Cooper plays the Pilager scion, Richard Pilager, known as Dim Dickie, a brainless fellow running for governor.

NEWYORKER: Silver City

Greedy authors, greedy agents, brainless book chains with their Vivaldi-riddle espresso bars, publishers owned by metallurgy conglomerates, operated by glacially cold bean-counters in Geneva.

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My immobility was complete, as if tendrils of myself had burrowed down and sought root in the soil of Japan, rendering me brainless vegetation.

NEWYORKER: Rat Beach

She is also one of the few directors period who remains faithful to an artistic vision in a world of brainless, lowest-common denominator entertainment franchises.

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Indeed, Hepburn was never typecast as a brainless bimbo.

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Policymakers are rightly concerned about ballooning entitlement costs, but instead of doing the hard work of identifying and eliminating the parts of these programs that are genuinely wasteful, they just install huge, brainless cuts.

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