My English was perfect, but in Spanish I was a nincompoop.
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Their choice for party leader—Iain Duncan Smith—turned out to be a nincompoop.
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And Mr. Dietl managed to work the term "nincompoop" into some comments on jail reform.
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Mao's top general, Peng Dehuai, quickly sized up Kim Il-sung as a battlefield nincompoop.
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I don't think that a university should hire a nincompoop who disputes evolution, or a racist who preaches inequality.
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But that's also a word for Alfred's permanently stoned sidekick, Darius, whom Keith Stanfield plays as a nincompoop visionary.
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As The Drive's Bradley Brownell noted in a critique of Ring lap times, you'd have to be a nincompoop to take the marketing seriously.
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Swamp Thing, Barb Wire, Steel, Underdog, The Shadow, and The Phantom team up to fight Trel, John Travolta's nincompoop of a villain from Battlefield Earth.
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Equal in irrelevance was HR Paul, the head of the human resources department, who was generally regarded as a nincompoop psychology PhD with a flatulence problem.
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I keep saying I'm angry at the people who are angry, because they're the ones who have elevated this vile nincompoop to the place where he is.
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Obama's hands would be tied, and we would roll into the new administration of President Nincompoop, and that person may decide that discretion is the better part of valor.
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Dug (Eddie Redmayne), a friendly nincompoop with the usual Aardman features — a wide rubbery mouth holding a few blunt teeth; a narrow brow; wide, placid eyes — lives happily in an easygoing society with minimal hierarchy and ample leisure time.
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" Coppini was outraged, calling Battle, a "snake, a mean rattler" in a letter to his friend, State Senator Harry Hertzberg who replied, "to think of an artist having to have his work passed upon by a nincompoop of such dimensions.
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"Like a complete nincompoop, I thought that people would absolutely fall over me with garlands and roses, people in Calcutta, if I came and told them that I'm going to settle the score and I'm going to expose this lady," he said.
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"My heart breaks listening to that phone call, the fact that she even picked up the phone and wasted her valuable time to listen to that nincompoop speak is just a testament to how great a human she is," tweeted Taylor's friend and collaborator Todrick Hall.
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If you want to run an ad that says "Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzDNC chief: 'Texas is a battleground' The Hill Interview: DNC chair calls Latinos 'imperative' to winning in battleground states Graham predicts controversial Trump court picks will clear panel MORE is a nincompoop," you can't either.
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The Trump tax is that from time to time, Trump feels impelled to install a nincompoop like Whitaker in an important job to help cover up his own corruption, or because Trump, personally, is corrupt, it encourages other appointees like Tom Price, Scott Pruitt, and Ryan Zinke to think less about the GOP policy agenda and more about their personal agenda.
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The former head of the Scottish government on Wednesday called President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE "a complete and utter nincompoop" for his comments opposing Scottish independence.
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Zexal: Seasons 1-2HolesIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1-11Lucky Number SlevinNightcrawlerThe RiteDollhouse: Season 2The Queen of VersaillesAmerica's Funniest Home Video Kids: HolidazedAmerica's Funniest Home Videos Kids: Animals with Attitude: Season 1America's Funniest Home Videos Kids: It's Tough Being a Kid: Season 1America's Funniest Home Videos Kids: Playtime Ain't for Wimps: Season 1America's Funniest Home Videos: New Collection D: Nincompoop NationJeff Dunham: Arguing with MyselfDance Academy: Series 1-3Che: Parts 1 & 2Amores PerrosPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Braunmuller, A.W. (ed), William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Cambridge University Preess, p.46. In Shaw's version, Macbeth is transformed into a "maundering nincompoop".
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On the train, she finds the young Viscount Tewkesbury hidden in a travel bag. She thinks he is a nincompoop but warns him that a man in a brown bowler hat (named Linthorn) is on the train searching for him. They jump off the train to escape. Neither having any food, Tewkesbury forages for edible plants.
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Bezviconi, Profiluri..., pp. 244–245, 248 According to the writer's own account, Iorga's patronage made his Moruzi relatives aware that he was not "a nincompoop and an embarrassment", and prompted them to provide him with a pension.Scurtu, pp. 73–74 He joined Iorga's Democratic Nationalist Party (PND) upon its creation in 1910, but refused to read the statutes, simply believing them consonant with his own brand of nationalism.
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Three months after Wycherley's death, she married Shrimpton. Wycherley died at his lodging house, having returned to the Catholic Church before his remarriage, in the early hours of 1 January 1716, and was buried in the vault of St Paul's, Covent Garden on 5 January. William Wycherley may have coined the expression "nincompoop" (certainly, the word occurs in The Plain Dealer). The Oxford English Dictionary also cites Wycherley as the first user of the phrase "happy-go-lucky", in 1672.
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The court was told that at the time of the offence Johnson was receiving treatment for depression following the suicide of his long-term partner Lainie Woodlands. Upon leaving the court, Johnson was completely remorseful for his actions, stating, "I am very sorry it all happened, I was a bit of a nincompoop and I'm glad that it's all over. I'm looking forward to moving on". He was given a 12-month good behaviour bond, with Johnson to continue with his counselling, and no conviction was reported.
