No, I replied, it's completely fatuous because Warhol is always fatuous.
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Cushy professions such as law are protected by fatuous regulations.
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But you didn't want to make him a fatuous asshole?
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This idea strikes me as fatuous and fantastical at once.
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The attack on the plan -- that it would raise taxes -- is fatuous.
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They are also fatuous in terms of US economic and geopolitical interests.
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Mr. Sisto's Caesar, confident and fatuous, doesn't suggest his ambition or its lack.
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Kalukango), the well-paid mistress of the fatuous and tyrannical Mayor (Marc Kudisch).
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And the president's decision to withdraw from the accord is similarly unconscionable and fatuous.
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In addition to repetition, the morning-show formula calls for heaps of fatuous banter.
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So a fatuous fellow I knew from Esquire marketed that tidbit over a drink.
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It's worth understanding this fatuous claim, as the Trump administration is likely to repeat it.
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Universities put on fatuous courses, such as cultural studies, in an attempt to remain relevant.
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Defying official bans, stinging satires about a fatuous new emperor have percolated through social media.
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The pursuit of happiness… is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken.
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The party's left wing talks of abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency—a fatuous slogan.
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If not, sentences spanning dozens or hundreds of lifetimes are fatuous and serve no legitimate purpose.
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However, Cramer called that comparison "fatuous," given the proprietary and commodity characteristics that separate the entities.
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Since even Trump doesn't claim he can reverse time, his proposal for a temporary ban is fatuous.
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Today's righteous projects, after all, will inevitably seem fatuous and blinkered from the vantage of another age.
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The first is that it is dull, dull, dull in a pretentious, florid and archly fatuous fashion.
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Fast-talking and fatuous, self-important and servile, he embodied the "commedia dell'arte" of Trump's dysfunctional crew.
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Opinion Columnist I've never been a fan of Davos, that annual gathering of the rich and fatuous.
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The men who leer after Candy are truly fatuous primates, fit for little but gibbering at the moon.
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With equal ease, alas, it can turn musical masterworks into dance cliché or literary classics into fatuous jollifications.
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The fatuous part is for Mr Trump to claim that his decision is designed to invigorate American coal mining.
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And, through the sheer fact of possession, he has underpinned China's fatuous historical claims to the South China Sea.
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And that despite his failing hip and fatuous flippancy during emotional crises, he'll always find women who want him.
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The notion that a Brexiteer could simply hop on a train to Brussels and negotiate a better one is fatuous.
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It is in principle and logic as fatuous now to pretend that Taiwan as an independent entity does not exist.
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It fatuous when the group is an artificial agglomeration of different races, as is the case with the "Hispanic" category.
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More recently, Foer published some of literary history's most fatuous correspondence between himself and, yes, Natalie Portman in T Magazine.
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Antoinette and Stephen get saddled with a third detective, a fatuous, patronizing showboater whom French deploys to delicious comic effect.
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His fatuous response to Saudi Arabia's murder of Jamal Khashoggi is that we're getting a lot of money from the Saudis.
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Sixth, the fatuous attacks that Trump caused this virus to spread because of budget cuts are a new low in politics.
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What the truly fatuous laws underscore is how unthinkingly we rely on a mesh of norms to keep us out of trouble.
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To the Editor: It is commonplace but fatuous to ask whether President Trump or Kim Jong-un "won" or "lost" in Singapore.
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"Apparently they take no inspiration from Queen Elizabeth ... and instead take refuge behind fatuous patriarchal justifications for not doing so," Kingston said.
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But that assimilation hasn't really been positive — in fact, it trends toward painting the original documentary as "plodding and fatuous," overly melodramatic cheese.
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You can expect angry and fatuous tweeting and weird personal touches, as in the remarkable, cloying letter to Mr Kim of May 24th.
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Joe 3.0 is also a prelude to the fatuous moguls of HBO's "Silicon Valley," to which "Halt" is a temporal and tonal bookend.
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While I am generally fond of preposterous people, Parreno's fatuous floating fish-shaped balloons seemed literally FedExed in, empty of any genuine substance.
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After fleeing to the West he is equally unimpressed by the fatuous conceptualist art then in vogue, and struggles to find his own vision.
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But it's fatuous to discuss what role they ought to have because we are not going to be able to stop them from continuing.
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The sale transferred a bragging right, padded with fatuous hype from well-qualified art people singing for their suppers, in a money-addicted system.
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Hustlers isn't a fatuous tale of empowerment; it's also not ignorant of the sisterhood its characters find in the midst of their sordid deeds.
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During the campaign, she added nothing to her thin Brexit strategy beyond resurrecting the fatuous slogan that "no deal is better than a bad deal".
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Out of a commendable distaste for the opacities of artspeak, Perl insists on a simplicity of language that can sometimes spill over into the fatuous.
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The sight was reassuring: Fatuous youth would forever be drawn here, and Notre-Dame would forever accommodate them, as permanent as a mountain of granite.
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When Facebook Memories conjures up a years-old post, it imbues even the most useless instance of your digital activity with fatuous meaning, because it's yours.
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It's doubtful that the left will ever be entertained by anything as fatuous and openly cynical as Fox News or the right's other, presiding media clowns.
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In kick-'em-when-their-down style, Trump made a fatuous complaint that somehow Germany is "captive" to Russia due to energy imports from that country.
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At the show, part of me felt as though I were writhing on a pin: again and again the carnal tapioca, the vacant gazes, the fatuous frolic.
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Charlie's father, David (Cary Elwes), is a stunningly fatuous candidate for California governor who made his fortune as the star of a blockbuster Hollywood franchise about pirates.
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Trying to assist are a fatuous drywall repairman (Patton Oswalt) and another working-class father (Tim Blake Nelson, no relation to the director), whose son befriends Anthony.
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Lee Sizemore, the fatuous narrative director, seems like the only person still arguing for that version of Westworld, and he's several notches down on the corporate hierarchy.
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At the joint White House news conference Wednesday, Mr. Erdogan showed little reciprocity for Mr. Trump's bonhomie, making no pretense of taking seriously Mr. Trump's famously fatuous Oct.
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" Cotton describes himself as a yes man — not in the fatuous sense, but as someone who will take on any job, "then figure out how to do it.
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Mr. Thompson (as the faithful Kent) and Ms. Houdyshell (as the doomed, fatuous Gloucester) and Pedro Pascal (as the dastardly Edmund) deliver clear-spoken but oddly unmodulated performances.
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Where the script and the production excel are in the scenes in Stephen's office, where Rachel responds with understandable exasperation to her therapist's seemingly fatuous questions and suggestions.
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And she is just as shrewd an observer of the people (fatuous romantic idols, doddering priests, love-struck bed-sitters) that these women, vigilant and perceptive, themselves observe.
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There's something quite uncomfortable about that whole duality in which things presented as fatuous are actually cries for help, which is partly how the "San Junipero" playlist functions too.
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Speak when you really have something to say, and try to avoid the florid and fatuous diplo-speak that can make a secretary of state look and sound ridiculous.
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Any distinction, moreover, in the age of the social media, between "domestic" and "foreign" terrorism is entirely fatuous; the El Paso shooter evidently was inspired by the Christchurch shooter.
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Waititi tiptoes the same fine line as Iannucci, deflating his most toxic characters with ridicule, but never making them merely fatuous or ignoring the shattering consequences of their beliefs.
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In pursuit of this fatuous task, ECB and BOJ balance sheets are ascending at the blistering pace of a combined $180 billion per month of newly created fiat credit 7.
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In Indiana Joe Donnelly declared himself a fan of the wall; in Missouri Claire McCaskill said she liked the sound of "Operation Faithful Patriot", as Mr Trump's fatuous troop deployment was called.
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She not only has fire in her belly, but also a withering contempt for the likes of Boris Johnson, who can't be bothered to come up with anything more than fatuous slogans.
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Beyond the fatuous, a host of people switched on genuine lightbulbs about their eternally selfish estranged dads, or found a social framework through which they could crawl out of subtly abusive partnerships.
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Things are improving, but being voted the best airport for food is still a bit like being voted the least-fatuous Kardashian: you only look good in comparison with your flaky peers.
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Out supporters have said the money could be better spent on schools and hospitals in Britain, but Major said "these promises of expenditure on the National Health Service or elsewhere are frankly fatuous".
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In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, the '-xit' suffix has become fairly ubiquitous, with Frexit, Czexit and Scoxit only a few of the fatuous and irritating portmanteaus coined in the time since.
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The ideology of progress tends to regard the traditions that have customarily bound communities and which mattered to Trump voters alarmed by the rapid transformation of society, as a fatuous rejection of progress.
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The nation would, the administration had expected, go along with another Big Lie, would once again kowtow to the president's fatuous rationale that "vermin" had to pay a price to Make America Great Again.
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"Barry" is well-cast top to bottom, though, from Henry Winkler as Gene, the acting class's passionate but fatuous instructor, to a scene-stealing Anthony Carrigan as NoHo Hank, an incongruously polite Chechen lieutenant.
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In emphasizing that the punishments themselves are un-Islamic, opponents can further expose this fake dichotomy between the West and the rest as a fatuous tool of political expedience to prolong the Sultan's reign.
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It didn't endear him to the people who were criticizing him for his Shapiro-philia—just look at the replies—and it continued to fuel the fatuous cyberdrama surrounding his initial suggestion to follow Shapiro.
