But the public, uninterested that Mr Plimpton might have a serious motive for his jaunts, took the view that he was simply a moneyed idiot looking for ways to pass the time.
This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.
But anyone who says that there is money to be made in a stash of ACADEMIC ARTICLES is either an idiot or a liar.
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That, too, ironically, is a fact that liberals ignored, caricaturing Reagan as an idiot, a simpleton, an "amiable dunce, " as Clark Clifford famously called him.
The 2013 model also features the next-gen Terrain Response system, which now includes a fully automated, idiot-proof terrain-sensing mode.
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You may hardly think that constructing a small-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower in matchsticks means a person is an idiot, but Veber obviously does.
"One idiot with a gun on a Saturday afternoon in downtown Toronto does not speak to the state of affairs of the city of Toronto, " he said.
Sir Edward Garnier QC, a former solicitor general who is acting on behalf of Lord McAlpine, told the court that because of the huge amount of publicity around the Newsnight programme "only an idiot in a hurry" could not have known the meaning of the tweet.
What sustains it is the three-way chemistry of the ingratiating Everyguy Crystal, the pathetically vulnerable, almost fetal Stern, and the dissembling know-it-all Lovitz, who does a virtuoso job of teetering between being an idiot savant and an idiot.
Until we started viewing the events on TV, many of us thought that this was some amateur-hour idiot or some suicidal moron looking for a little publicity.
In a racket that has seen its share of miracle cures come and go and come again, NutriSystem has finally evolved into a stripped-down, predictable business of selling small, safe and idiot-proof portions of food.
It was the first mass-market idiot-proof touch-to-get operating system that provided a computer experience to people without the experience or the inclination to use one.
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She said the first defendant to be identified was biology teacher Holly Price who retweeted a comment and the court heard Price told police she had been an "idiot" and wanted to apologise to the victim.
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Mr. DAMON BROWN (Author, "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the iPhone"): I think a lot of people who have seen that commercial assume that they'll be able to just glide from movie to Google Maps to searching for their favorite restaurant to calling them up for a reservation.
No one even looked at me, save for one barista who gave me a quick smile (which may or may not have been related to the fact that I was the idiot who had just set off an alarm loud enough to disrupt any and all conversation).
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