fatuousness

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An interlude satirizing the stultifying fatuousness of the royal mission is followed by one that fawningly celebrates the magnificence of Diana deigning to speak to Welsh well-wishers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

Rewarding the poet’s fatuousness, the portraitist’s flattery and the jeweler’s smarm with gold, she believes she is modeling a higher form of love.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2020

The sheer fatuousness of Johnson’s speech, the absence of any discernible values, or a backbone to put behind them, raises in me an unfathomable, hot, eye-pricking sense of having been betrayed.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2016

Travolta plays Shapiro as an Easter Island head of fatuousness, with Spock eyebrows and pursed lips, trailing famous names like bread crumbs.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2016

"Messieurs," he lisped, with that fatuousness he affected, and with his eye fixed coldly upon Chatellerault, "I have a toast for you."

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael