic, folklore, and mythology, and humanity has yet to discover meaningful technology. Most people huddle in small villages, too witless and scared to venture out into the scary world about. Heroes are more common, but there is no Heroes' Guild yet, and the Heroes must rely on each other to succeed.
As the flames of the funeral pyre sink down and the ashes turn cold, a devastated Gudrun wanders through the forest witless. Despite loathing every moment of her life, she cannot bring herself to commit suicide. Meanwhile, King Atli's Hunnic Empire grows ever stronger. Although Atli has overthrown the Goths and seized many treasures, the gold hoard of Fafnir and the beauty of Gudrun have caught his interest.
S. Navy Plan Orange) and roleplaying game design (Celtic Age). He scripted the Panzer General II (for which he also designed the maps) and Destroyer Commander computer games, among others; designed such games as Survival of the Witless, Panzer Grenadier, and Great War at Sea; and was the author of the infamous book, Black Flags. Great War at Sea received awards at the Origins Awards in 1998 and 1999.
The tunes are shallow and derivative and the words little more than sloppy nursery-rhymes that patronise the issues and individuals they seek to exalt. Only a monomaniacal smugness could allow the Lennons to think that this witless doggerel wouldn't insult the intelligence and feelings of any audience." Dave Marsh wrote a mixed review for Creem, stating that "it's not half bad. It may be 49.9% bad, but not half.
In 2006, she starred in the CBS comedy series Love Monkey and played the role of Valenka in the James Bond film Casino Royale. In 2007, she played Lena on Ugly Betty. In 2008, she starred in Witless Protection, and featured in guest appearances in House and Pushing Daisies. Miličević played the Soviet intelligence officer Dasha Fedorovich in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 and in Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising.
The Monthly Film Bulletin reviewer wrote: "Too many scenes are both pointless and witless; sometimes the gag doesn't work, sometimes the direction is to blame. And Lewis's habit of ending each joke with a display of cross-eyed, simian mugging is scarcely endearing. Nevertheless, there remain some half-dozen moments of genuine comic invention." The film has a rating of 70% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews with an average rating of 6.89/10.
In September 1993, WFLD hired Chicago Bears defensive tackle Steve McMichael as a guest analysis on a new half-hour sports highlights show that Wolf was hosting. McMichael previously had worked as an analyst at WMAQ-TV in Chicago, where he once had brandished a knife on the set. "I'm scared witless," Wolf joked to the Chicago Sun-Times about his pairing with McMichael. In September 1994, Wolf was demoted from being the 9 p.m.
Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film as the 18th worst of the 2000s. It has a 1% rating based on 104 reviews and a 2.3/10 average. Its consensus reads: "An ill conceived attempt to utilize Dana Carvey's talent for mimicry, The Master of Disguise is an irritating, witless farce weighted down by sophomoric gags." On Metacritic, the film has a 12 out of 100 score based on 24 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".
It was similarly castigated in the broadsheets as 'witless'. Although the intention of the producers was to cash in on the Girl Power and ladette phenomena, feminist commentators complained that the show's style and content appealed to male chauvinistic stereotypes. Several so-called practical jokes on members of the audience were also clearly staged. Channel 4 subsequently placed the show at number 80 in its 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell list.
Old Dogs was panned by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 5%, based on 108 reviews, with an average rating of 2.3/10. The site's consensus reads, "Its cast tries hard, but Old Dogs is a predictable, nearly witless attempt at physical comedy and moral uplift that misses the mark on both counts." The film was ranked number three on their list of the ten most moldy films of 2009.
During school holidays, groups of children joined Rosemary in the studio for a wide range of activities. In 1971, it took the name Breakfast-a-Go-Go, paralleling, for Sydney, Fredd Bear's Breakfast-A-Go-Go on the Melbourne sister station, ATV Channel 0. Sue Smith took over as host and her new comedic sidekick, Witless Wonder (actor Ron Blanchard), replaced Warwick Rankin when Rankin moved to his own children's show, Commander Strongarm.
The Great Plane Robbery received negative reviews. In his book Aviation in the Cinema, Stephen Pendo called The Great Plane Robbery, a "poor Jack Holt adventure." Bosley Crowther, in his review for The New York Times, wrote that "Holt has come up against a lot of dull, witless scripts, but it is doubtful that any was as colorless and static as The Great Plane Robbery ... this one is recommended only to Jack's most rabid admirers."Crowther, Bosley.
The film received negative reviews for its excessive and graphic violence, long running time, misogynistic depiction of women, and bloated plot. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating 23% based on 183 reviews, and a weighted average of 4.08/10. The site's critical consensus states, "Two and a half hours of explosions and witless banter." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 38 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
Tessa evades the knife thrusts and as Geraldo grabs her throat she hold his arm-wielding knife and manages to trip him causing him to fall upon his knife, dead. Shocked by what she has done she returns home to Marta, who points out some home truths that it is not only the Queen that can kill. Mary Rose can't believe a witless girl could kill her foreman and wants the killer found. Montoya plays a waiting game.
After their arrival in 1505, the Portuguese began to convert the Sinhalese to Roman Catholicism, building their wealth and power through the spice and slave trade. As early as 1630, African Kaffirs were brought to Sri Lanka to work as slaves or soldiers. The Kaffirs were once described as a people 'steeped in opium and witless with drink'. The Kaffirs' carefree spirit inspired two music forms known as chicote and "kafrinha" infusing them with humour and satire.
Locations within and around the City of Plano were stand-ins for Clark Kent's hometown of Smallville, Kansas in the 2013 film Man of Steel as well as the 2016 film Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Plano has also been used in the film Witless Protection, with both films having been filmed in Plano's historic downtown area. Filming has also taken place south of Plano at the Farnsworth House, a modern architectural landmark for documentaries and commercials.
In his "Essay on Criticism", Pope describes some critics of a witless nature. In his various Moral Epistles, Pope likewise constructs characters of contemporary authors of poor taste. The general structure owes its origins to the communal project of the Scriblerians and other similar works such as the mock-heroic "MacFlecknoe" by John Dryden and Pope's own "The Rape of the Lock". The Scriblerian club most consistently comprised Jonathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, and Thomas Parnell.
Pee Pee Island is a small island located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the far east of Canada. It is currently one of the four islands in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve. In 1983, Pee Pee Island was incorporated into the reserve as it provides a breeding ground for up to 1300 pairs of Atlantic Puffin. Shortly after the incorporation, the name of the island was changed from "Pebble Island" to its current name.
Critical reception of The News was overwhelmingly negative. In The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that "every minute of The News, as it happens, is agony". Writing for the Associated Press, Michael Kuchwara called the show "ludicrous and distasteful". Writing for New York magazine, John Simon described it as "a monstrosity so noxious and nauseating, so sophomoric and witless, so pretentious and pointless, and, above all, so LOUD, that past horrors seem to beckon from the oubliettes of memory".
