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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

It’s refreshingly free of the bombast and fatuousness that often come with the genre and features a winning performance by Alison Brie as an actress who finds work doing chokeslams and piledrivers.

From New York Times May 25, 2017

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 forethought had seldom been evinced more ironically. 

From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy




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