And she was about as capable of intelligent argument as a runaway steam-roller.
It has to be someone who's going to have an intelligent argument with him, make him laugh and not take his nonsense.
And he could not now bring himself to mount any intelligent argument about the woman herself, her condition, the obvious need for some periodic evaluation.
The upcoming campaign must therefore include an intelligent argument about how New York can prevent the boom-and-bust cycles it has endured since the 1970's.
The choices are idiosyncratic, which makes them fun, but every title is advanced with an intelligent argument and touching affection.
"An intelligent argument, that is among the high pleasures in life," Edmond reminded him.
"If you want to deal with scholarly intelligent arguments, there's really no place else we can publish."
Because there is such a huge cry about the thing, you can't have a legitimate, intelligent argument about it.
It's always an "enlightening" and "intelligent" argument when one reverts to name calling the FM.
Mr Rapkay put forward a number of intelligent arguments which I will not repeat.