If we didn't have butchers to do the necessary, we'd be vegetarians out of sheer ineptitude.
A vision of the Three Stooges, chased by villains, succeeding by sheer ineptitude, came to him from his last hotel room cable-TV binge.
Whatever its intentions, however, the hallmark of the administration hasn't turned out to be Machiavellian cunning but sheer ineptitude.
On the other side of the ledger, however, there were shots of sheer ineptitude that only endeared the man even more to his audience.
BR's own credit card experiment at the decade's start failed through sheer ineptitude.
In October 2011, Romney criticized the Obama administration's announcement that all American combat troops had been withdrawn from Iraq calling the withdrawal either "naked political calculation or simply sheer ineptitude."
The disillusionment for many is the result of the most egregious irregularities that have beset many community organizations in large cities - financial scams, cronyism and sheer ineptitude.
"I have to apologize for the sheer ineptitude of my two people, I'd thought them better trained than that."
Sometimes it is sheer ineptitude, inexplicable though that is.
"It is clear enough for all to see that the Kashmir Government has, through negligence and sheer ineptitude, allowed the terrorists to flourish across the valley," The Hindustan Times commented today.