Word: fatuous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appalled at the fatuous spinelessness of so large a segment of America's fourth estate. Editors of great newspapers should have a more comprehensive appreciation of the cold, hard facts of history...
...support. Baggs set up a six-man editorial board to grill candidates in off-the-record sessions. As Florida's Democratic primary campaign drew to a close this week, the result of Baggs's inquisition was an editorial policy far more savvy, far less likely to be fatuous than the old hit-or-miss ways...
...poetry of the two camps thus vacillates between the precision of text book exercises and the protest on lavatory walls. In taking great pains to be original, both brands of poetry have degenerated into glittering, fatuous babble...
...performers in the cast (Steve Hill, Hume Cronyn), the TV play belonged to the women. As the perichole (half-breed bitch), Viveca Lindfors munched off the scenery with her "razor tongue" until the pox dulled her cutting edge and brought pathos to the role. Judith Anderson played the mad. fatuous marquesa in a style that would have fit nicely into a theater but came a little floridly into the living room. Yet both actresses gave the show its finest moment: a fateful mutual-humility act when the marquesa, in a weepy, alcoholic glow transferred her fierce love for her daughter...
...male Liza Doolittle, whom he goes about refashioning in his own cultural image. Actually, Irvine is an emotional neuter except for the heartsickness he feels when Greek mulcts Greek. Spiro, who as an adolescent saw Communists murder his father and mother, regards Irvine's sentimentality about Greece as fatuous. In Spiro's world one cheats to live, and underdog eats underdog...