| 单词 | fatuously |
| 例句 | “That is despicably, fatuously, ignorantly weak of you, Gary Drake.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z One carries a hatbox, another a baguette, and the fatuously chic way they present their faces and swerve their hips to the beat is superlatively witty. Review: Mark Morris’s ‘The Hard Nut,’ Tchaikovsky With Cartoon Wit and Verve 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z “Doing the column is comfortable. Secure. Though you’re never sure when people are going to start yawning. And it’s as close to what we fatuously call ‘creative writing’ as you can get. A Modest Encounter with Russell Baker 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z The men’s talk is stiff, fatuously jokey and mostly small, which isn’t surprising, given that they are middle-class Londoners and that the year is 1958. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z What he invented, in “A Modest Proposal,” was not just that fatuously self-satisfied narrative voice, but the whole idea of a counterfactual work of nonfiction. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z Karen is so fatuously self-centered and compulsively brand-name-branding that she’s never met a product or a campaign that she wouldn’t endorse. ‘The Money Shot,’ by Neil LaBute, Satirizes Hollywood 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z And it also springs from a trollish pretense that fatuously declares that Democrats are the warmongers while they just want to give peace a chance. The unseen casualties of the GOP's civil war 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z When FBI agents asked him why he wore it, he “fatuously” replied, “Because I was cold,” a federal prosecutor said in a court filing. Rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt gets jail term 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The problem is common: how to frame collective acts — that which we fatuously scoot behind the aegis of the Art of Living — as capital-A Art. Studio K.O.S., short for Kids of Survival, brings the art of social justice to L.A. 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z When FBI agents asked him why he wore the sweatshirt, he “fatuously” replied “because I was cold,” prosecutors said in their sentencing memo. Feds seek prison for rioter in ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Cheney got into a protracted back and forth with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York over the latter's use of the words "concentration camp," fatuously implying that AOC was being antisemitic. Beware Liz Cheney 2024: If you think that's a big improvement on Trump, think again 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Mike Pence fatuously declared that this was "peace through strength" but it was anything but. Donald Trump started no new wars — but he is one of history's biggest war presidents 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z What he fatuously insisted was the "greatest economy the world has ever known" is quickly becoming the worst economy since the Great Depression. Trump's new fakeout: "Obamagate" won't fly with 83,000 dead and millions out of work 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Those numbers represent, as Trump fatuously put it, “a lot of people.”But hearing the numbers is not really the same as understanding them. Column: What will a possible 240,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths mean to you? Trump’s projections in perspective 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, we had Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., fatuously declaring that the impeachment inquiry is unfair and offering a resolution to condemn it in the Senate. Republicans aren't flailing or desperate: Their attack on impeachment is strategic — and might work 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Usually, they fatuously insist their "success" is due to their own unique brilliance and talent. Et tu, Don Jr.? At least Hunter Biden isn't being a complete hypocrite 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The letter also fatuously asserts that because Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, looking like a frightened man in a hostage video, said that Trump didn't "pressure" him, the case is closed. Trump declares "war" — and, yes, our full-blown constitutional crisis is here 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z He falls for royal flattery and fatuously allows himself to be lied to. Opinion | Trump’s ‘America First’ means Americans lose 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Comey was fired by the very man he helped elect, who fatuously pretended it was because Comey had been unfair to Clinton and then immediately admitted it was really because of the Russia investigation. Inspector general’s James Comey report: Another pro-Trump conspiracy theory falls apart 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z “Nor is this to be wondered at when we consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play. It has been observed that absolute idiots play the steadiest.” Nobel Prize winner in economics is an avid golfer, whose expertise can't help him achieve an economy of strokes - Golf Digest 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The Davos men are Voltaire’s children, a transnational and fatuously progressive élite; Trump and Brexit voters are Rousseau’s new peasant hordes, terrified of losing cultural continuity and clan comfort. Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Boehner even created a “Benghazi” level select House committee which they fatuously named the “Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives.” Wing-nuts are impervious to tragedy: Why the Planned Parenthood shooting won’t curb their insanity 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z But Dr. Pangloss, Voltaire’s fatuously optimistic philosopher, is an unfairly reviled man. Why We Keep Studying the Holocaust 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Then there are the professional fence‑sitters, who fatuously state that Sterling is a work in progress. How does Raheem Sterling score against Ronaldo and Messi at 20? | Sean Ingle 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Whether nominally united or separated by faith, it is seldom as determining a factor in action as it is fatuously perceived. Viewpoint: How far is Saudi-Iranian rivalry fuelling Yemen war? - BBC News 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” he pronounced fatuously. The right’s stunning meltdown 2012-12-21T17:42:00Z Those fearful ex-Christians, the Janissaries, who were scourges of Christianity, look very mild now as they stand fatuously together, no longer either Christian or Mussulman but fatally Madame Tussaud. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z "He could not plan my falling in love," Tom answered, stroking his chin fatuously. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Hassan's stupid mind brightened somewhat at these words, a fatuously good-natured smile lit up his face. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z One in every two, perhaps, greeted me, and some who did not greet me, smiled at me fatuously. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Her old mother, however, caught at the idea, and openly asserted that she was with child, the court breaking out into loud laughter, in which she fatuously joined. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z "Nice of me," he echoed, fatuously, "to be tired?" What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Then there would be this tiresome “coming-out” dance of the girls; such a fatuously idiotic idea to have a preliminary “coming-out” at home, and then repeat it in grander measure in London. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z At the top he paused, regarding the poor wretches struggling fatuously in the street. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z And on the other hand I mayn't now abandon what I am fatuously pleased to call my work for a single precious hour. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Your ostrich, with his silly head buried in the sand, is not the only creature that fatuously underestimates both its own desirability and the perspicacity of those interested in its movements. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z And she was glad to be the first, as she fatuously thought, to observe that majestic solitude. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z In the hall Prince was hovering fatuously, assisted by a brace of tall flunkeys who fell under the General's critical gaze. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z They were, I daresay, the most fatuously faddy and elaborate preparations ever made for a library which might be blown sky-high at any moment by a shell. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z The spider touched her sleeve, with 244 George’s fatuously smiling face behind it. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z Under twelve hands Later, at the Olympia, during the International Horse Show, I spent a fatuously happy time in the stables. The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend 2011-07-02T02:00:10.773Z "I found I had united myself fatuously with a perfectly cold woman, to whom I was even repulsive!" The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Sharp, quick, keen suspicion flashed out of his eyes, but I was giggling so fatuously that it died away. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z I tore the paper into shreds, and in the act I fatuously thought that I had torn the image of that false fair woman from my heart. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z "I didn't think I could be such a gorgeous idiot," I exclaimed staring fatuously at the ruin. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z He had been fatuously satisfied to follow her into a public place and see people nudge each other as she passed. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z The carriage door slammed and she was whirled away, while Billy stood gazing fatuously into the night. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z It turned fatuously, but the door would not open. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z "Curious; in his own house, Colonel," fatuously remarked Mr. Popkiss, as feeling called to make some comment on the situation. A Poached Peerage Father Anton was the man who once had preached so fatuously on the nothingness of fame! The Belovéd Traitor Lemnian earth, ruddle, and very many minerals do this, and yet they are fatuously said to attract. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments “Agreeable weather, isn’t it?” said Westmore, fatuously revealing his present paucity of ideas apart from those which concerned the wooing of her. The Moonlit Way Perhaps no grown man, not definitely insane, has ever touched a lower stratum of spiritual debility than I then sank to—resting there, grateful, fatuously content, as if on firm ground. The Book of Susan A Novel With a supreme effort he pulled himself together, and faced the fatuously grinning host with a dash of his native impudence. A Poached Peerage Monsieur Jean," Hector had replied fatuously, and folding his arms with an air, "is very well content to leave such matters to me. The Belovéd Traitor He was an entirely different type, tall, blond, but just as fatuously masculine, as arrogantly handsome. A Woman's Place It was not pretty, but he believed fatuously in its efficiency. The Destroying Angel I forced a smile, fatuously enough, and rose. The Book of Susan A Novel The day we pay damages for the privilege of being shot at in this disreputable dive you fatuously call a hotel will be the day Hong Kong sinks beneath the sea like Atlantis. The Caves of Fear "Or a lost heart," added the bachelor, as they crossed the station and stepped fatuously on to—the wrong ferryboat. The Widow To Say Nothing of the Man From beneath their fatuously smiling masks he saw eyes staring at him curiously. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Robert laughed fatuously, missing entirely the drift of the undercurrent. The Song of the Wolf Larry told himself that these officials, knowing of impending trouble with the Robots, were fatuously trustful that the storm would pass without breaking. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 "Lucky dog, your husband!" said an admirer fatuously. Banked Fires He's been down here this morning, fatuously blustering, and trying to carry the post by storm, with a couple of policemen.' Miss Cayley's Adventures "I really think I ought to walk back a little and see about those young people," says Aunt Constance fatuously. When Ghost Meets Ghost I went to the place where I had fatuously hid the money—under a brick of my fireplace. Seven Keys to Baldpate Thousands of people fatuously said, "Oh, the letters are in print." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Shyness had fallen on him, and he stood before her, grinning fatuously, and twisting a button on his waistcoat, but unable to speak. Changing Winds A Novel "Well," he grinned fatuously, "what about a flat in Harlem?" Nobody I expect he tried to be dignified with a view to impressing me, but just before we reached the store he broke down and babbled fatuously. The Red Hand of Ulster You wore the costume of a Japanese merchant, I believe, thinking, a little fatuously, if you will permit me, that those garments were a disguise. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China "I see you are ready," he observed fatuously, striking the personal note again, which she resented. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius And meanwhile the fat pink profile perdu, the toupé of grey hair like powder of a colossal soprano sways to and fro fatuously over the gold grating above us. The Spirit of Rome She repeated that also, whereat Mo grinned fatuously, showing his little yellow teeth beneath his scrubby red moustache. The Rough Road One wore his hat on one side, the one nearest the kerb flourished a little cane, and the third of them smiled at her fatuously. Hawtrey's Deputy Ralston asked fatuously, at a loss for words, but making no move to lift his hand. 'Me--Smith' I was set upon Benton; foolishly, fatuously set. Desert Dust The Finn looked surprised at something, smiled broadly and fatuously as he exclaimed, "Ha," and every now and then blew through the stem of his pipe. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories But words are fatuously inadequate and convey little. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry She raised a frowsy head from its pillow, put a dirty hand to her eyes to shade them from the sun entering the darkened room by the open door, smiled fatuously upon her husband. A Sheaf of Corn Though love was the one window through which a woman might look on a larger world, she was fatuously supposed neither to think of it nor to desire it until it had offered itself unsolicited. Virginia He had not said, as men say so fatuously in this circumstance, that he believed they would like each other and that he hoped they would be friends. The Creators A Comedy One wore his hat on one side, the one nearest the curb flourished a little cane, and the third smiled at her fatuously. Masters of the Wheat-Lands And she had often said fatuously that she loved baseball, because she understood it. Eve to the Rescue She returned to the floor and danced a third time with Skippy, who was too fatuously pleased with his good fortune to notice the suppressed hilarity in the room. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World For instance, a certain president of a woman's college had "fatuously announced ... that it was better to have one child brought up in the best way than several not thus brought up." Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman He, smiling fatuously on the curb, saw it carry her off, swaying and grinding. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories The wife of the “odious person” was witless and fatuously conceited. Chance A Tale in Two Parts And the old, scarlet-faced guard smiled fatuously at them both through the window on which glared a prominent "Engaged" as he had smiled on many another pair of fools—so he silently dubbed them. The Folly Of Eustace 1896 SKIPPY, fatuously unconscious of any overtaking fate, escorted Dolly to the next Saturday night hop. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World And he had fatuously thought himself the first. Mistress Anne Roger looked fatuously over her soft shoulder at Tin Philosopher who, as if moved by some similar feeling, reached over and touched claws with Rose Thinker. Bread Overhead "A cloud burst!" exclaimed Roger, grinning fatuously at the delicious sensation of wet clothing and skin. The Forbidden Trail Met a girl the other day," says the eye-glassed idiot, beaming fatuously round the table, "little colonial girl, don't you know. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile "Oh I don't know," he said, fatuously unconscious of the virtues he conceded to himself. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World At the end of his fiancée's doubtings, he fatuously told himself, had come conviction. The Tyranny of Weakness He was unreasonably, fatuously glad, and the pulses, that were chilled a moment ago, seemed to race hot through his body. A Little Girl in Old Salem Tom sat for minutes at a time with a shirt draped across his knees and smiled fatuously through swollen lips. Left End Edwards Cracklingly under her eager fingers the clumsy cover slid off, exposing once more to her enraptured gaze the gay-colored muslin layer of animal masks leering fatuously up at her. Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs "Then that shows I mean it!" he answered fatuously. Rimrock Jones He, himself, seemingly unsuspicious and fatuously trustful of demeanor, would observe them. The Tyranny of Weakness "I'm not afraid of 'em," Quin insisted fatuously. Quin He begins to play with the Herbert Spencer idea of teaching children by experience; perhaps the most fatuously silly idea that was ever gravely put down in print. George Bernard Shaw Then Penny, as Nita, was on her way, pausing in the doorway to blow a kiss from her fingertips to the fatuously grinning but now quite pale Tracey Miles. Murder at Bridge And therefore he can make grim, effective fun of the sinister bandit with his foot planted on the shackled prisoner that lies between two murdered victims fatuously taking in vain the name of freedom. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Never was drama seen upon the stage in which the actors approached the tragic ending so fatuously, so deliberately. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow Men who are tracked down and shanghaied by their wives have just as hard a time of it as men who walk fatuously into the trap by formally proposing. Damn! A Book of Calumny His voice trailed off fatuously in a cloud of smoke, and I knew then just why I disliked him. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story "Anne's sister-in-law is expecting a baby," put in Mrs. Wintermill fatuously. From the Housetops He was too fatuously enamoured to dream that she could be struggling for strength to dismiss him. Enter Bridget It's—it's quite the thing," Nancy said, fatuously, "to have country places. The Shield of Silence He ceased speaking, and sat gripping his pipe grimly between his teeth, whilst I stood staring at him almost fatuously. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor To grasp his receding reason he fatuously exclaimed:— "Is this a Salvation Army fantasy?" Visionaries “What is he captain of?” inquired Mrs. Lee, who had at times a fashion of putting a question in a most fatuously simple and childish manner. The Debtor A Novel The spider touched her sleeve, with George's fatuously smiling face behind it. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 He had fatuously believed that, had belittled his work and thought it unworthy his time and thought and ability—and he had let himself be hoodwinked and robbed in broad daylight! Skyrider A proctor that he knew caught his eye and smiled fatuously. The Plastic Age We said, fatuously, that we believed all the airplanes were engaged up on the English front, and that at last our mastery of the air must be firmly established. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. After a pause Marion said, speaking fatuously in order to avoid the appearance of irony: "You're quite a romantic bride, Poppy." The Judge He looks hurt if you ask him to do anything else except perhaps to trail fatuously after you. Diane of the Green Van "Do you know how that little sleeping princess was awakened by her prince?" he murmured fatuously, bending closer. The Palace of Darkened Windows He found himself at the foot of the steps, fatuously smiling at the doorkeeper. The Day of Days An Extravaganza Before the next door a fatuously smiling pink-and-white bust simpered out of the Beauty Parlor's display-case, a bust elaborately coiffured with pounds of yellow hair in which glittered rhinestone buckles. