featherbrained

"My good woman, try not to be any more featherbrained than absolutely required by your female nature.

I've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off,' said the frog.

"Invest in some featherbrained scheme to locate fire crystal."

All right, the times may be ripe for featherbrained entertainment, for aggressive escapism.

And for one brief moment, all its featherbrained feline attention was devoted to keeping its balance.

It was as featherbrained as ever.

But enough of such featherbrained musings!

I used to think it was because you were a featherbrained flyboy-oh, courageous and daring and all the rest of it, but essentially feather-brained, too.

I used to be afraid she'd never get over her featherbrained ways, but she has and I wouldn't be afraid to trust her in anything now."

You'll be rattling your featherbrained notions all over town, and probably getting everything wrong..." "Fiddlesticks," said Harpina.

The same kind of cynicism crops up on all kinds of television shows, even some as featherbrained and farcical as ABC's "Boston Legal."

The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys.

Portraying herself as a featherbrained Good Samaritan who lived "in the little white house on Sunnyview Lane," she always offered a helping hand to those in her neighborhood.

In the featherbrained story cooked up by James Melkonian, who wrote and directed the film, the pair find themselves in hot water after posing as henchmen for an imaginary Chicago mobster.

As reconceived by Tina Brown and presided over by Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair is an extravagant, often featherbrained version of the general interest magazine, and a compliant courtier to celebrity.

Just like old times, a featherbrained farce is kicking off the playhouse's 61st season and then moving on to other theaters - in Massachusetts, Maine and New York - on what's left of the summer stock circuit.

Being portrayed ultimately as a brooding, isolated wreck, which he never was, bothered Hearst, but he was primarily incensed over Welles's depiction of his companion, the actress Marion Davies, as a featherbrained drunk.

The soprano, who made her debut 35 years ago as Micaela in "Carmen," initially made one believe completely in her as a featherbrained teen-ager - but of course she always has been endearing in girlish roles.

That dream of an agrarian never-never land was, even for 1939, as featherbrained as the utopian Indian encampment of "Dances With Wolves," and is as irrelevant to today's film audience as the genre's aesthetic values and its imagery.

'Breaking Legs' "Breaking Legs," a featherbrained comedy by Tom Dulack (Off Broadway at the Promenade Theater), has three things going for it - the magnificent mugs of Vincent Gardenia, Philip Bosco and Victor Argo.

In 1964 she attracted favourable reviews for her performance as Barblin in Max Freisch's Andorra, and as the featherbrained flapper Jackie in Noël Coward's Hay Fever she impressed critics with her flair for comedy.

Fittingly for practitioners of the bizarre and zany, they have set up shop smack in the middle of Times Square, where the New Victory Theater will be home through Jan. 13 to their featherbrained, feather-light, skillful and funny two-hour new-vaudeville show, "What Goes Up."