fatuous
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The concept is simple but wildly effective, with enough force to push the viewer past many of the film’s fatuous elements.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
You’d be unwise to look to the movies for economic insight—this one amounts to an extended fatuous argument that an individual who behaved like a corporate restructuring would be a psychopath.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
On Monday, he repeated the fatuous nonsense he's spewed for ages:
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2025
The writing, however, has none of Anderson’s wit, tending instead toward a kind of broad and fatuous slapstick that’s closer to “2 Broke Girls” than “The Royal Tenenbaums.”
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023
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.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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