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Letter "I" » incompetence
«Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.»
Author: George V. Higgins
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
astound, astounded, astounding, astounds, Confessions, credentials, incompetence, probative, snivel, sniveling
«Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.»
«The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.»
Author: Emo Philips
| Keywords:
combination, incompetence, office, post, posted, posting, post office, Russians, tanked, tanks, The Post Office
«The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, Big Boys, Big Picture, bogus, ceased, degraded, fake, idealism, incessant, incompetence, Out of This World, overall, overalls, pervasive, pretentiousness, shots, snide, squabble, squabbling, start out, strut, struts, strutting, The Big Picture, The Boys, tricks
«ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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An example, An example of, ape, archbishop, Archbishop of, clown, curate, curates, humorist, humorists, imitated, incompetence, Italian, ludicrous, Old Italian, progenitor, progenitors, rector, rectors, specialist, specialists, specimen, specimens, the humorist, the play, The Specialist, zany
«The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Adversity,
America and Americans,
Competence
| Keywords:
at home, foes, incompetence, superstition, threaten
«The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity»
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