Isolationism of each variety can be found in both political parties, but isolationism is witless.
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And that might, in the future, be an awful lot of witless, wandering elderly.
Perverse as it might sound, when the chips are down our appetite for being scared witless increases.
Though the movie drags through some dull and witless sections, Bad Teacher can be funny in this way.
Pound for pound, ton for ton, it is the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history.
After all, lots of people used to be scared witless about flying, but that issue has largely faded.
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In it, the characters convene, as many of us do in exhaustion and witless surrender, for the company picnic.
Yet ears can deceive, especially when the other senses are caught up in the infectiously witless thrill of pomp and circumstance.
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Yet even deep cuts will help less than usual to cushion a recession caused by snarled-up credit markets and banks scared witless.
President Obama's statement that "we don't see any evidence" of Iran's intentions and capabilities to attack us is either witless or deceptive.
It is the five jobless, witless and inarticulate white men whose careless bigotry, whether they killed Stephen Lawrence or not, is truly terrifying.
It leaves us, as a nation, witless about the true nature of the enemy and his motivations and therefore incapable of countering them effectively.
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Mr Justice Horner said Ms Doherty must have been "scared witless" after Rodgers and his accomplice "hunted down their prey" after she escaped from the taxi.
By banning this speech, the FDA seems to suggest that doctors and patients are witless children who cannot independently process this information and then make well-informed decisions.
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This particular display is a bad mix of Man Your Man Could Smell Like ironia (a boat everyone is jumping on these days) coupled with a more basic, witless sense of humor.
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In my first month in the New York office, I lost many a chargeable hour bored witless by other associates boasting of so many nights lost, weekends worked and holiday allowance left unused.
While I didn't need confirmation, an article in the Wall Street Journal about the "witless, chaotic, " "phenomenally monotonous, " "sad fiasco" of a summer movie season summed up my feelings: Hollywood has lost its way.
My father forced me to come with him, and made me pull up a pike that scared me witless, and when I refused, he hit me in the face, and then I hammered a nail into my foot, and we were forced to go home.
We are introduced to a band of former crime busters, now under threat: Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), the lithe but witless Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman), a moneyed fop named Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), and, lastly, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), who takes time off from merciless slaughter to narrate the proceedings.
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