Many critics have thrown up their hands over what one early reviewer called a "brilliantly stupid piece of work."

You might have decided that was some stupid piece of indirection.

"How can you be so greedy as to save a stupid piece of magic instead of her life?"

He didn't want to see these stupid pieces of paper.

That is the most stupid piece of man's nonsense I have ever heard uttered.

One Robertson aide said he was stunned by the prediction, calling it "a really stupid piece of politics."

No jury in the world would turn down a heartbreaker case like this based on some stupid piece of paper called a contract.

He woke it up with that stupid piece of slate, and now it's coming.

But there was nothing he could do about stupid pieces of sharp-edged, inanimate matter except try to avoid them.