Word: fatuous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many stay-at-home editors thought that judged by their fatuous findings, all of the traveling editors had fallen on their faces...
...city apartment. Richard Wattis, his face, in an interminable, self-satisfied pucker, also has a dual identity, keeping the two separate with a bit more verve than Redgrave. Joan Greenwood and Dorothy Tutin are the befuddled fiances of the two slightly dishonest gentlemen. Both are ridiculously prim and appropriately fatuous...
...effort to be aesthetic as well as amusing, Ivy throws in some unrelated art touches. Some of these like the history of a block of ice from the delivery truck to a glass of tea are fatuous and only chop away at the movie's strongest leg, the script...
...years have appeared, jerry-built, to justify restrictiveness. Further, the year to year doctrinal shifts (first, the grounds were morality, then fear that the draft might put freshmen in the Houses, and finally this) suggest that the stated reasons might be camoflage for more deeply-felt convictions, too fatuous to publish and too sickly to withstand prolonged scrutiny...
Overstreet's remedies verge on the fatuous ("If we could grasp what other persons are saying ... the major hostilities of life would disappear") and the contradictory ("It is out of the vast amount of sheer unbalance in the economic life that the major hostilities of men have arisen...