Sentences with phrase «becoming fatuous»

Debate is becoming fatuous and divisive: yes indeed, articles such as this one, that are based on a complex web of half - truths, spin and downright lies, really don't help.

FACT — the debate is already becoming fatuous and devisive all round.

Not exact matches

Rather than change his position, Edison issued fatuous warnings about AC's «greatly enhanced risks to life and property» and became involved in a smear campaign that began with the public electrocution of dogs, horses, and cattle — experiments purporting to demonstrate the lethality of AC.

Ryan Gosling might yet become an interesting director, but his first effort behind the camera is fatuous and shallow

In the kind of methodologically sophisticated, intellectually fatuous study that has become all too common, Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff claim to have found long - term economic benefits for students whose teachers have higher «value added» scores.

The global - warming doomsayers have been in full throat since Sandy, and a carbon tax — a disincentive to use fossil fuels allegedly responsible for global warming — has suddenly become a real possibility, on top of all the other fatuous taxes already exacted from the American public.