fatuousness

The time has come to put this exercise in fatuousness out of its misery.

Dave asked with a fatuousness that still further irritated him.

The menu ranges from finesse to fatuousness, so one must order with care.

"Well, I lay there helpless in the face of my own cowardice and fatuousness again,"he said.

Why hadn't she belted him in the jaw for that fatuousness?

But her unwillingness to engage with the world at large more or less guarantees a descent into fatuousness.

The fatuousness of all this made me stare.

The above comment is entirely incorrect - at least to the point of fatuousness, if not mischievousness.

Enkidu suppressed a smile at the boy's fatuousness.

In these images, politicians are used as convenient symbols of the fatuousness and failures of American public life.

She kept on, her fatuousness was her gift to him, a kind of amends, to prove him right.

"To my mind this is fatuousness.

However fatuous we all were in the 1970s, he has managed to show that the 21st century can take fatuousness to a new level.

Indeed, it is the sort of fatuousness that runs for years in London and maybe a few weeks in New York.

But to acknowledge the potential virtues of European economic integration risks missing the essential fatuousness of the whole project.

These bits of fatuousness are unexceptional in contemporary Washington journalism; they stand out in my mind only because I wrote them myself.

And fatuousness.

The man's fatuousness was understandable, but he wanted to ask-- "Bought out Star Fleet?"

"It is when you have well-trained, experienced units," said the High Commander, raised back into fury by the fatuousness of the remark.

With everyone so "on" so noisomely, the city would seem a tough act to capture for all the fatuousness of its performers.

Peter alone suffers from fatuousness overdone, a period fault that Sayers soon blotted out."

The big man had a disconcerting habit of looking at me as if waiting for the fatuousness of my own remarks to dawn on me.

I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

He embodies an unflappable masculine gentility that conceals utter fatuousness and ineptitude.

But his new film can also be admired for its atmospheric power, which is as real as its verbal fatuousness and softened rigor.