Moronic Quotes
More Moronic Quotes
The idea, anyway, was to ward off trouble. But now the moronic inferno had caught up with me.
Saul Bellow— 1975 Humboldt's Gift. Martin Amis used the phrase The Moronic Inferno as the title for a book of essays on the US (1986).
An account?of the decadence occupying the trough between the two world wars introduces us to a moronic inferno of insipidityand decay.
— 1950 Rude Assignment, ch.31.
I could start this review by stating that Dumb and Dumberer lives up to its name, or by calling it stupid, moronic, and idiotic, but I believe that approach is a trap, since a movie like this might relish being the object of such bland invectives. Instead, let me try a few that can't possibly be misconstrued as twisted praise: unfunny, boring, torturous, and unwatchable. ... [N]o movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film - Directed By Troy Miller.
james berardinelli— Review of Dumb and Dumberer (2003)
There's good news and bad news about 2 Fast 2 Furious , the moronic follow-up to The Fast and the Furious and a contender for the worst movie of 2003. The good news is that it's better, albeit marginally, than Freddy Got Fingered . The bad news is that it's 15 minutes longer.
james berardinelli— Review of 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, monotonous, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitable produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of “bread and circuses” can compensate for the damage done these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society.
e. f. schumacher— p. 35 (Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973))
