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...musical ear for creating nonsense versions of the aerobicized cynicism of biz language becomes one of the book's biggest pleasures. When Worner later runs into a disguised Hutch spewing stream of consciousness poetry he thinks he's finally found someone who's "not afraid to be an idiot for the bottom line." Instigating "infiltration plan beta-pi," Hutch takes a consultation...
...after Truffet-Lefebvre, now 45, was divorced in 2000, she says her manager's attitude changed. "For him, the divorce meant that I would now be free to work on evenings and weekends," she says. "When I wasn't, he began to say that my work wasn't competent." ("Idiot!" read one Post-It note left on her desk.) After being given tasks outside her job description - such as keeping the bathroom stocked with toilet tissue - Truffet-Lefebvre felt "humiliated and very sad" to see much of her responsibility handed to a new assistant. Diagnosed with depression in September...
...with falling standards in society as a whole. What do we expect of sports fans in a nation where episodes of humiliation, greed and win-at-all-costs behavior (from Survivor to My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss) pass for family entertainment? "Incivility, boorishness and crassness are everywhere in the idiot culture that we live in," says veteran NBC sportscaster Bob Costas. "And yet we celebrate all this as edginess. This behavior is encouraged...
National Treasure is about a third-generation treasure hunter searching for the greatest treasure the world has ever known, ever. Nicholas Cage, who seems to have convinced himself that he’s a modern day Juan Ponce De Leon, runs around like an idiot, examining money like a McDonald’s cashier dubious about a customer paying for an item on the dollar menu with a $10 bill. At one point in the film, Cage’s sidekick, a first generation treasure hunter played by Justin Bartha—I know what you’re thinking...
National Treasure is about a third-generation treasure hunter searching for the greatest treasure the world has ever known, ever. Nicholas Cage, who seems to have convinced himself that he’s a modern day Juan Ponce De Leon, runs around like an idiot, examining money like a McDonald’s cashier dubious about a customer paying for an item on the dollar menu with a ten-dollar bill. At one point in the film, Cage’s sidekick, a first generation treasure hunter played by Justin Bartha—I know what you?...