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man But now they could smile tenderly and derisively out into this hushed moonlight that received the uncountable and fatuously peaceful breaths of the sleepers who had been their enemies and were to be their slaves. The Judge Nearest the fence was an aged, gnarled and riven tree, foolishly decked in blossoms, like some faded, wrinkled dame, fatuously reluctant to leave off girlish finery. The Seeker And, aloud, fatuously: "This is a rarely beautiful scene—" "What?" crisply. The Firing Line He stood at the door of the cabin smiling fatuously. Captivity The domestic employee is retained in the household largely because her "mistress" fatuously believes that she is thus maintaining the sanctity of family life. Democracy and Social Ethics For weeks after that bar-room encounter he was haunted by the vision of the small bright prying eyes, the fatuously cynical smile, and by the sound of the high crowing voice. The Real Adventure We have fatuously thought to surrender the sin of Adam, and still to keep a Saviour —not perceiving that we must keep both or neither. The Seeker The Easterners fatuously think, like Job, that they are the people, and wisdom will die with them. A Little Book for Christmas It fatuously thinks it is when the citizens can get all the liquor they want without trouble. The Ramrodders A Novel There she had been so fatuously sure, out there on the walk home, that she knew exactly what was in that old white head. The Brimming Cup You stood so," said Franklin, doggedly and fatuously, "just as you did last night. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains The sentiments of this ditty did not materially differ from those which Gilbart was in the habit of assimilating from his morning newspaper; nor were they much more fatuously expressed. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Then the cards were turned up, and the lad smiled fatuously as he took up his winnings. Winston of the Prairie Captain Cai came within an ace of saying fatuously it was a pity the late Mr Bosenna couldn't be present to partake of this; but checked himself. Hocken and Hunken "I should think it did," Kendal replied; and then their eyes met, and they laughed the healthy instinctive laugh of youth when it is asked to mourn fatuously, which is always a little cruel. A Daughter of To-Day His very loyalty to the forms and fabric of English life kept him fatuously content with the mean truckling and meaner domineering of his position of butler. The Promise of American Life I looked at her fatuously, and she looked speculatively at a sharp ridge of the divide as if that sketch were the only thing around there that could possibly interest her. The Range Dwellers Yet he had gone on fatuously swallowing the story that the money of which the old rogue was so free represented nothing but the savings of a thrifty schoolteacher. Queed "Got to try, have I?" said Larry, beaming at her fatuously. Mount Music "It takes all sorts to make a world," said I fatuously, for lack of anything better. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Wogan shook him by the shoulder, and he opened his eyes and smiled fatuously. Clementina The little tune it played, fatuously gay, teased her more insistently each time she heard it. The Testing of Diana Mallory A dull silence had fallen on the people; but fatuously following the great Indian trail they made camp at last at the ford of the Green River, the third day's march down the Pacific Slope. The Covered Wagon Rodin has been called, fatuously, the second Michael Angelo—as if there could ever be a replica of any human. Promenades of an Impressionist And if I am ridiculous, what of her and the other women of her age who, for some unknown reason, fatuously suppose they can renew their lost youth? The "Goldfish" The impeccable one grinned fatuously, invited her again to have a drink—which she declined—and ordered another for himself, with profuse apologies for drinking alone; apologies which she hardly seemed to notice. The Air Trust In the first place, one sees next to nothing for his passage money if he fatuously takes a ticket in either Sydney or New Zealand for "a round trip to Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, and back." By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories Like a boy, he cannot take a dare, but fatuously allows the enemy to begin the battle upon an equal footing with his own men. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 As to Aunt Jane, my state of mind was fatuously calm. Spanish Doubloons I remember that at one scene-rehearsal every one was fatuously pleased with the scenery. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections If you appear to be fatuously unconscious of other people's presence, of course they want to make themselves felt. Father Payne He was standing irresolutely on the steps when Jack came hack from the rose garden, whistling softly an old love-song and smiling fatuously to himself. The Gringos It seemed to him his lips were making words out of wood, and that the words were fatuously inefficient compared with what he should have said, or acted, under the circumstances. The Alaskan They had called her Rose, fatuously, as parents do their first-born girl. Cheerful—By Request For my part, I feel quite fatuously satisfied. Bambi I was not slow to avail myself of this invitation, and a few seconds later we left the house together, leaving Mrs. Hornby smiling fatuously after us from the open door. The Red Thumb Mark "We shall not be here," I briskly, but fatuously, added. Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties It was getting dusk as we had to struggle up the rough gulch we had so fatuously descended. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains She knew all Mildred's handicaps, both those the girl was conscious of and those far heavier ones which she fatuously regarded as advantages. The Price She Paid "You think I can get her?" said he, fatuously eager. The Conflict “An ox,” said Eshley blankly, and rather fatuously; “what kind of ox?” Beasts and Super-Beasts You are French; and Germany has no hatred for France, but only pity that it so fatuously opposes manifest destiny. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf "I took sick—that time," she explained, fatuously. Star-Dust His favorite diversion until he was fourteen was his stamp collection; enormous, as nearly exhaustive as a boy's could be—his grandfather considered fatuously that it was teaching him geography. The Beautiful and Damned Inanely dumb, he sat watching her, smiling fatuously until it was borne in on him that he was staring like a boor and grinning like an idiot. The Black Bag “Perhaps the grass in the other field is better,” suggested the aunt fatuously. Beasts and Super-Beasts Duncan was smiling fatuously, serene in the belief that he had solved the problem: the way to serve soda was to make them help themselves. The Fortune Hunter About five o'clock came the sound of a distant ring, and Seaton jumped up, overturning the board, and so ending a game that else might have fatuously continued to this day. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 The point is hard to illustrate, since a large proportion of his inferior work is fatuously obscene. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal He bowed low, smiling fatuously, with his hand on his heart. Eleanor All the plotting of the Regency had fallen to pieces with the fall of the greatest schemer of them all, whom the Paris government fatuously attempted to hookwink. The Isle of Unrest She saw nothing of his mind, and fatuously ignored the fact that from the moment she had entered the room he had begun the interview with a mental hypothesis. From One Generation to Another Her image was looking back at her stiffly, superciliously, with, so it seemed to her, the contemptible simper of one who still fatuously admires the thing that has long since lost its charm. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Come on, fellows, Hicks can't escape our vengeance, if he bursts into what he fatuously believes is song. T. Haviland Hicks Senior Even Quair, after recovering from his wonder that his own condescending advances had been ignored, bestowed his fatuously inflammable attentions elsewhere. Between Friends The man outlived that, and fatuously imagined that his payment of that debt was fully discharged. The Subterranean Brotherhood It was a point of honor with them, quite fatuously. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House "I should be very sorry to have you think for a moment that I would—er—so far forget myself," he went on fatuously. A Fool for Love He glanced furtively at Bowman's complacent bulk, the flushed face turned fatuously to Bella. The Happy End Others had fatuously accepted the assurances of ecclesiasts that "it looked like a Democratic year." Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft That should be now evident even to people dwelling in fatuously fancied security between the Alleghenies and the Rockies. The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty And the older person, who would fatuously join in with a sensible remark, spoils all the enjoyment. Peter's Mother "Any girl would be lucky to have such a man for a husband," he added fatuously. Man Size He was a worthless, trifling "boy," an idling dreamer, an irresponsible, inconsequent visionary, in whose baseless fancies it was astounding that a woman of her years should fatuously place reliance. The Boss of Little Arcady He stared unbelievingly at the frosty eyes of Monk beneath their fatuously stubborn brows, at the hard, unyielding eyes of Phinuit. Alias the Lone Wolf I wonder how many Puritan parsons have preached fatuously upon those verses! how many defiant women have had them read to them--and how many meek ones! Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) She was growing accustomed to the gloom and saw him smile fatuously. Sleeping Fires: a Novel The half-grown boy who accosted them with "What are you doing with our cow?" grinned fatuously at Betty, showing several gaps in a row of fine teeth. Betty Gordon in Washington She surrendered, I believe, on a day when she had thought to lure Jim into her boat,—fatuously, for was I not a distinguishable figure in the landscape? The Boss of Little Arcady The bedizened porter whistled fatuously at a passing taxicab, which though fareless held steadfast to its way, while the driver acknowledged the signal only with jeers and disgraceful gestures, after the manner of his kind. Alias the Lone Wolf She noticed that two very drunken soldiers had been forced to the front, where they wobbled fatuously—one of them was short and dark, the other was tall and weak of chin. Tales of the Jazz Age She had turned to wave her hand before going into the house, and he was still smiling fatuously. Uneasy Money For a while triumphant in passing certain laws which, it was fatuously expected, would wipe the trusts out of existence, the middle class was hopelessly beaten and routed. Great Fortunes from Railroads To be dowered so well and so fatuously to betray his dowry! This Freedom On his right hand the doorway incessantly flickered with distant lightning, and the continuous rumble of thunder went on irritatingly, like the growl of an inarticulate giant muttering fatuously. Victory An Island Tale This was when Robin was seventeen and just over being fatuously in love with his middle-aged instructress in French. The Prince of Graustark But you—open-eyed, knowing everything—forewarned and forearmed,—walk fatuously to your doom as one sheep follows another over a precipice. A Fool There Was I have seldom seen any like attempt more clumsily and fatuously done. