Word: fatuousness
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...effort to be aesthetic as well as amusing, Ivy throws in some unrelated art touches. Some of these like the history of a block of ice from the delivery truck to a glass of tea are fatuous and only chop away at the movie's strongest leg, the script...
...years have appeared, jerry-built, to justify restrictiveness. Further, the year to year doctrinal shifts (first, the grounds were morality, then fear that the draft might put freshmen in the Houses, and finally this) suggest that the stated reasons might be camoflage for more deeply-felt convictions, too fatuous to publish and too sickly to withstand prolonged scrutiny...
Overstreet's remedies verge on the fatuous ("If we could grasp what other persons are saying ... the major hostilities of life would disappear") and the contradictory ("It is out of the vast amount of sheer unbalance in the economic life that the major hostilities of men have arisen...
This week the U.S., Britain and France made another pact with Germany (see INTERNATIONAL). This one, at least, lacked the fatuous overconfidence of the last. Victors and vanquished were far more keenly aware of the dangers ahead. The fact of the peace itself and all the terms of the contract were influenced by the threat of Communist aggression. If the West's strength and unity grew, the threat was less; if the West fell apart or stagnated, the threat would grow...
...speak in general terms of the action we should take in the event of a breach of the truce, and I used the words 'prompt, resolute and effective.' I do not believe they were bad words to use. Certainly . . . they are better than 'tardy, timid and fatuous.'" He had made, he added, to the obvious relief of his listeners, "no final commitment...