dottiness

She is thoroughly nice, with just a touch of appealing dottiness.

"Why should all England have gone dotty on the mere subject of dottiness?"

I wanted to try and photograph London life, in all its delightful dottiness."

We are in postwar England - a time of dottiness and sinister confusion.

Cox was accustomed to Gordon's dottiness, but this was grotesque.

Ms. Kennedy, for example, overplays Virginia's dottiness at the expense of her intelligence in the first act.

But instead of trying to be a serious sociological portrait, "Wonderland" concentrates on interviews with residents who seem to have been chosen for their dottiness.

Ms. O'Connell is appealing in her dottiness.

Everybody has an aunt or uncle or cousin whose dottiness manages to perplex and engross in equal measure.

There are also times when the minor characters' acting, like Ms. Malina's exaggerated dottiness, is just too overbearing to be fun.

But May 1, opening night, was the first time an American audience had been exposed to the Denisons' particular combination of urbanity, dottiness and plummy good looks.

Ordinarily the old girl's dottiness might have made her smile, but today it made her feel uncomfortable, just one more symptom of a world completely out of kilter.

As if to accentuate the falseness of the writing, Miss Bryceland, so affecting later, plays Helen with a beatific, mannered dottiness of grating artificiality.

Then it veers off into dottiness with Judy Dater's view of the elderly Imogen Cunningham in the woods "coming upon" a nymph lurking beside a tree.

As was evident in Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," Mr. Jones excels at playing characters whose outward rationality thinly disguises dottiness.

The middle section of the book traces the arc of his mother's maddening but charming dottiness and the alternately seductive and rejecting Dede's increasing domination of Dad.

- a question that also refers to the world that Hsiao Kang's father may now inhabit - the quotidian serenity is continually broken by dottiness, and the camera never blinks.

"ENGLAND was going through one of the periodic attacks of dottiness that seize her most often at times of disaster," Janice Elliott tells us in her new novel.

This fearful symmetry was an early (indeed, prenatal) reflection of a collective ancestral dottiness that produced the most clannishly eccentric and strenuously glittering family of show-offs in the history of English letters.

Bingo is a chronic Yalie with a familiar giggle and an unnerving preoccupation with bodily functions who rules with a droit-de-seigneur dottiness and the unspoken agreement that fact will never interfere with a good story.

Note the literal performance of Darcy Pulliam that pays little mind to the richly comic dottiness of Maria the Dutchess of Den, who is to make a "fit and proper" gentleman of Bill.

By the time of the second series, his English has improved greatly, although he still has problems understanding specific orders or people, such as Mrs. Richards, owing to her way of talking (and partially due to her own dottiness).

Given the peculiarities of life in Rudge House, the slain cats, the increasing dottiness of Mrs. Maddingly, it was beginning to seem entirely of a piece that Winnie's cousin was missing with no forwarding address.

The UN Study on Violence against Children sets a target date of 2009 for universal prohibition, including in the home, an aim described by The Economist as "the latest piece of Utopian dottiness from the UN".