Example sentences for: daft

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  • Gore's problem, therefore, is not that he is a "beta" (vice presidents--even Lyndon Johnson--must be) or that he is reserved (so was Lincoln), but that hiring a Dick Morris hanger-on like Naomi Wolf and trying to hide it shows a "stunning lapse in intelligence," a daft inability to perceive what will mobilize and what will alienate the voters.

  • ) Lee's use of Copland pieces such as "Lincoln Portrait," "Rodeo," "Appalachian Spring," and "Fanfare for the Common Man" too transparently pump up the picture's already pumped-up visuals, and his b-ball variation on the religioso finale of Lars von Triers' Breaking the Waves (1996) is as daft as it was in the original.

  • Newsweek 's meaty package explains Heaven's Gate's daft cosmology and catalogs America's other doomsday sects.

  • The daft charm of Edgar Rice Burroughs' protagonist--a little boy raised by gorillas whose animal and human languages are constantly vying for supremacy--doesn't have the same piquancy when the gorillas talk like characters from Leave It to Beaver . If we're all the same under the skin (or fur), then what's the point of the story?

  • (Some particularly enthusiastic, daft Sinatra fans credit him with Kennedy's 1960 election victory, claiming that Sinatra helped line up the Mob behind JFK.)


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