The Master of Disguise is a 2002 American adventure comedy film directed by Perry Andelin Blake and written by Dana Carvey and Harris Goldberg. Starring Carvey, Jennifer Esposito, Harold Gould, James Brolin, and Brent Spiner, the film was produced by Carvey's Saturday Night Live alumnus Adam Sandler through his Happy Madison production company. The film grossed $43.4 million. The consensus on Rotten Tomatoes calls it an "irritating, witless farce", and it has appeared on several lists of the worst films ever made.
The film has a 10% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 63 reviews; the average rating is 2.7/10. The consensus states: "A notorious stinker, From Justin to Kelly features banal songs, a witless plot, and non-existent chemistry between its American Idol-sanctioned leads." The film has a score of 14 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 16 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.
As it is, we are simply given a buffoon." Dave Kehr, writing for the Chicago Tribune, agreed that a "Sherlock Holmes movie can be many things, but stupid isn't one of them. Still, there's no other way to consider Without a Clue, a mystery-comedy so klutzy that it tips one of its few surprises in the credit list." Vincent Canby writing for The New York Times stated that Without A Clue was "an appallingly witless sendup of the Sherlock Holmes–Dr.
Sir, there was never, since England was England, > such a stratagem and mask made to deceive England withal as this is of the > treaty of peace. I pray God we have not cause to remember one thing that was > made of the Scots by the Englishmen; that we do not curse for this a long > grey beard with a white head, witless, that will make all the world think us > heartless. You know whom I mean.Laughton, Volume I, pp. 48–49.
Critics disliked the film intensely. The Times review called it "one of the two most nauseous films ever made""Sex Lives of the Potato Men", review by James Christopher, TimesOnline, 19 February 2004 and Christopher Tookey in the Daily Mail called it "the most shamefully inept, witless and repulsive British comedy that I have ever had the misfortune to see".Christopher Tookey, Named and Shamed: The World's Worst and Wittiest Movie Reviews from Affleck to Zeta-Jones. Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2010 , (p. 142).
The site's consensus states, "The humor is gratingly dumb, and Kangaroo Jack contains too much violence and sexual innuendo for a family movie." On Metacritic, the film holds a 16 out of 100 based 25 reviews, meaning “overwhelming dislike”. Joe McGovern in the Village Voice described Kangaroo Jack as "witless" and stated "The colorless script...seems to have written itself from a patchwork of Wile E. Coyote cartoons, camel farts, and every high-pitched Aussie cliché to have echoed on these shores".Joe McGovern, "Kangaroo Jack".
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 22% based on 94 reviews, with an average rating of 4.44/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Largely witless and disappointingly dull, Girl Most Likely strands the gifted Kristen Wiig in a blandly hollow foray into scattershot sitcom territory." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 38 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Upon its festival release, Girl Most Likely garnered mixed reviews from critics.
This afforded Thugboy the necessary time to escape. :Since the demise of the Witless Minions, and until he first met Emp, Thugboy lived his life with no regard for his own well being, often showing no fear in the face of imminent danger or death. However, upon meeting Emp, Thugboy became amorously obsessed and eventually gave up his career or misdeed to become Empowered's "White Knight". Since then, Emp and Thugboy's relationship has been implicitly sexual and emotionally supportive; sometimes, these two manifest as the same thing.
Next came Not of This Earth (1995), part of the Roger Corman Presents horror series on the Showtime network. That same year Witless directed White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild, followed by Ladykiller (1996) aka Scene of the Crime. He directed The Westing Game (1997) aka Get A Clue, made for Showtime and the Hallmark Channel. His 2003 film Fire Over Afghanistan was shot on a prosumer digital camera, the Sony PD-150, and was a precursor to the all digital world to come.
Ferryland contains part of the City of St. John's in the area of Lower Goulds as well as the communities of: Admiral's Cove, Aquaforte, Bay Bulls, Bauline East, Biscay Bay, Brigus South, Burnt Cove, Calvert, Cape Broyle, Cappahayden, Daniel's Point, Fermeuse, Ferryland, Kingman's Cove, La Manche, Mobile, Petty-Harbour- Maddox Cove, Port Kirwan, Portugal Cove South, Renews, St. Michael's, St. Shotts, Tors Cove, Trepassey and Witless Bay. Bordering districts include Conception Bay South, Harbour Main, Mount Pearl-Southlands, Placentia-St. Mary's and Waterford Valley.
Critical reception was mixed. Writing in The Daily Mirror, television editor Tony Pratt called the first series 'one of the best [sitcoms] ITV has produced for ages. It's lively, adult and funny'. However, The Guardian felt 'sorry for Imelda Staunton...who deserves a better script''A Case of Dad Housekeeping', The Guardian, 10 May 1990, p26 with Hugh Hebert labelling the series 'dire' and referring to the character of Izzy as a 'caricature witless teacher who was God's promo for Baker MacGregor Re-Education Inc.
Accessed 1 February 2011. The encyclopedia of British film, in the entry about director Anthony Page, says it is "about as witless and charmless as could be conceived". Variety magazine notes that the script is "best when dwelling on English eccentricity to make the film's most endearing impression...Shepherd and Gould stack up as contrived cliches, characters that jar rather than complement." Film4's review agrees, writing that the two leads are "ruthlessly upstaged by loveable old coves Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael as cricket-mad Charters and Caldicott".
Broadsheet and national British reviews were generally mixed or negative. Film Four's praised the casting of Biel and noted that, though Firth's and Thomas's casting was "hardly radical thinking, both offer something different from their previous period work". Philip French of the Observer wrote that the film was "well enough designed and photographed, but witless, anachronistic, cloth- eared, lacking in both style and period sense", while Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian attacked its script for "undermin[ing] the material by slipping arch modern phrases and gags into everyone's mouths".
The first, a fantasy reworking of Shakespeare, made little impression, but the second, a satire on European dictators, attracted more notice, much of it unfavourable. In particular, Shaw's parody of Hitler as "Herr Battler" was considered mild, almost sympathetic. The third play, an historical conversation piece first seen at Malvern, ran briefly in London in May 1940. James Agate commented that the play contained nothing to which even the most conservative audiences could take exception, and though it was long and lacking in dramatic action only "witless and idle" theatregoers would object.
After she is found huffing glue at an abortion protest with Gail and Norm, they kick her out of the house. Diane, a friend of Gail who participates in abortion protests, offers to take Ruth in. Upon arriving at Diane's farmhouse, Diane discloses that she is in fact a lesbian pro-choice activist and spy who attempts to help women she feels the Stoneys and others prey upon. The witless Ruth soon finds comfort in Diane and her partner, Rachel, as well as Harlan, a gruff biker and friend of the women.
Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt, an elderly dowager in Holly Springs, Mississippi, commits suicide with one of her late husband Buck's pistols. Her pretentious niece, Camille, who directs local church theater productions, stops by later that day to borrow a glass fruit bowl, accompanied by her witless and submissive younger sister, Cora. Camille finds Cookie's body in the bedroom and drops the bowl, shattering it and inadvertently cutting herself. Believing that "suicide is a disgrace", Camille eats Cookie's suicide note and attempts to make her death look like a murder.
There were numerous suggestions in the press that the race should not have been run due to the conditions. Racing Post journalist and lead presenter of Channel 4 Racing, Alastair Down, wrote: "You can wash the mud off the jockeys' silks, but not the stain off the race", under a front page headline: Gutless, Witless and Utterly Reckless. John Maxse, spokesman of the Jockey Club, said: "It was fairly shocking, uncomfortable viewing". However, many in racing leapt to Aintree's defence, as it was loose horses that had caused most problems.
White appeared on numerous television series in the 1950s and 1960s including One Step Beyond:Delusion where he played the Police Officer. He made two guest appearances on the CBS courtroom drama Perry Mason. In 1960, he played Henry De Garmo in "The Case of the Madcap Modiste," and in 1963 he played newspaper editor and murderer Victor Kendall in "The Case of the Witless Witness." He also appeared in Sgt Bilko, Peter Gunn, Mr. Lucky, The Untouchables, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, Father Knows Best , Bonanza, Have Gun – Will Travel, My Favorite Martian and Dick Tracy.
Kurt Naebig (born 1963/1964) is an American actor who has made various appearances on ER, Prison Break, and made movie roles in Road to Perdition, The Relic, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and Howard Beach: Making a Case of a Murder. He also did voice acting in video games such as FreeSpace 2, Summoner, Oni, and Red Faction. He has recently worked on Witless Protection and The Express: The Ernie Davis Story. Kurt Naebig's career also includes voice over work (or voice acting) with Breathe Bible.
Reviewing Rush Hour in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "A lot of this is fun—I'm delighted to find Leon Huff collaborating with someone who's got funk in his soul, and heartened to hear a protest song about the problem of lost keys. But a lot of it—the witless 'Evil Is,' the characterless 'Hey, Western Union Man'—is dumber than Kenny Gamble." His next albums to become gold certified would be Sue in 1981 and Ain't Studdin' Ya in 1991.
When a foot soldier would stand in front of the camera, a twelve-person army of soldiers making the same movements would be projected. French mathematician, Minim friar, and painter of anamorphic art Jean-François Nicéron (1613–1646) wrote about the camera obscura with convex lenses. He explained how the camera obscura could be used by painters to achieve perfect perspective in their work. He also complained how charlatans abused the camera obscura to fool witless spectators and make them believe that the projections were magic or occult science.
This ballad is part of a group of ballads about Robin Hood that in turn, like many of the popular ballads collected by Francis James Child, were in their time considered a threat to the Protestant religion.Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 by Tessa Watt, pp. 39-40. Puritan writers, like Edward Dering writing in 1572, considered such tales "'childish follye'" and "'witless devices.'"Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 by Tessa Watt, pp. 39-40. Quoting Edward Dering, A brief and necessary instruction (1572), sig.A2v.
According to review aggregator Metacritic, the PC and PlayStation 4 versions received "mixed or average" reviews, while the Xbox One version received "generally unfavorable" reviews. The numerous negative reviews from critics led Forbes to describe the release of Fallout 76 as a "historically bad launch" and to question if Bethesda would consider the property "worth saving" moving forward. The Guardian called the game "a pointless walk in the post-apocalypse" featuring "half-baked conflict and witless quests to unearth the dead". According to Forbes, Fallout 76 was a "huge, rare, total miss" by Bethesda.
Criticizing the repetitiveness of the scenes and lack of tension, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the film "even more witless and stupefyingly dull than the original." He gave it one star. Ryan Porter gave it one-and-a-half stars in The Star, saying that like the original, it takes a solid premise and fails to develop it in an interesting or exciting way. He said the film's one positive is the unintentional humor which results from the stupidity of several scenes and the earnestness with which the actors approach them.
The Atlantic puffin is a bird of the colder waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. It breeds on the coasts of northwest Europe, the Arctic fringes, and eastern North America. More than 90% of the global population is found in Europe (4,770,000–5,780,000 pairs, equaling 9,550,000–11,600,000 adults) and colonies in Iceland alone are home to 60% of the world's Atlantic puffins. The largest colony in the western Atlantic (estimated at more than 260,000 pairs) can be found at the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, south of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
He has scored over 30 movies and over 500 episodes of television shows and is best known for his scores to Legend, Battleship Potemkin, Latter Days, Witless Protection, Mike Hammer Private Eye, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Dante's Cove. Allaman won a BMI television award for his work with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in 2006. Allaman has written two ballets with Kim Maselli, "The Sea Princess", (2007) and "Noah’s Ark", (2010). He has also written two musical/operas, Battleship Potemkin (1991) with Jeffrey Couchman and Voices from the Cellar (1989) with Robert White.
Oscar Godbout of The New York Times reviewed the film strictly as entertainment for youngsters, calling it "a pictorial 'funnybook'" that would "probably frighten witless a lot of small children". A generally positive review in Variety wrote: "Imaginative yarn makes full use of astronomical and lab equipment as well as Government atomic research installations as backgrounds to heighten the realism. Highlight, however, is a Martian ray gun which can cause the earth to part into subterranean passages. All this has been effectively filmed by John Seitz in Cinecolor".
In May 2016, a privately funded group conducted an excavation of two buried vehicles on private property in the Witless Bay area near St. John's. The group members were supporters of an alleged eyewitness to the murder, who claimed to have been in the car as a child when Bradley was abducted. The car allegedly belonged to the father of the eyewitness, who claimed it was being driven by a family friend at the time. This car was later buried as landfill and was one of the two vehicles excavated.
Franz Mehring, the principal spokesman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany on culture, warmly welcomed Jugend and referred to Halbe, along with Gerhardt Hauptmann, as "one of the princes of Genius land." Franz Mehring, Gesammelte Schriften, Band 12, (Dietz Verlag Berlin, 1980), p. 352. In 1917 an operatic version of Jugend, composed by Ignatz Waghalter, was premiered in Berlin at the Deutsches Opernhaus (now known as the Deutsche Oper) to great acclaim. Halbe's next play, the comedy The Tourist in America () made the impression of being witless, and his reputation rapidly declined.
A Lemont home and flower shop and Theo J. Gorski & Sons Bus Company were also featured in the beginning of the film. Lemont has also been featured in The Hunter (1980), Straight Talk (1992), Evil Has a Face (1996), Children on Their Birthdays (2002), The Poker House (2008), Witless Protection starring Larry the Cable Guy (2008), and Under the Bus (2000). Portions of the movie Chain Reaction (1996) were filmed at Argonne National Laboratory. Furthermore, several commercials and a made-for-TV movie, "Enememies" (2006), were filmed in the downtown location.
Plano has been the home of at least two films, the most recent being the Superman film, Man of Steel, where downtown Plano was a stand-in for Superman's hometown of Smallville, Kansas. The other film was Witless Protection, a film starring Jennie McCarthy and Larry the Cable Guy, which used the area around Plano as the site of Larry's character's hometown, and the Plano Train Station stood in for the Town Hall and Jail. Plano was also the filming location for the music video for "Nowadays" by Lil Skies and Landon Cube.
Bree, an adventurous and inquisitive colt, was born in Narnia. He disregarded the warnings of his mother and ventured south past Archenland and into Calormen, where he was captured and either enslaved by or eventually sold to the Tarkaan Anradin. He spent many years pretending to be a dumb and witless horse to hide his origins and became one of the Tarkaan's prized possessions. Bree developed a very high opinion of himself with only non-talking horses to compare himself to, further enhanced by his status as the prized steed of a Calormene lord and his training as a war charger.
Blanchard got his first big break on the small screen when he appeared on the children's variety show Breakfast-a-Go-Go in 1969 as "Witless Wonder", the comedic sidekick of new host Sue Smith. In 1972 he appeared as a guest star on the soap opera Number 96 and on the comedy series Snake Gully with Dad and Dave. He continued working on-and-off for the next several years and, in 1976, Blanchard landed the part of the villainous Quell on the children's adventure series The Lost Islands. As one of the show's main antagonists, the series provided his breakout role.
Loki refers to Byggvir in terms of a dog, and says that Byggvir is always found at Freyr's ears, or twittering beneath a grindstone. Byggvir says that he is proud to be here by all the gods and men, and that he is said to be speedy. Loki tells him to be silent, that Byggvir does not know how to apportion food among men, and that he hides among the straw and dais when men go to battle. The god Heimdallr says that Loki is drunk and witless, and asks Loki why he won't stop speaking.
She found herself particularly attracted to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, whom even his uncle, the cleric and poet Gavin Douglas, called a "young witless fool". Margaret and Douglas were secretly married in the parish church of Kinnoull, near Perth, on 6 August 1514. Not only did this alienate the other noble houses but it immediately strengthened the pro-French faction on the council, headed by James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow. By the terms of the late king's will she had sacrificed her position; before the month was out she was obliged to consent to the appointment of Albany.
Pyotr Stepanovich's associates Lyamshin and Liputin take advantage of their role as stewards to alter proceedings in a provocative way, and allow a lot of low types in without paying. The reading starts with the unscheduled appearance on stage of a hopelessly drunk Captain Lebyadkin, apparently for the purpose of reading some of his poetry. Realizing the Captain is too drunk, Liputin takes it upon himself to read the poem, which is a witless and insulting piece about the hard lot of governesses. He is quickly followed by the literary genius Karmazinov who is reading a farewell to his public entitled "Merci".
His first stage play, Stop It, Whoever You Are, about a washroom attendant in a factory, was performed in 1961. The Evening Standard Awards for 1961 named Livings as Most Promising Playwright of the Year for Stop It, Whoever You Are, jointly with Gwyn Thomas, author of The Keep. Among other plays by Livings are The Quick and the Dead Quick (1961), an unconventional historical drama about François Villon; Big Soft Nellie (1961), whose witless hero creates chaos in a radio repair shop; and the play and TV comedy Nil Carborundum (1962), based on his experience of National Service.
Beverly Hills Cop III was criticized harshly and currently holds a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 53 reviews. The critical consensus reads; "Despite being set at an amusement park, Beverly Hills Cop III forgets to have any fun as it churns out uninspired violence and witless gags, with an uncharacteristically lethargic Eddie Murphy not helping matters." Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score, rated it 16/100 based on 15 reviews, which indicates an "overwhelming dislike". Richard Natale of Variety called it "a return to form by Eddie Murphy" that "runs out of steam before the end".
Les Misérables, today, has received widespread critical acclaim, and audiences have often cited it as one of the greatest musicals ever made.Guardian 2013“Readers’ Poll: The 10 Best Musicals of All Time” The Rolling StonesBroadway World However, this was not always the case. Initially, critical reviews for Les Misérables were predominately negative. At the opening of the London production, The Sunday Telegraphs Francis King described the musical as "a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness" and Michael Ratcliffe of The Observer considered the show "a witless and synthetic entertainment", while literary scholars condemned the project for converting classic literature into a musical.
Amy McAllister is an actress most notable for her role as Mary in hit BBC drama Call the Midwife. She recently completed work on the BAFTA Award-winning BBC/Merman comedy-drama There She Goes (TV series) which stars Jessica Hynes and David Tennant as well as on Victorian detective drama Miss Scarlet and the Duke for UKTV and PBS. She is currently filming A Discovery of Witches (TV series) for Sky One and has also appeared in the third series of Witless (TV series) on BBC Three and in the Stephen Frears film Philomena, which stars Steve Coogan and Judi Dench.
The business of sexual union is depicted with curious, witless brevity" The New York Times disagreed, stating that "If your reading taste runs to rape, sodomy, homosexuality, and numerous other fleshy diversions, be assured; Mr. Sheldon has something for you." In Massachusetts, the Worcester Sunday Telegram reviews that "the title of this book is an apt description of the author. In the business of creating hard-to-put-down bestsellers, Sidney Sheldon is indeed the master of the game.", while USA Today praises Sheldon by saying that he is"a master storyteller at the top of the game.
Living as the only talking beast among "dumb and witless" horses, Bree has come to be both proud and vain. In The Horse and His Boy, Bree and the boy Shasta become companions on a journey to escape from Calormen and find freedom in the northern countries of Archenland and Narnia. On their journey, they are joined by a talking mare, Hwin, and a Calormene Tarkheena (princess), Aravis. In the course of their adventures, they thwart an attempted invasion of Archenland and Narnia, and Bree learns to face up to and surrender his pride and vanity to truly enter into a free life in Narnia.
Aslan's influence is at first hidden from the characters. Prior to the story's opening, he delivered the infant Prince Cor of Archenland from his enemies to a Calormene fisherman who named him Shasta. At one point in the book, Aslan—pretending to be a common "witless" lion—chases Shasta and the talking horse Bree so that they will meet Aravis and Hwin, who become their traveling companions. He comforts Shasta in the form of a cat and defends him as he sleeps; later, he chases Shasta and the others so that they will reach Archenland in time to warn that nation of the impending attack of Prince Rabadash of Calormen.
