Sentences with word «fatuous»

Orlando is, unambiguously, a champion of an imperiled Christendom; his stories certainly can not be resituated (in the manner of contemporary Arthuriana) in a realm of fatuous New Age pantheism.

They point out that the discussions and reply were not peer - reviewed, which probably accounts for some of M&W's more fatuous statements.

The only edge in the movie is represented by Russell Brand, who actually lived the lifestyle, but he's muzzled by a bad Liverpool accent and a gay subplot that's as insincere as the swaggering anthems by fatuous hacks like Foreigner, Starship and Journey.

In their place, voters will have to endure even more fatuous communications by politicians on social media, ever more empty of content and thought, ever more full of false friendship and spurious empathy.

However, such scenarios are mostly dubious and artificial, and often rest on fatuous assertions, such as the claim that robots can make use of sensors not available to humans (as if humans can not make use of radar or infrared imagery, etc.) or that robots can take more risks (as if remotely operated robots can't do the same).

The idea of increasing farm output 1.3 % / yr to 2050 on a 20 % reduced land area is simply fatuous wishful thinking.

Whirlwind celebrity marriages and the clichéd quickie Vegas wedding can often be described as fatuous love, as can any ardent, committed connection built without much substance behind it.

When you combine the fire of passionate infatuation and the bonds of commitment but don't intimately like who the other person is, you get fatuous love.

We're used to the fund industry holding retail investors in contempt, but one would hope even the dimmest advisor would see through such obviously fatuous claims.

The interpretation of faith as the «courage to be» struck me as fatuous when I was a teenager, and as an adult I have seen Tillich used to justify any and every attack upon traditional forms of Christian faith and morals.

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

as its top - line fatuous poster quote.

Factor in a bodyshell, aerodynamics and suspension all extensively reworked to generate more grip, and Lamborghini's argument that the SV actually needs its four - wheel drive to make good on the extra potential doesn't seem quite so fatuous.

Youth, beauty, and death have long been Gus Van Sant's recurring motifs, but in this terminally whimsical tale of romance between morbid cuties, the elements don't so much flow together into a stirring whole as coagulate into fatuous prettiness.

It is really quite fatuous to use a discredited study — and I have not the slightest clue about Wakefield — an entire line of investigation into autism environmental triggers.

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.

When I tell people about avoiding flying, people consistently reply with three specious, fatuous responses they know they're just lying to themselves about to sleep better.

Many had derisively called him the Most Interesting Man in the World, in reference to the satirically fatuous spokesman for Dos Equis beer.

It is asked whether the ideal of an «objective history» might not be either fatuous or, worse, a form of ideology posing as science.

scholastic philosophers for allegedly considering angels dancing upon the end of pins, but nobody seems to denounce modern economics» fatuous obsession with game theory.

This is such a load of fatuous non-sense.

It is imagined this way: In Jesus» passion God is present among us in the midst of our suffering as — in Alfred North Whitehead's fatuous phrase — «the fellow sufferer who understands.»

To deny the poor practical access to this excellent institution is fatuous policy, and the department comes off as not only awkward but mean.

This realism would not have meant the abandonment of dreams, but only the relinquishment of fatuous hopes.

The popularity of betting exchanges has created even more fatuous fans, who believe they can make a small fortune by placing huge wagers at short - priced odds.

«The belief that regulation always implies costs is equally fatuous — something that's obvious to Liberal Democrats, who have never taken the view that the market is always right,» Mr Huhne said.

The comparisons are not entirely fatuous.

We can leave that to their party websites, their colleagues writing fatuous op - eds or parroting lines to take on the airwaves and producing party political broadcasts with emotional backing music.

Now that you have been made aware do you really still think that this is all to do with mediocre students choosing fatuous courses at third rate institutions or are you merely populating the discussion with ill equipped straw men?

His finest hours came with his awe - inspiring demolition job of the Government's fatuous annual report, one the finest Parliamentary performances of recent times — and just maybe the moment when the nation began to see the truth about New Labour.

If you are a crusty and you fancy having some sort of fatuous demonstration about something that's got on your nerves then what you've go to do is notify the police six days before the event with the date and the time and the proposed route and the police will look after you.»

There was a time when it served a useful purpose — but that time has gone when «human rights» embraces so many fatuous cases as we have witnessed over the last decade.

I am more interested in winning the election, and for that to happen we need to avoid creating fatuous Aunt Sallies, and bring back Clarke.

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.

Intimacy plus commitment gives you companionate love, while fatuous love is born when commitment meets passion.

A considerable chunk of the first act is dedicated to their troubled schooldays; we endure long minutes of fatuous Skype conversations, and a seemingly endless scene in which the lads buy ice - cream in Venice.

It's unclear whether we're supposed to take Graham seriously or whether he's designed as part fatuous comic relief and part plot device.

, which grows in stature and audacity the more I think about it, is cannily likened by critic David Ehrenstein to the work of Alfred Jarry — making Nicholson's fatuous president a version of Pere Ubu — but the merits of Jarry aren't exactly those of adults.

Sixteen - year - old Walt (Eisenberg) instinctively sides with his father as he trots out Bernard's fatuous philosophies on life and literature to impress girls (summing up Kafka's Metamorphosis — which he hasn't read — as «Kafkaesque»).

There is something deeply ugly and crass in director Antoine Fuqua's fatuous drama - thriller, based on the 80s TV show with Edward Woodward.