dopiness

Language gets strained to breaking point: incompetent cockiness becomes "enormous enthusiasm," dopiness "diligence" and a complete absence of initiative or spark "fitting in well with the team."

NPR Topics: News 2009

While Government waste and occasional dopiness is part of the reality, we also enjoy some of the most competently delivered government services of any nation in the world.

Fernando Espuelas: Latinos Must Help Unify America - by Voting in 2012 Fernando Espuelas 2011

While Government waste and occasional dopiness is part of the reality, we also enjoy some of the most competently delivered government services of any nation in the world.

Fernando Espuelas: Latinos Must Help Unify America - by Voting in 2012 Fernando Espuelas 2011

And while practically everyone I know cried during the opening montage of Up that wordlessly summarized the love, growth and lingering regrets of a long marriage, no one talked much about the rest of the film save for the spot-on dopiness of the talking golden retriever character, Dug.

Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Toy Story 3 2010

My guess is that Obama, simply by pointing out the dopiness of the questions in the first half of the debate, probably emerged from this better than Clinton did.

A Lousy Debate…plus Latest Column - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

HAMMER: OK, so will there be any backlash with Michael Phelps ` marijuana mishaps, with his doobie disaster, his bong blowup, his dope, dopiness?

CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2009 2009

The dopiness of so-called ecotainment—environmentally virtuous entertainment—rises in direct proportion to its message-mongering.

Scott Brown on the Looming Deluge of Eco-Disaster Flicks Scott Brown 2008

It's also worth mentioning, however, from the poll worker's perch, a lot of dopiness witnessed that I am sure carries over into electoral decision-making.

Bill Parent: Fox News and Forgotten Addresses: A Day In the Life of a CA Poll Worker 2008

There is more reason to think the Obamans — for all their dreamy dopiness — are more likely to get what he seems to promise: a turn of the historical page and at least a little racial healing.

"The battle for the Democratic Party is so bitter because it is a battle over culture." Ann Althouse 2008

The dopiness of so-called ecotainment—environmentally virtuous entertainment—rises in direct proportion to its message-mongering.

Scott Brown on the Looming Deluge of Eco-Disaster Flicks 2008