| In the early books, one was carried along by De Vries's unstoppable gags, his gift for spotting cant, fatuousness, and snobbery, and his grandly silly dialogue. |
| This kind of burbling fatuousness does not aid the cause of getting to the truths of war, and Burns should know better. |
| That makes you understand the fatuousness of nationalism because you can't tell the nationality of a bone. |
| Travolta plays Shapiro as an Easter Island head of fatuousness, with Spock eyebrows and pursed lips, trailing famous names like bread crumbs. |
| At its worst, Callan's labor reduces him to being the stenographer of Redford's fatuousness. |
| In the darkest days of the Dark Ages, no superstition surpassed this one for silliness, fatuousness, or just plain ignorance. |