In 1998, DHC released their last release with MCA, the EP Blue Plate Special. The EP contained a short collection of songs recorded for other compilations/soundtracks, unreleased and remixed material, and a CD-ROM of photos and the band's four music videos. In 1999, the band signed with independent label Pink and Black Records, releasing their fourth LP Purr in 1999 and the live album The Live Record: Witless Banter and 25 Mildly Antagonistic Songs About Love in 2000. DHC started playing less frequently in the early 2000s, limiting their performances to West Coast shows and occasional appearances at events such as the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 6 reviews, and an average rating of 7.2/10. Andrew L. Urban from Urban Cinefile called it "one of the few Australian made kung fu action movies and is also notable for its cinematography by Russell Boyd, who went on to win the Oscar for his work on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The Los Angeles Times called it "a slick, shallow, well-photographed Australian-Chinese movie which has substituted do-it-yourself decapitation with mass demolition." The Observer called it "a witless display of non-stop mayhem.
'It sticks to the track, makes all the scheduled stops, and bears us triumphantly to the station'. Also, Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B- stating that the film could have used more 'pizazz'. A middling review came from The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin, whose C– assessment concludes, "The film functions as the cinematic equivalent of a Shamrock Shake: sickeningly, artificially sweet, formulaic, and about as authentically Gaelic as an Irish Spring commercial". A. O. Scott of The New York Times saw it as 'so witless, charmless, and unimaginative, that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense'.
Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Baronet (22 December 1754 – 24 October 1846), known as Harry, was an English politician. Uppark The son of Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, 1st Baronet (of the Fetherstonhaugh baronets), he was the Member of Parliament for Portsmouth from 1782 to 1796, but never once spoke in the House of Commons, and has been described as a "witless playboy". He made the Grand Tour in 1775-76 but passed most of it in sexual and hunting adventures. Like his parents and uncle 25 years earlier, he was painted by Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and later employed Humphry Repton to lay out the gardens to his country manor, Uppark.
Beginning in the mid 1950s, he appeared mostly on television, with guest-starring roles in such series as Stories of the Century (as the outlaw Harry Tracy), Crossroads, Sugarfoot, Colt .45, Stagecoach West, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, The Public Defender, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Alaskans, Pony Express, The Brothers Brannagan, Going My Way, The Asphalt Jungle, Wanted: Dead or Alive, and The Dakotas. Brodie made three guest appearances on Perry Mason.He portrayed murderer Ben Wallace in the 1959 episode 'The Case of the Garrulous Gambler', Eddie Lewis in the 1962 episode 'The Case of the Angry Astronaut' and Quinn Torrey in the 1964 episode 'The Case of the Witless Witness'.
Class distinctions bolstered these portrayals of gullible rural folk and witless southerners. Assimilation of African Americans and cultural appropriation of their artistic and cultural creations were not yet equated by the emerging entertainment industry with racism and bigotry. Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born French singer featured in the Broadway revue Shuffle Along, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 The eventual success of African- American musical productions on Broadway, like Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's "Shuffle Along" in 1921, helped to usher in the swing jazz era. This was accompanied by a new sense of sophistication that eventually disdained hokum as backward, insipid, and perhaps most damningly, corny.
Miller made her professional acting debut in 2007, in three episodes of the Channel 4 drama series Dubplate Drama as Nadine. She then made appearances in The Bill and Holby City, before her first starring role as JJ in the 2012 feature film Stud Life. After making guest appearances in British television series such as Babylon, Banana, Cucumber, Doctor Who, Guilt and Born to Kill, Miller scored her first starring role as DC Wilton in the BBC Three thriller series Witless, a role she played from 2016 to 2018. In June 2017, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Bev Lomax.
More unfavorable reviews also followed from British newspapers; Simon Price of The Independent bemoaned, "From the action-packed band name to the obligatory long song titles, from the witless blare of the vocals to the compressed blandness of the guitar sound, this is bog-standard emo ordinaire". Kitty Empire of The Observer criticized the album's lack of originality; "Polished, punchy Hold Me Down is their second album, replete with bouncy dramas about loyalty, betrayal and other perils of young love. Its sole insight is contained in the song title 'There's No Such Thing As Accidental Infidelity'; not even the most fine-meshed musical sieve could unearth any originality here".
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was not happy to see the detective proven successful at the end the story, so he wrote the novel Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman (The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel) from the existing film script. Das Versprechen differs from Es geschah am hellichten Tag by having the detective fail to identify the killer in the end because of the murderer's death in an auto accident. This failure ultimately leaves the detective a broken and witless old man. American director Sean Penn made a fifth movie on the same theme, named The Pledge in 2001, starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Mirren.
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 19%, based on reviews from 42 critics. The site's consensus states: "Tim Allen spends Jungle 2 Jungle annoyed and put upon, mirroring audiences' reaction as they struggle through this witless family comedy." Roger Ebert, who deplored the original French version, Little Indian, Big City, confessed that he was hoping the Americanized remake would be better than the original version, due to it starring Tim Allen and Martin Short, whom he had admired as comic actors. Ebert was sorely disappointed by the film, giving it one star out of four, a small step from his original zero star rating for Little Indian, Big City.
Immediately upon starting the second leg of the run, Bandit is stopped by Carrie ("Frog") (Field), a runaway bride who hitches a ride, inadvertently making Bandit a target of Sheriff Buford T. Justice, a career Texas lawman whose witless son, Junior (Henry), was to have been Carrie's bridegroom. Buford, with Junior in tow, pursues Bandit all the way to Georgia to get Carrie back, ignoring his own jurisdiction. Various mishaps cause his cruiser to disintegrate on the way. Bandit's antics attract more attention from police throughout Dixie, while Snowman barrels on toward Atlanta with the contraband beer, but they are helped along the way by many colorful characters via CB radio who thwart the police's actions.
The Royal College of Nursing however complained that it portrayed nurses as witless and callous. Virginia Bottomley, the Health Secretary at the time of airing, described it as closer to a Carry On film than a drama. During the height of the controversy Jed Mercurio wrote a letter to the newsletter accompanying the British Medical Journal claiming that most of his criticism came from "retired old consultants", but says he has since decided that much of the controversy was a media creation. Notably, the series originated the medical term "killing season" for the supposed association between newly qualified doctors starting hospital practice and an increase in medical errors and mortality, which data do not support.
The last thing Elder Fisher expects when he and his brand-new companion, Elder Johnson, hit the city streets is a couple of seemingly golden prospects. But dimwitted brothers Roger and Larry, low-level Mafioso, think the two Mormon missionaries who approach them have been sent by the "Boss" to deliver their next assignment. So the brothers are willing to listen to anything the young men in dark suits have to say—including a message of salvation—even if Elder Johnson is the most overconfident and underprepared missionary to ever attempt to preach the word of God. Soon the witless brothers are searching through the Book of Mormon in a quest to find a hidden message.
