1 The mediocre in poetry is merely fatuous ; in sculpture, it is ugly.
2 For the time being resistance was fatuous , and it accepted the inevitable.
3 Never has a great democracy's fate hung on so fatuous a figure.
4 His utterances were fatuous ; mere exhortations to the country not to worry.
5 The reference to VE Day manages to be both fatuous and offensive.
6 Even temporarily calling off the wonderful and completely fatuous hunt for wockets.
7 Arnold Jacks differed widely from the common type of fatuous young man.
8 That will be Sam Merton -the faithful but rather fatuous Sam.
9 A fatuous reflection, perhaps; yet every moment's observation seemed to confirm it.
10 He surprised himself smiling with a fatuous indulgence of his enjoyable fancies.
11 Carter was too fatuous at times, and at other times too restrained.
12 They were never significant, practical men who clung to these fatuous ideals.
13 He recognized only his own weakness of the infatuated lover's fatuous timidity.
14 His eyes, narrow and seemingly colorless, regarded her with a fatuous complacency.
15 Upon such a basis, or lack of basis, all discussion becomes fatuous .
16 I haven't known distinguished men on whom I could pass fatuous remarks.
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