The unhappy war of 1870, thanks to the stupidity of the military authorities, revived the hope of a victorious insurrection.

And all the while Karl Steinmetz was storming in his guttural English at the door, upbraiding hired waiters for their stupidity in accepting two literal facts literally.

Suppositions of this kind always suppose a stupidity on the part of the enemy which Renault had no right to count upon.

Sir John BARNARD replied:Sir, I have always heard it represented as an instance of integrity, when the tongue and heart move in concert, when the words are representations of the sentiments; and have, therefore, hitherto, endeavoured to explain my arguments with perspicuity, and impress my sentiments with force; I have thought it hypocrisy to treat stupidity with reverence, or to honour nonsense with the ceremony of a confutation.

You may define Stupidity as a slowness of mind in word or deed.

The verse-inciting process is, nevertheless, remorselessly carried on during three years more at Oxford and is much oftener the test of patient stupidity than of aspiring talent, Yet of what stupendous importance it is in the attainment of scholarships and prizes; and how zealous, how tenacious, are dons and 'coaches' in holding to that which far higher classics,

Feeble-mindedness, ranging from stupidity to imbecility, may also be a direct effect of insufficient endocrine supply to the brain cells.

He recovered himself in a moment, with prayers for forgiveness and curses upon his stupidity for setting his foot upon a sharp stone.

"Pendennis, sir," he said, "your idleness is incorrigible and your stupidity beyond example.

We see in him only the victory of stupidity over geniusArthur Wellington triumphant where Napoleon Bonaparte is overwhelmed!

Despising of his holy ordinances and means of worship; deafness and stupidity under the calls of his Word.

How one does tremble with rage at his own intense momentary stupidity about things he knows perfectly well, and to think how he lays himself open to the impertinences of the captatores verborum, those useful but humble scavengers of the language, whose business it is to pick up what might offend or injure, and remove it, hugging and feeding on it as they go!

Instead of which I sit here, day after day, overflowing with my own ridiculous thoughtsand the world discharging all its staleness and stupidity like a sewer in these horrible documents.