On the negative side, Stephen Holden of The New York Times said that "even by the crude standards of teenage horror, Final Destination is dramatically flat". Lou Lumenick of the New York Post commented that "the film's premise quickly deteriorates into a silly, badly acted slasher movie—minus the slasher". Kevin Maynard of Mr. Showbiz described the film as "crude and witless", while Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote that "your own final destination just might be the box office, to demand your money back". Robert Cashill of Newsweek remarked that the film "should be in video store bins", and Jay Carr of The Boston Globe commented that it "starts by cheating death and ends by cheating us".
She sleeps in a tent in her living room, speaks to a friend sometimes and only through the phone, resigning herself to the idea that her solitary life is best in the grand scheme of things. During the course of Jo-goo’s failed attempts to find his lonely friend Yeo-ri a boyfriend, the pair start to develop feelings for each other. And though Jo-goo is sometimes scared witless himself, he loves Yeo-ri enough to overcome his fear. Joo-hee, consumed by jealousy, becomes a threat during the show, prompting Yeo-ri to head off to join her family in order to protect Jo-goo from herself and the ghost.
Pronab Sen, former Chief Statistician and Planning Commission of India member, called it a "hollow move" since it did not really address any of the purported goals of tackling black money or fake currency. Prabhat Patnaik, a former professor of economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi called the move 'witless' and 'anti-people'. He criticised the simple way in which black money was assumed as "a hoard of cash", saying that it would have little effect in eliminating "black activities" while "causing much hardship to common people." Economist and journalist T. N. Ninan wrote in the Business Standard that demonetisation 'looks like a bad idea, badly executed on the basis of some half-baked notions'.
Peleus and his brother Telamon killed their half-brother Phocus, perhaps in a hunting accident and certainly in an unthinking moment,"A witless moment" (Apollonius, Argonautica, I. 93, and fled Aegina to escape punishment. In Phthia, Peleus was purified by the city's ruler, Eurytion, and then married the latter's daughter, Antigone, by whom he had a daughter, Polydora. Eurytion received the barest mention among the Argonauts (both Peleus and Telamon were Argonauts themselves) "yet not together, nor from one place, for they dwelt far apart and distant from Aigina;"Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica I.90-93, in Peter Green's translation (2007:45). but Peleus accidentally killed Eurytion during the hunt for the Calydonian Boar and fled from Phthia.
They called it "a Jewish parable that doesn't want to declare itself" and felt that it "chickened out on its ethnic heritage". In his own review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave it two stars out of four, giving credit to the animation, calling it "full and detailed, enhanced by computers and an improvement on so much recent animation that cuts corners," but that the story was too "dark and gloomy." The film's writing garnered a mixed response. Halliwell's Film Guide claimed it didn't have "much in the way of narrative interest or indeed humor," and Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "witless if well-meaning," adding that its high points were scenes involving the characters Gussie Mausheimer and Tiger.
The little-seen dramedy Revenge for Jolly!, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was her first 2012 film release, and the comedy Girl Most Likely followed, in which she headlined, opposite Annette Bening, as a playwright who stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 20 rating based on 85 reviews, with the site's consensus: "Largely witless and disappointingly dull, Girl Most Likely strands the gifted Kristen Wiig in a blandly hollow foray into scattershot sitcom territory." Her final performance as a cast member on Saturday Night Live was season 37, episode 22, which aired on May 19, 2012.
Route 10 passes just north of Chance Cove Provincial Park before turning north to wind along the coastline again to pass through Renews-Cappahayden, Fermeuse (where it has an intersection with Port Kirwan Road, which provides access to Port Kirwan), Aquaforte, Ferryland, Calvert, and Cape Broyle. It then passes through La Manche Provincial Park before passing through Tors Cove, Mobile, and Witless Bay, where it has an intersection with Route 13. The highway passes through Bay Bulls before leaving the coastline and passing through rural areas for several kilometres. Route 10 then passes through Goulds, where it has intersections with Route 3 and Route 11, before entering St. John's and coming to an end at an interchange with Route 2, with the road continuing north as The Parkway (Columbus Drive).
The show stars stand-up comedian and actor Gabriel "Gabe" Kaplan as the title character, Gabe Kotter, a wisecracking teacher who returns to his alma mater, James Buchanan High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, to teach a remedial class of loafers, called "Sweathogs." The rigid vice principal, Michael Woodman (John Sylvester White), dismisses the Sweathogs as witless hoodlums, and only expects Kotter to contain them until they drop out or are otherwise banished. As a former remedial student, and a founding member of the original class of Sweathogs, Kotter befriends the current Sweathogs and stimulates their potential. A pupil-teacher rapport is formed, and the students often visit Kotter's Bensonhurst apartment, sometimes via the fire- escape window, much to the chagrin of his wife, Julie (Marcia Strassman).
Geoffrey Gilmore, director of the Sundance Film Festival, called the film "a pure delight from start to finish": :If you were impressed watching Oldman play a congressman, wait until you see him do comedy and line dance! With terrific turns by Mary Steenburgen and Radha Mitchell, Utah scenery, hilarious dialogue, and the best joke in a film this side of Something about Mary, Nobody's Baby is a wonderfully entertaining odyssey that should bring Seltzer nothing but accolades. Variety, reviewing the film after its January 21, 2001 premiere at Sundance, described it as "aim[ing] somewhere between Dumb and Dumber and Three Men and a Baby. The film's "witless script wrings few laughs from its retread conceits...What's most toxic, however, is having to watch these actors sweat for their paychecks.
Atlantic Free Press, an online political website, was founded in September 2006 by Publisher Richard Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in Groningen, Netherlands and published over 13,000 articles from over 250 progressive writers worldwide until it closed in October 2011. The publication's website described its mission was "to dig out nuggets of truth from the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried public discourse today. AF Press provides a new venue for disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press." One of the chief pipelines they claimed to use to disseminate the work was Google News but they also syndicated to Lexis Nexis, Ebsco, and other networks via a deal with Newstex.
Roger Ebert gave the film one star out of four, calling it "juvenile excrescence that feels like the work of 11-year-old boys in love with dungeons, dragons, warrior women, pot, boobs and four-letter words." Entertainment Weekly gave it a C+, with Natalie Portman favorably reviewed as "fierce and funny as a babe warrior...good with dirty words". The L.A. Times noted the "even but fun sword-and-sandals sendup...is at its best when it's at its silliest", while the lowbrow humor is "sometimes witless and sometimes winning comedy...begins with grade-school-level graffiti being scrawled across storybook pages and goes up and down from there. Still, the fun can be infectious...a farce within a farce...tawdry tale of the bothered and bewildered Kingdom of Mourne".
