And I have to concur with the consensus - your fake dottiness is just as convincing as your fake ageing. From Wordnik.com. [Young Boris!] Reference
Mike Liccione discusses the "dottiness" of both the far right and the far left, saying. From Wordnik.com. [Tea at Trianon] Reference
We indulge our elders their occasional moments of dottiness. From Wordnik.com. [princeofcairo: Clash of the Idols] Reference
I’m kind of an old lady so I can indulge in that kind of dottiness. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Some Thoughts on Fitz, Rove and Things] Reference
I’m kind of an old lady so I can indulge in that kind of dottiness. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Some Thoughts on Fitz, Rove and Things] Reference
Nathanael West was certainly not "ultimately disarmed by the sheer dottiness of the architecture.". From Wordnik.com. [Disarming La] Reference
That progs like Sullivan are going over-the-top with dottiness about the topic indicates their increasing desperation. From Wordnik.com. [Usury: the progs are cracking] Reference
He had to have the right to veer into dottiness, to exaggerate extravagantly, and to bend the expected movement of a phrase into absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [Adventurer] Reference
Tea Party dottiness - "shrinking government and slashing taxes" may temporarily channel the frustrations voters feel at the high levels of unemployment, but it won't make America great again. From Wordnik.com. [Nigel Hamilton: Rahm Is Going] Reference
Several long-standing members I know berated the dottiness while sitting in a pub or their living room, then went to the meetings and meekly sat there without saying a word, even voting for measures theyd privately declared to be ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [What's Going On] Reference
When you encounter a talented celebrity who is advancing a bit in years and is clearly Not Quite In His Right Mind, there is always that hope that the star's eccentricities belie the kind of lovable dottiness and refusal to give a whit that can come with age ... as opposed to, you know, actual manic depression. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Willman: One Last, Strange Night With David Carradine] Reference
The phrase "eager guilelessness" which I use is an almost direct quotation from West himself, as would have been clear if Carney had pursued the quotation for another couple of paragraphs, and my reason for drawing attention to it is that, like myself, Nathanael West was ultimately disarmed by the sheer dottiness of the architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Disarming La] Reference
It's good, because personally I have dottiness in spades. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, maybe John Cleese -- that's what people like in British films, the dottiness. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
The intention is clearly to offset the story's potential horror by swathing it in an atmosphere of Pythonesque dottiness. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
I love the dottiness but I was rather shocked when someone pointed that out to me (as a so-called serious British filmmaker). From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
But at least the ancient etymologies can be illuminating about the development of the myth or the growth of the language or the dottiness of the commentator. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
To succeed as Arcati, an actress has to revel in the woman's dottiness, and the four-time Tony Award winner embraces the medium's eccentricities with a giddy physical enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [Macon Telegraph: Homepage] Reference
London; Olivier, London Lloyd Webber's new Phantom lacks the thriller instinct, while Hytner makes a delight of dottiness today she had decided not to to appear in the forthcoming film because of the. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Ace Frehley Shouts It Out Loud at the Nokia Theater] Reference
“The dottiness has only appeared since Saturday night. From Wordnik.com. [Overture to Death]
England have gone dotty on the mere subject of dottiness? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Ball and the Cross] Reference
‘You’re not holding her acknowledged dottiness against her, are you?’ he asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
“I don’t know whether I’ve conveyed the general dottiness of that monstrous house,” she said. From Wordnik.com. [Final Curtain]
But Quirke loves the dottiness of the film and, as she describes the strenuous ordeal of its making, she comes to the luminous conclusion that "Jaws" has "sheer exhilaration at lacking an agenda or a subject in any classical dramatic sense. From Wordnik.com. [First-Rate Tales Of Making Movies] Reference
The girl gave oil an aura of distinct dottiness. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
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