imbecilities

• Amidst a plethora of imbecilities, Nark seemed to make one disclosure of interest. —  Death At The Bar - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 09: 1940
• And among the imbecilities that Mencken highlighted was the very one that Mr. Glaeser warns against. —  BMI Headlines
• They are irremovable, but by their own body, for any depravities of conduct, and even by their own body for the imbecilities of dotage. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
• "The Infinite and the Absolute are only the names for two counter-imbecilities of the human (uninitiated) mind;" and to regard them as the transmuted "properties of the nature of things--of two subjective negatives converted into objective affirmatives," as Sir W. Hamilton puts it, is to know nothing of the infinite operations of human liberated spirit, or of its attributes, the first of which is its ability to pass beyond the region of our terrestrial experience of matter and space. —  Five Years of Theosophy
• Is it possible that, after all, our old protestant spirit, with its rationality, its austerity, its steady political energy, has been struck with something of the mortal fatigue that seizes catholic societies after their fits of revolution We need not forget either the atrocities or the imbecilities which mark the course of modern politics on the Continent. —  On Compromise

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