Word: idiotic
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...know what you're thinking. "What kind of idiot is she, anyway?" Let me clarify a bit. I went to an all-girls school from seventh through 12th grade. My school was free from any biases about how girls study, learn or think--although we were expected to do as much of all three as possible. My classmates and I once told our math teacher that she shouldn't push us so hard in calculus--after all, math is a "male" subject. She laughed and told us that we had to do our homework anyway...
...outside a pub one drunken night is old enough to be her father. Is, indeed, a friend of her father's. Is, in fact, George Burgess (Pat Laffan), who lives across the street and coaches the football team of one of her younger brothers. Is, incurably, an "ejit" (idiot in Dublin slang), the kind of old fool who mutters "A1" after having his way with Sharon and then boasts around the pub about what a good "ride...
...Song has been feeding him, claiming to his superior at the embassy that "once you know Orientals, you realize they're secretly attracted to our Western ways." It's hard to see Gallimard as representative Western macho man; it's hard to see him as anything other than an idiot...
...Wolfgang Murad puts the wit into twit in his portrayal of Mengo, the village idiot. His buffoonery provides much-needed comic relief, but he rises to the manly occasion of preventing his cousin's rape convincingly...
...little love affairs and doing different jobs and finding out who one shouldn't be and that stuff, they were all taken over by the secret world. The moods that I remember, the self-perceptions I had, were very positive, very negative; I was brilliant, I was a complete idiot. I entered it in the spirit of John Buchan and left it in the spirit of Kafka...