Word: fatuous
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...Fatuous...
There were millions of us with sense enough to appreciate the superior qualities of Herbert Hoover; millions of us who hoped, for America's sake, that he would be returned to the White House. But I don't think any of us were fatuous enough to regard one school's vote of 4-to-1 in his favor as evidence of amazing popularity...
Sirs: TIME is becoming fatuous,* fat and pudgy in the intellect. Witness: its claim that Dean Hill is "crawling." If he's wrong, he's wrong. Grantland Rice can say whether. I hope he will. But to accuse Mr. Hill of anything but sincerity is all those things mentioned above (and below...
...Fatuous, a. 1. Silly; stupid; foolish; blandly inane;-often with a sense of complacency...
...firmly withholding it in herself, to the derisive portrait of an actress called "Glory in the Daytime," her objective skill never falters in making vivid ordinary conversations motivated only by busy curiosity and vapid malice. No one else has her ability to make casual human types seem abysmally fatuous. Just as good in their way are the three or four lighter pieces included in the book. Nothing could be funnier than "The little Hours," an account of Mrs. Parker's midnight rendezvous with La Rochefoucauld. The late Elinor Wylie, who sometimes wrote in a similar vein, was apt to betray...