| 单词 | fatuity |
| 例句 | I learned that sagacity and quick wits are necessary in avoiding dangerous situations; and that fatuity and shortsightedness make one go around in circles, seemingly unaware of the many opportunities for escape. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of telling us about some fatuity in the world around us, she recalls her own youth in the ’50s and ’60s and her search for the grand philosophical truths about life itself. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z It is not that Mr. Coogan has aged, just that the world of media fatuity that Alan represents has evolved away from this kind of satire. Movie Review: ‘Alan Partridge,’ Starring Steve Coogan 2014-04-03T22:44:42Z You have only to ask the questions to realise the fatuity of the idea. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z The passionate fatuity of these people, and the keenly nuanced satire with which they are rendered, brings to mind parties in Woody Allen movies of the same period. | 'Marie and Bruce': There?s Room for Everyone Aboard a Marital Misery Tour 2011-04-06T03:00:05Z If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z If “1st Night” had a glint of social satire, it might have amounted to something more than a frivolous fatuity. Movie Review: ‘1st Night,’ Directed by Christopher Menaul 2013-05-02T22:20:16Z A critic, he told The Hedgehog Review in 2005, is “a very endangered species in a nation that wants indulgence more than a criticism that questions its fatuity.” Richard Schickel, Critic and Filmmaker, Dies at 84 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z He was delightful on Friday, even without having to rescue the rest of the performance from any depths of fatuity. Review: Plácido Domingo Reaches 50 Years at the Met Opera 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Oh, so many moments of mindless fatuity to choose from. The Apprentice 2011: the best and the worst of series seven 2011-07-15T13:56:00Z The review in The New York Times said that the young tenor “again and again lifted the performance out of the depths of fatuity into which it relentlessly lapsed.” Review: Plácido Domingo Reaches 50 Years at the Met Opera 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z I enjoy the Academy Awards for much the same reason I imagine most of you do: being able to make fun of the tedium, the clothes and the fatuity the day after the presentation. ?Next to Normal,? Drama Pulitzer Winner, Is in Some Way 2010-04-13T21:11:00Z He was a famous actor playing a regular guy who was acknowledging the fatuity of being a celebrity even as he was savoring its every moment. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z In the end, there is an overriding sense of the fatuity, rather than excitement, of espionage. Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z Cast and crew alike must act badly well, a task achieved with particular cringing charm by Mr. Hearn, who flashes his upper teeth as if they were a badge of fatuity. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Pattinson is only partly to blame for the fatuity of a character who even in the novel is really a generic male ingénue with no personality. | 'Water for Elephants': Love Triangle Sideshow, a Circus?s Main Attraction 2011-04-21T23:29:36Z She is clutching a staff wrapped in an azure ribbon, which somehow cements the fatuity of it. Perspective | Down the garden path: A new show tracks America’s love affair with plants 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z For some reason, however, Mr. Martins’s version has its Jester too, as terminally cute as any old-style Soviet performer and wearing a bathing cap of singular fatuity. Dance Review: Peter Martins?s ?Swan Lake? at New York City Ballet - Review 2011-09-14T22:29:22Z Despite the fatuity of the arguments being posited by the ESG critics, the investment industry is running scared. Column: The GOP's war on green investing is bad for the climate — and investors 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z His personal story was the stuff of presidents but when asked what he wanted for the country, he struggled - responding with vague fatuities and empty slogans. Veteran Republican leader Bob Dole dies 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Besides, she said, in another moment of utter fatuity, “Republicans are focused on the facts.” Opinion | Why Do Republicans Hate Cops? 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z Decades of of compounding fatuity have created a culture where leisure reading, according to several reports, is at an all time low. Independent of everything: Is America too dumb for democracy? 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z It’s not just being burdened with whatever fatuity the EU insists upon, there’s an extra effect from the euro itself. Euro Delenda Est 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It would be, well, a Comment, or an op-ed piece, with all the necessary fatuities of its kind. Four Kinds of Opinion Pieces I Will Not Read 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z You certainly are privileged,” she added, wrapping Sylvia in a damp mist of benign fatuity. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z It would be almost fatuity at such a moment to withdraw our garrison from Candahar.... The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z We are outgrowing a faith and veneration so utterly childlike as to be fatuity itself. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Foolish rises higher, and implies either a perversion of that faculty, or an absolute weakness or fatuity of mind; as, foolish enterprises. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z "I am the leader," answered a stout pompous Churchman, whose small malevolent eyes belied the sallow fatuity of his face. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z "I don't know," Sallie answered at random and since he seemed to expect some reply to that fatuity. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z I mention this to prove that presentiment is not a fatuity, but something mysterious in its actuality,—like love, like joy; perhaps a passion of 178 memory, that anticipates its treasures and delights to be. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z Then, as these thoughts ran through his head, he smiled at his own fatuity in taking Winifred's consent for granted in this summary fashion. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z I don't say it from fatuity and I may say it to you; and yet to be so is, I think, necessary for forming here many close relations. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Sannazaro, in his Arcadia, had indeed piped the tune to which Cervantes danced for many a day ere his own strong common sense showed him the fatuity of the models which he followed. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z In corroboration of this theory, that luck is an element, with its floods and ebbs, against which it is fatuity to contend, was the result of Richard Arden's play. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z But to argue in this manner is to indulge in a particularly egregious kind of fatuity. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z "Are you sure it was here you left it?" said Miss Bennett, with a fatuity of which I had not believed her capable. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z Something cognate to this in the comparison of the power and the greatness of a motive will explain the persistent fatuity of the Boer in protracting his contest with Great Britain. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z But the portents are all propitious—absit any ill consequence of this fatuity! The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z But with almost incredible fatuity, they adopted Greeley as their candidate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Therefore, it would be mere fatuity in any one to adduce free intercrossing as a "difficulty" against natural selection alone being competent to produce evolution of this kind. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection 2011-10-18T02:00:18.363Z While Isaac II. was in the midst of his Bulgarian war, and misconducting it with his usual fatuity, he was suddenly dethroned by a palace intrigue. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z But the aggressiveness of the South in the Kansas struggle opened his vision to the fatuity of gradual emancipation. