oafishness

When people normalize violence and lesser forms of anti-social behavior, such as Lauren Boebert's obnoxious vaping and groping at a theater, oafishness on airplanes, or "rolling coal" – blowing car exhaust in the faces of bicyclists – it reduces the sense of social propriety and impulse control.

For all the movie’s ribbing of male oafishness, “Barbie” gives Ken an interior life that goes beyond what classic pink-power predecessors offered their own male characters. 1995’s “Clueless,” starring Alicia Silverstone, and 2001’s “Legally Blonde,” starring Reese Witherspoon, are much more exclusively oriented around women’s journeys of self-discovery and their triumphs over social stereotypes.

But Trump’s oafishness should not distract the U.K. from the fact that Brexit is its own problem.

Klayman’s camera captures Bannon as he laughs off his haters with an unapologetic oafishness that defines the national discourse.

As her face froze and she took a step away from him, politely covering her disdain, she was representing all the women ever required to find a response to male oafishness.