Word: fatuous
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...gushily sentimental, fatuous, vulgar, idiotic, by advocating dressing up in colonial attire, getting sloppy guzzling old colonial grog in reconstructed 1776-style inns, rapturizing over the usual glamour figures and their myths. Even Jefferson on your cover would blush in his reluctance to be so glamorized...
There were some extraordinary grace notes in the U.S. newspapers last week-remarks that might have been greeted as bathetic, fatuous or corny had they not been spoken in such moving circumstances...
...role calls for or can sustain. John V. Lindsay plays a U.S. Senator, the father of one of the kidnaped girls, pretty much as he played being mayor of New York City - like a B-picture leading man. At that, he is not the worst thing about this flaccid, fatuous film, though with such wealth to choose from, it is hard to say who or what deserves...
Nations and wars are too complex for such simplism. Hearts and Minds discounts those who were genuinely confused or frightened by Communism, and who were being used by McCarthy and his cohort. It minimizes or patronizes those for whom patriotism was more than the fatuous wearing of a flag in a lapel, yet never understood why their sons were sent off to die. On occasion, it brilliantly illustrates America's grievous misunderstanding and savage oversimplification of the Viet Nam War. But, oversimplifying itself, it dismisses those who perceived the intricacies of history, who refused to condone totalitarianism simply because...
...from the anylum and we find that her obsession with the children is supplemented by a heavy attachment to him--but the idea is too new and too late, and confuses things. Generally, details which attempt to reveal the pathogenis nature of the characters surrounding Mabel come off in fatuous and artificial...