| Fair play to him, he stood up and apologised to the lads, but through some real dopiness, really, he's allowed to get himself sent off. |
| The dopiness of it, however, may be an indication not so much of cinematic ineptitude as of the changes in a movie culture that was once devoted to adults and is now rather haplessly and redundantly devoted to kids. |
| Jake forced himself to keep talking, and I made myself keep listening through a spell of overwhelming dopiness. |
| Without overselling Adelaide's desperation or her dopiness, she captures both the role's poignance and its piquancy. |
| It started as hostile unpleasantness in the South-East, turning into pleasant dopiness in the Midlands, before clagging up into sour pessimism in Yorkshire. |
| The only obstacle between him and another fabulous end to the season is defensive dopiness away from Anfield, something that never bothered his team on more foreign fields. |
