Word: fatuousness
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...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...
...their play. When the two toga-clad men encounter difficult philosophical problems--"Is freedom chaos?"--they call on the "audience" for help. To their rescue comes Doris Levine, a blonde, boppy philosophy student from Wellesley, played with convincing ditziness by Isabelle Hurtubise. In the course of the action other fatuous students are called to the stage: Lorenzo Miller (Arzhang Kamarei), the pompous playwright, Trichinosis (Joel Pulliam), another Greek who invents the ridiculous deus ex machina to save the play and a regal but spacy Queen (Elizabeth Price) who strolls in with a roast beef sandwich. Woody Allen himself even phones...
...limitations in no way comforted him") and breathless dialogue ("There's got to be a way!") will not find it hard to decipher Marilyn's ideological prejudices. The hero is a black Republican Senator from Georgia and a defender of the Star Wars program who is up against a fatuous Democratic President with "little understanding" of his country's security, an intelligence community "crippled by the micromanagement of Congress" and the elitist editor of Washington's biggest daily, who is conducting his own private foreign policy when he is not in bed with a Senator's wife. That...
John (Karl Saddlemeyer), Geoffrey (Richard Claflin) and Richard Lionheart (Adam Geyer), Henry's sons, provide both comic relief and a tragic element as they struggle for the throne. Saddlemeyer's fatuous complacence amuses the audience: "I'm Father's favorite--that's what counts." Claflin shows resentment at being the proverbial second son by spitting out every sarcastic line. Geyer shows the roots of Richard's Oedipal dilemma early in the play with his seemingly inexplicable hatred of his mother...