dunderheaded

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The categories seem to be broken down very finely for the Western comics-I say this as a dunderheaded manga reader who can't tell a good colorist or inker from a bad one-yet all of manga is lumped into a single category.

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  • An embittered CIA bureaucrat (John Malkovich), his frigid wife, her sex-crazed lover (George Clooney) and two dunderheaded gym employees (Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt) run amok through this hilarious tale of blackmail, murder and adultery. —  News & Events from Dartmouth
  • But I prefer to believe that the crisis is complex, and that responding to it takes more than knee-jerk reactions, and, especially, more than moralizing over how dunderheaded the other guys are. —  Conglomerate
  • I know: the pro forma endorsement has the sound of a father telling his uncoordinated son he's just as good an athlete as his letterman brother, and there can't be anyone who seriously thinks even a nation as dunderheaded as ours would consider putting another Bush into office. —  FunctionalAmbivalent
  • And lastly, the concept is just plausible enough that you can imagine some dunderheaded studio exec greenlighting it 20 years from now. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • I realize that our new administration has more pressing problems, (i.e., somehow avoiding the eminent total collapse of the world economy!), but even that was brought on, in no small measure, by the disastrous, dunderheaded, anti-tax and "free-trade" policies of the Bush administration.
 

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