Don P's sidekick Claudio falls dippily for their host's daughter Hero: his - and her - gormlessness is ruthlessly sent up. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Looking at the way Carroll was deployed, and the gormlessness of the football going on around him, it was impossible to escape the conclusion that only England could make 4-2-3-1, the favoured formation in recent seasons of sophisticated sides such as Spain, Barcelona and José Mourinho's Internazionale, look like a relic of the past. ❋ Richard Williams At Wembley (2010)
It's not that I'm unsympathetic - I really am, but I also cannot believe the utter gormlessness of supposedly "well-educated" people who fail to use basic common sense when dealing with financial issues. ❋ Newmania (2007)
To applaud or respect her is the acme of Pollyanish naivity and gormlessness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Now this is more sad than hilarious, but when the control grab extends to the enlisting of neighborhood bakeries in disappointing children for the making of one-off and short-lived copies, the gormlessness quotient is running high. ❋ Unknown (2005)
As Cory said "There are days when the gormlessness of the other side of the copyfight generates a great deal of unintentional hilarity." ❋ Unknown (2005)
The check-in area was mobbed and chaotic, as per for Monday morning, with the added joy of a party of Euro - teens milling around with that particular gormlessness which only hormone-addled post-pubescent continentals could truly evince. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)
A gratifying gang of supporters gathered around me in my complaints about middle-lane huggers on motorways, with dozens of readers nominating that act of gormlessness as their top gripe. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The level of gormlessness on display above is beyond parody. ❋ Charlotte Higgins (2011)
Australian blood in the first world war, the product not of a gormlessness that "believes all things" but of anger in defence of life. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The other exhibited the naivety and gormlessness of ❋ Unknown (2010)
I also can't quite get beyond the fact that every single facial expression the boy musters is some close relative of gormlessness. ❋ Paul MacInnes (2010)
The first is the unbelievable gormlessness of the press pack. ❋ Splintered Sunrise (2008)
As she has merely evinced a coy gormlessness in the face of his admittedly purely abstract hints at marriage, he strikes a bargain with her uncle, offering him 20 sheep, a refrigerator, a certificate of merit, and a free trip to Siberia (!) in exchange for her forcible abduction and delivery. ❋ Douglas Robertson (2008)
And the gormlessness of the world’s leaders shows that China’s strategy is working. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some people’s faces slumped into gormlessness in sleep. ❋ Hester Browne (2008)
