After many stupidities and many exaggerations which have helped considerably to confuse the public, in face of the new difficulties which have arisen, new arrangements for the payment of the indemnity have been established.

As a source of deepest excitement, it generated the most revolting ceremonies, bizarre customs, astounding cruelties and incomprehensible stupidities of the race.

"Who has said stupidities to you, that you doubt me?"

Am I to bestow applause on some insignificant parade of erudition, and withhold blame from the stupidities of style which surround it?

What would the great masters of Grecian and Roman warfare have thought of these blunders and stupidities, to say nothing of modern generals!

It is only in this school that boorish manners are reformed, egotisms rebuked, stupidities punished, and cynicism exorcised.

Inquire into the reason, and you will perceive that their stupidities, their imprudences are the cause.

Some, though well written, I do not claim, because they are not of my writing, moreover, among the things I have written, there are many stupidities.

I have here a special reproach to add to what I have already said of these objectionable stupidities.

If Angela had let love win, perhaps she might often have been humiliated by his ignorances and stupidities, Nick reminded himself; and for him that would have been worse than death, even as for her, according to her admission, it would have been worse than death to go on caring for him.

When they teased me, repeating the same questions over and over again, I cried easily, like a girl, without quite knowing why, for their stupidities could not hurt my reason; but when they bullied me I did not cry, because the pain made me forget the sadness of my heart.

He really laughed his countrymen out of some of their most cherished stupidities of legislation.

"There were of course countless other lines of advance, in practically every science, and they all pointed in the same direction, and met, so to speak, from every quarter of the compass the end of the tunnel which the Church had been boring through all the heaped-up stupidities and ignorances of man.

Unconnected and unnecessary scenes and persons abound, while the Tulliver and Dodson families, and their stupidities, are described at a tedious length.

A middle-aged man with a straw hat on the back of his head and a big pair of spectacles on the end of his nose, he held out his long rod with a steady hand and waited for a bite, in an attitude of supreme indifference to Germans, guns, hatred, tears and all the miserable stupidities of people who do not fish.

How is it that she pursues her conquering way, in spite of stupidities and blunders that would have killed any other institution?

These folk, and others, live on our vices and stupidities, and it is our fault that they can do so.

It was a vast weltering world, and at last I had a sort of leadership against the Gang you know it was called the Ganga sort of compromise of scoundrelly projects and base ambitions and vast public emotional stupidities and catch-wordsthe Gang that kept the world noisy and blind year by year, and all the while that it was drifting, drifting towards infinite disaster.

And even so one cannot help puzzling and grieving and wondering over all the dreadful waste of time and energy, all the stupidities and misunderstandings, all the unnecessary business and tiresome pleasure, all the spitefulness and malignity, all the sham rules and artificial regulations, all the hard judgments and dismal fears and ugly cruelties of the world, beginning so early and ending so late.

The Trinity is the express refutation of all these stupidities; it is their remedy, corrective and preservative.

The stupidities, mendacities and wanton cruelties of the United States' undeclared Vietnam War, even before the advent of Johnson and Nixon, had so weakened Washington leadership that no major power would associate itself with the adventure.

This silence which formerly would have appeared as a compensation for the stupidities heard for years, now weighed on him with an unendurable burden.

"Faith, they have long talked about Suabian stupidities!

"Such an age-long howling of evil stupidities would be enough to turn its brain with ennui and disgust.

We grumble in our Fatherland; every stupid thing, every contrary trifle, vexes us there; like boys, we are always longing to rush forth into the wide world, and, when we finally find ourselves there, we find it too wide, and often yearn in secret for the narrow stupidities and contrarieties of home.