doltishness

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Two performances stand out: Frechette captures with comic affection the emperor’s doltishness, and Liesel Allen Yeager manages to convey both the ditzy ebullience and sorrowful loyalty of Mozart’s wife, Constanze.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2016

Photograph: Reuters Much like blowing a two-goal lead, conceding in injury time is a sign of a team with raw doltishness.

From The Guardian • May 5, 2016

As the grotesque comic figure of Cloten, Mr. Linklater, wearing an absurd Monkees wig, is in his element, winning laughs with the character’s juvenile peevishness and his doltishness.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2015

Robert Eli plays Hannay, who made his first appearance in John Buchan’s 1915 novel, with a nice mix of heroic self-admiration and comic doltishness.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2011

Even so, Charlie; doltishness less pardonable than villainy! 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary