| 单词 | fatuous |
| 例句 | Her expression of duplicity was balanced by the fatuous confidence with which the Unicom regarded her. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Though men’s magazines often suffer from worse sorts of idiocies having to do with violence and assassins for hire, they rarely have these fatuous quizzes in them. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As she walked about the yellowing hillsides or worked at easy tasks, her lips were curled in a perpetual fatuous smile. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I wish I could remember more of what was said that day—actually, I do remember much of what I said, most of it too fatuous for me to recall with pleasure. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The irritating thing was that in the racket of voices Winston could hardly hear what Parsons was saying, and was constantly having to ask for some fatuous remark to be repeated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Supermarket tabloids never provide an end-of-year list of false predictions by psychics, nor do the more upscale New Age periodicals, which, despite a veneer of sophistication, are just as fatuous. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So a fatuous fellow I knew from Esquire marketed that tidbit over a drink. Stanley Bing’s Real Identity Was a Closely Guarded Secret. Until It Wasn’t. 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z According to Greek myth, Hermes, the cleverest God, used his inimitable wit to tell stories so long-winded, so fatuous, that they lulled the many-eyed monster Argus to sleep. The Podcast That Tells Ingeniously Boring Bedtime Stories to Help You Fall Asleep 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Schlafly's arguments against enshrining gender equality were fatuous, and deliberately so. "Mrs. America" captures the birth of the modern day right-wing troll 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Rather the humor is glib and fatuous, with the broad, clichéd tone of an old-fashioned network sitcom. ‘Dealing With Dad’ Review: A Family Dysfunction 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z That is the silly question floating through “Passion Play,” a fatuous noir-flavored reverie with allegorical pretensions written and directed by Mitch Glazer. | 'Passion Play': Blow the Trumpet, Palooka, Life Is but a Carny Dream 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z Beyond the fatuous story, I was most aggravated by the inconsistency of the computer-controlled opponents. Review: Gory 'Mortal Kombat' as brain-dead as ever 2011-04-27T13:30:29Z As a fatuous young activist tells Christie, “We need to be saved from ourselves.” Books of The Times: ‘The Humanity Project,’ Jean Thompson’s Latest Novel 2013-04-17T20:28:21Z Yes, the Globes are more fatuous than the Oscars, but only just. David Thomson on James Franco 2011-02-10T22:44:01Z Mr. Danson is especially good as George, the friendly but fatuous horndog and overly privileged stoner, probably his best television role to date. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Bored to Death' 2011-10-10T11:00:29Z As Ms. Jones hands the microphone back, Michaele beams the fatuous smile of a woman who hears “yes” when the exact words are “probably not.” | 'The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C.': Capital Purring and Preying on Bravo 2010-08-04T17:09:00Z Often boring, typically clichéd and frequently self-aggrandizing, commencement speeches form their own subgenre of fatuous prose. 7 most loathsome commencement speeches 2013-05-31T14:00:00Z Some of this material bordered on the fatuous. Books of The Times: ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010’ 2012-10-11T16:46:12Z And we have only just seen the fatuous Parolles blindfolded for a prank in which his fellow soldiers expose his cowardice by making him believe he has been captured by the enemy. | 'All?s Well That Ends Well' : Flawed Man Draws a Good Woman 2011-06-26T22:27:12Z Sometimes an art exhibition can be smart and informative even if its contents are, as in “The Talent Show,” variously quaint, silly, disingenuous and fatuous. Art Review: Everyone?s 15 Minutes In a Culture of Celebrity 2011-01-13T22:44:50Z This was not perhaps as fatuous as the turn-down that Orwell received from the Dial Press in New York, which solemnly informed him that stories about animals found no market in the US. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z But when Jaroussky brandishes a rubber snake, in what seems like a fatuous copy of the Sellars’ production, the serpent flops like a lawn hose. The Sellars method: How a master director coaches singers toward greatness 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z With the shuffle, "music is freed from all fatuous self-definitions and delusions of significance." 'Listen to This': Alex Ross ponders 21st-century music 2010-10-06T23:07:00Z Lee Sizemore, the fatuous narrative director, seems like the only person still arguing for that version of Westworld, and he’s several notches down on the corporate hierarchy. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 7: They Cannot See 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z “All we get is fatuous attitudinizing about how ambition, success and money always lead to rack and ruin,” Mr. Rich wrote. Theater Review: Sondheim?s ?Merrily We Roll Along? in Encores! Staging 2012-02-09T23:44:16Z It is extraordinary how often that fatuous and insidious line of argument is deployed in real life, incidentally – and interesting to see it attributed to a vampire here. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – review 2012-06-21T20:30:01Z This jaunty juxtaposition of global and office politics, of cunning plots and fatuous policy, was the perfect foil for the superheroic hijinx of James Bond. A maze of danger and deception in newly reissued spy novels 2013-12-06T22:54:24Z And with that one sentence, or the pause thereafter, a fatuous fool suddenly registers as a figure of pained self-awareness. Critic?s Notebook: On the Stage, Old Words Are Reborn 2010-12-31T22:25:35Z Roger’s venal wife, Arabella, spews a litany of complaints that evoke the Private Eye column “Polly Filler,” in which a fatuous twit moans about her useless husband and her lazy au pairs. ‘Capital,’ a Novel by John Lanchester 2012-07-13T18:01:49Z "It made him seem fatuous – even, she knew, to himself." The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore. Week two: dialogue 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z “I don’t want any of those things. I find it absolutely fatuous.” John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z As long as we confuse fatuous commerce with a vibrant civil life, probably not much. Museums' disturbing transformation: relentless commercialization 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z It is a lively list this year, although I am astonished at the way pundits have rolled over for the fatuous and pointless Jojo Rabbit. Golden Globes: who will win and who should win the film awards? | Peter Bradshaw 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z As translated by the director and screenwriter Billy Ray, this is instead a slo-mo horror story, in which the worst lack all inhibition while the best are full of fatuous integrity. Review: ‘The Comey Rule’ and What a Fool Believes 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z We are left with a fatuous and depressing parade of nothingness, and a rather dodgy wisecrack about Egypt and the Middle East which will do its box office prospects there no good at all. How Do You Know ? review 2011-01-27T22:00:01Z Seth Meyers’s opening monologue: Background required to understand jokes: Like other celebrities, professional athletes are occasionally fatuous and commit embarrassing acts in their personal lives. Sports Comedy for Sports Non-Fans: Recapping the 2010 ESPYs 2010-07-15T12:53:00Z Pete has the arrogance as well as the awkwardness of his youth, and Mr. Steggert finds exact emotional shades in both his character’s painful self-consciousness and fatuous confidence. | 'The Grand Manner': Kate Burton in A. E. Gurney?s Comedy at Lincoln Center 2010-06-28T02:12:00Z Others called them tedious, fatuous, preposterous and exploitative. Tim LaHaye Dies at 90; Fundamentalist Leader’s Grisly Novels Sold Millions 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Surely Americans, who are by our own fatuous self-definition fundamentally decent, would never attempt the unthinkable, no matter how angry. Perspective | The Capitol mob images shouldn’t surprise you. Open insurrection was always where we were headed. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z And when I made the no-doubt fatuous observation that life was different now without his wife, he replied with barely disguised bitterness, “That is your greatest understatement of the morning.” Colin Davis Brings London Symphony to Carnegie Hall 2011-10-16T01:25:19Z Terrorism is a leitmotif of modernity, just as easy to find and with rationales just as fatuous in the year 1900 as it is now. Open Letter to a Friend in Paris 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z "This is a fatuous show with nothing fresh to say about popular culture and our fixation with fame," his one-star write-up continued. Spice musical leaves critics cold 2012-12-12T10:39:20Z Although narratives play an important role in cultural membership, national icons are often fatuous and irrelevant. Doctor Who slays St George 2010-04-21T16:00:00Z The sets of Stewart and Colbert were safe spaces for liberals to mock the powerful and fatuous, and laugh together through their shared outrage. Larry Wilmore Attempts to Be Seriously Funny 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z It's a fatuous film with none of the weight and dark energy of The Exorcist. Drive Angry 3D; The Rite ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:32Z Mark, who grew up poor, is an accidental and fatuous self-help guru. Book Review: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ May Be the Novel of the Summer 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z They’re guys who — maybe like all of us, I don’t know — seem to be on a perpetual, fatuous search for Big Rock Candy Mountain. Cherokee Women Aim for a Better Life in ‘Crooked Hallelujah’ 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z This is what the whole fatuous theory of the noble “Red State” was originally about: Honest, hard-working, and above all humble people versus the elites that supposedly detested them. Hipsters, they’re just like us! “Normcore,” Sarah Palin, and the GOP’s big red state lie 2014-04-27T11:00:00Z She is dismayed to find herself enduring inane baby singalongs, irritated by fatuous chitchat with other mothers and anguished when the exterminator interrupts her writing time. A Novel of Domesticity and Its Discontents, London-Style 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z But everybody comes across as human here: the conniving ecclesiastics who propel Henry into war, the fatuous French Dauphin, the speechifying Welsh Captain Fluellen and Henry's disreputable old chums from his wild youth. ArtsBeat: In London, a 'Henry V' That Doesn't Take Sides 2012-06-27T15:15:09Z Randomness, natural decay, audience participation or existing systems are among the strategies employed, while the results range from fatuous to brilliant. Art in Review: Mika Tajima: ‘Negative Entropy’ 2014-03-27T20:28:25Z The fatuous announcement and the ridiculous accented name prompted followers on social media to question the authenticity of the Diapér. No, Gwyneth Paltrow is not selling bejeweled, alpaca wool diapers. Instead, she's making a statement 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z It also lends weight to the fatuous Jonrosh character, “someone who is past his prime and a little bitter but at the same time, still full of himself,” Mr. Piedmont said. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z But Mr. Bartlett, a purveyor of baroque comic stylings all his own, is quite wonderful in finding layers of identity within one fatuous, self-deluding fool. | 'The Illusion': Phantasmagorical Adventures of a Missing Son 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z The book is fairly fatuous, what with Maya's all-consuming desire to be popular. Secrets, Lies and Locker 62 by Lil Chase - review 2013-04-26T11:00:00Z After fleeing to the West he is equally unimpressed by the fatuous conceptualist art then in vogue, and struggles to find his own vision. 'Lives of Others' director returns to divided Germany in 'Never... 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Near the end of the production, one dancer, playing a clueless host or fatuous TV news reporter, asked, “What is this? What are they doing?” Live, Urgent, but With a Slightly Recycled Feel 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s about a teenager named Khristen who washes up, after some undefined natural cataclysm — there are no more birds or oranges, and cockroaches are kitten-size — at a faded retreat filled with elderly, vaguely fatuous eco-warriors. After a Cataclysm, the Nature Lovers in ‘Harrow’ Struggle to Stay Sane 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Your narrator is fatuous and self-serving in the way of politicians “big and small,” as he himself acknowledges, but I suspect you also have something of a soft spot for him. Thomas McGuane on Small-Town America 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Not the one foretold in the last and increasingly fatuous season of The Walking Dead, between Rick’s “Alexandrians” and their diabolical oppressors but something far more radical. Dead serious: what The Walking Dead needs to come back to life 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z It would be presumptuous and fatuous to comment here on "the state of world fiction". The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z It misrepresents many practices and beliefs in different countries, and its many generalizations about “the African” are fatuous. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z But Daumier always found some element of the ridiculous, the fatuous, the smug, even in the poets, writers and critics among his subjects. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Power doesn’t have to corrupt, the film suggests; many come to it precorrupted, as well as ignorant, fatuous and heedless. ‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Laughing in the Graveyard of History 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z If you did a bad thing in Scientology, such as questioning Hubbard or joking at the fatuous pomp of the enterprise, you might be rounded on and generally humiliated. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright – review 2013-01-30T12:00:02Z The men who leer after Candy are truly fatuous primates, fit for little but gibbering at the moon. A Parody of Smut — and of Voltaire — Turns 60 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The tipping point from Absolutely Fabulous to absolutely fatuous is upon us. Why Absolutely Fabulous now looks absolutely prescient 2011-08-29T20:30:02Z What was the point of such a fatuous exercise? On the perks and pitfalls of signing books 2012-07-31T08:55:34Z Still, despite its bizarre sides, the work is ultimately both flimsy and fatuous. Dance Review: David Wampach’s ‘Sacre,’ at the Invisible Dog Art Center 2013-01-11T23:38:14Z "They obliterated it with some fatuous piece of commentary about something else," Gough said. Jubilee pageant composers condemn BBC coverage 2012-06-06T17:54:17Z He felt the issue should not be reduced to "a fatuous little quiz". Open door: The readers' editor on? entertainment writing and 'torture porn' 2010-09-05T23:05:00Z They found the question silly if not fatuous—the music wasn’t really for liking, in the traditional sense. Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets To 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z "Nothing could be more designed to make you feel like what you were doing was fatuous and unfulfilling," says Thorn. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt: Everything but the grief 2010-05-26T20:45:00Z Thank all that is holy: it seems as if the fatuous snobbery of not clapping after any movement as proof of holier-than-thou cognoscenti-dom may be becoming a thing of the past. Proms 2010: Let's hear it for more applause 2010-07-21T12:01:00Z But Brodesser-Akner swings the sword full circle, slicing through the demeaning rules of the patriarchy just as effectively as she slays the fatuous optimism of that “girl-power” propaganda fed to modern girls. Review | ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ — and so is modern marriage 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z As for their dad, Mr. Boxer makes Gloucester frailer and more fatuous than usual, a sort of pocket Polonius upon whom disproportionate punishments are inflicted. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z He’s gotten the band back together in a perfectly balanced performance of oldies and new riffs, respecting all that’s come before but never getting mired in minutiae or fatuous nostalgia. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ gets the nostalgia-novelty mix just right 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z “If fiction has a role to play in this, and I’m not such a fatuous oaf that I think it really does, I think we have to start saying what being a hero constitutes.” The return of Sherlock: ‘Being a hero isn’t about being bigger, richer, more powerful' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z It was all so much more fun when some fatuous twerp had undermined the foundations of the family home by trying to convert his kitchen into an indoor swimming pool. Property shows: room for improvement? 2011-08-10T13:27:22Z Mr. Sisto’s Caesar, confident and fatuous, doesn’t suggest his ambition or its lack. Review: In ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ the Political Thrill Is Gone 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z World War I’s chief cultural product was irony, he found, as illustrated by the muttering, cynical language of the men on the battle lines and their governments’ fatuous appeals to patriotism. Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88 2012-05-23T22:21:26Z Where the script and the production excel are in the scenes in Stephen’s office, where Rachel responds with understandable exasperation to her therapist’s seemingly fatuous questions and suggestions. Review: A Virtuoso of Depression Broods Again in ‘Animal’ 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z "I've been described as bland and boring and as the man who put the fat into fatuous," he admitted in 1994. Mike Smith: The high-flying host 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Such censorship may look fatuous and hypocritical but, if the facade serves as a filter to keep out the shockable, it is not so foolish a device. Peter Hall eludes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof censor: from the archive, 31 January 1958 2013-01-31T07:30:00Z That’s a self-portrait that has long been fatuous in the extreme. Column: The budget lie at the heart of House Speaker Johnson's Israel aid proposal 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z And yes, it's a colossally fatuous argument to compare an armed invasion by the Russian military with migrants seeking asylum, but that's just how they think. The death knell for the GOP's hold on the military 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z This was always a fatuous issue, but since Trump was pushing it relentlessly the press went along, even though there was much more evidence that Trump was the one whose behavior threatened national security. Column: How the media's obsession with Biden's age could help reelect Trump 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Are Americans going to buy this fatuous definition of freedom? Worse than Trumpism: DeSantis warps the definition of freedom 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “Lost in an endless game of IP-reshuffling musical chairs, Barry realizes, possibly too late, the futility of dwelling on the past — a fatuous lesson from a movie that can’t stop doing the same.” 'The Flash' fizzles at the box office amid Ezra Miller controversy 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Lost in an endless game of IP-reshuffling musical chairs, Barry realizes, possibly too late, the futility of dwelling on the past — a fatuous lesson from a movie that can’t stop doing the same. Review: The spirit is thrilling, but 'The Flash' is weak 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z One doesn’t have to be a fan of Disney to see that as fatuous claptrap. Column: Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk give us a preview of the chaos of a DeSantis presidency 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z The lawsuit also documents the increasingly febrile and fatuous claims by DeSantis about Disney’s ideology. Column: Disney lawsuit shows Ron DeSantis at his bullying, bumbling worst 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s hard to come to terms with the fatuous sanctimony of Romney’s argument. Column: Julie Su would be a perfect Labor secretary. That's why Big Business hates her 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Lachlan Murdoch attended a Morgan Stanley investor conference and gave a laughably fatuous comment: When spreading lies, does the motive matter? 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z He’s expected to rule any day now on a fatuous lawsuit brought by antiabortion activists. Column: A spineless Walgreens bows down to antiabortion crusaders 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The high jinks and lowdown deeds that ensue in “The Menu” are sure to remind viewers of “The Triangle of Sadness,” Ruben Ostlund’s similarly bilious takedown of the rich and fatuous. Review | ‘The Menu’: A stylish takedown of elitism and fetishized food culture 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z “The notion that one party or faction is repository of all virtue is fatuous and dangerous,” Wolpe added. As midterms near, clergy preach politics and civics lessons 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Another member of the so-called Team Normal weighed in with this fatuous false equivalency: Behind the GOP gaslighting over Pelosi attack: They know it won't happen to them 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z I’ve written about the fatuous arguments against student debt relief before. Column: Would forgiving student debt drive up inflation? Only if you're using lousy math 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Gaggan Anand, arguably one of India's most famous chefs, says the assumption that Indian food cannot be fine dine is a fatuous misconception at best. MasterChef Australia: The global cooks breaking 'Indian curry' stereotypes 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Even setting aside my grumpy complaints about easy-breezy, overly fatuous newspaper prose, that kind of threw me for a loop, and at first I had trouble figuring out why. I can't forget — but I can't remember what: Trump, the pandemic and memory 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z As it happens, this fatuous "good guy with a gun" nonsense has been fully refuted by the recent mass killings. Texas school shooting: The right's only response is more guns 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Thankfully, Mr. Pence resisted Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign to act on these fatuous arguments. Opinion | Congress must act to prevent an election coup in 2024 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z The Cadiz plan was never likely to work, and notwithstanding the company’s claims about the current drought, it’s more fatuous today than ever. Column: Has Biden moved to finally kill California's worst water project? 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Time Magazine featured a couple of predictably fatuous results in this piece examining the doctrine. Police reform by another name: COVID mandates causing cops to complain — and quit 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z But this line is so fatuous you have to wonder if they were just trolling for laughs: Trump's coup plot was worse than anyone knew 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Voters should be infuriated — and terrified —that politicians with this fatuous take on how to fight the virus, much less how to manage our economy, might end up in charge of our government. Column: GOP recall hopeful wants California to fight COVID like Florida, meaning much more death 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z There is an increasingly strident and vocal segment of the Republican Party that believes whatever fatuous claim Trump manufactures and his loyalists eagerly glom onto: that rioters who stormed the U.S. Column: He called out Trump's election lie. That made him toxic to fellow Republicans 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z They’re not weapons or violence, in the fatuous formulation one still occasionally hears these days. Opinion | Tossing around ‘Nazi’ and ‘fascist’ as insults is reckless and historically illiterate 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z The best poet of the 20th century knew that the idea of “having it all” was nonsense before anybody ever dreamed up such a fatuous phrase. The best of Boz That has to be the most fatuous comment he's ever made and that's saying something. Mike Pompeo's whitewashing of Trump's record backfires 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z His clumsy, illogical, fatuous rationale doesn't pass the laugh test. Democrats don't have to let Manchin win: Holding Trump accountable is fulfilling the Biden agenda 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z He's never been a great debater but he held his own and managed to speak directly to the American people as much as possible over the cacophony of lies and fatuous insults. A debate that will live in infamy: That sweaty, red-faced liar is actually our president 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Patricia Edwards died five days after he uttered those fatuous words. Opinion | Remember the 200,000 Americans who have died from covid-19 — and vote 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The list of Barr's odious comments is a mile long, starting with his fatuous answers regarding the question of systemic racism in policing. Bill Barr on Capitol Hill: Lies, evasions and a promise to "follow the law." Be very afraid 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z One general principle underpins all these fatuous “concessions”: none of them affects Facebook’s advertising revenues in any significant way. Nick Clegg is on the wrong side of history at Facebook | John Naughton 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z It is a fatuous and narcissistic disorder of American "resistance" to claim that Putin elected Trump, or that without Russian interference we would be sailing along in the demi-paradise of Hillary Clinton's presidency. Trump and the coronavirus have exposed America as a declining empire: Time to face the facts 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z His fatuous comments and outright lies are not taken seriously by well over half the country. Can a pandemic shake the faith of Trump's followers? Don't count on it 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z To the public at large, however, his reputation rests on this fatuous statement, made on Oct. Column: 'Buy when blood is in the streets,' and other maxims from bear markets past 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Picking apart this fatuous rationale was too easy. Column: By siding with Trump on emissions, GM, Chrysler and Toyota are asking for industry chaos 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Waititi tiptoes the same fine line as Iannucci, deflating his most toxic characters with ridicule, but never making them merely fatuous or ignoring the shattering consequences of their beliefs. Review | A comedy about Nazis that’s actually funny? Yes. But ‘Jojo Rabbit’ is also deadly serious. 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Idealistic, sanctimonious talk of duty to the Constitution is fatuous. Opinion | Investigate the president, of course, but keep your hopes for impeachment in check 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z This is fatuous nonsense, since it’s hard to imagine that even the most robust price competition would bring reimbursement rates down to Medicare levels. Column: Trump's plan to 'save' Medicare would actually destroy it 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z For once reference to the crowd was not fatuous. US Open win shows hard-working Rafa Nadal is not finished yet | Kevin Mitchell 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z At the show, part of me felt as though I were writhing on a pin: again and again the carnal tapioca, the vacant gazes, the fatuous frolic. Renoir’s Problem Nudes 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Leak inquiries, like that now ordered into the Darroch memorandum, are Whitehall’s most fatuous blood sport. How can Kim Darroch represent Britain in Trump’s Washington now? | Simon Jenkins 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z But it's especially clear that this is a fatuous argument in cases of possible impeachment. What's behind Bill Barr's whitewash? We need to see the full Mueller report to know for sure 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z All you needed at the beginning was a small group of geeks; and there was no need for the kind of initial massive initial funding that the fatuous dotcoms absorbed. If Silicon Valley’s unicorn bubble bursts, what legacy will it leave? | John Naughton 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z The so-called terrorist threat at the border is even more fatuous than the administration's claims about rampant criminal behavior by immigrants. Trump's dangerous "national emergency" gambit: Can he get away with it? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Today’s righteous projects, after all, will inevitably seem fatuous and blinkered from the vantage of another age. The Philosopher Redefining Equality 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z For Trump to call this a near complete victory is fatuous. The message from the midterms: a new, progressive US is slowly taking shape | Will Hutton 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z But it’s fatuous to discuss what role they ought to have because we are not going to be able to stop them from continuing. A philosopher explains how our addiction to stories keeps us from understanding history 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The parallel is not fatuous: Nixon’s great offence was abuse of power, and this is becoming Trump’s hallmark. This mafia style of government makes Trump a role model for all autocrats | Jonathan Freedland 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Gifted education can do with less fatuous folklore and more good sense. Perspective | It’s time to get smart about gifted learning, and who gets exposed to it 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In the era of President Trump, politics is reduced to a fatuous, debilitating spectacle. Opinion | Don’t let politics dumb you down 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Not the fatuous body counts of Vietnam, but precise counts that will run to extremely large numbers. Exclusive: Trump-endorsed radio show has promoted ex-CIA agent’s call for right-wing rebellion 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z I think we know that's fatuous nonsense but he wanted to make sure it was public because May's hold on her job is tenuous. Donald Trump threatens Theresa May; Republicans stage Peter Strzok circus: A day of total madness 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z “But no children or animals will be hurt in the process. It’s a fatuous exercise but it’s not fatal.” Split California into three states? Billionaire's eccentric idea will get a vote 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The idea that the constitution, in its lapidary formulations, offers clear instruction is utterly fatuous. Trump's disgraceful assault on the DOJ is an attack on the rule of law | Lawrence Douglas 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z By last weekend, the three European nations’ best effort consisted of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s fatuous grandstanding on American television. It’s Trump’s Iran Deal Now 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z He called it “fatuous to talk as though women in 1987 formed an oppressed aesthetic class.” How One Woman Redefined Women in the Arts 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Instead of expecting students at any stage of their education to memorize stuff they'll soon forget is fatuous. Should I Tell on My Cheating Classmates? 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z “It is fatuous for the Europeans to blame the United States for the failure of the WTO to arrive at negotiated outcomes in Buenos Aires,” Lighthizer said. A year of Trump’s ‘America first’ agenda has radically changed the U.S. role in the world 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z But the only serious ideological alternative to that establishment is frankly socialist — the fatuous and shallow sort of socialism held by college freshmen and Bernie Sanders. Opinion | Our political parties can’t save themselves 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The most prominent among them, Friedrich Hayek, did not think he was staking out a position on the political spectrum, or making excuses for the fatuous rich, or tinkering along the edges of microeconomics. Neoliberalism: the idea that changed the world 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The claim that this fight is about some abstract idea of “history” and not hate is especially fatuous when you consider the history of this particular statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville. Donald Trump and the Lost Cause: President finally disavows racist violence — but he applauded the movement behind Unite the Right 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Even at the time some critics observed that this was a fatuous, upside-down version of the most utopian form of Marxism, which imagined a classless, conflict-free communist society in some distant human future. Donald Trump and the endgame of “The End of History”: The latest news from World War IV 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z But there’s always a chance they can be appeased with the two-year delay and a fatuous promise to fix everything before then. Trumpcare is dead, at least for now: But the health care fight will never end 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Compared to organising protests or setting up a recurring donation to the American Civil Liberties Union, talk of deep time or of effacing the false ontological divide between humanity and nature risks seeming rather fatuous. 'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z But the most fatuous of Trump’s early morning statements had to be this one: Trump’s London reaction: His ignorant and insulting “gun control” gambit marks a new low point 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The fatuous part is for Mr Trump to claim that his decision is designed to invigorate American coal mining. The flaws in Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris accord 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes a leader says something so fatuous that when his acolytes hail his brilliance, they leave us breathless. Opinion | What Trump said, and what was heard, in the Middle East 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z President George W. Bush did not pay for his false statements about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction or his fatuous “mission accomplished” declaration. 6 things Trump does not understand about his job 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z If we are to accept the administration’s stated rationale, summarized in a fatuous memo by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the FBI’s ongoing probe played no role in the firing. By firing James Comey, Trump is continuing the work Putin started | Lawrence Douglas 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z So far, the president has been more fatuous than fascistic, though he belatedly realized what an albatross the bill became. Trump tried to burn down Obamacare. He set his hair on fire instead | Ross Barkan 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z And the president’s decision to withdraw from the accord is similarly unconscionable and fatuous. The flaws in Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris accord 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Casting Voltaire as the apostle of fatuous utopian progressivism, Mishra curiously fails to note that he also wrote what remains the most famous of all attacks on fatuous utopian progressivism, “Candide.” Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z It is a bold misdirection and while it’s fatuous in the extreme, don’t assume that it won’t be effective. Trump’s Obama gambit: It’s utter nonsense — but not as dumb as it seems 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z This too has a long pedigree: “hug them closer” was the fatuous Whitehall slogan for dealing with the Americans even before the Blair government took office in 1997. Will Trump’s presidency finally kill the myth of the special relationship? 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Soon, however, the sentences seem to me not at all brilliant but at times fatuous, at times pretentious, for the most part stupid. Elena Ferrante: ‘I believe that books, once written, have no need of their authors’ 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Cruz, as usual, made the most fatuous comments, claiming that there’s “historical precedent” for leaving the court short of a full nine for extended lengths of time. Clinton White House plus GOP Senate? It’s a recipe for total disaster 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z It would be fatuous to act like American support and presence in the Philippines is based on an altruistic and humanitarian motive that can self-righteously be withdrawn. Rodrigo Duterte, in Japan, Calls for U.S. Troops to Exit Philippines in 2 Years 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z I think the eco-terrorist film "Night Moves" captured the spirit of fervent yet fatuous young people, as well as the ambiance of the Pacific Northwest. The Quiet Menace of Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Westerns 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z It is this that will be noted by the rest of the world, not fatuous rhetoric about Britain “going global”. The loudest sound in Birmingham was of doors being slammed shut | Andrew Rawnsley 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z There was never any need for the United States to put boots on the ground — that has been Obama’s straw man, a totally fatuous excuse for inaction. Aleppo is a symbol of American weakness 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The chief topic of the test is, naturally, Donald Trump and his well-known brand of whiny-diaper-baby tantrums coupled with his fatuous bullying and packaged in obvious mendacity. 4 ways the press can fight back against Trump: He’s declared war against the media — they can’t let him win 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z After the September 11 attacks, TIME’s Lance Morrow wrote a powerful essay titled, “The Case for Rage and Retribution,” in which he argued: “For once let’s have no fatuous rhetoric about ‘healing.’ America's Anger Is Out of Control 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Republican front-runner Donald Trump is out to lunch on this issue, as he is on most questions that require more than a fatuous sound-bite answer. Inattention-to-the-Deficit Disorder 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Some incredibly silly preoccupations, and the fatuous questions they engender, simply refuse to die. Is a Calorie a Calorie? 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z A self-designed symbol of New York pugnacity and success, he has been a fixture in the city’s tabloid newspapers for four decades; Mr Cruz is best known to many New Yorkers for his fatuous slur. March of the titans 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z And it is in a spirit of dauntless righteousness that they continue to dismiss the English of lesser mortals as “uncivilised”, “vile”, “fatuous”, “abominable” and so on. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z I've always thought it one of the more fatuous epithets that "there is no such thing as bad publicity", often ascribed to Phineas T Barnum, the 19th Century American showman and circus owner. US election: Donald Trump v Pope... who wins? - BBC News 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z He reiterated the standard fatuous right wing bromide about arming everyone so that they could shoot down terrorists before they have a chance to explode their suicide vests. Donald Trump’s despotic fantasies: Here’s what the world would look like if he were president 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z But it is fatuous to dismiss that risk on the ground that Islamic terrorism has claimed only a few dozen American lives on U.S. soil after 9/11. In Defense of Freaking Out 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Carson sounds like a fatuous gasbag on virtually all topics save for neuroscience, but he’s especially bad on foreign policy. Ben Carson is finished: The one-time Republican frontrunner continues his free fall 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Yet can anyone deny that the Obama administration’s response to the Islamic State has been fatuous and incoherent? Non-Islamic Jihadis? 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z But his statement that the niqab is “not how we do things here” is not wholly fatuous. Freedom and the Veil 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z But there’s a flip side to that mistaken assumption Chapman flags: It is fatuous to think that what is bad for Russia is necessarily good for America. The Null Strategy 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z By the end of the year, Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler had named as “lie of the year” not the president’s initial fatuous assessment but the administration’s attempt to explain it away. America Askew 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z "Our art is a reflection of our reality," Ice Cube says to one of the film's numerous fatuous journalists, and that's a fair assessment of "Straight Outta Compton" itself. N.W.A film 'Straight Outta Compton' starts fast but runs out of gas 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Every fatuous remark was applauded rapturously and without thought. The sound & fury of the GOP debate: A candidate-by-candidate breakdown of its weirdest & most idiotic moments 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Amram skates perfectly on the line between parodying terrible and fatuous women’s talk shows and actually presenting good science info in a positive and funny way. Amy Poehler, Megan Amram Smart Girls' Science Video Series Is Guaranteed To Polarize 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z As the White House Correspondents Dinner was unfolding last year, I clicked on the #WHCD hashtag to follow the fatuous horror in real time. My God. Richard Nixon on Twitter is exactly what we need today. 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z This is far too fatuous to merit a response. Ross Douthat is a clueless scold: How he just exposed the bankruptcy of conservatives’ anti-gay marriage arguments 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z This language has even expanded in recent years to include such phrases as “makers versus takers,” fatuous distinctions about “real Americas,” as well as Mitt Romney’s infamous claims about “the 47 percent.” The GOP is still the party of the “n-word” 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Like his father, Billy Graham, Franklin is a very rich and fatuous firebrand. Also like his father, his preachments are bigoted and totally devoid of moral logic. The Christian right’s raging id: What Franklin Graham’s latest vile comments reveal 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z This revolutionary artist – Courbet really was a revolutionary who took part in the Paris Commune in 1871 – deserves reverence and respect, not the fatuous ignorance behind Facebook’s ban. Sorry, Facebook, but the finest art is always about sex and death | Jonathan Jones 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z To turn these vagaries into some kind of fixed and significant national “mood” is unfailingly fatuous. Four Kinds of Opinion Pieces I Will Not Read 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z “Any disagreements on the pitch will be resolved through dialogue,” insists a piece of fatuous Fifa gesture politics, “a method proven to encourage personal development and mutual understanding.” How many slave deaths for the Qatar World Cup can Fifa put up with? 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Most of the overcooked rhetoric about dietary fat is really quite fatuous. Dietary Fats for the Fatuous 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Those who start lots of companies like to describe themselves as “serial entrepreneurs,” which may or may not be slightly fatuous. Why You Should Start More Than One Business 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Indeed, one of the more fatuous claims by the right is the ridiculous assertion that what they usually depict as the debauched left is in cahoots with al Qaeda or ISIS. Bill Maher’s right-wing paranoia: What his comments on racial politics really reveal 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z But the idea that there’s a causal connection between things like sexual permissiveness and social harm is obviously fatuous. Iran, Inequality, and the Battle of American Norms 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Not to mention his fatuous conflation of Marxism, Freemasonry and Judaism. Pope Francis, science fiction lover 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z So, in full awareness that such guesses are close to fatuous, here is mine: The government prevails, 6 to 3. Obamacare: Clues To How the Justices Will Jump 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Before there was Ron Burgundy there was the fatuous anchor played by William Hurt in 1987’s Broadcast News, and before him it was Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Anchor’s Away: Brian Williams’ Biggest Sin Was Making Himself the Story 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Of course we are living in the postmillennial age and this opening statement is fatuous at best if not redundant. Millennial Collaboration Apps: Are Meetings And Emails Dead? 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Many had derisively called him the Most Interesting Man in the World, in reference to the satirically fatuous spokesman for Dos Equis beer. What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z If humanism has a message it is not the fatuous one of progressivism that says everything will always get better, but the real one of the all-night dentist and his lonely, well-lit chair. Four types of anxiety and how to cure them 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z As fatuous solutions are foisted on a gullible public by armchair political hacks and obstructionist mouthpieces seeking political advantage, facts would get in the way. Syria is more complicated than pundits let on At the heart of this fatuous controversy was the prime minister’s wife’s wardrobe choice. Severed Heads And Righteous Religion: Not In My Muslim Name 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z This iconoclastic, doomsday rhetoric will only serve to copper-fasten the boundaries that have been thrown up between ‘misogynerds’ and ‘social justice warriors,’ two utterly fatuous labels. The Gamer Is Dead: Long Live The Gamer 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Her comment that there is no contradiction because her case is about willingness not insurance is fatuous beyond belief. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler opposes Affordable Care Act despite daughter’s medical needs 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z What’s on the horizon?’ ” she says, adopting the fatuous voice of someone making small talk. The Weird, Scary and Ingenious Brain of Maria Bamford 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Of course, it is probably a little fatuous to compare the Confederations Cup with the World Cup. What's wrong with Brazil? 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The press conference was a sickening display of fawning over Harris and his fatuous painting, and something in me snapped. I saw Rolf Harris's dark side when I questioned his portrait of the Queen 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z It mocks Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s fatuous assertion that the coup hailed a “return to stability.” Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z We're awarding a bouquet of the week - every week for endeavour, clever or fatuous remarks - anything that strikes us, in fact. This week's movers and shakers 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z It didn’t help that some of the questions were fatuous. The TV Watch: At Final Debate, Parrying at the Top, and Lunging From Below 2013-09-04T02:52:43Z The swim across the Straits was her personal quest, one that until Monday seemed Quixotic, at best, and fatuous, at worst. Nyad Completes Cuba-to-Florida Swim 2013-09-02T19:59:46Z Such mandated disposals would be fatuous where a hospital has a total local monopoly, in that this would simply transfer ownership of the monopoly. Britons 'pay too much for private healthcare' 2013-08-28T08:42:32Z This is not a fatuous hypothetical question, because I am told that the draft of the report, just circulated to members of the Commission, calls for just that. Will the bad be taken out of RBS? 2013-06-04T06:25:22Z Future posts that denigrate either York or Leicester will be deleted and persistent offenders blocked, it warns: there's no place for mud-slinging or fatuous comments. Stephen Bates's diary: It's the Wars of the roses again. And this time it's on Facebook 2013-05-15T22:00:02Z Regrettably, what with controlling both houses of the legislature and the governor’s office, Republicans appeared to grow bored with legislation that was fatuous but still not overtly and immediately harmful. Reign of Error, Part Whatever 2013-03-02T02:15:02.170Z All of which shows how fatuous it is to criticise, on principle, supranational meddling in national affairs and the associated loss of national sovereignty. What the horsemeat scandal and fish quotas tell us about Europe 2013-02-16T11:00:01Z While incarcerated, he filed hundreds of fatuous lawsuits that named a cavalcade of athletes, politicians, musicians, Hollywood stars, and other public figures as defendants. Weird news: Man who claimed to be Adam Lanza’s uncle has also sued Justin Bieber 2012-12-26T23:00:00Z In the event, these various ambitions remained unfulfilled, though some fatuous wording found its way into the final communique of the conference, which concluded in thinly veiled disarray. Will the internet end up controlled by big business and politicians? 2012-12-23T00:09:15Z I’m sure that he passed muster on foreign policy knowledge–he’d been to the Arghandab River Valley in Kandahar Province, for God sake!–even if his policy proposals were either fatuous or dangerous. Joe Biden Takes Command of Hard-Fought VP Debate 2012-10-12T06:35:40Z That requires flexibility and creativity, not some fatuous nostalgia for muscular Christianity. Olympic diary: five outline legacy goals 2012-08-14T12:25:47Z It’s the home of the grown-up Patrick’s fatuous, snobby girlfriend, and her crass parents, who proudly announce that they live in “the most restricted community” in their part of the state. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Mame’ at the Goodspeed Opera House 2012-06-09T00:41:19Z He had never objected to Mabel’s admirers hitherto, had, indeed, been rather proud of their existence in a fatuous way and derived from their numbers a showman’s satisfaction. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z "Well, of course I couldn't promise to open a shop for her;" and he laughed with fatuous good-humour, as if what he had said was rather funny, and not an impertinence. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Mr. Hemming, the curate, was a muscular and, did not his clerical collar forbid one to suppose so, a completely fatuous young man. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z When he returned to Boston he found that even his own wife had been "cried out upon" as a witch, and he at once put a stay upon the fatuous proceedings. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z Described as the Alhambra has been, it would be fatuous to try it again. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z One after another of them blinked at her in the autumnal sunshine with a fatuous complacency that made her long to ring all the bells in the street. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z She had style, serene, flowing, also tepid and fatuous, the style detested by Charles Baudelaire, and admired by Turgenev and Renan and Lamennais. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z His appearance was genteel, not to say aristocratic--but fatuous. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z Perhaps in some other century, fatuous humanity will like to listen to operas or to plays in a pitch-dark theatre. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z This giggle and a fatuous manner are possibly assumed, for he has the widespread reputation of being a very able man, shrewd in business and officially rapacious, as was his father before him. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z "Fatuous, that's what George is, utterly fatuous," he assured himself as he hurried down the steps. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z This would sound fatuous if I didn't add that success is easily within my grasp. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z After all, the thing had happened; Muriel's future—so we fatuous moderns reason—was at last secured. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z But to assign that facet of their match-up such overwhelming importance is fatuous. Tennis.com: Federer must pressure Nadal 2012-01-25T21:56:21Z "I don't mind that," replied Dorman Royle, and his face beamed with the smile at once proud and sheepish and a little fatuous which has only meant one thing since the beginning of the world. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z Read by the light in which we all judge the book to-day, this estimate by Elwin was about as fatuous as most contemporary criticisms of a masterpiece. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z This is the first time in my life, I believe, by the way, I ever indulged in any such—in any fatuous reference to a fruit of my pen. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z But it is fatuous to claim that complying with the rules will actually save companies money. Analysis: New EU data laws command the tide but not the cost 2012-01-24T18:02:19Z There was a touch of the fatuous in the way Tommy submitted to the implication of her attitude as she took a flower from her breast and pinned it in his coat. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z The imagined touch of some fatuous phantom would thrill her as no man’s had power to do. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z I am not so fatuous as to suggest that his independent and original work is in any unfavorable sense derivative. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z It moved like a great somnambulist below her window, with a fatuous complacency in its dead eyes. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z A self-satisfied smile creeps across his mouth, and a manically fatuous gleam steals into his eyes. How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? 2012-01-04T10:00:37Z Frederick was a poor creature, no doubt, a vain and fatuous coxcomb. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Thus all his analyses, criticisms, wise and pointed counsels, are wasted; and he is an absolutely fatuous and useless man. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z The Spaniard, with a fatuous assumption common to Europeans, thought that whenever he failed to find the exact word he wanted in another tongue than his own, all that was necessary was to use French. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z One by one, the filaments of possession were being broken—that sense which in its grossest terms is really a sort of fatuous pride. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z It is impossible, fatuous in fact, to ignore or even overlook the basic importance of physical environment. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Beyond that mystery, the word 'fatuous' seems exactly to embody all that we know of this prince; his appearance, morals, manners, and intellect are all summed up in that single expression. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z No one appeared to think her replies particularly blundering or fatuous. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z A fatuous fear of missing the train turned me back in the direction of the station, slightly hungry, and profoundly bored. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z But his faith was an unreasonable one; it was fatuous. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z I have all along been counting on that as a matter of course, but now I see it was fatuous to do so—and yet rejoice but the more that this is in your power.... The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Yes," Tobie replied, with a fatuous air, "an excellent sort of man; but I know his wife much better. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z In literature he was a bigoted classic; a Voltairean in religious belief; rather fatuous, very kind-hearted; an honest man, and even an intelligent; but a very fool in politics. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z Buck's admiration of the boy's chest and limbs was merely fatuous; he himself was teaching him to swim at the Public Baths. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Nevertheless, the fetich faith is magnificent, even if it be fatuous. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z It may be fatuous, but I am wondering if this line mightn't have acquitted itself better as: "And the worst friend and foe is only death." The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z In fact, she had hardly heeded the fatuous remark. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Then again, there are people so fatuous as to believe that Aldermen are accustomed to help themselves out of the city treasury. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z For Fate, in the portly guise of his fatuous old colonel, had intervened to balk the fulfilment of his most cherished desire. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z Besides, it was true—just a little—that he wished to keep her to himself, and he was fatuous enough p. 165to believe she really cared more for him than for any outsider. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Quite apart from this balm to my stricken conscience, I do rejoice that the fatuous book has beguiled and interested you. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z And how that fatuous barber's model must have laughed with his wife after they had left! Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z But gradually Hayley’s constant companionship, his amiable but fatuous and gushing friendship, acted like the hated chain of slavery on Blake’s electric and expansive temperament. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z As for America—that fatuous booby with much money and much sentiment, but no cohesion, no brains of government; stood she alone we should not need our China steed. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z You know the fatuous remarks that some people would have made... The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z He answered, the chap-book says, “silently,” “I deal with your husband, Madam, not with you”—and a more fatuous mistake never issued from lips of highwayman. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z This was his regular mode of procedure, and not so fatuous as it may appear. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Several things occurred to me, and one was that some methods of dire fate were fatuous and undignified. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Not even the porter’s story of the girl’s interest in him had affected him to the extent of fatuous imaginings. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Even when she condemned them most heartily as shallow and fatuous, their detected admiration of her beauty or of their pleasure in her company won for them the grace of a pardoning afterthought. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z They're too stupid, for one thing; they go on burning houses and breaking windows in their old fatuous way. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z “One is so heavy that the fatuous smile she has doesn’t zing anymore!” he said. Stanley Bosworth, Iconoclastic Head of Brooklyn School, Dies at 83 2011-08-12T02:05:49Z We each seized a lantern and leaned overside with it, with that fatuous eagerness to help which makes a man strike matches when looking for one who is lost on a moor. