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
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
All the fatuousness that had led me astray to the lure of her blue eyes, upon the train and in hollow Benton, surged anew now—perhaps seasoned to present taste by my peppery defiance of Daniel.
From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd
