Word: fatuousness
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Actually, any parallel between a wire-tap and the Chicago study is fatuous. Juries are as much in the public domain as the courts, and the argument for secrecy, far from concerning an individual's right to privacy, is a question of efficiency alone. It is quite true that forcing juries to operate in a bell jar, as it were, would intimidate them, that it would stifle comments which might persuade by their acuteness, or at least, by their absurdity, give jurors a perspective on their colleague's argument...
Despite rumors that Perón last March married one Isabel del Solar Guillen, 19, (in a civil ceremony in the city he renamed for Eva Perón), Nelly stayed his favorite right up to last week. Aboard the gunboat, he penciled a fatuous billetdoux: "My dear baby girl ... I miss you every day, as I do my little dogs . . . Many kisses and many desires. Until I see you soon, Juan D. Perón." Another time he signed "Papi," which translates roughly as Daddykins...
...said the President, is strong by power and by principle, dependent upon its caution and its wisdom. "By caution, I mean a prudent guard against fatuous expectations that a world, sick with ignorance, mutual fears and hates, can be miraculously cured by a single meeting. I mean a stern determination that we shall not be reckless and witless, relaxing our posture merely because a persistent foe may assume a smiling face and a soft voice. By wisdom, I mean a calm awareness that strength at home, strength in allies, strength in moral position, arm us in impregnable fashion to meet...
...more positive side, the Editors stand in absolute awe and amazement at the Reunioners' ability to muster the high seriousness which we have always considered a peculiarly undergraduate property. At most other schools "reunion" means fatuous old fellows cavorting in beanies, and that is a very comforting thought for any young man who would cleave to the notion of irresponsible middle age. Instead of constant revels, however, we are faced with the sight of Harvard Reunioners attending symposia and discussing the problems of the University and the world with a virtuosity and vocabulary that we, again, thought the special property...
Rebecca West, firm, formidable, and possessed of a frown like a side of the Grand Canyon, likes to see her nouns buttressed by stout adjectives like "fatuous," "obscene" and "idiotic"; even "bitchery" is in her vocabulary. At worst, her hardbitten prose is that of an obsessive governess threatening children with hellfire; at best, it expresses an energetic mind absorbed in the pursuit of common sense and justice. In A Train of Powder Author West examines with Old Testament sternness some recent efforts to bring malefactors before...