Some people had felt the assault of witlessness in their sleep.

What's in this title is simply a reflection of random witlessness.

His witlessness keeps the movie going, but at the expense of any interest one might have in his predicament.

In Maxwell it was a sign of weakness and slowness, almost of witlessness.

The girl had been revolted by Harold's witlessness.

This passes for comic relief in a film otherwise notable for its witlessness.

They had not examined Harlan closely, but the administration of the drug had drawn him back into his witlessness.

Robots were funny that way: an inhuman combination of brilliance and absolute witlessness.

My point is that along with Gerel's undeniable witlessness he had great and generous gallantry.

Of course, like everything in "Transatlantica," it goes on and on, beating a startling joke into witlessness.

Farce means to mirror human folly, which is not the same as indulging in arrant witlessness.

They're just faking their witlessness, why I bet they're thoroughly amused by us simpletons.

An exclusive focus on athleticism is dangerous, and today's football is often too fast, a helter-skelter ride of witlessness.

But Smash, having cursed the darkness of his witlessness, now suffered a flashback of dull genius.

Or witlessness.

And polite, cheerful witlessness reigned in "Gion Festival."

Also in Time , the movie critic pans the summer blockbusters for their similarly idiotic plots, brutality, and witlessness.

This was the attorney general of the United States speaking, yet another straight man for an administration that has raised governing to new heights of witlessness.

A film that means to make the most of black-humored misanthropy had better be funnier than this mirthless exercise in witlessness and sadistic humor.

The Very Thin Line Between Wit and Witlessness It was bound to be a problem.

Ashakh's witlessness appalled her, his lack of m'melakhia for Ashanome in taking on such a servant sent waves of heat to her face.

Yet I submitted, and acted as if I were one of them, mocking their witlessness and frivolity and vanity.

Critic Charles Isherwood called it "a merry compendium of the witlessness and wisdom of the rich and famous".

When she departs for good, Petra, blind to Karin's witlessness and helplessly forgiving of her cruelty, goes insane with grief.

"The fat's in the fire, Hendrik," quoth I. "What I have done has been out of witlessness and the need to be saying something.