10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NITWITTERY»
Discover the use of
nitwittery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nitwittery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
My old man said he knew a lot of fellows who had nitwits for wives who seemed
to feel rather sorry for the ladies and to treat their nitwittery as if it were some sort
of infirmity, but he thought most fellows similarly afflicted were a little ashamed of
...
But today, when we live casually with the phenomena of nuclear devices,
interplanetary travel, DNA testing, and the like, why should so much "nature"
writing be cluttered with so much romantic nitwittery, shallow exaggeration, ...
has little to do with real fly fishing; it is, unfortunately, quite effective, but so are
explosives and electric shockers. lv Bureaucratic nitwittery has finally enacted a
series of laws in every state I know of that seem to be specifically designed to
totally ...
... the indecent to do the decent Is sheer nitwittery — They don't care a damn or
even know what is the decent thing. Now attention, please, everyone: Listen to
me. You ought to want what we want — oughtn't you? We deserve no less from
you ...
The nitwittery abounded, and just as it was with the political absurdity, I made a
decision to finish my work with Mark and go for publishing best selling books,
whether or not the nitwits in publishing wanted to hear from me. If they didn't want
to ...
Martin H. Petry, Tracy A. Lecates, 2009
6
Fifteenth-century English Drama: The Early Moral Plays and ...
In the speeches that follow more comic Latin, doggerel rhyming and repetition,
spiced with nitwittery and lavatorial humour, characterise the vicious characters
and lead to the most evil act in the play, the attempt to persuade Mankind to
suicide ...
William Anthony Davenport, 1982
7
Coming Home for Christmas: A Christmas in Paradise\O ...
“Mrs Nicholls, I wondered if you would stop by today to give me a pithy comment
on the nitwittery of Captain Penrose. Who in God's name would read aloud a
letter like that?” If Lillian had been holding her breath, she let it out in a little sigh;
...
8
Theory and technique of playwriting
They look at the town, and Thomas says: There sleep hypocrisy, porcous
pomposity, greed, Lust, vulgarity, cruelty, trickery, sham And all possible nitwittery
. . . But the lovers have each other. They look forward, with comfortable
foreboding, to a ...
9
The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology
... reportage, coverage, cuttage, drippage, leakage, linkage, pumpage, sparkage,
wrappage (22) 9' -ery on nominal bases: cakery, cheesery, crockery, duncery,
geekery, grainery, knavery, midwifery, museumery, nitwittery, nunnery, prudery, ...
Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber, Ingo Plag, 2013
The nitwittery would consist of anything, from an enquiry as to whether Scotland
was an island, to the nearest way to the Momaco hospital for diseases of the
throat. A guest only had to open his or her mouth in Bessie's presence to betray
half- ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NITWITTERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
nitwittery is used in the context of the following news items.
The Ryan Kelley Morning After Post-Show - June 24
Ever wonder what The Ryan Kelley Morning After crew does after three hours of nitwittery on the radio waves? OK, probably not. But if you have ... «InsideSTL, Jun 15»
FARINELLA: What he'd give to have heard this conversation ...
Still, Spikes does have a lot of nitwittery in him. Not long after he was drafted, a photograph of him and a University of Florida co-ed caught in ... «The Sun Chronicle, Jun 15»
Turn Down the Frogs
There is even a researcher at Stanford who believes that our increasing collective nitwittery is related to evolution -- our soft lifestyles and ... «State College News, Jun 15»
Fisherman's Wharf Parking-Free Street Revamp Boosts Sales, Will …
... inside DPW, and may or may not be due to some historical nitwit “disabled activist”, or the threat of nitwittery, or some past threat of nitwittery. «Streetsblog San Francisco, Jun 15»
The mother of all style rules
For sheer nitwittery, this one would be hard to top. Mom and Dad are commonly used as substitutes for names, becoming functional equivalents ... «Baltimore Sun, May 15»
Power, Principle and Freedom of Speech
... and ball gags dangling from the First Amendment. Not many of them take this blend of arrogance and nitwittery as far as CNN's Chris Cuomo: ... «Breitbart News, May 15»
Luke Haines Pens Cookbook
So great in fact that the thicko right-wing skinhead contingent saw Sham's 'unite' message as a threat to their own racist nitwittery. The thickies ... «The Quietus, Apr 15»
Why has Britain's top cop declared war on pubs?
But, as you might have noticed, I have a real problem with our country's leadership – precisely because of this sort of nitwittery. I shake my head ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
White House Renews Its 'Tu Quoque' Offensive Against Christians
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, evidently relishing her status as the poster child for Obama Administration nitwittery, interrupted ... «Breitbart News, Feb 15»
China Accuses Human Rights Watch Of Working For US Government
Perhaps the strongest criticism that could be leveled against Human Rights Watch is that they took the pile of nitwittery from Esquivel and ... «Breitbart News, Feb 15»
