1 CRIMESTOP, in short, means protective stupidity.
2 It was an inconceivably stupid thing to have done.
3 For some time he sat gazing stupidly at the paper.
4 Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal.
5 It seemed to him quite possible that he had simply made a stupid mistake.
6 There was something that he lacked: discretion, aloofness, a sort of saving stupidity.
7 Any kind of organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid.
8 He could evade its pangs if he was quick-witted enough: it was chiefly when he showed stupidity that O'Brien pulled the lever.
9 At the sight of the words I LOVE YOU the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid.
10 Katharine would unquestionably have denounced him to the Thought Police if she had not happened to be too stupid to detect the unorthodoxy of his opinions.
11 He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms--one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.
12 Very early in her married life he had decided--though perhaps it was only that he knew her more intimately than he knew most people--that she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered.
13 Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown; or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown.