Sentences with phrase «issued fatuous»

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.

Not exact matches

Interesting in that context to note how Richard Reeves simply sleepwalks through this sort of issue in the course of his introduction, conjoining Darling's fatuous, managerialist comments about «vision» with Wilson's concept of purpose.

The Globe and Mail still has Rex Murphy blowing smoke whenever possible and that fatuous glibertarian Neil Reynolds (amazing man — he has been wrong about every scientific issue he discusses, a real triumph of ideology over reality), but even between them, they can't stink out the place the way that Corcoran could.