fatuousness
Example Sentences
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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
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
The fatuousness of these episodes—many of which might have been plucked from the annals of Maoist public-shaming events—underscores the surreal quality of life at many American colleges these days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2015
Superficially susceptible and inclined to be experimental he had not the instinct of the collector and was devoid of fatuousness.
From Tenterhooks by Ada Leverson
