A free press in Malta in the Italian language is an absurdity.
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But in Scotland it is being carried to the point of absurdity.
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His success and reliability took man-love to new, twisted levels of absurdity.
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On the other hand there was something fascinating in the very absurdity.
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This is absurd; but the absurdity is interesting, as recalling the connection.
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Left to wander its own way, it tends to lead into silliness.
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That has profound implications beyond the hypothetical silliness of the Trolley Problem.
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So Menandros was just trying to collect evidence of Roman silliness, yes.
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His mischievous pixie quality and love of silliness will be sorely missed.
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Photo: supplied Kirin J Callinan toes the line between sincerity and silliness.
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This attempt to create a Travellers-free zone is nothing short of fatuity.
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Otherwise it is sheer fatuity, or an impotent explosion of literary spite.
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He listens to all this with an unbearable little air of fatuity.
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Or, if curse I do, it shall be at my own fatuity.
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It is certainly a beacon of slavering profit worship and extreme political fatuity.
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With the fatuousness of a weak man cornered, he clung to unimportant details.
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They were greatly assisted by the fatuousness of the Democrats.
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He had the fatuousness of those who deceive with impunity.
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The fatuousness of forethought had seldom been evinced more ironically.
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With a great fatuousness the middle class supposed that he was fighting for its cause.
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At least this Fourth Age, despite its fatuousness, is a time of energy and physical vigor.
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The fatuousness of all this made me stare.
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The fatuousness of this appealed suddenly to Bedient.
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Then, he was disgusted with his own fatuousness.
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Alas for the fatuousness of human malevolence!
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He had even told her in his fatuousness-itwas true, but how fatuous-thathe hadn't been able to help coming.
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This, you might think, constitutes a satisfying dig at the glib fatuousness of the walnut-brained poltroons who run the music business.
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We want to reap where we have not sown, the fatuousness of which we should see as soon as it is mentioned.
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Or maybe we're all overinterpreting, and all that has transpired this week is the standard Washington power dance, with duplicity and fatuousness by all.
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Fatuousness was puffed out like a candle in a wind.
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"You are Mr. Ward?" Dave asked with a fatuousness that still further irritated him.