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z At four in the morning they attacked the barracks on the river banks above Windsor, and, as often happens with the most fatuous enterprises, met at the outset with success. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z She parodied some of poor Charley's rather fragile verses; she accused him of habitually talking fatuous stuff at a certain Bohemian sort of beer-garden which he had visited scarcely five times within that same year. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z A fat youth with a fatuous smile displayed with glee two bright tin cups, one for himself and one for his prospective bride. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Simply because to do so would lose support for the Administration, would alienate powerful interests from the fatuous policy of Benevolent Assimilation bequeathed to Mr. Roosevelt by Mr. McKinley. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z Let no one suppose, however, that our Professor was led astray by fatuous fancies concerning his mare. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z Each day he was sending serenely confident telegrams to Calcutta and receiving equally reassuring ones from a fatuous Viceroy. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z On each of the four faces was an expression of fatuous bliss. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z Ralph found himself wondering, as many another man has done, as he sat watching and listening, by what curious or fatuous fate some of these men in the gathering ever climbed into their exalted positions. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z You are an abominable man, fatuous, cruel, insensible, cowardly! Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Half an hour later there was being played one of those little scenes so familiar in Salamanderland, the secret of which may bring enlightenment to several fatuous self-made young men of the world. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z The woman prattled nervously, made garrulous by the brandy, and by fatuous ambition to impress this aloof companion with her charms. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z The boy had the comforting, though fatuous notion, that the nearer to the door he managed to get, the nearer to freedom was he. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z His face wore an air of provocative discretion and a fatuous smile curled his sensual lips. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z It may urge that it has to follow hastily its Committees or do nothing at all but talk; how can it help it if a stupid Committee leads it unawares into unjust or fatuous enterprises? Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z One knows not which to be more astounded at—heartless greediness on the one side, or fatuous simplicity on the other. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z As they walked home, with fatuous insistence her lover talked with Rose about the case. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z However unwarranted, and fatuous, an indefinable barrier would stand between them until the culmination of the yearning that had made ugly crosses in her heart. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z In Chapter XXVII, "fatuous innundoes" was changed to "fatuous innuendoes", and "take the matter so throughly" was changed to "take the matter so thoroughly". Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z The glance of involuntary horror that she gave me, and the swift withdrawal of her hand from my embrace, should have warned me of my fatuous self-betrayal. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z The fatuous formula which has infected all races, and is not yet extirpated in this country—the "I do not like you, Dr. Fell, the reason why I cannot tell"—passed into desuetude. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Nick Clegg's stated aim to stop wealthy families securing internships for their children are patronising and fatuous", according to the Daily Telegraph." Newspaper review 2011-04-06T05:25:16Z And that fact had been her salvation, so she tells these fatuous friends of hers over here. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Hence we call them symbolists, mixing perhaps some shade of disparagement in the term, as if they were symbolists of an empty, super-subtle, or fatuous sort. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Perhaps for her, as for me, there was an appeal in this vain, fatuous, suffering magnate of a coarse world's making that, in spite of everything, touched the springs of pity. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The two contemporary conceptions of him as a fatuous Cockney Bunthorne or as “a tadpole of the lakes” were equally erroneous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z But nevertheless it is especially deserving of being brought up again as a still more peculiarly futile and fatuous act of ferocity. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Faces passed before Kitty's wakeful eyes; the fatuous, contented faces of mothers bending over the rewards of love clinging to their breasts; slow, placid, married faces everywhere.... What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z It changes its objects because it must; the passions of youth yield to those of age; and among all the illusions of his life the most fatuous is the illusion of progress. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z I might have told him, with the fatuous pomp of wider experience, that they were in truth but a very distant reflection of the genuine East; but I did not. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z When her colonels offer her their fatuous admiration she goes to sleep, and then, waking up, is so very, very sorry. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z He watched Fallaray join Lola at the fountain, give her his hand and wander off among the rose trees, wearing what he called the fatuous smile of the middle-aged man in love. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z It seemed odd that a man of his rugged type, a hard-headed business buccaneer, should have that fatuous overestimation of wealth and so-called “blood.” The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Less fatuous than the rest, he was better able to understand the difficulties of the situation. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z Jones's fatuous article is built around a retracing of Joanna's last steps in Bristol. Liz Jones plumbs the depths in report on Joanna Yeates murder 2011-01-19T09:36:58Z I felt that I was talking like a fool, but my reassurance, fatuous as it was, had its suggestive effect. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z Yes, here was the object of my researches; this stout and earnestly romantic youth was Leigh Kelway, and that fatuous and chubby young person seated on the arm of his chair was myself. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z "He pronounced those words, 'The law of war,' in a tone of fatuous conviction and repeated: "'As for madame's private apartments, not a thing is to be moved. The Woman of Mystery 2011-01-15T03:00:36.260Z He put his hands against MacLeod’s breast and shoved him backward into the door, where Tommy Eye, grinning in fatuous ignorance of the danger he had passed through, had just disappeared ahead of him. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z The most fatuous of men smiles, at the first encounters, as though he were the accomplice of the destiny of his brethren. The Inner Beauty 2011-01-12T03:00:31.580Z That's true, I charged her nothing," replied the doctor, with a fatuous smile, "but perhaps she presented me with a good deal. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z And, above all, I wished to cure her of her fatuous delusion that she is clever, in the hope that she may then give up being foolish. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z To influential parents he is servile and oleaginous, and he treats his staff with fatuous pomposity. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z Ellis took two slow forward steps, turned to smile at the others, and managed only a fatuous grin. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z A: It's not just "nay," it's fatuous — on every level. Nicor CEO's $23.8M retirement package 2010-12-18T06:00:00Z The plot, such as it is, may be fatuous. Harry Potter casts a secret spell on the sequel 2010-11-22T10:39:00Z The document is filled with nonsense, such as the fatuous claim high taxes and over-regulation explain America's high unemployment. America's deepening moral crisis 2010-10-04T11:00:00Z But somehow, in Wellings' mild and apologetic presence, they all seemed either irrelevant or fatuous. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z Blair's spokesman dismissed the idea that he was planning to create a bank or finance house as "fatuous". Tony Blair sets up Mayfair-based investment services firm 2010-08-23T05:00:00Z In that hearing, Clemens was protected by fatuous questioning from some Republican members of the committee. Sports of The Times: Pettitte?s Words and Character Carry Weight 2010-08-20T01:07:00Z Take the idea of the Big Society – laudable in theory as a way of counteracting atomistic values but fatuous, if not dishonest, if those values are propped up by coalition government economics. Big finance rolls on 2010-06-27T19:00:00Z But mostly, I want you to deliver more intelligent, adult coverage -- even of fatuous pop cultural events like this one. How Tiger Woods' comeback played on cable 2010-04-05T20:06:00Z “I stood in Oxford Street watching them go by with an absolutely fatuous smile,” he said. 2010-02-15T00:35:00Z The very idea that Tony Blair is starting a bank or finance house for the super-rich is fatuous ... Tony Blair sets up Mayfair-based investment services firm 2010-08-23T05:00:00Z The latter's fatuous laugh irritated him, as did his noisy triumph over his winnings. A Blot on the Scutcheon We return then to the purely fatuous, or peaceable idiot. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 In a satire written after Domitian’s death,427 Juvenal has described a scene of fatuous adulation which, if not true in fact, is only too true to the character of the time. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius By a fatuous favoritism his choice fell upon the Duke of Medina Sidonia, who was utterly incompetent. The Ifs of History He caught the few words eagerly, and was fatuous enough to fancy that she meant something more than the common courteous acknowledgment of a man's help from a travelling carriage. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode He smoked in silence with a fatuous, drunken smile, though he was as sober as a man could be. Witching Hill First, the natural idiot, or the simply fatuous: of these there are two varieties—the peaceable and the frantic. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Until then he had seemed fatuous, almost ridiculous in his little perfidy. Woman He had never seen a really fatuous smile before. The Wonderful Visit At last her eyes caught sight of him; he came up with his fatuous fussiness: "Alexa, it's impossible...." Majesty A Novel At twenty, as you proudly stood And read your thesis, "Brotherhood," If I remember right, you saw The fatuous faults of social law. Impertinent Poems A fatuous smile came over his face as he glanced at himself in the mirror. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Suppose, then, that such a law, national or international, should go into effect to-day, would anyone be so fatuous as to part with his gold until the effect of the law could be discerned? The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 The Major bowed his head, loathing his fatuous blindness and burning with self-contempt. Our Admirable Betty A Romance From their stately canvases aglow, the eyes of the lovely dead look out at us; the eyes of ambition, of 89 pride, of fatuous complacency; the haunted eyes of sorrow; the clear eyes of faith. The Moonlit Way Evidently this fatuous busybody had not yet sprung the full force of the tremendous battery with which he believed himself armed. A Traitor's Wooing Then what fatuous devil—was it my old familiar demon?