The film was awarded four stars out of five by Empire magazine's Ian Freer, who called it funny but described the humor as sometimes hit-and-miss. Conversely, Los Angeles Times Jack Mathews labeled the film as sleep-inducing and "by far the most inane and badly written of the comedies made by any of the creators of the classic 1980 sendup Airplane!". Michael O'Sullivan in The Washington Post' called the film "dark, dull, witless and hobbled by poor comic timing," comparing its gross-out humor unfavorably to that of There's Something About Mary. Roger Ebert echoed this sentiment in his negative review in the Chicago Sun-Times, giving the film one and a half stars out of four and saying the film "tries to buy laughs with puerile shocks".
Bored with the play they retreat further into the box where Maria confesses what she cherished more than anything else is freedom, and thus her marriage to the rather witless Polozov, a marriage in which she can have absolute freedom. Before parting company for the evening Dmitry agrees to go riding with Maria the following day, in what he thinks will be their last meeting before he returns to Frankfurt and she proceeds to Paris. The next morning the pair heads off on their ride in the countryside accompanied only by a single groom, whom Maria soon dispatches to a local inn to wile away the afternoon, leaving her and Sanin to themselves. The seemingly fearless Maria leads Sanin on a vigorous ride across the countryside that leaves them invigorated and their horses breathless.
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 20% of five surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 4.2/10. Video Graveyard rated the film two and a half stars and called it "a ride that incorporates both horror and reality show clichés in a funny, gory manner" with "a great concept that is executed with confidence and does not hold back despite the budget". While it wrote that the acting was below average and the characters were unrealistic, The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre still found Slashers to be "a somewhat entertaining B movie". Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic heavily criticized Slashers, writing that it was boring "bargain-basement dreck" that was witless, full of shoddy gore effects and painfully amateurish acting, and was ultimately nothing more than "low-grade horror machinations at their most confoundingly stupid".
The question is whether you have the stamina to endure all 80 minutes. "I survived Corky" tee-shirts should be given out to everyone who stays until the end credits roll and can provide proof that they didn't take the easy way out of napping." Roger Ebert also rated the film half a star out of four stars, calling it "a desperately unfunny gangster spoof" and wrote: "The concept is exhausted, the ideas are tired, the physical gags are routine, the story is labored, the actors look like they can barely contain their doubts about the project." Miles Beller was one of the few critics who gave a positive review, saying: "Although "Corky Romano" contains its share of witless wisecracks and puerile pranks, it achieves something more than the current crop of would-be funny films.
The wealthy and powerful (but anonymous) Committee to Unelect the Patrician hire Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip, a pair of villainous mercenaries from outside Ankh-Morpork known as the New Firm, to frame Vetinari with a staged embezzlement. Pin and Tulip manage to catch off-guard the normally impassible Patrician with Charlie, a witless Vetinari look-alike that they had previously kidnapped and forced to collaborate. The plan starts going south, though, when Drumknott, Vetinari's clerk returns in the middle of the scene and the New Firm is forced to stab him and render Vetinari unconscious, hoping to also frame him for murder; their efforts are hampered by Lord Vetinari's prized terrier, Wuffles, who bites Mr. Pin and escapes, becoming the sole witness to the crime. William makes the mistake of advertising a reward for information leading to Wuffles' recovery, causing a frenzy among the local Ankh Morpork population.
Films in which the "Sabre Dance" was used include The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), One, Two, Three (1961), The System (1964), The Seven Brides of Lance- Corporal Zbruyev (1970), Amarcord (1973), Well, Just You Wait! 6th episode "Countryside" (1973), Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Repentance (1987), Punchline (1988), Hocus Pocus (1993), Radioland Murders (1994), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Don't Drink the Water (1994), I Married a Strange Person! (1997), Vegas Vacation (1997), A Simple Wish (1997), Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), The Lion King 1½ (2004), Kung Fu Hustle (2005), Scoop (2006), Sicko (2007), Ghost Town (2008), Witless Protection (2008), Le Concert (2009), Pájaros de papel (2010), Sabre Dance (2015). In his frenzied comedy One, Two, Three, director Billy Wilder used the dance repeatedly for comic effect, including a crazed chase through East Berlin, and the chaotic closing ride to the airport featuring James Cagney and Horst Bucholz.
John Lui of The Straits Times rated Lulu a 3.5 out of 5 stars, commenting that the first half of the film is "a chaotic jumble of vignettes dealing with Lulu's fish-out-of-water problems", often involving bilingual puns, and "feels like the veggies that must be consumed before dessert is served". The second half, on the other hand, involves her journey from rags to riches, and is described as a combination of fact and fiction, much like Borat and Brüno, in which Lulu, as a fashion host, interviews bystanders in London and Shanghai "in which she mocks her own wardrobe ... while subtly exposing their assumptions about people from China". Gabriel Chong of MovieXclusive.com rated Lulu a 1.5 out of 5 stars, stating that "it is a badly formed movie with a bare-bones narrative, little to none character development and surprisingly witless jokes that can’t even match that of the YouTube clips which have made her character so popular and endearing in the first place".
Paul Arendt of BBC gave the film three out of five stars, referring to the "flashback story" as "high-octane schlock that occasionally works your nerves, thanks to a committed performance from Jennifer Carpenter". Olly Richards of Empire gave the film three out of five stars as well, writing that "Viewed as a horror movie, Emily Rose isn't much scarier than the average, but combined with intelligent and balanced courtroom drama it has more to offer than your usual big-lunged, big-breasted screamer". Jerome Reuter of Scream magazine gave the film a rating of two out of five stars, writing that "The Exorcism of Emily Rose, while compelling at times, is nothing more than a blatant attempt to utilise a real human tragedy for an agenda". Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine gave the film one-and-a-half out of four stars, criticizing the "witless, didactic" screenplay and writing that "I've witnessed more complicated existential wrangling exchanged between two tokers".
Whilst inspired as a child by an illustrated copy his parents bought of Hans Christian Anderson fables, Evans suggested that his interest in reading only developed when we was around sixteen years old. This changed after reading Stephen King's Salems Lot: "Growing up in the isolating former mining valleys of South Wales, it was a book that resonated on so many levels. Indeed, having already been scared witless by the movie that was the first horror film I watched – especially the scene of the floating child at the window, it was also the book, which taught me that words on pages are simply a point of entry into the more enriching and sometimes more terrifying life of the mind". Having attended Treorchy Comprehensive School, Evans initially pursued a career in fashion and design before going on to study at the University of Leeds, where he subsequently completed two master's degree programs in the fields of development economics and international relations.
