| One has to pity the poor flacks who have to defend a corporate officer's speech characterized not just by US-bashing but by sheer fatuousness. |
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| It's a comic performance and it's the character's fatuousness which makes it so funny. |
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| In the darkest days of the Dark Ages, no superstition surpassed this one for silliness, fatuousness, or just plain ignorance. |
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| That makes you understand the fatuousness of nationalism because you can't tell the nationality of a bone. |
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| Listening to a horrible sonnet drives him to distraction, and the flattery and fatuousness of the world make him despair. |
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| The same fate befell others who similarly attempted to contribute to moral, political, and ethical debate beyond the fatuousness and anonymity of talk-back radio. |
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| Travolta plays Shapiro as an Easter Island head of fatuousness, with Spock eyebrows and pursed lips, trailing famous names like bread crumbs. |
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| This kind of burbling fatuousness does not aid the cause of getting to the truths of war, and Burns should know better. |
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| There is an element of fatuousness in the presumption on the part of the American bourgeoisie that Russia's weakness and indebtedness preclude it from military intervention. |
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| In the early books, one was carried along by De Vries's unstoppable gags, his gift for spotting cant, fatuousness, and snobbery, and his grandly silly dialogue. |
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