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Aristagoras () was a comic writer, possibly from Miletus, whose date is uncertain. He wrote a play whose title is usually translated into English as "Blockhead", "Nincompoop", or "Simpleton" (Μαμμάκυθος) that is supposed by some historians to have been an adaptation of the existing play "Breezes" (Αὖραι) by Metagenes. These are listed in some sources as being separate and distinct plays, and some sources seem to indicate they are the same play. There is generally some confusion with Aristagoras's identity among the fragments we possess of writing that is ostensibly his (or supposed to be his).
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Professor Reginald Q. Jones (Charles Starrett), Associate Professor for Social Economics at Pelton University (founded 1912 A.D.), has a very clear picture of how in the United States economic inequality should be changed: Scene in Class, Professor talks: «Young man, the only thing that is wrong with the money today in this country, is that the wrong people have it. Fortunes are amassed by an nincompoop millionaires in the attempt to set aristocracy and wealth, instead of achievement. Does this answer your question?» Student answers: «Yes Sir.» Picture shows into the class: A female student with a pencil and notebook.
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The series follows the doodles and scribblings of a student at school during a lesson. His drawings depict the life of Father Nicholas, who lives in a Vatican City parody referred to as "Popetown". He is charged with being the handler for the Pope (who is always referred to by his title, and never given any name) who is a complete nincompoop with the emotional and mental maturity of a four-year-old. Father Nicholas must keep the Pope out of trouble, and make sure the general public does not find out that the Holy Father is a drooling idiot.
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An article from The Guardian criticized Bella's character, calling her "a clumsy, selfish nincompoop with the charisma of a boiled potato" and criticized Edward's portrayal as the "perfect little gentleman" who constantly counters Bella's sexual advances. NPR criticized the novel for being a repetitive "jackhammer" masked behind ornate language. Furthermore, they found the story uninteresting and the main character unlikeable. Entertainment Weekly stated that the narrative of Breaking Dawn was at times so chaotic and outrageous that Meyer shifted the point of view to Jacob Black which only toned down the mayhem of the plot for so long.
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Doggett was born in Dublin, and made his first stage appearance in London in 1691 as Nincompoop in Thomas D'Urfey's Love for Money. In this part, and as Solon in the same author's Marriage-Hater Matched, he became popular. He followed Betterton to Lincoln's Inn Fields, creating the part of Ben, specially written for him, in William Congreve's Love for Love, with which the theatre opened (1695); and the following year played Young Hobb in his own play, The Country Wake. He was associated with Colley Cibber and others in the management of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and Drury Lane, and he continued to play comedy parts at the former until his retirement in 1713.
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She is writing, while the professor talks. Then the camera shows what she has written and you see it's a caricature of the Professor, with the words: Professor Jones Full of Importance. He gets $25 a week and he knows all about Money. Professor continues: «Oh, and while we are on the subject of an nincompoop millionaires, it might be well to consider my plan on limiting the antics of their offspring by establishing a 90% inheritance tax.» The drawing student in the first row laughs loudly. The Professor says to her: «Evidently Miss Corning (Pauline Brooks) you don‘t agree with my idea.» She answers: «I certainly do not» Then he invites her to show him what she has written.
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Hergé started collecting these types of words for use in Haddock's outbursts, and on occasion even searched dictionaries to come up with inspiration. As a result, Captain Haddock's colourful insults began to include "bashi-bazouk", "visigoths", "kleptomaniac", "sea gherkin", "anacoluthon", "pockmark", "nincompoop", "abominable snowman", "nitwits", "scoundrels", "steam rollers", "parasites", "vegetarians", "floundering oath", "carpet seller", "blundering Bazookas", "Popinjay", "bragger", "pinheads", "miserable slugs", "ectomorph", "maniacs", "pickled herring"; "freshwater swabs", "miserable molecule of mildew","Logarithm", "bandits", "orang-outangs", "cercopithecuses", "Polynesians", "iconoclasts", "ruffians", "fancy-dress freebooter", "ignoramus", "sycophant", "dizzard", "black-beetle", "pyrographer", "slave- trader" and "Fuzzy Wuzzy", but again, nothing actually considered a swear word. On one occasion, this scheme appeared to backfire. In one particularly angry state, Hergé had the captain yell the word "pneumothorax" (a medical emergency caused by the collapse of the lung within the chest).
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' Upritchard's figures are made of polymer clay laid over wire armatures; their skin is painted in everything from neutral tones to brightly coloured grids, and they are variously naked and clothed in robes and gowns, also made by the artist. Curator Anne Ellegood writes: > Some hail from long-ago eras—protagonists of medieval mythology like the > knight, the harlequin, the jester—while others are from the more recent > past—beatniks, hippies, and other nonconformists. Various figures are > identified by their vocation—music teacher, potato seller, psychic—or > distilled to a primary, and often less than laudatory, characteristic, such > as “liar,” “misanthrope,” “ninny,” or “nincompoop.” The influences on Upritchard's figurative sculptures are various: the figures in the Bayeux tapestry, Japanese Noh theatre, 1960s psychedelic portraiture, Grasser's wooden figures, the bronze figures of the Chola dynasty, court jesters and medieval performers.
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