Word: fatuous
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...John Tesh The former host of Entertainment Tonight served up embarrassingly fatuous commentary during NBC's telecasts of the Olympic gymnastics. A cross between Barney the Dinosaur and Fabio, Tesh said things like, "It was the U.S. who had the key, soaring through the rarefied air, newly baptized in the fire of Olympic competition." At one point he cautioned, "There's something in the warm summer air tonight, can you feel it?" Yes, it was a blast of hot air from a himbo who knew what had happened at events taped that afternoon. E.T., take him home...
...even human sacrifice. It is Western civilization--specifically, its values of reason, individualism, and freedom--which has made the greatest progress in history in eradicating such horrors from the face of the earth. Ear from smearing the man who introduced such a life-giving culture to this hemisphere with fatuous invocations of Hitler and Stalin. We should hail Columbus as one of history's greatest benefactors. --Barry D. Wood, Member, Harvard Objectivist Club
...case, you see a late neolithic pi, or jade disk--a circle of translucent greenish stone with a hole cut in the center, like a harvest moon rising, whose austerity reveals its maker's deep understanding of its material--the notion of progress in art seems more than normally fatuous...
...Catholic theology to the America First movement of the 1930s--the roots of Buchananism as a popular phenomenon lie much closer to home. Republican politicians who are looking for someone to blame for this spoiler in their midst should look in the mirror. Buchanan's populist demagoguery, his fatuous targeting of so-called elites, his pandering to white middle-class self-pity, his scapegoating of minority and outsider groups--all these are familiar themes of Republican rhetoric of recent years...
...when commenting on an explosive marital spat occurring next door, it is incumbent on a neighbor to be diplomatic and sympathetic. But must one be fatuous too? Here is Canada, a great neighboring country, choking on cultural diversity, very nearly dying of cultural diversity--and the spokesman for the President of the U.S. offers a mindless, mantra-like homily in praise of the very source of Canada's ongoing agony...