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But despite the erotic charge, Mac seems more interested in promoting Whitman as a humanistic alternative (who happened to be gay) to the carnage of the war and to the fatuous minstrelsy of Stephen Foster.
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A self-designed symbol of New York pugnacity and success, he has been a fixture in the city's tabloid newspapers for four decades; Mr Cruz is best known to many New Yorkers for his fatuous slur.
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Ignorance has become a form of weaponized refusal to acknowledge the violence of the past, and revels in a culture of media spectacles in which public concerns are translated into private obsessions, consumerism and fatuous entertainment.
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Among the many concerns preoccupying these fatuous climbers are the suspiciousness of uncentered mimeographs; the "smell" of diminishing value; the Depression-era allure of jumping out a window; and the perceived vulnerability of office toilet stalls.
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Our loyalties, she suggests, are far more complex, more shifting, than the fatuous "cricket test" once suggested by the Tory politician Norman Tebbit for measuring an immigrant's assimilation according to whether they support the home team.
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Rather than offering a fatuous expression of regret for the collapse of his country, I ought to have apologized for having played even a miniscule role in what was, by any measure, a catastrophe of epic proportions.
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Word of possible foul play has already reached the ears of Mohammad Butt (a sublimely fatuous Bhavesh Patel), the Integrity Officer for International Sports Security, who shows up in the Sheffield legion hall where Dylan is practicing.
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Some inside Google think it took too long for bosses there to react to what they consider a fatuous screed; while others disagree with their decision to eject Damore from the company altogether for speaking his mind.
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"Wolfert" (which I did not see) introduced theatergoers to Jerry F. Wolfert (Andrew R. Butler, here reprising the role), a filmmaker, self-published writer, occult devotee (Kenneth Anger is presumably an inspiration) and sleazy, fatuous and blustery egotist.
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For example: Some inside Google think it took too long for bosses there to react to what they consider a fatuous screed; others disagree with their decision to eject Damore from the company altogether for speaking his mind.
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"The only thing new here is the possibility of a re-acceleration in Apple's service revenues, but it's still—I found it fatuous—because it was about the Chinese no longer cracking down hard on gaming," Cramer said.
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Terje is portrayed with more ambivalence, and Mr. Mays (who won his Tony for the one-man tour de force "I Am My Own Wife") expertly locates both the fatuous egotism and the heroic intelligence in his character.
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Looking ahead: The annual parade of the fabulous and fatuous will have an overlay of protest on Sunday night, as Chris Rock hosts the 88th Academy Awards amid demonstrations against a second consecutive year of snubs for minority actors.
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Because this vote will be about fame and celebrity and public moxy, about qualities that make it fatuous to hold McGregor's credentials up against something like the scoring of nine points from play in an All-Ireland hurling final.
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" At dinner parties, he wrote, "I much prefer the company of an expert pig breeder or hungry whiskey distiller to that of a fatuous foodie waxing ecstatically about Peruvian peppers or some young hot-shot chef's latest fusion concoctions.
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The unrepentant snob Basil Fawlty, the beastly glamour-pusses Edina and Patsy, the fatuous narcissist Alan Partridge, and the thirsty buffoon David Brent: these classic British characters are all flawed in the unapologetic manner of contemporary edgy American comedies.
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Today, left-wing political practice seems to have degenerated into a fatuous contest of who can appear the most "woke," measured in terms of how many "microaggressions" one can identify and how easily triggered one is at the smallest perceived offense.
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While targeting such common Python foils as the fatuous upper-class and the easily swayed proles, the movie also indulges in elaborate set pieces and gross-out jokes, in what ultimately becomes an unsparing vision of humanity at its most vile.
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As the years went on, and her halo only brightened, she was encouraged to vent on many subjects about which she was inexpert, and she tended to overrate her gift for ukases and opinions, which increasingly tended toward the fatuous.
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But, in the frantic and fatuous days before the NBA trade deadline, when everyone is ready to believe every dumb and unverifiable thing, there was still room for the sort of sweet and stupid singularity that reminds you how small it can be.
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The past week has seen a tsunami of articles denouncing Boris Johnson, the grassroots' favourite, as an exploded volcano, a fatuous fool and an incompetent pipsqueak, who is not taken seriously either by the Trump White House or the chancelleries of Europe.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former prime minister John Major on Sunday accused the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union of fatuous and squalid claims on immigration and the cost of membership to dupe the public into voting out at this month's referendum.
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For more than a decade, during the 10-season run of his Comedy Central program "The Colbert Report" and on "The Daily Show," Mr. Colbert had played the role of a character called Stephen Colbert, a fatuous, self-obsessed conservative political commentator.
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There she is ridiculed by her fellow pedants, who have little use for her sentimental take on the genre; wooed by a fatuous professor who studies the folkways of football chants; and attacked by a group of drunken karaoke singers in a bar.
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All of them have said numerous silly things about politics, economics and history — Scruton does quite a lively job of cataloging them for us — and some of them (Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek, in particular) have an especially impressive track record of fatuous pronouncements.
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This Sunday, while the harried mothers of Massachusetts and Rhode Island stir crab dip, the president will be pulling for Tom Brady and Bill Belichick's dynastic team to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl 51 (sorry, those Roman numerals are too fatuous for me).
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How else to explain the unquenchable life — or rather lives, for there have been many — of Richard Hannay, the charmingly fatuous fop who keeps defying death all over the world and has now returned to fight bad guys with bad accents in New York at the Union Square Theater?
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Yet in another fatuous speech, the kind of which he seems to specialize in, Mr. Barr attacked Apple on Monday for not helping to unlock two iPhones that he claims the government needs to scrutinize, saying the company has given him "no substantive assistance" with an important criminal investigation.
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That seductiveness is exerted on characters as diverse as his earthy wife; his Desdemona-besotted stooge, the wealthy Venetian, Roderigo (a perfectly fatuous Matthew Maher); and the young soldier Cassio (a radiantly open-faced Finn Wittrock), the central pawn in Iago's scheme to convince Othello of his wife's infidelity.
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As the author of columns that ran a few weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal and on these pages which clearly documented that the median household income, meaning the middle class, has gained about $2023,000 of income in just three years, I knew this headline was fatuous.
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While it's critical to stand with her against the deluge of transphobia that has been unleashed on her in the aftermath — or the fatuous claims that she's a "traitor" or a "Russian agent" — Manning is poorly served by enablers who insist that there was nothing for her to be sorry about.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Disappearing Acts, the Museum of Modern Art's second Bruce Nauman retrospective in a quarter century, is a repackaging of an artist whose propensity for Neo-Dada stunts in the late 1960s evolved over five decades into fatuous gallows humor and an inexplicable obsession with torment.
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The protagonist, again Mr. Crawford, is a less likable twit than in "The Knack" — a fatuous lieutenant who manages to have most of his platoon wiped out, including John Lennon's character, mainly in the course of going behind German lines in North Africa to establish a cricket pitch for an advancing British general.
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I've always been slightly leery that Succession invites us to dismiss Willa because she's a call girl — sex workers unduly get a hard time of it on TV — but this sequence reveals that, no, you should be dismissing her because she's a fatuous, pompous fool who's more interested in looking good than doing anything real.
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The irresistible plot turned the major in charge of the company (Marvin) into a sneerer at fatuous military authority and a harsh disciplinarian who nonetheless stood up for every man in his charge; the criminals, more eccentrics than psychopaths, turn out to be heroes when they blow up their target, a luxurious rest house for German officers.
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It is fatuous to fret over whether they also amount to, say, campaign-finance infractions — even "major" offenses in that category, such as the 2008 Obama campaign's acceptance of nearly $2 million in illegal contributions, are so trivial in the greater scheme of things that they are commonly settled by the payment of an administrative fine.
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That insight led them to denounce Washington's support for dictators and call out the moral hollowness in FDR's fatuous line that Anastasio Somoza Sr. may have been an S.O.B., "but he's our S.O.B." They should not be surprised today that the Washington establishment's rush to embrace the Castro regime in pursuit increased trade would only further entrench the family's hold on power.
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" The Court concluded that solitary confinement caused prisoners to go "into a semi-fatuous condition, from which it was next to impossible to arouse them, and others became violently insane; others still, committed suicide; while those who stood the ordeal better were not generally reformed, and in most cases did not recover sufficient mental activity to be of any subsequent service to the community.
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" The court concluded that solitary confinement caused prisoners to go "into a semi-fatuous condition, from which it was next to impossible to arouse them, and others became violently insane; others still, committed suicide; while those who stood the ordeal better were not generally reformed, and in most cases did not recover sufficient mental activity to be of any subsequent service to the community.
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Not Vanya, the steward of his late sister's estate (played with defiant, abject rawness by a brilliant Mr. Sanders); or his niece and fellow manager, Sonya (Yvonne Woods, pinched with care); or her imperious father, Alexander Serebryakov (an elegant, fatuous Mr. DeVries), an aging professor in residence with his new, beautiful young wife, Elena (Celeste Arias, giving a traditionally glamorous part a homespun naïveté).
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Abbott desired attention, a willing listener not only to his credible descriptions of the brutality of prison life ("You can't stand the sight of each other and yet you are doomed to stand and face another every moment of every day for years without end") but to his less credible—and frankly, fatuous—take on Marxist philosophy, built on a random assortment of books collected in magpie fashion.
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