The person who can perfectly manage a stubborn Dachshund or a saphead Chow-Chow is as admirable as the person who can perfectly manage a Central Asian or a Caucasian.
Muddled Assumptions of Better Alternatives Of course, they're a bit awful, the question is whether one is dealing with an especially obtuse sort or just another member of our collectively maddening species.
" Yes, but still, " said Hermione, with an air of explaining something very simple to somebody very obtuse, " even if you do cause a diversion, how is Harry supposed to talk to him? "
At that moment, it occurred to me if I could teach mathematics to someone as dull-witted as my sister, I could create a race of superhumans that would do my bidding.
Our language ennobles meat at the expense of veg: strong, muscular types are " beefy" , lazy people are " couch potatoes" , unresponsive ones " vegetables" .
In Rome he was simply a very dull Florentine, and it is not remarkable that he should not have cared to pay frequent visits to a place where, to carry it off, his dulness needed more explanation than was convenient.
Muddled Assumptions of Better Alternatives Of course they're a bit awful, the question is whether one is dealing with an especially obtuse sort or just another member of our collectively maddening species.
If you're looking for intelligence, you will find that 90% of humanity are the same, and then there's some very thick people, and some very clever people.
He is 101 strong and fearless; he knows his mind and he speaks his mind forcibly yet brilliantly too, for the readers of newspapers are a dull-eyed race who must be dazzled in order to make them see.