Example sentences for: daft

How can you use “daft” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • The closeness of the sublime and the ridiculous, of the daft and the grand, is central to Stevens.

  • The last Batman , Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever , was nowhere near as cool, but it was clean, campy fun from beginning to end, and it rode high on a maliciously daft Jim Carrey performance.

  • 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?

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


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