(a.) Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.
Example Sentences:
(1) A fine period of passing is undone by a brainless gallop forwards by Kebe, who just knocks the ball into the nearest defender.
(2) We think of it as a "career path" for the beautiful and brainless.
(3) To speak metaphorically, we can opt for either brainless or mindless psychiatry, as Szasz proposed.
(4) Muscle proteins were quantified in the 1 M LiCl-soluble and distilled water-insoluble fraction of the eyeless, brainless, eviscerated and skinned carcass, as compared with a striated muscle sample from the same animal used as standard and processed in the same way as the whole carcass.
(5) And though it's good, solid, brainless fun, it's actually less colourful than the real story of the Lincoln County war.
(6) Since it's impossible to simultaneously sacrifice and worship a sacred cow, The Lone Ranger feels schizophrenic, a state of affairs that would be forgivable if it delivered as a postmodern comedy or as an exciting western or even as an exhilaratingly brainless piece of summer entertainment.
(7) After a period marked by one-sided emphasis on psychodynamics and social issues, or what could be called "brainless" psychiatry on account of its relative neglect of cerebral processes, we are witnessing an opposite trend towards extreme biologism or "mindless" psychiatry.
(8) These days, however, as no one will be surprised to hear, brainless things happen in Washington more often than not, and there's the usual parade of the usual suspects demanding that Keystone get built.
(9) The implantation of protocerebron and of optic lobes into brainless Spheroms remaining in C4 seems to restore premoult only with difficulty.
(10) It does need more big hospital "hubs" and fewer smaller hospitals, but that should not be the excuse for more brainless wrecking of what remains a phenomenal organisation – cheap, generally high quality and value-driven, as you find when you are inside it.
(11) Her husband – the narcissistic, brainless purveyor of tedious board games – probably didn’t pay her much mind in the week before the event.
(12) The author argues that neither brainless nor mindless psychiatry can do justice to the complexity of mental illness and to the treatment of patients.
(13) These were not brainless carnivores, in other words.
(14) The latter is neither mindless nor brainless but rather encompasses both the mind and the brain in its theoretical and practical consideration.
(15) We need all the support we can get to put a stop to this dangerous promotion of women as stupid slags, sexy sluts and brainless bimbos.
Mindless
Definition:
(a.) Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
(a.) Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
(2) When people get together sometimes they forget their individual responsibility and maybe when you go home and watch it on television you are less proud.” Coates agreed with Wenger that it is best to turn a deaf ear to those mindless enough to sing that sort of song.
(3) From that day video games – the youngest and therefore the most misunderstood and feared entertainment medium – have struggled to shrug off the perception that they are violent, often mindless, occasionally sexist and fundamentally unconstructive.
(4) "Not one person has given any positive to his tenure of management, just kept mindlessly claiming he needs time.
(5) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
(6) The increasingly frequent murder of Nato trainers by the Afghans they are supposed to mentor has done as much to eradicate trust in the relationship between the Kabul government and its western backers as the sight of US marines videoed while urinating on the corpses of insurgents, or the mindless decision to burn Qur'ans at a US military base.
(7) To speak metaphorically, we can opt for either brainless or mindless psychiatry, as Szasz proposed.
(8) The architect of the RBCT called the new cull "mindless".
(9) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
(10) Last week you were saying the violence was understandable given the offensive film and this week you are trying to claim it was mindless," he wrote.
(11) This article describes a detailed model of how such "mindless" processes might lead to intelligent choices of strategies in one common situation: that in which people need to choose between stating a retrieved answer and using a backup strategy.
(12) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
(13) It was hypothesized that as overlearning leads to "mindlessness," the individual components of a task become relatively inaccessible to consciousness and therefore unavailable to serve as evidence of task competence.
(14) We are about to take this country backwards in droves through the mindless ideological bent of the Coalition .
(15) And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence," he said.
(16) As a letter in the Guardian from the Labour MP Peter Hain two days later put it: "Wednesday night's events were not mindless thuggery but organised political violence.
(17) Alex Song’s mindless red card near the end of the first half certainly made their task an easier one, but Croatia put the setback of their opening defeat to Brazil behind them with clinical ease.
(18) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
(19) "We are not on a mindless hunt for unique users," said Bailey.
(20) Hollywood blockbusters and TV dramas are saturated with mindless terrorists.