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z We cannot do so cheaply, indeed, any more than the opposite course is found, under whatever fatuity of presumption, inexpensive and ready-made. Within the Rim and Other Essays 2011-09-16T02:00:22.793Z With a fatuity, of which military history furnishes too many examples, Courcelles despised all such counsels of prudence. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z Despite his own fatuity and caste prejudices, he rather leaned towards modern thought. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z "I will admit both, also," said Pauline, whose mood grew less and less tolerant of this self-poised fatuity. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z But it is a mixture of all these—a composite order of feminine fatuity, that produces the largest class of such novels, which we shall distinguish as the mind and millinery species. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z This was regarded as a reflection upon some excellent colleagues of mine, who thought it fatuity to allow an oath to stand in their way, and frustrate their career. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z At other times the indifference of our unspeakable fatuity rises in a dust cloud between us and them. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z If of a cynical turn you would, we trow, chuckle, as you went, over one more instance of human fatuity. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z And what insane fatuity should bring her here alone in the fast falling twilight? Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z They say his Bottom was a masterpiece of innocuous fatuity and conscientious blundering,—that crazy preoccupation of a workman, one sometimes encounters, with matters beyond the scope of his intelligence. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Then I realised the fatuity of the anti-Irish policy which drives the ablest Irishmen into exile and maintains a body of unappeasable enemies of England wherever they go. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Mr. Lang in the Gadshill edition of Dickens wrote: ‘Edwin and Neville are quarrelsome cubs, not come to discretion, and the fatuity of Edwin, though not exaggerated much, makes him extremely unsympathetic.’ The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z As never before he was impressed with the fatuity of his chivalric rashness. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z A strange fatuity it is that prompts such attempts to raise the veil which hides the future! Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z They ridiculed the wretched stage management of the day, the fatuity of the comedians of the old school, the tyranny of conventional routine,—everything connected with the stage. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The contributor has already lapsed from simple fatuity into fatuity compound with scurrility. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z And with that same smile of fatuity still lurking round his lips, he bowed himself out of the room. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z He went, slipping as it were unnoticeably away, with 'Good-bye' unemphasised, half ashamed, sandwiched between fatuities about the pipe and comments on the future. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z On the instant I realized my own fatuity and attempted to repair my error. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z He was an indefatigable worker and an outstanding example of the fatuity of Carlyle's definition of genius. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The officer, realizing his lapse of vigilance and the loss of his opportunity, was sharply conscious, too, of their appreciation of his fatuity. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z A slight expression of fatuity crept into the countenance of M. Bénédict. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z And he had been so mistaken in her, so deluded by his own fatuity, as to believe that any obstacle on her part was utterly out of the question. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Horrible possibilities have to be realized, and they can be realized only by experience; complacencies, fatuities have to be destroyed; we have to learn and relearn what Boon once called “the bitter need for honesty.” Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z He does so in the book on the pulse, mainly in order to show, as he thinks, the fatuity of such observations. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z To her eyes his face expressed the good-natured fatuity of the recently engaged man who rather likes to be joked about it—a being whom she despised. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z With such deplorable fatuity was Mexico misruled, and entangled in a double war upon the rights of her own people and against the United States. History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 Her smile was so charming in its very fatuity that the vision of her lovely face, vulgarized and unrecognizable in "Faith Conquers Fear," filled me with redoubled exasperation. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece In his dull fatuity he always imagined that he was the honey-gatherer of the domestic hive, and that Mrs. Kennyfeck had in her own person monopolized the functions of queen bee and wasp together. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) With singular fatuity Charles had taken no precautions in view of a violent outbreak. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Take this—the story is true—as a specimen of the fatuity of the Court. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) My interlocutress stared, and I had at this moment, I remember, an almost intolerable sense of her fatuity and cruelty. The Sacred Fount Another proof of fatuity of Government," said Parnell, who has come back in a brown billycock hat, "that they don't make more use of Gorst. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. I exclaimed with surprise—“it is the ne plus ultra, the climax of fatuity, the raving of a disordered imagination.” Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 It is an illustration of the fatuity which sometimes marks the lives of men that they did not perceive what seems perfectly clear and plain to others. Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment Despite his sudden infatuation, however, Hamish was a person of excellent good sense, and he soon saw the fatuity of this worship from afar. The Story of Old Fort Loudon I have also not the smallest doubt that this endurance or affronting of fearful images is partly associated with indecency, partly with general fatuity and weakness of mind. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) All that could be known of their fatuity she knew. The Return of the Prodigal In your thoughtless fatuity you are standing on a thin crust of ice, which may break under you ere you are aware of it, and let you in with a plunge. Weird Tales. Vol. I Equal in fatuity, almost 150 years later, were the several attempts at escape concerted on behalf of the French royal family. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Miss Livvy, you must be weary of their fatuities, and I have taken the liberty to order your chaise. Quality Street A Comedy Her lessons were not left off, lest the mind should sink into fatuity, but were made as easy as possible. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. This time it had something pathetic and appealing in it, as if she implored him to take no further notice of her father's fatuity. The Return of the Prodigal They appeared in a state of fatuity, the almost inevitable consequence of the treatment to which they were exposed. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles Yet, if you take away selfishness from a chicken's moral make-up, and fatuity from his intellectual, you have a very charming little creature left. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 And the force of fatuity in the case of Almayer—a book which has for me the bloom of youth. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Mr. Adams, in his brilliant verses entitled "Gentlemen, Please Desist", exposes in a masterly way the fatuity of our loud-mouthed peace workers. