witlessness
Example Sentences
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The hallmark of this “Joker” is its solemn witlessness.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2019
Twin Peaks cop Andy and his daffy receptionist wife Lucy are cases in point; their witlessness is played for laughs but simultaneously curdles into something unsettling, as if they were robots trying to play humans.
From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2017
But the rest of us are under no obligation to smile weakly at such witlessness.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2017
Which is not to say cartoons must thrive on witlessness, as gifted artists ever since Picasso and Duchamp make plain.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2015
He was impatient of ordinary human witlessness, and spoke to his fellows, not as man to man, but as Apollo from his seat.
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
