He drew astonished gasps from the audience and co-panellists alike for the fatuity and pomposity of his contributions. |
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He charmingly combines that imperial trimmer's droll pawkiness and irritating fatuity. |
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Instead he pointed to the bound notebook in which so many sitters had written comments, expressed their praise and blame, wisdom and fatuity. |
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Muddling through is no substitute for clarity and the church is now paying for its fatuity and lack of a magisterium. |
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To him, the fatuity of the learned judge is an example of our tendency to throw about words that have lost all meaning, even in the mouths of educated people. |
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No words can convey the depths of his fatuity, except his own. |
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The book was a best-seller, but it provoked the scornful charge of personal fatuity that has dogged Boswell's name ever since. |
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The eight Boston batters not named Ortiz, by contrast, stayed upbeat throughout — a boys' club, you felt — despite a similar collective fatuity at the plate. |
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