Word: fatuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Although he seemed to be admirably suited to the role by virtue of a rather innocent, angelic aspect (red cheeks and curly flaxen hair) he did not appear to be quite comfortable in his depiction of amiable stupidity. His casual attitude was somewhat forced; his smile just a little fatuous. And one could have wished that he had not struck quite so many classical poses...
...speech -- if one deleted the Murphy Brown passage -- was a reasonably persuasive and sometimes eloquent sampler: a punitive-inspirationa l hymn to hard work, family, integrity and personal responsibility. Some people later took Quayle's words to be fatuous white-bread truisms -- Norman Rockwell evocations of an America long gone. But if the ideas could be considered outside the inflammatory political and racial context of the moment, they had a ring of common sense. A number of black leaders, including Jesse Jackson, might have made the same points without controversy -- and have. The family, ^ Quayle said, is important...