Word: fatuous
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...Does that justify Michael Fay's sentence? A letter writer to the New York Times advised that "six of the best," as he suffered at an English public (that is, private) school, might cure all that ails American youth. Comparing Fay's sentence to a headmaster's paddling is fatuous -- but then, as John Updike once noted, old boys of Eton and Harrow can often "mistake a sports car for a woman or a birch rod for a mother's kiss." The pain from flaying with wet rattan, as it is done in Singapore, can knock a prisoner out cold...
...student body can decide what the intellectual level of campus opinion writing should be by changing its attitude towards debate. Fatuous scorn has no place in editorial writing. After all, hunh hunh....Beavis sucks....hunh hunh hunh hunh...
...sane among us know exactly which products to buy. We feel much more secure buying merchandise from a company that isn't deterred from insuring our safety by fatuous sentimentality about lower orders of life...
...Lelaina, by day a production assistant on a fatuous morning TV show, by inclination a documentary filmmaker, trying to use her pals' lives and thoughts to make a statement about their generation. She's an up-and-doing spirit in a down-and-out milieu...
...flack for Roseanne Arnold or Pearl Jam simply because their TV show and record album are at the top of the American charts. But the Floridians who packed the Sarasota Opera House in this sparkling Gulf Coast resort town would sit through any speech, however fatuous, that signaled the re-emergence of one of the world's most congenial -- and least likely -- film festivals...