witlessness
Example Sentences
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The hallmark of this “Joker” is its solemn witlessness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2019
Twin Peaks cop Andy and his daffy receptionist wife Lucy are cases in point; their witlessness is played for laughs but simultaneously curdles into something unsettling, as if they were robots trying to play humans.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2017
Which is not to say cartoons must thrive on witlessness, as gifted artists ever since Picasso and Duchamp make plain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2015
She was a sort of Bizarro World Oscar Wilde: an Irish author who became a London cause célèbre for the complete witlessness of her writing.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2013
Those of the first Rise ever higher; those of the second mode Take a mid place; the darkened souls sink back To lower deeps, loaded with witlessness!
From The Song celestial; or, Bhagabad-gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) being a discourse between Arjuna, prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna by Arnold, Edwin, Sir
