No other field of fatuousness is venerated with its own self perpetuating industry. From Wordnik.com. [Debbie Gadget writes…. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
He has a sweet spirit missing from other contemporary screen clowns; he finds the poetry in fatuousness, writes David Edelstein. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, fests, etc, 4/2.] Reference
There is a grim sort of satisfaction to be had in recalling the fatuousness of some the claims that were being made until recently. From Wordnik.com. [Monica Ali: Unexpected Opportunities in the Midst of Recession] Reference
Dave asked with a fatuousness that still further irritated him. From Wordnik.com. [When the World Was Young] Reference
It also highlights the fatuousness of using “crime” as an analogy. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch and the Presumption of Good Faith:] Reference
Army raised fatuousness to new heights, and covered many a movie premiere. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Folks, 2009: The Missed and the Not Missed] Reference
Even a moment's reflection shows the fatuousness of "Let them eat contracts.". From Wordnik.com. [Gay Marriage Is Good for America] Reference
There was a fatuousness in Frank Capra's populism that's come to irritate me. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Academic fatuousness was central to the episodes, and nuclear to such intolerance. From Wordnik.com. [San Diego Mayhem] Reference
Let's say you write a letter to the editor protesting the fatuousness of this article. From Wordnik.com. [Come, Let Me Offend You] Reference
Austen seems to have been born with a fatuousness detector implanted in her mobcapped skull. From Wordnik.com. [Gender Bending, Part 2] Reference
But the resulting volume demonstrates how easily personal reminiscence strays into fatuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
But political fatuousness and fear-mongering are neither unprecedented nor particularly female habits. From Wordnik.com. [5 myths about female candidates] Reference
They are uniformly appalling in their self-serving bluster and historical and philosophical fatuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Eugenie C. Scott honored by AAAS - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
We want to reap where we have not sown, the fatuousness of which we should see as soon as it is mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
Andrew Sullivan, excoriating "the faith-off" for its fatuousness and Bush-like religiosity, set the tone for skeptics. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Obama, God And Governance] Reference
Why not replace fatuousness and lies with a serious, as opposed to cartoonish, effort to improve the society you live in. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Voting By Mail Is Becoming More Common] Reference
Fortunately, 'George, Being George' also taps enough sharp-eyed observers ... to outweigh its occasional fatuousness and repetition. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference
In supporting this misperception, the print media's characterization of audience reaction found its apogee of fatuousness in The Guardian. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Barack's Berlin Gamble] Reference
Such is the fatuousness of the religiously indoctrinated mind, another pair of splashes is all it would have taken to reverse the process. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
The fatuousness of this appealed suddenly to Bedient. From Wordnik.com. [Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel] Reference
He believes in his own tolerance, which is merely his fatuousness. From Wordnik.com. [G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study] Reference
The fatuousness of forethought had seldom been evinced more ironically. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
The fatuousness of the title at such a moment was not lost on Mr Campion. From Wordnik.com. [Police at the Funeral]
"The time has come to put this exercise in fatuousness out of its misery.". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
With the fatuousness of a weak man cornered, he clung to unimportant details. From Wordnik.com. [Openings in the Old Trail] Reference
# fatuousness - The characteristic of being fatuous en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fatuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Krauthammer on Obama’s “fatuous” summit] Reference
The time has come to put this exercise in fatuousness out of its misery, Paxman wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
There's even a performing seal to point up the fatuousness and moral bankruptcy of it all. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
He had even told her in his fatuousness -- it was true, but how fatuous -- that he hadn't been able to help coming. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
With a fatuousness born of vanity, however, no sooner had she sent her excuse than he began to look upon her visit to. From Wordnik.com. [The House Behind the Cedars] Reference
On the "Who Gives a Flying Toss?" scale of fatuousness, it's up there with Peter Andre's "My Top 10 Artistic Influences". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
"Messieurs," he lisped, with that fatuousness he affected, and with his eye fixed coldly upon Chatellerault, "I have a toast for you.". From Wordnik.com. [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference
"Let me only get there," he had said with the fatuousness of Crusoe over his big boat, "and the rest is but a matter of time and energy.". From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
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