—put it into my heart to say: "So you haven't been worrying, dear, about me?" The Book of Susan A Novel I asked her why the marriage hadn't taken place months ago, when Owen was perfectly ready; and I showed her how completely that fatuous mistake on Mona's part cleared his responsibility. The Spoils of Poynton Surely the Roman officer in command, if none of the others, must have observed the utter incongruity of the bonds, the fatuous absurdity and wickedness of tying hands because they wrought miracles of healing. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II Wisely so, perhaps, for in the end she was able to make use of the man's fatuous love of boasting to exact high terms for aiding him in his conspiracy of magnificence. The Book of This and That An uncomfortable half-hour had followed in the drawing-room, the air vibrant with an electric tension which all were conscious of, and, as is customary on such occasions, increased by their fatuous efforts to relieve it. A Traitor's Wooing Mrs. Manhattan complained of this conduct to Nicholas, her husband, alleging that the young man was fatuous in his impertinence. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel If, in a sudden exuberance, you make a "cheese,"—not culinary, but whirligig—round go his little bobtail petticoats in fatuous imitation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 No. It would prove more if she didn't like me, which—fatuous fool as you may find me—I verily believe she does. The Sacred Fount What is the use of this fatuous renewing of humanity? Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The kind who would speak the fatuous cliche that a woman's place was in the home, not gallivanting off to teach colonists' children on the fourth planet of Procyon. A Woman's Place His letters home, his excitement and enthusiasm, how ridiculous they seemed, how fatuous his boastings before the old ladies and little Bella! Fairfax and His Pride There was a fatuous and brutal expression on most of the faces, and the people seemed to be too lazy to do anything except drink and fondle. The Last Generation A Story of the Future Mrs. Server explained with a charming smile at Long, who, still looking pleasantly competent and not too fatuous, amiably returned it. The Sacred Fount A burlesque masquerade in the midst of which fatuous patriots sing their stupid dithyrambs. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels That overland journey was one of the most pitiful, fatuous, mismanaged expeditions in the fur trade. The Story of the Trapper The young man had that fatuous smile which unconsciously expresses the consciousness of conquest. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June "And you still persist with your fatuous idea that I'm going to have a baby?" Unbegotten Child Even in his most fatuous moments he had known that for them the war was only an unusually gigantic and bloody football match, for which they claimed the right to establish the rules. Command As soon as by some means he found out they were there, it was to the pig-pen that this fatuous fowl resorted. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 We have all read in story about the effect of some little magic word, which once spoken makes that which was lovely before seem but loathly, and what was kindly wisdom sound like fatuous malignity. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. He smiles, the fatuous smile with which a man ingeniously expresses what he would be thought a brute to put into words. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June With a fatuous attempt at diplomacy he put his foot into it. The Song of the Wolf Charles sent her flowers; and, sitting in his room on the roof of the San Felipe, he composed, in a cold distaste, innumerable short variations on the theme of a fluid and fatuous attachment. The Bright Shawl She was but a frightened, almost helpless girl, for all she bore the title of traditional Princess, and she was surrounded by inefficient, fatuous officials—among them Tugh, who was a scoundrel, undoubtedly. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 They are idiotic, fatuous, blind, deaf or lame, or permanently disabled by chronic disease. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Carden put the husband, the fatuous old man who had had the incredible folly to marry a girl thirty-five years younger than himself, out of court. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 As for respecting the race, and, above all, that fatuous rabble of burgesses called “the public,” God save me from such irreligion!—that way lies disgrace and dishonour. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) True, the Bacchante is in fact Diana herself; but of this Endymion knows nothing at all, and he deliberately—or rather with fatuous precipitancy—gives up the glorious goddess for the sentimental and beguiling wine-bibber. Life of John Keats He looked up at the sky and at all the stars that he couldn't see and he cursed them all and cursed time itself and then, bitterly, his own fatuous stupidity. An Empty Bottle She made the Colonel look strangely old; beside her Mrs. Fazakerly seemed suddenly to become dull and second-rate, to sink into the position of an attendant, a fatuous chorus, a giddy satellite. The Return of the Prodigal I shall sing a Song of the Sword, too, should the sword "thrust through the fatuous, thrust through the fungous brood." The Kempton-Wace Letters I spotted Jenny heading across the room, carefully not seeing the fatuous glances Pietro was throwing her way, and I swung in behind. Let'Em Breathe Space I suppose we were a trifle fatuous about them and treated them more as delicious playthings than as human beings. Aliens Although I was uncomfortable as we raced away, the chorused wouffs! reminded me of an epidemic of coughing I heard in church one winter's Sunday, while a fatuous sermon was read by a dull-voiced vicar. Cavalry of the Clouds Inspector Letstrayed removed his tweed cap and joined us over by the mantel, with a fatuous smile on his large face. The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson "I may be a fatuous fool," said Oliver, after an agitated pause, "but I thought you loved me." Brooke's Daughter A Novel She is said to have been very beautiful, and the subtle touch of not in the least fatuous or foppish "devotion" is most agreeable. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing And he retired, with that fatuous smile still absorbing his features. Miss Cayley's Adventures You had not told me before about the fatuous person who thought Roads like Ruskin—surely the vaguest of contemporaneous humanity. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) They were moon-faced, bland, chuckle-headed looking men, generally with walrus moustaches, squat and heavy, with fatuous, placid smiles. Gold I suppose I must have been a rather fatuous youth. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography And just within the archway, standing erect with folded arms and the smile of fatuous benignity which Ventimore was beginning to know and dread, was the form of Fakrash-el-Aamash, the Jinnee! The Brass Bottle The fatuous ignorance, the bigoted conceit, the nauseous truckling to “the Old Man,” the debased intellect. An Ocean Tramp In the TimesJared Thurston, with the fatuous blundering which characterizes all editors of papers like his, printed the news that little Ben Bowman would be denied his rights, as a glorious victory over the reformers. In the Heart of a Fool But it was so fatuous, so stupidly unnecessary! The Missourian And, while seeking to console her, my real sympathy for this sobbing child was shot through and illumined by the most fatuous sort of optimism. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography And thus he was christened Smiles—which, however, through some fatuous process of fabrication so soon grew to Smilax, that as Smilax he shall henceforth be known. Wings of the Wind But when it comes to the fatuous delirium–the celestial idiocy that queers the brain and impairs the vision–why, I have been unlucky, that’s all.” The Pines of Lory In fatuous effrontery they seek to graft the growth of their stunted vision upon the splendid and ancient tree of American institutions. Right Above Race I may be the most fatuous, as I am one of the plainest, of men, but in truth that shyness of hers touched me exquisitely; it flattered my finest sensations. Shirley The most enduring charity, the most fatuous credulity, the blindest partisanship—even these could not have preserved a last spark of confidence in Elijah Abbott. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel This fatuous course could not fail to prove embarrassing to a Ministry which drew its main support from Lower Canada. The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion It is hard to look anything but fatuous when somebody is extolling your virtues to your face, and she could not help both looking and feeling foolish during his extravagant glorification. The Benefactress But it must not attempt in fatuous recklessness to make over humanity on the pattern of absolute equality. Right Above Race She herself had been fatuous and vain in assuming that he could love her; but if there was little to say for her, there was nothing at all to be said for him. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The tone was somewhat sneering, and the speech was a little affected and fatuous, but I knew he said it as a reproof to James, and he deserved it well. Mabel's Mistake But, if the closing observation is mean, the opening observation is fatuous. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Yet fatuous fools are content if only they can hear a good uproar of bawling. Amaryllis at the Fair I put my back against the door and asked, "Is Bronson Vandeman a fatuous fool; or does he take me for one?" The Million-Dollar Suitcase She had no compunctions at all—but he was in the fatuous stage, drugged by his own imaginings. Love and Lucy The other men discussed business or scandal; old Ellwell told stories that were broad and fatuous, to which young Ellwell responded with heavy laughter. The Man Who Wins Only the fatuous Gladstonians, Whose eyes will scarcely serve at most To guard their wearers 'gainst a post, can be expected to take it in. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule If she had played the fatuous moth, she had come through cheaply, with wings not even singed; for what she had taken for flame had proved to be no more than cheapest incandescence. Nobody As if his thoughts had penetrated to the young man’s heart, making fatuous any further attempt at concealment of his true sentiments, Reid spoke. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek Miss Jean Cadell, as usual, played a pale and fatuous spinster, but this time, in the part of Miss Myrtle, she had her chance, and seized it bravely. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 16, 1914 Instead of fatuous felicity, their faces suggested disappointment. The Island Mystery There is much to be said, doubtless, in respect to the shortcomings and the sometimes fatuous and even suicidal methods of the labor organizations. The business career in its public relations He had suddenly realized that to be baited by the fatuous Toby was almost refreshing, and he spoke without any sort of animosity. The Twins of Suffering Creek "Ah," said he, while a singularly vain and fatuous smile settled upon his countenance. The O'Ruddy A Romance Beardsley stood frozen, a fatuous smile about his lips; there was only silence now, a silence that had a pulse in it—the beating of his heart. We're Friends, Now The business men looked at him with the slow smile of the sane for the fanatic and answered from the fatuous optimism of the man who expects the world to last at least his time. The Prisoner It is fatuous to develop one division at the expense of the other. War Letters of a Public-School Boy “You sure will,” agreed Toby, with one of his fatuous grins. The Twins of Suffering Creek Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous. The Book of Khalid It would be fatuous folly and crass selfishness to wish it laid or endeavor to have it laid otherwise. War Taxation Some Comments and Letters Father," said Jeff, with a loud cheerfulness that sounded fatuous in his own ears, "here's Esther. The Prisoner The young man, with a fatuous little laugh, brought out the case once more. A Bride of the Plains He sat with his eyes fixed on his neighbour, and in those eyes a wondering, fatuous admiration. The Wild Geese He laughed that laugh of conscious superiority which, when it is not perfectly well-founded, sounds so fatuous to the hearer. The Marriage of Elinor Considering what he had already said about race-horses nothing could have been more fatuous than his attempts to explain why I was not in Oxford. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate If he be a little less than perfectly sincere he runs risk of being pretentious, fatuous even. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 In Frye's case the avenging goddess lurked in his inordinate belief in his own shrewdness, coupled with a fatuous love of speculation. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast He could not congratulate himself on his wisdom; sheer luck had carried him through as far as the rue Soleil d’Or—mere chance, and that capricious fortune which sometimes convoys the stupid, fatuous, and astigmatic. The Dark Star The Commune had one special fault, that of a fatuous moderation in all its doings. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals Everything seemed to be going most hopelessly wrong, and I was so anxious to get into the drawing-room that I made several exceedingly fatuous remarks. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate And to that end I leered at him knowingly, and presently bestowed a fatuous wink upon him. The Maids of Paradise That is rather a fatuous remark, and from you of all people in the world. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy The enraptured and fatuous smile on his features now became almost idiotic as here and there, among the trees, he caught glimpses of still more young girls strolling about, arms interlacing one another's waists. The Gay Rebellion Thus, if a friend were to ask me to guess who dined with him yesterday, it would be fatuous if he had in mind somebody of whom he knew I had never heard. The Big Bow Mystery "It is your own fault then," said Mrs. Caldwell, apt as usual to say the kind of thing with which fatuous parents torment the genius-child. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius I am sometimes in awe of these young beings who show me such wisdom, in years when the human child is supposed to be callow and fatuous, his voice even a distraction.... Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Doggie, shrinking from a reply that might have sounded fatuous, remained silent; but he realized a wonderful faculty of comprehension in Jeanne. The Rough Road With an enraptured smile verging perilously upon the infatuated, if not fatuous, he repeated her name aloud; and she looked at him out of soft grey eyes that seemed at once fascinated and distressed. The Gay Rebellion With the usual fatuous faith of a sweetheart, she instantly consigned to limbo anything whatever derogatory to her beloved. The Free Range What a fatuous idiot I should be if I believed you. Bird of Paradise We have to love before we can serve, but it is fatuous to love blindly. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation He inspected it with polite appreciation, while his red-headed friend regarded him with fatuous anxiety. The Rough Road What fatuous, little cylindrical creatures we humans are! Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Its tranquil shimmering was now fatuous and unbelievable. Waiting for Daylight At this further sign of what seemed fatuous obstinacy, Señora Rojas lost patience. The White Mice They talked about things of which he knew nothing; he was too sincere to cover his convictions with the fatuous chatter that passed, in Fallacy Street society, for brilliant wit. The Wooden Horse I recollect on one occasion, how, after making my hearers cry over the natural and permanent tragedy of Shylock, I asked the fatuous question, addressing it, as one does, to the vague air— Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Compelled by I know not what fatal astral attraction, perhaps the subtle affinity of the creature for the creator, the spectral shells, moved by some mysterious mechanics of spiritual being, pursued me with fatuous fury. Humorous Ghost Stories That is not fatuous praise, perhaps, but the figure needed the hand of no master sculptor to hold the eye and captivate the imagination. Ladies-In-Waiting It is the sense of this, secret even in the most fatuous breast, which makes things sadder for the goer. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life That it was fatuous he was convinced, but his conviction made matters no easier for him. The Wooden Horse To merely undertake an offensive "on paper" only would be fatuous. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry But Europe had by her fatuous interference with the internal affairs of France sown dragons' teeth indeed and a nation of armed men had sprung forth, nursing hatred of monarchy and habituated to victory. The Story of Paris Professor Huxley has furnished to the biography a graphic chapter on the reception of the book, and in his vigorous and witty style recalls the furious and fatuous objections that were urged against it. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History But dear, blundering, fatuous man"'—she smiled into her husband's pleasantly mocking face—'"he thinks," I said, "at any age he's a fit mate for a fresh young creature in her teens. The Convert Not childish, but fatuous: real childishness is delightful. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II With unconscious stupidity we continue the fatuous practice. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis I should not dream of dealing with this man or his fatuous attacks in a respectable publication save that he has been appointed the "System's" chief defender. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated That, you'll bear in mind," concluded Mr. Cazalette, with a more than usually sardonic grin, "was penned by some fatuous reporter before they knew that the deceased gentleman had robbed the bank. Ravensdene Court Here it was again, this fatuous intolerance! this incomprehensible provincialism! Virginia But presently his wondering recognition of the world's fatuous and frantic gullibility ceased. Tongues of Conscience It was his great merit that at these moments, and in the presence of other people, he betrayed no fatuous emotion. The Creators A Comedy The anarchists hanged in Chicago were men of mistaken purpose and fatuous belief. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 She smiled—a disarming smile that brought a fatuous gleam into the man’s eyes, so that he permitted her to come close to him. 'Drag' Harlan Daumier's figures are almost always either foolish, fatuous politicians or frightened, mystified bourgeois; yet they help him to give us a strong sense of the nature of man. Picture and Text 1893 And though Warsaw has fallen the fatuous Prince Leopold of Bavaria, with his preposterous proclamations, cannot kill the soul of Poland. The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War How could he have been so fatuous as to believe that he had really won such a woman? Black Oxen He held that a gentleman should be painted but once in his life—that it was eager and fatuous to be hung up all over the place. A London Life and Other Tales His face was becoming so ruddy and fatuous and babyish. The Job An American Novel How fatuous and ineffective a rebuke from her would have been! The Goose Man But with this fatuous notion that one can deliberately establish the Inquisition or the Terror, and then faintly trust the larger hope, I shall have to deal more seriously in a subsequent chapter. Eugenics and Other Evils They even marry—and tell fatuous yarns about their babies. Black Oxen Lyon's curiosity on this point may strike the reader as fatuous, but something must be allowed to a disappointed man. A London Life and Other Tales Charlie was fatuous, but he was young, and she wanted, yes, yes! that was it, she wanted youth, she who was herself so young. The Job An American Novel From them he familiarised himself with their distress and poverty; he read of the petty attitudes and fatuous mediocrity that stood deaf and dumb in the presence of immortal genius. The Goose Man Wally and Max tried not to notice, but Miss Watts’s face was wreathed in a fatuous smile of satisfaction. The Cricket He compared her in his mind to Catherine Bailey, and could not but feel that in his youth he had been blind and fatuous. An Old Man's Love So from island unto island the Percy Edward cruised, looking more disreputable every day, until as the months went by she began to resemble in her tattered gear and dejected appearance her fatuous passengers. The Call Of The South 1908 It is not even grotesque, but it is gross, and flat, and stale; its messages are fatuous, its machinery the rickety heirlooms of old humbugs of Greece and Alexandria. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 How fatuous, and then again how profound, his conversation could be! The Goose Man So from island to island the Percy Edward cruised, looking more disreputable every day, until, as the months went by, she began to resemble, in her tattered gear and dejected appearance, her fatuous passengers. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 The sentimentality of hatred is uglier and more fatuous than the sentimentality of brotherhood. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship That shocking heathen curse silenced him, but for the next two hours, whenever I looked at the creature, I saw his lips moving and a silly, fatuous expression on his by no means unintelligent face. A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 Some of the persecutions were so fatuous that one could only suppose they must be due to a misunderstanding. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 How fatuous you are," it said, "with your devotion to my son and to me. Tutors' Lane And from first to last, from that day to this, no one leading a secluded life has been so fatuous as to believe that my characters were evolved out of my inner consciousness. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy Acting otherwise proved always disastrous in the past, and it is simply fatuous to-day. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Without you, O the insufferable eyes Of these poor Might-Have-Beens, These fatuous, ineffectual Yesterdays! The Song of the Sword and Other Verses On each face she read a fatuous eagerness. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play But my pleased and fatuous smile over these thoughts was disturbed by her announcement on her return. Once a Week But the fatuous Government of the day wanted to swell its depleted treasure-chest, and the Chinese poll-tax brought in money quickly. Tom Gerrard It will be seen that, the stuff of Mr. Jerome's play is sufficiently fatuous; but Mr. Edmund Maurice as The Colonel was always amusing, and in the multitude of counsellors there was merriment. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 As the idea came to me it was as if some ironic hand had touched an electric button, and all my fatuous phrases had leapt out on me in fire. The Long Run 1916 He had the gestures, the attitude upon the threshold, of a jolly companion; when he turned, his huge, fatuous face was amiable, and creased yet with the dregs of smiles. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Undoubtedly the fatuous drivel of certain writers had influenced even the Army itself. No Man's Land But we are surely not fatuous enough to cherish our ideas to the point of fondness. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind I, in my fatuous, youthful conceit, laughed at his forebodings. Yorke The Adventurer It remains only as the folly of the weak and fatuous. 21 His eyes, narrow and seemingly colorless, regarded her with a fatuous complacency. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories But these Social Servants and their Crusades for Pure and Holy Living Among Work-Girls are merely fatuous and vulgar when they are not deliberately insulting. Nights in London Then happened one of those fatuous things that have led to the detection of so many negroes and can almost be counted on in their prosecution. The Spectre In The Cart 1908 We sat about that big round table as if assembled for a conference and looked at each other in a sort of fatuous consternation. Chance A Tale in Two Parts |
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