" Walter White, executive director of the NAACP, reported his reaction to viewing a rough cut of the film: "One thing is certain–Hollywood can never go back to its old portrayal of colored people as witless menials or idiotic buffoons now that Home of the Brave and Lost Boundaries have been made ..." The Washington Post countered attempts on the part of some in the South to deny that the film represented an actual social phenomenon by calling it "real life drama" and "no novel" that presented "the stark truth, names, places and all". In The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther said it had "extraordinary courage, understanding and dramatic power." Ferrer later said: "This was a very, very radical departure from any kind of fiction film anybody was making in the country. It was a picture which broke a tremendous number of shibboleths, and it established a new freedom in making films.
Some librarians felt that Blyton's restricted use of language, a conscious product of her teaching background, was prejudicial to an appreciation of more literary qualities. In a scathing article published in Encounter in 1958, the journalist Colin Welch remarked that it was "hard to see how a diet of Miss Blyton could help with the 11-plus or even with the Cambridge English Tripos", but reserved his harshest criticism for Blyton's Noddy, describing him as an "unnaturally priggish ... sanctimonious ... witless, spiritless, snivelling, sneaking doll." The author and educational psychologist Nicholas Tucker notes that it was common to see Blyton cited as people's favourite or least favourite author according to their age, and argues that her books create an "encapsulated world for young readers that simply dissolves with age, leaving behind only memories of excitement and strong identification". Fred Inglis considers Blyton's books to be technically easy to read, but to also be "emotionally and cognitively easy".
Daniel Lawrence Whitney (born February 17, 1963), known professionally by his stage name Larry the Cable Guy, is an American comedian, actor, producer, singer and radio personality, with a career spanning over 30 years. He was one of the members of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, a comedy troupe which included Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Jeff Foxworthy (with whom he has starred on Blue Collar TV). "Larry the Cable Guy" Says "Git-R-Done!" and Watch NASA TV - video from NASA Larry the Cable Guy has released seven comedy albums, of which three have been certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of 500,000 copies and in addition has starred in three Blue Collar Comedy Tour–related films, as well as in Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Delta Farce, and Witless Protection, as well as voicing Mater in the Cars franchise. Whitney's catchphrase "Git-R-Done!" is also the title of his book.
In a positive review for NME magazine, music critic Kitty Empire called The Moldy Peaches "extremely amusing and often brilliant" because of its endearing songs and absurdist lyrics, which she felt distinguishes the band from other indie acts. Robert Christgau of The Village Voice found Dawson's songwriting more endearing and vulnerable than the "ambitious" Green, but said that they are both "cute folkies who break without warning into punk noise and sing a deeply catchy song called 'Who's Got the Crack,' cute floozies who'll fuck anybody with anything when that's their mood or stage of life". In a less enthusiastic review for Rolling Stone, Jenny Eliscu wrote that the "joyously messy" album is made up mostly of "low-fi, potty-mouthed indie rock" and raunchy humor, which listeners will either find "hilarious or stupid". AllMusic's Daniel Greenwald was more critical and said the Moldy Peaches tried to be funny with their use of provocative language, but sounded like a witless, untalented version of the indie band Beat Happening.
Wallace and Gromit start a new business called Golden Retrieval which aims to find lost objects and Major Crum hires them. In order to defuse Ms. Flitt's mistake in accepting what she had mistaken as a proposal from Wallace, Gromit manages to make him a member of the local country club, Prickly Thicket, which Ms. Flitt's aunt Prudence loathes and soundly rejects her niece's marriage to Wallace. Ernest Dibbins, the local constable, jealous that Wallace was admitted over him, uses an obscure bylaw to threaten the club with closure since it does not have a golf course–or rather it does, but members do not know where it is because the deed is missing, safely held in a security system designed by Wallace's (apparent) ancestor, Goodman Witless (and his faithful dog Gimlet). Using his detective equipment Wallace manages to find the deed which Major Crum hired him to do, but discovers that the entire town was built on the golf course, and a vengeful Duncan decides to have the town destroyed in order to rebuild the course.
" Brendan Gill of The New Yorker wrote "I laughed my way mindlessly through ninety percent of the picture," calling the jokes "both awful and exactly right for Mostel, Silvers and company." A review in the UK's Monthly Film Bulletin thought that Lester's fast-moving direction style made for a "curious effect of dislocation," writing that Mostel and Silvers "constantly find the editor snapping at their tails while Lester dashes down some attractive byway and the laugh they probably would have got is stopped short." The review concluded, "Apart from the long chase at the end, which is boring and irrelevant, this is an odd, good-humoured mess of a film, in spite of everything decidedly likeable." A negative review came from Rex Reed who opined in his review of the tape version of the film's soundtrack album that "the real wit in Stephen Sondheim's score for the very funny Broadway burlesque A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was all but totally demolished in Richard Lester's vulgar, witless, and over- stylized film version.
Further victories were achieved at Te Koneke on 24 July and then at Ruakitori Gorge, near their new base at the ancient pā at Puketapu, on 8 August, when Te Kooti's force defeated a column led by the commandant of the Armed Constabulary, Colonel George Whitmore, whom Te Kooti now dubbed "Witi koaha", or "witless". The succession of victories attracted more recruits to Te Kooti's party, including Ngati Kohatu chief Korohina Te Rakiroa, who brought with him up to 20 men with government-issued rifles. A crucial bond was also struck between Te Kooti and a high-ranking chief of inland Wairoa, Te Waru Tamatea, a Pai Mārire convert whose son had been taken prisoner in October 1865 during the East Cape War and executed at Biggs' command. Te Waru and fellow chief Nama, survivors of the Waerenga-a- Hika siege, had earlier fought for autonomy for themselves and their people but were now bitterly opposed to the land confiscations that had followed the East Cape War; the failure of the Crown to return their land despite a confiscation settlement a year earlier deepened their resentment.
Other depictions include Robert Duvall opposite Nicol Williamson's Holmes in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1978); Donald Houston, who played Watson to John Neville's Holmes in A Study in Terror (1965); a rather belligerent, acerbic Watson portrayed by Colin Blakely in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), in which Holmes was played by Robert Stephens (who starts the rumour that they are homosexual lovers to discourage female interest); and James Mason's portrayal in Murder by Decree (1978), with Christopher Plummer as Holmes. Alan Cox played a teenage Watson in the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes, narrated by Michael Hordern as an older Watson. In the 1988 parody film Without a Clue, the roles of a witless Watson and an extremely intelligent Holmes are reversed. In the film, Holmes (Michael Caine) is an invention of Watson (Ben Kingsley) played by an alcoholic actor; when Watson initially offers suggestions on how to solve a case to some visiting policemen, he is at the time applying for a post in an exclusive medical practice, and so invents the fictional Holmes to avoid attracting attention to himself, continuing the "lie" of Holmes's existence after he fails to get the post.

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