Example sentences for: fatuous

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  • Participants were invited to submit actual examples of authorial self-praise as smug and fatuous as Warren Adler's: "My novels ...

  • West's essay on Du Bois in Africana seemed a re-working of his essay on Du Bois in The Future of the Race . There is nothing new said in his Africana essay, and his presentism, his insistence on judging a historical figure by current moral standards, I find fatuous, just poor scholarship.

  • And long-suffering, one might infer: "He was so careful of not hurting anyone's feelings that he often listened to utterly fatuous arguments for hours on end."

  • Nor does anyone recall telling Mr. Lewis that he was free to express his views whatever they may be, no matter how fatuous or uninformed by the slightest understanding of the free enterprise system, and without considering for a moment that Slate is owned by Microsoft and that some of its staff members have young children and very little talent that would make us employable at a less saintlike, public-spirited, and compassionate company.

  • Friedman may be guilty of the fatuous contention that no two countries with McDonald's franchises have ever gone to war with each other, but Rieff, in Los Angeles , indulges in some fast-food mysticism of his own when he sees a harbinger of our globalized, miscegenated, Third World future in the advent of the pita fajita.


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