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 You couldn't conceive the futility, the fatuity, the vanity—it was a disease with him. The Return of the Prodigal This, like everything else, will be judged by the event—desperate fatuity if it fails, splendid energy and accurate calculation of opposite moral forces if it succeeds. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II The sheriff, not being deeper than another man, saw the fatuity of his labor. The Bondboy With the fatuity incidental on occasions to even the shrewdest minds, he had not counted upon independence in the host which he believed slave to him, in thought and word and deed. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel With strange fatuity the French employed another device to destroy the fleet of the invaders and carry terror into their ranks. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France He now publishes in the Methodist Times his latest piece of recklessness or fatuity. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) But with a fatuity and obstinacy which has always characterized her, the mother country resolved to ignore all causes of discontent, and their significant influence as manifested by the people of the island. Due South or Cuba Past and Present He protested so far as a man might without fatuity, since a protest was itself credulous; but Kate, as ever, understood herself. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II One thing was clear to everybody there but Urquhart in his present fatuity: Lucy was thriving. Love and Lucy The long impunity enjoyed by this desperado has made him daring to fatuity. Hidden Hand Yesterday she was even amused at the strangeness and the fatuity of it all. Audrey Craven Beneath all flaws, fatuities, and failings, this, I solemnly believe, is the country of the great-hearted. Another Sheaf "Everything" was rather too much for him to take up gravely, and he modestly let it alone, speaking the next moment, to avert fatuity, of a different but a related matter. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II You have opened my eyes to my own fatuity. Love and Lucy Disastrous fatuity is a good phrase, an excellent good phrase, in sooth. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Wyndham was surprised at his own fatuity; his remarks sounded like the weird inanities that pass for witticisms in dreams. Audrey Craven She did not feel any longer the antipathy she once felt to the spot that had, in one devastating moment, revealed to her the fatuity of her dreams. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Milly asked, observing in this, as she thought, a fine, though, for such a man, a surprisingly artless, fatuity. The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 There will be a revolt one of these days against the fatuity of this eternal filling up of forms for no conceivable purpose. War Letters of a Public-School Boy The Freeman exists to show to what lengths human fatuity can go. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The most elementary knowledge of life would have saved you all this: if you'd had it, you could not have let these fatuities worry you to this extent. Audrey Craven It may appear as a coldly intellectual interest in some who are wont to deal with the tragedies of life as mildly amusing scenes in a drama of endless fatuity. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war He seldom brushes his wings against the dust or lingers among the humble flowers close to the dust: he does not follow the masters in their entertaining trivialities and fatuities. The Book of Khalid Poor, miserable, and most pitiful fatuity which, while intending to mock, actually did him honor. Pius IX. And His Time Irritability gives place to fatuity; there is less manifestation of temper, but more weakness of mind. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. From most silly novels we can at least extract a laugh; but those of the modern-antique school have a ponderous, a leaden kind of fatuity, under which we groan. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete What would be thought of the moral conduct of the parent who should voluntarily transmit disease, or fatuity, or deformity to his offspring? Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject For at bottom, atheism is either a fad or a trade or a fatuity. The Book of Khalid Now no doubt there was something of Edmond de Goncourt's bad-blooded fatuity in his claim that his and his brother's epithets were "personal," while Flaubert's were not. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Surely if anything can equal the fatuity of the hypothesis that nonentity can bring forth, or that a thing can produce itself, it is a serious attempt to refute it. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory But it is a mixture of all these—a composite order of feminine fatuity—that produces the largest class of such novels, which we shall distinguish as the mind-and-millinery species. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete But the fatuity of their union was evident to them, and they parted. The World I Live In Even his hair, a fantastic fatuity behind a push-cart, he did not take the trouble to cut or trim. The Book of Khalid There probably never was in the world a case of such blind fatuity as that of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in building and maintaining its dam. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Indeed, at a modern railway station, as of old at117 the city gates, the fatuity of human aspirations may be studied advantageously. The Orchard of Tears But it is easier to exist on melodrama, fatuity and sport. Appearances Being Notes of Travel One is the blindness or fatuity in Lear, which makes him give away his strength and cast out Cordelia. William Shakespeare But when Jarzé next made his appearance in her cabinet, she rated him roundly before the whole Court upon his absurd fatuity, and forbade him ever to enter her presence again. Political Women, Vol. 1 He saw the glance, saw the fleeting questioning light in her eyes, and with the fatuity bred of love-blindness, misread it. The Rider of Waroona Why Eleanor, if she wished to throw herself away, should pitch upon the South Seas for the place of her retirement, was a piece of the same mysterious fatuity which marked the whole proceeding. The Old Helmet, Volume II His father, with a strange fatuity, left him to superintend sundry alterations in his house at Heimersleben, arranging for him meanwhile to read classics with the resident clergyman, Rev. Dr. Nagel. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God What awful cheek!' and he laughed again at the fatuity of the female creature. The Convert But with all my knowledge of the "System's" weakness, I never dreamed of the condition of fatuity into which the past few years of unbridled "frenzied finance" have plunged its votaries. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated The guilty and the guiltless are indicated anew, with fresh incidents; especially the fatuity of the Suitors is set forth in a variety of ways. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary What stupid nonsense must the Beauty Endure in her diurnal duty— Buzzings and whispers from the stores Of the fatuities of bores! Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) With blind fatuity he took the wrong side in the controversy; and even then by the exercise of patience might have overcome the effects of his folly. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America For the first time Miss Levering bent her head forward slightly as though to see how far he was conscious of the fatuity of his climax. The Convert Forget the dust of the arena—the prolixity of counsel—the involuntary fatuity of things in general. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea Thus was it that British subsidies were flung away into the limbo strewn with tokens of Hapsburg fatuity. William Pitt and the Great War To be rich and miserly is in itself a form of fatuity; but Harpagon is not only miserly but amorous, as far as a ruling passion will admit one of subordinate influence. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. The others hear of the joke and all decide to punish him thoroughly for his fatuity. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Garrett again got on his trail, and as the Kid, with incredible fatuity, still hung around his old haunts, he was at length able to close with him once more. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado “Well, it’s done now,” said Walter, already beginning to soften, and to repent of his fatuity. St. Winifred's, or The World of School To this height of self-denial Fox rarely rose; and the judgement alike of his fellows and of posterity has pronounced this speech a masterpiece of partisan invective and of political fatuity. William Pitt and the Great War The fatuity and vanity of all dandies are features for the etholog; the follies of the dandy of a period belong to the biolog. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals And he knew that the fatuity of it all had begun at last to terrify her. The Root of Evil Yet still, for some little time longer, she, with a deplorable fatuity, believed in and loved him. Cruel As The Grave And much as I relish collecting telling examples of the fatuity of the Creator—she, voiceless, would offer a supreme one—I would spare her that, poor dear. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance In this second edition of Van Twiller's fatuity, his case was even worse than before. Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski Happily, death, or entire fatuity, at length puts an end to such scenes of ignoble misery; which, however, ignoble as they are, we ought to view with pity rather than contempt. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works We are so self-satisfied with our own customs, that we hold up our hands with surprise at the fatuity of men who presume to point out to us their defects. Orley Farm If he had seriously thought his daughter capable of supporting the r�le he had assigned her, had there ever been a like case of parental fatuity? A Positive Romance 1898 General Westley had brought him up and presented him, and he remained chatting with Cornelia, apparently in the fatuity that if he talked trivially to her he would be the same as a young man. The Coast of Bohemia One feature of the message would have convinced the Tyro, had he seen it, of the fatuity of fatherhood. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage So Lucille sang from musical height to height and her husband sped from depth to depth in the seas of human fatuity. Witch-Doctors I could see that from this moment he would be filled with a passionate pity ever so little qualified by a sense of the girl's fatuity and folly. Embarrassments Isabel lived now so vividly in his mind that trifles he had not thought of in their meetings became of tremendous importance; foolish things, lover's fatuities. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! It is by such acts of fatuity as your careful preservation of these proofs of identity," came in ironic tones, "that all rogues are bowled out, Jacobsen! The Sins of Séverac Bablon "I shan't be tempted to steal yours for my private use," said Anstice a trifle grimly; and the Fates who rule the lives of men probably smiled to themselves over the fatuity of mankind. Afterwards For sheer fatuity it was the absolute limit. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 Barry hated himself for his fatuity as he put the question. The Making of a Soul And I believe that there is no period of our literature which, when studied, will do more to prevent or correct such fatuity than this very period of Early Middle English. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) As for me, I began to meditate on human weakness and fatuity, and then I went to sleep also. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories So much in earnest was the speaker that he did not realize the fatuity of his words till they were out of his mouth. Afterwards In fact, it is "the backwoods," the listlessness of the backwoods, which, like the opposite extreme, the fatuity and blasé life of a great metropolis, causes men to rush into insane extremes to avoid reflection. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 He had nearly refused the order, in his feverish fatigue and his disgust, but some remnant of sagacity had asserted itself in him and saved him from this fatuity. Clayhanger But they need not smile at his fatuity! Browning's Heroines Purpose without power is mere weakness and deception; and power without purpose is mere fatuity. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources With carelessness that amounted to fatuity there seemed to be no watch kept on board the ships, and there were no lights visible. Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru With singular fatuity none of the officers or seamen were armed, although the ship was well provided with weapons. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure The indulgent fairy kindly agreed to put things right, but only under penalty of an improving homily on contentment with one's lot and the fatuity of asking for what you do not really want. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Our current hypotheses about Mahomet, that he was a scheming Impostor, a Falsehood incarnate, that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins really to be now untenable to any one. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History And all the time she knew very well that it was not the Archdeacon and his fatuities that were really at fault. Marriage à la mode He had none of that wish to appear deep which is at the bottom of most forms of fatuity; he was perfectly willing to pass for decently superficial; he only aspired to be decently continuous. The Tragic Muse "Oh, the fatuity of the man!" he jeered. The Lady Paramount Whatever treatment the case demanded, should have been prompt; to wait was fatuity. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government My darling insists that the sweep shall overhaul the house annually, while I cling, with what she is pleased to call masculine fatuity, to the theory that soot, like sleeping dogs, should be let alone. The Opinions of a Philosopher An instant agone she was biting her pretty red lips for letting the word escape her, but his fatuity gave her all the advantage in spite of herself. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila Then came worrying retorts to that, chief among which was the sense that to his artistic conscience arresting her development would be a plan combining on his part fatuity, not to say imbecility, with baseness. The Tragic Muse What he saw thereafter was accompanied by the click of cameras and the fatuity of local bigwigs brimming with eagerness to tie their fortunes to the car of the coming man. The Henchman It would be monstrous fatuity to question it, utter blindness not to see it. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Rabelais was now called "a Lucian who by his diabolic fatuity had profaned the gospel, that holy and sacred pledge of life eternal." The Age of the Reformation Such, however, my Lord, is the fatuity of your own conduct as to the religion of Christ. Early Reviews of English Poets "Oh, you needn't fear; you shan't lose me," the girl replied with charming gross fatuity. The Tragic Muse And she stretched out her hand, which he kissed with pleasure, ceremony and fatuity. A Mummer's Tale It was a fanciful and almost sympathetic satire on the selfish fatuity of the noble, wealthy, and governing orders of British society. Studies in Early Victorian Literature And when I've been made happy, I never have cared a brass farthing who knew it; I Thank my stars I'm as free from mock-modesty, friend, as from vulgar fatuity. The Heptalogia The girl was almost sorry for the man: his fatness, his fatuity appealed to her pity. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs You dismiss me as unworthy of your presence, and, acknowledging the justice of your decree, I sincerely deplore the fatuity that prompted the offence. Infelice I only pitied the fatuity of the authorities for being grateful. Masques & Phases O the fools, the fools, who wean their children from it to stuff them with self-sufficiency, fatuity, and hunger! Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence It is also so difficult that not to take the line of least resistance is fatuity. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Joe Longstaffe was by common consent a Christian man, and not of that too general kind which excuses its foolishness and fatuity on the ground of its religion. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs It was so plainly a man's house, so clearly a place of tradition, that her pert modern speech seemed for one moment a fatuity. The Half-Hearted In the verse of our second poet, Milton—so great that before his name the word "second" rings false as the giggle of fatuity—the ideas are frequently shallow and the facts generally false. Art It was so easy not to stay away!In this second edition of Van Twiller's fatuity, his case was even worse than before. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 But for this fatuity, there would probably have been no such feeling of vindictiveness at the North as soon developed there; certainly there would have been no excuse for such severity as was afterwards exhibited. American Men of Action Who has not suffered from the male amateur, who comes forward with bashful fatuity to favour the company with a strain tame and inaudible as a nervous school girl's? Bluebell A Novel When, with the fatuity of those whom the gods have doomed to perish, Pius IX. took the representative of the fallen Guizot policy for his minister, he made him a Roman citizen. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe The libretto certainly compares favourably with the fatuities of 'Robert le Diable.' The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. In that respect he was a boaster, and, as the event has proved, exhibited mere fatuity in matters of espionnage. Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. He produced works of genius, and the public regarded them with scorn: he aimed at excellence that should be his own, and his friends treated his efforts as the wanderings of fatuity. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution "Either you understand nothing about women, or you are guilty of gross fatuity." The Grey Cloak Their conduct to those who did not understand this, resembled insanity or fatuity more than anything else. The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three There is a lively fatuity about him that is uniformly a symptom of imbecility. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Then in the outer spaces of her mind there grew, to save her, a sense of her crass fatuity. The Seeker “I am the leader,” answered a stout pompous Churchman, whose small malevolent eyes belied the sallow fatuity of his face. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Tom, however, amidst the melancholy fatuity under which he labored, never forgot that he had an account to settle with Skinadre. The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three The long years of steady production drained that most noble flood of knowledge and skill until we reached the obvious fatuity of "Count Robert" and the imbecilities of "Castle Dangerous." Side Lights But with that fatuity which often ruins the plans of "mice and men," he had failed to inform even his subordinate Falto of the likelihood of Agias arriving from Rome. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. The young girls learn to know the young men, the fatuity, and the indiscretion that follows it, become quickly odious, in a word they learn how to choose a husband. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales In the old days men preached a furious denial of self that led to the fatuity of an asceticism such as that of St Simon Stylites. H. G. Wells On another spot he writes: "correct your blunders that occur through your fatuity, presumption, ignorance and foolishness." Beethoven The French at Newport were no longer the frivolous race, presumptuous, noisy, full of fatuity, they were reputed to be. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 At this acute instance of fatuity Geoffrey, if he had followed his impulse, would have flung McVay back in the closet and locked the door. The Burglar and the Blizzard A Christmas Story James, with the constitutional fatuity of the Stuarts, had lost his opportunity. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 But the Egyptian, with mental faculties unrotted by creedal fatuities like our own, would not so feed 'of the chameleon's dish,'—needed something more than words, words, and words. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 It was the fatuity of Louis XV. and his Pompadour that made the conquest of Canada possible. Montcalm and Wolfe He thinks that you have reached the point of fatuity at which you can be made to believe even this—as if your citizen were the deity of persuasion instead of a pettifogging mortal! The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Where it carried Coryndon no one could guess, but it carried Hartley into a very rose-garden of sentimental fatuity, and when the music stopped he gave a deep grunting sigh of content. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery It is necessary to have attained to a reasonably advanced age to be able to recognise pathos in the fatuities that so frequently form a feature of love's young dream. Mount Music All this, of course, is merely the exoteric account; but it shows at least that—the Chinese never fell into such fatuity as we of the West, with our creation six trumpery millenniums ago. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Our current hypothesis about Mohammed, that he was a scheming impostor, a falsehood incarnate, that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins really to be no longer tenable to any one. An English Grammar He felt he had made a fool of himself, he was ashamed to think of the fatuity of which he had been guilty, such boiling hatred was not only wicked, but absurd. The Hill of Dreams Years back some Government person in a moment of fatuity made Granby a magistrate. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 3, 1917 A flotilla of geese and ducks paraded, in stately fatuity, to and fro across the mirror. Mount Music But their flashes suddenly splintered into less threatening lights as she realized the fatuity of this personal allusion. The Last Shot Interminable dreams pursued him, in which the scene in Marmion quad, his last walk with Constance along the Cherwell, and the family crash, were all intermingled, with the fatuity natural to dreams. Lady Connie The fond fatuity with which he had welcomed that starry-eyed little creature had been rudely overthrown. The Fortieth Door There are too many plain people who are always rediscovering human nature—its turpitudes, fatuities, unreason. The Plain Man and His Wife To save ourselves from absurdity, and still more to save our painters from inspissating that trickle of fatuity which wells from heads swollen with hot air, critics should set themselves to check this nasty malady. Since Cézanne There are depths of fatuity in me, friend o' my soul, that are simply bottomless! The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians "And you set out five thousand dollars right where I kinn see it," said Scattergood, with anxious fatuity. Scattergood Baines The weight of her own foolishness, fatuity, silliness, and ignorance was heavy upon her. Tales of the Five Towns If she was not entirely successful in the last feat, she was fairly equal to the rest, so that in allowing himself to be misled Conquest could scarcely be charged with fatuity. The Wild Olive Occasionally there grins through his design, and ever so little disfigures it, a touch of fatuity. Since Cézanne To call children: my children! what disgusting fatuity! The Cross of Berny There is enough in this record to explain the popularity, running at times into hero-worship and at times into drawing-room fatuity, which makes Stevenson and his work a fair subject for study. Emerson and Other Essays Otherwise it is sheer fatuity, or an impotent explosion of literary spite. Essays Æsthetical Our current hypothesis about Mohammed, that he was a scheming Impostor, a Falsehood incarnate, that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins really to be now untenable to any one. Sacred Books of the East He continued to hold my hand with an almost painful pressure, while, as if unconsciously, seeming to forget my presence, he muttered, "Strange, strange, strange, indeed! fatuity, helpless fatuity!" there was here a long pause. Two Ghostly Mysteries A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin Then—and here was the cruel fatuity of the whole proceeding—the mother began to wail and exclaim to the effect that it was just what she expected. Quit Your Worrying! The invalid can cure himself by teaching his brain the habit of dwelling upon his extreme fatuity. The Human Machine The result was an utter fiasco, fully justifying the President's opinion of the fatuity of the whole business. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II The mutilated victims of the egotism and the fatuity of kings were imprisoned there together under the rules and regulations of charity, the cruellest of all rules and regulations. The Roll-Call The explanation of the feeble abandonment of Boston lies in the stupidity of the English government, which had sown the wind and then proceeded to handle the customary crop with equal fatuity. George Washington, Volume I He reflected forgivingly that Rose Euclid and her friends had perhaps not displayed an abnormal fatuity in discussing the name of the theatre before they had got the lease of the site for it. The Regent He was glad now that his luck had not left him to find Severino for himself; the sense of fatuity would have been even keener than it was. The Shadow of the Rope In Voltaire's version, the climax of the speech is reached in the following passage; it is an excellent sample of the fatuity of the whole of his concocted rigmarole:— ANTOINE: Brutus ... où suis-je? Books and Characters French and English Because of this, and because his very fatuity makes us smile, I feel that he deserves forgiveness and even a certain amount of recognition. Castles in the Air Mr. Buckle generalizes with marvellous facility, but often with an infatuation, or even fatuity, equally marvellous. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 Upon the countenance of his wife rested a placidity sinking almost into fatuity. Paul Faber, Surgeon His pathos, as is the case with all weak writers, constantly trembles on the verge of bathos, while his lack of humour betrays him into penning passages of elaborate fatuity. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England The extreme fatuity which it would compel us to attribute to the schoolmaster seems inconsistent with the power of detecting intellectual capacity in any one else. Sterne "That," he replied, taking refuge in fatuity, "is the laundry mark." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919 Who can believe that such fatuity can have entered into our mind? A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 Miro was a man of some ability, and Martin Navarro, the Spanish Intendant of Louisiana, possessed more; but they served a government almost imbecile in its fatuity. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 With blind fatuity their leaders, the missionaries, refused to see the impending doom; and the poor, simple Indians clung to their homes till destroyed. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 It is not the repartees of Benedick and Beatrice, but the immortal fatuity of Dogberry, that the name of Much Ado About Nothing recalls. Sterne He was not quite sure whether that was a clever saying or a fatuity until his hearers took it seriously. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Aguecheek is drawn with great propriety, but his character is, in a great measure, that of natural fatuity, and is, therefore, not the proper prey of a satirist. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces It is a case of confirmed fatuity I believe. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 The fatuity of the man who feels himself ridiculous and is determined to raise himself in the eyes of his admirers, excited him, filling him with a cynical rashness. The Torrent Entre Naranjos The Elizabethans understood human nature, and made glorious comedies and tragedies out of its inordinate crimes and cruelties, and its pathetic follies and fatuities. Confessions of a Young Man I would teach you some truths that you have never learned," he persisted, "the fatuity of mere bravado, the uses of life. Madcap Suppose that, with the fatuity which generally leads human beings to keep compromising documents, her aunt had preserved these papers? The Marrow of Tradition The Duchess had no daughter, and was devoted to her with the blind fatuity with which ladies of rank at times will invest themselves in a caprice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator "So Festus thought of Paul," returned my poor comrade, with hopeless fatuity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 And it is desirable to prove by definitions that this conduct of his ought not to be called imprudence, or accident, or necessity, but indolence, indifference, or fatuity. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 I will leave him to meditate on the incredible fatuity—the hare-brained recklessness—which have brought him to this pass. The Story of the Treasure Seekers They do not for the most part answer a plain question in a manner to make you wonder at their fatuity. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author The archdeacon was pacing the room, expressing, by certain nods of his head, his opinion of the utter fatuity of his father-in-law. The Warden They are laughing at the inconceivable fatuity which induces those whom they once dreaded to destroy themselves and their own labours. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society This the Democratic administration would have based, with almost equal fatuity, upon the silver product. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 It was, in fact, that which, with a secret fatuity, he had watched Mrs. Thorley Rushworth play toward a fond and unperceiving husband: a smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie. The Age of Innocence See Basilicon Doron—a prodigy of royal fatuity—but the perfect 'exponent' of the characteristics of the Stuart royal race in England. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) The archdeacon only sighed as each separate wail was uttered, and shook his head, signifying that the fatuity of some people was past belief. The Warden He continued to hold my hand with an almost painful pressure, while, as if unconsciously, seeming to forget my presence, he muttered: 'Strange, strange, strange, indeed! fatuity, helpless fatuity!' there was here a long pause. The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 This paretic fatuity now had possession of James; in imagination he was crowning and draping himself with multi-millions, power and fame. The Cost I undoubtedly impressed my own sense of its fatuity on every audience to which I gave it. How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Was there ever in history or romance a parallel to such fatuity as his? The Grain of Dust His books are full of brilliant talk—talk real and convincing enough in its purport and setting, but purged of the languors and fatuities of actual commonplace conversation. Robert Louis Stevenson A novel sense of loneliness,—of the fatuity of present existence,—weighed grievously upon him. The Market-Place This would have been fatuity if the optimism it expressed had not been much more a hope than a prejudice. The Europeans This might be profound insight, and it might be profound fatuity. Roderick Hudson One of their principal tribes, the Tamaroas, more credulous than the rest, had the fatuity to remain near the mouth of the Illinois, where they were speedily assailed by all the force of the Iroquois. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 They rise to Alpine heights of pure wisdom and power, leaving him to flounder ignobly in the mire of his own fatuity. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation He muttered the phrases lightly enough, but a certain fatuity in them seemed to attract his attention when he heard their sound. The Market-Place What depths of fatuity he must have sunk to before he could have come to that! Mr. Waddington of Wyck The fatuity of vicious and coroneted youth outstripped his discretion. Viviette He was perfectly aware all the time of the fatuity of what she was saying. Sir George Tressady — Volume I He half-raised his hands, as if to imply the fatuity of the question. Twilight in Italy Or, if curse I do, it shall be at my own fatuity. Anna St. Ives Mr. Waddington's face positively swelled with the choleric flush that swamped its genial fatuity. Mr. Waddington of Wyck Your picture of idiocy, with the sugar-loaf head, is exquisite; but are you not too severe upon our more favoured brethren in fatuity? The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 The immediate object of this policy was to make slave States of Kansas and Nebraska, two great territories which were ready for admission into the fatuity of the Union. The Nation in a Nutshell She showed an unaffected pleasure in his society; a pleasure so obviously founded on their common veneration of Rendle, that the young man could enjoy it without fear of fatuity. The Greater Inclination She has the fatuity to mimic the perfect heroine! Anna St. Ives Ida smiled a wan smile, and pretended to be interested in Bessie's parochial anecdotes—the idiosyncrasies of the new curate, the fatuity of every young woman in the parish in running after him. The Golden Calf Educated in the school of DORAT, he possesses his redundance and grace, without his fatuity. Paris as It Was and as It Is Of whom one, feeling the fatuity of slaying the slain, or having, it may be, some lurking seed of nominalism fomenting within, beat off the others and unstrapped the victim's arms and legs. The Forest Lovers Thus, by a strange fatuity, the viper that could, and frequently did, inflict the most deadly sting on the bosom of confiding credulity, was pampered and nourished by the unsuspecting hand of its destined victim. The System of Nature, Volume 2 Yet with all his affectations and fatuities, Pliny compels respect, and even a measure of admiration, by the real goodness of his character. Latin Literature The answers were little connected and unintelligible, sometimes seeming to exhibit the finest subtlety of savage cunning, and at others to possess the mental helplessness of appearing the most abject fatuity. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish An exclusively moral education tends to fatuity by the over-excitement of the sensibilities. The Elements of Character News of the possible catastrophe passed from mouth to mouth; a world outside, waiting aghast at such fatuity, began to get in its messages. The Sign at Six The gas was lit and sizzled overhead with a noise as though it commented ironically on the fatuity of the human beings beneath it. The Cathedral I doubt not but that many were inspired by spirits congenial with themselves, and consequently some of the songs evinced a fatuity and simplicity peculiar to the instrument. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation At its side, the imaginary Nipset still held his place menacing discontent betraying itself through the ordinary dull fatuity of his countenance. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish The idea and plan of a great rural civilization must shine like a burning lamp in the imagination of the youth of Ireland, or we shall only be at cross-purposes and end in little fatuities. Imaginations and Reveries She knew that mind too well and had watched it, of late, receiving with wondering admiration from her daughter's lips, echoes of her husband's fatuities. A Fountain Sealed Sir Charles laughed at this with paternal fatuity, especially as the boy's name happened to be Reginald Francis, after his grandfather. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day His was an instance of how the fatuities of men in all the fields of science, faith or morals, have often led to results as extraordinary as they have been unexpected. Steam, Steel and Electricity Ague—cheek is drawn with great propriety, but his character is, in a great measure, that of natural fatuity, and is therefore not the proper prey of a satirist. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies There's a fatuity in our talking as if we could make grand terms. The Reverberator They quote with a certain fatuity the eulogy of Montesquieu, who says it is the only book they have; "a proposition" which Navarrete considers "inexact," and we agree with Navarrete. Castilian Days It is the difficulty produced by the loose foundation or the vague scheme that breaks the heart—when a luckless fatuity has over-persuaded an author of the "saving" virtue of treatment. The Awkward Age Within a month he had the impertinent fatuity to lay before his superior a paper suggesting the policy, and moving that the President might commit to him, the secretary, the carrying out of that policy! The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form What more convincing proof could be asked that the world had morally and intellectually outgrown the old economic order than the detestation and denunciation of its cruelties and fatuities which had become the universal voice? Equality We listlessly allow ourselves to be bullied by publishers' advertisements into reading the latest fatuity in fiction, without, in one case out of twenty, finding any of that pleasure we are ostensibly seeking. The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater fatuity of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The History of the Peloponnesian War I suppose his fatuity was not incompatible with tragedy, though somehow we think that absurd people are not the stuff of serious experience. London Films He knew also the exceeding fatuity of art criticism, which did not cause him even to smile, being simply a bore. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days They resorted to even lower tricks than accusations of tyranny, and found in the fatuity or dishonesty of Drusus a tool even more effective than Nasica's brutality. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History Yes; I am ready to pay the price of my fatuity--but not until they had paid me for their victory--and dearly. Red Masquerade I had the hope that he was about to explain to the public the more general use of this instrument,—which, with a stupid fatuity, the public has, as yet, failed to grasp. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 I remember that the folly, the fatuity of what we had done, oppressed me like an iron band around the skull. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch There is something almost amiable in fatuity like this. England and the War To have been, through long uneventful unmental years, a peace-time soldier puts the imagination in jeopardy and is apt to breed a self-centred fatuity, which the inexperienced may easily mistake for deliberate naughtiness. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement All of us who detested the Hohenzollern dynasty and the insolent fatuity of William II loved France, heir of the bourgeois revolution and champion of democracy. Peaceless Europe Colonel Musgrave continued to emanate an air of contentment which fell perilously short of fatuity; and that Patricia was honestly fond of him was evident to the most impecunious of Lichfield's bachelors. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations We cannot too deeply deplore their fatuity, in giving prominence to such abstractions. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 The state of fatuity and wretchedness to which those individuals have been reduced, who have been subjected for years to incarceration in dark dungeons, may be referred to the same deprivation.— Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics It is fatuity, it is imbecility, to deny it. Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People "These ingenuous young men, with the fatuity of gifted people," says Mr. Howells, "had established a literary newspaper in San Francisco, and they brilliantly co-operated in its early extinction." Mark Twain Mr. Wells did not appear to know that he was bridging a horrible conflict in terms with a pretty fatuity. Nonsenseorship One finds one's self at last—without fatuity, I hope— feeling sorry for the solitude of the remaining faithful. Italian Hours I speak not merely of obscurities, to perpetrate which is in every sense to stand in one's own light, but of sheer fatuities, tweakings-of-the-nose to our reverend mother-tongue, as either might have expressed it. Without Prejudice With masculine fatuity he let himself believe—before she went away —that a man can get more work done with his goddess afar than when Cupid has a desk in his office. The Perils of Pauline The fatuity which leads to self-destruction was fixed upon them; and, with a feeling rather of commiseration than anger, I prepared to leave the house. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story The operation is so easy, so natural, and so necessary, that it looks like fatuity to neglect the golden months of the fall of 1861. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance When carrying out instructions which I knew should not have been given, I never scrupled to point out the fatuity of the improper order in the strongest language that I could decently employ. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope You would not be warned—you held on your way without hesitation or compunction, and now you would add to sin fatuity. At Last With the fatuity of a self-indulgent nature he remembered its immediate relief from pain, and forgot the anguish it had caused. Without a Home And Peel-Swynnerton, while scorning the man for his fatuity, was impressed. The Old Wives' Tale Each was profoundly hurt by the accusations, and each, in the immense fatuity of his pride, had privately sworn to prove his innocence by having nothing more to do with Annie. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns This was typical of the astonishing fatuity which marked their comments. Angel Island The idea has only to be stated to show its fatuity. The Upton Letters The hollowness of life, the fatuity of your hopes, the treachery of that human nature of which you speak so tenderly and reverently. St. Elmo He was himself a merciless critic of fatuity; he had a faculty of shrewd observation, plenty of caustic common sense. The Crown of Life She turned sick at the thought of her fatuity and of the grossness of his arts. Tales of Men and Ghosts The bankruptcy, the proven fatuity, of everything that is bound up under the name of Western civilization. South Wind His quick assumption that Agnes was at his disposal if he chose to woo her had been mere fatuity; he misread her perfect simplicity of demeanour, the unconstraint of her intellectual sympathies. The Odd Women One could not accuse them of positive faults, for they had no positive qualities, unless it were here and there a leaning to physical fatuity. A Life's Morning He smiled to himself, a smile of singular fatuity, and began to hum a popular tune. In the Year of Jubilee He saw himself as the victim of sudden fatuity, own brother to the longest-eared of fashion's worshippers. Our Friend the Charlatan He smiled urbanely over the reports of Quarrier's speeches, called his adversary "a sharp lad," and continued through all the excitement of the borough to conduct himself with this amiable fatuity. Denzil Quarrier "Especially among New Yorkers, the most progressive and independent citizens of any country in the world," I continued, with the fatuity of the provincial who has eaten the Broadway lotus. Rolling Stones Can absurdity be more absurd, fatuity more fatuous? The Life of Cesare Borgia Even in her torment, Nancy marvelled at this revelation of fatuity. In the Year of Jubilee The future Mrs Moffat did feel aggrieved by the fatuity of the young heir, and, consequently, took upon herself to look as much like her Aunt de Courcy as she could do. Doctor Thorne As an active politician in the narrow sense, he should have been sagacious and astute, yet he displayed at the crisis of his life the most absolute fatuity. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North The girl moreover was not prone to take for granted that she herself lived in the mind of others—she had not the fatuity to believe she left indelible traces. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 To offer judgment in despite of that is to commit a fatuity, which too often already has been committed. The Life of Cesare Borgia In an instant the idiotic fatuity of his position struck him fully. A First Family of Tasajara In professing to depict Snobs, it is only your own ugly mug which you are copying with a Narcissus-like conceit and fatuity.' The Book of Snobs In other words, club life for him, and dulness and fatuity for me.” A House-Boat on the Styx Upon my word," said he, in his tone of intrepid fatuity, "here is a charming creature! Notre-Dame De Paris This conviction was strengthened by his vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity. Crime and Punishment Except," said Jack hurriedly, miscomprehending the emphasis with masculine fatuity,—"except the dying man for whom she lived and sacrificed her whole life. Tales of Trail and Town With even greater fatuity came the determination to publish the prophet's "revelations" in the form of the "Book of Commandments." The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 The follies which Moliere ridicules are those of affection, not those of fatuity. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Titular King of Men; but much bewildered into mere indolent fatuity, inane solemnity, high sniffing pride grounded on nothing at all; a Kaiser much sunk in the sediments of his muddy Epoch. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 Then, as they walked among the tombs, he went on to explain to him with a certain pedantic fatuity, that in France bribes played as important a part as in the East. The Nabob His father was in the smoking-room, standing enormously in front of the fire, and for the first time the sense of his colossal fatuity struck Michael. Michael There are depths of fatuity in me, friend o' my soul, which are simply bottomless! The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American Looked at in one way each breadth stands alone, the bloated curves and flourishes—a kind of "debased Romanesque" with delirium tremens—go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity. The Yellow Wallpaper As for what he looks like, I could entertain you at length upon the fashion in which nature has designed his gross fatuity. Scaramouche "Yes, yes, I understand," replied the other with an adorable fatuity. The Nabob The ladies spoke of it with pride, delicacy, and mystery, the men with discretion and fatuity; everyone took an interest in the conversation, for each one was interested in what he or she said. Penguin Island In the month after I returned from France and Italy, no less than four of these fatuities were exploded and destroyed within thirty miles of my Essex home.... War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war When they pass, their horses at full trot, their carriage raising a cloud of dust, insolent, impudent, swelled with the vulgar fatuity of wealth, people bow to the ground, and say, ‘Those are smart fellows!’ Other People's Money Would they sink into a slough of complacency and fatuity? The Pivot of Civilization Madame Trebassof looked at Rouletabile, who turned as red as the comb of a rooster and was rather embarrassed at his fatuity. The Secret of the Night Willoughby's obstinate fatuity deserved the blow!—But neither she nor her father deserved the scandal. The Egoist Such obstinacy as this can only be called fatuity. The Unseen World and Other Essays After all, it is as idle to rage against man’s fatuity as to hope that he will ever be less a fool. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Martial, your fatuity cries out for a lesson. Domestic Peace The Hohenzollern common sense in him must have been for years vexed at the folly and fatuity of Spanish policy. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 But in so far as it sits making the Constitution, on the other hand, it is a fatuity and chimera mainly. The French Revolution And all unseen by you a host of heaven-sent fatuities swathes him about, even, maybe, as they swathe you about. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll With my usual fatuity I doubted it; now I am convinced. The Three Musketeers "That was my daughter," he said, with a kind of pride in his voice, and the rest chose to consider this as the fatuity of an old man who wishes to save appearances. Father Goriot Weeping is common in the insane, even after a complete state of fatuity has been reached and the power of speech lost. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Arms shall either be provided; or else the ingenuity of man crack itself, and become fatuity. The French Revolution I could see by what a stretch his passionate pity would from this moment overlook the girl’s fatuity and folly. Glasses Our current hypothesis about Mahomet, that he was a scheming Impostor, a Falsehood incarnate, that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins really to be now untenable to any one. On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History He had about him all the entertaining fatuity of a young leading gentleman whose love affairs prosper, and he rolled around the most swaggering glances, which excited shrill feminine laughter in the boxes. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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