‘There's enough manic imbecility, though, to maintain the film's screwball tone.’
‘If you are going to employ men to build a wall, and if those men are to be treated simple as tools, it is imbecility to make such a design for your wall as depends upon your having masons who are artists.’
‘But these are checked by dispiriting reflections on my melancholy temper and imbecility of mind.’
‘Such organizations, of course, must have leaders; there must be men in them whose ignorance and imbecility are measurably less abject than the ignorance and imbecility of the average.’
‘It's also supposed to have vaguely defined ‘therapeutic’ qualities, most palpably felt at this point on Christmas Day as a warm, woozy sort of imbecility.’
Are You Learning English? Here Are Our Top English Tips