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Given some of Trump’s most problematic remarks about Ukraine, this hope may not have been completely fatuous.—
Daniel Fried,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025 -
The fatuous Fed/1930s narrative raises a basic question: why are successful investors paid so well?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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Redmayne brings a sweetly doltish everyman energy to this increasingly off-kilter affair, with much of the dialogue between him and his co-stars (including Stratton-Twine as the missing woman’s slacker brother) improvised in disarmingly shaggy fashion.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2026
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Thatcher plays disfigured, suicidal young protagonist P Burke who is hired by a mega tech corporation to virtually operate a beautiful but brainless ‘flesh body’ called Delphi, grown in a lab with the sole purpose of influencing the masses and selling products.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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Miller has always taken the American people for brainless, heartless chumps lost in a swamp of nostalgia who’ll believe whatever Trumpworld tells them to.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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Ample use of soft materials help with sound absorption in the vacuous space.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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The serpentine crawl around the airport’s South terminal gave way to wide open space, offering no signs of what the vacuous hall looked like just hours earlier.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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He was declared brain-dead that day and taken off life support two days later.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
30 Mar. 2026
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The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner classified Robinson as brain-dead on March 2, issuing what is known as a demographic report, a document the office routinely issues following someone's death.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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Directed by Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen, Jim Queen is a crass, profane, giddily stupid romp through a heap of stereotypes about gay life in Paris.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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For the record, those students are not stupid.—
Hope Loudon,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 May 2026
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Covering politics today is a grim dance between the vicious and the idiotic, between repulsion and despair.—
Megan McArdle,
Washington Post,
10 May 2026
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Think of the costs of an idiotic war that could have covered universal childcare and college tuitions.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
8 May 2026
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Protect your team from the worst of what politically unintelligent leadership produces.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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More and more people are avoiding dating or befriending those with opposing political views, and growing numbers describe those on the other side as closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent.—
Justin Callais,
Twin Cities,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Cretinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cretinous. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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