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler He would smile towards her and, fatuously anxious to please, offer some remark that might draw her into the conversation. This Freedom "Even with stowaways," he ventured, but not fatuously. West Wind Drift "Ah, but no other fellow happens to have you as a sister," he returned, fatuously. Viola Gwyn "Then she really is a real person—" I stammered fatuously. Little Miss By-The-Day His friends are all too sorry for him to have any suspicion of a sinister intention; and his friend Alexis is fatuously secure. Essays on Russian Novelists He had a striking face that she named, from a line in Browning, a "marching" face—"one who never turned his back but marched breast forward"—but to see that face bent fatuously towards Laetitia! This Freedom "And this little person," one of these inquisitive, interfering visitors would ask, smiling fatuously; "how old is she, I wonder?" The Extra Day The skipper was grinning fatuously and Mr. Murphy grinned back at him. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley His hands trembled as he stood before Bryce, smiling fatuously and plucking at the cuffs of his mackinaw. The Valley of the Giants Waste is shocking; it grieved her to see a man so blessed with opportunity flinging himself away so fatuously. The Auction Block He had liked her the instant she favored him with her friendly smile, and so, trusting fatuously to his masculine powers of observation, he tried to analyze her. Rainbow's End He roused himself and smiled at her fatuously; into his eyes flamed a desire, into his cheeks came a deeper flush. The Winds of Chance "I'm always afraid of offending your delicacy," he went fatuously on. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel So fatuously fond was he of this particular variety of condiment that, on their account alone, he would have imported the Duchess and her entire establishment into America. South Wind The Viennese horrors of plaster stags, gnomes and rabbits stared fatuously on the hearth. The Fortunate Youth "Do you believe in love at first sight?" he asked, fatuously. The Intrusion of Jimmy They were all so fatuously contented with their environment. Peg O' My Heart He could have saved a few of the beans when reason was again enthroned, but they were so very few that he fatuously thought them not worth saving. Merton of the Movies And I saw how utterly and fatuously blind I had been to things which even Fra Gervasio had apprehended from just the relation he had drawn from me. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza "Of course, you will dispute the will," she remarked, fatuously, to Catherine. Washington Square He looked so vague, so immature, yet so fatuously self-confident, that the woman extended her hand with a laugh and tapped him on the back as she might have patted a dog. Colonel Starbottle's Client This time the opportunity presented what he fatuously termed to himself a "cinch." The Four Million As he stood now, a hand affectionately upon the album, a trace of the fatuously admiring smile still lingering on his expressive face, a knock sounded upon the door. Merton of the Movies Perhaps a faint suspicion of the inadequacy of her response began to trouble him; but he still fatuously regarded it rather as owing to his own hurried and unfinished declaration. A Phyllis of the Sierras "I haven't seen you for ages," he said rather fatuously, following her into her father's study. Saint's Progress I might fatuously dally with it, I might pretend not to observe it, but there it lay. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments "I am not quite sure whether I ought to speak on this matter," said he fatuously. Caught in the Net Whithersoever she had fared, she had seen nothing but youths fatuously prostrate to her—not one upright figure which she could respect. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story You will find with this a codicil in which I have expressed my wish; but do not produce it excepting in case of need, for perhaps I am fatuously vain. Honorine "Because they think they have," answered the recluse, fatuously. Options The tragic part of it was that he smiled and fumbled through life just as fatuously and apologetically as he did at the card-table. The Toys of Peace, and other papers The wife of the “odious person” was witless and fatuously conceited. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The little girl smiled fatuously, as though I were paying her compliments. Elizabeth and Her German Garden The most effective lure that a woman can hold out to a man is the lure of what he fatuously conceives to be her beauty. In Defense of Women Even when he stood beside me, I merely stared at him fatuously. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu But I will observe here that an Immortality liable at any moment to betray itself fatuously by the forcible incantations of Mr. Stead or Professor Crookes is scarcely worth having. Notes on Life and Letters |
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