11. A newspaper report at the time blamed the situation on Childs'" utter imbecility ". 12. His humorous acting is often characterised by stupidity, hilarious imbecility and a sharp disconnection from reality. 13. America today is in this golden age of immense prosperity, and to see it otherwise is imbecility , 14. And ethics charges lodged against Gingrich are derided as an " act of malicious imbecility ." 15. Death _ friend of the old and frail _ sometimes moves us to what seems like defensive imbecility . 16. Marx wrote that labor " produces culture, but also imbecility and cretinism for the worker ." 17. Tony Blankley, Gingrich's spokesman, summarily dismissed the three complainants as suffering from " malicious imbecility ." 18. And to the 19th-century American historian George Bancroft, he exhibited " arrogance joined to intellectual imbecility ." 19. Indeed, " The Gift " would be a hoot if you could laugh at all the unintentional imbecility on display. 20. "Dumb and Dumber " _ American society is not only suspicious of intellectualism, but now we have movies that glorify imbecility .