The fact that we don't find such documents puts the lie to such glib and fatuous justifications for immorality. |
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Suggesting that Irish inflation may have a knock-on effect on the eurozone is fatuous and absurd. |
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However, based on some of the fatuous comments I've been reading on this topic, we may expect to hear it soon. |
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His fatuous smile alone would have aroused their ire before he opened his vainglorious mouth. |
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Who came up with the fatuous idea of getting drunken hooligans to form orderly queues at cash points across Britain? |
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Now, as the repeated and often fatuous stories against the government in recent months show, the press has stopped playing the game. |
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They explore their sexuality, marveling at their youthful, maturing bodies, and exchanging fatuous remarks. |
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Upon her release for serving the full twelve years of her fatuous sentence we are going to have to live with the consequences of that decision. |
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It is not so fatuous that it becomes mocking, but the humor in the situation is evident. |
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A Victorian campaign to expunge it is likely to be futile, therefore fatuous. |
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This produced a fatuous contentment, which from the beginning led producers to view TV as a threat. |
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But as we all know from experience, the inarticulate can be shrewd, the fluent fatuous. |
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But lest anyone think I give succour to the nationalists by talk of national futures, let there be no such fatuous interpretation. |
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Mountaineering has engendered more fatuous comment than most human pastimes, much of it from mountaineers themselves. |
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In front of a painting in Florence, I made some fatuous remark to an American with backpack. |
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I've seen Titanic enough times to know that rich people are fatuous and greedy, while poor people are noble and virtuous. |
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He and his fatuous phalanx have made it clear that they're out to make certification much harder and decertification very much easier. |
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However intemperate, rude and fatuous Ken's outburst might have been, it was not racist. |
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Maybe we were all paying the karmic price for our premier's fatuous grandstanding. |
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Lurking on the fringe of the group as befitted my junior position, it came to me that I could make a memorable contribution to this rather fatuous debate. |
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He was cleverer than most everyone else, but he envied the carefree affluence of the rich and fatuous. |
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The firm sits over there in Luxembourg and laughs at us, while the Commission issues another fatuous communication. |
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The suggestion that there is any international legal prohibition against such a right is at best fatuous. |
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The minister's fiscal update was as audacious as it was inaccurate, as presumptuous as it was pompous, and as fatuous as it was fictitious. |
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Northrop Frye said that he wished he could do away with the fatuous and dismal notion that education is a preparation for life. |
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Throughout history, mankind has tried to separate itself from nature, but anyone who lives on the water knows this as a fatuous illusion. |
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I thought Latham was amazingly controlled in the face of a series of totally fatuous questions that raked over stuff that was already well and truly yesterday's news. |
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I also won't repeat, or defend him against, all the fatuous charges leveled against him. |
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Studio interviews are fatuous and location shots and features are so uninformative that they have to be spiced up with distorted camera angles and background music. |
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Gentle reader, let me assure you that this is fatuous nonsense. |
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Her carefree sloganeering can be maddeningly fatuous, occasionally making the reader feel as though he or she is stuck behind a car covered in bumper stickers. |
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I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery. |
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Now we are trying to do that, and frankly it is both fatuous and malicious to suggest that this is the creation of a European army or an attempt to kick the Americans out of Europe. |
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This may appear to be a fatuous question, but I do not believe it is. |
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The latter is a fatuous, shortsighted logic, whereas complementing our intentions and actions will allow us to expand and hone our capacities well beyond their present limits, to reach heights never before attained. |
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Just because we've had to live with the ghastly consequences of their fatuous, self-interested actions for the whole of our adult lives, that doesn't mean we're qualified to judge them. |
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On the face of it moving the talent to Soho can seem fatuous. |
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But the artist, who knows what the tools are for, laughs at this witlessness, pays no regard to fatuous words, and continues to use his workshop as before. |
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