"When people fatuously ask me why I don't write constructive criticism, I tell them there is no such thing," he wrote in his memoir.
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Weiss of course sets about in her column arguing that those who hold controversial opinions are fatuously and unfairly labeled "fascists" by hysterical leftists, or something.
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As if that were not enough, Mr Trump fatuously accuses the EU of being "set up to take advantage of the United States" and chastises it for unfair trade.
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The Davos men are Voltaire's children, a transnational and fatuously progressive élite; Trump and Brexit voters are Rousseau's new peasant hordes, terrified of losing cultural continuity and clan comfort.
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Thirty-six original prints from his encyclopedic typology "People of the 280th Century," chosen by Sherrie Levine and thoughtfully arranged by Sander's grandson Gerd, include a priest, a member of Parliament, circus performers, and a fatuously solemn Nazi storm trooper.
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After two years indulging in all kinds of fantasies about what life outside the EU would be like—"no downside…only a considerable upside", as the first of Britain's three Brexit secretaries fatuously put it—Parliament has started to reconcile itself to Brexit's harsh trade-offs.
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" And to this admittedly baggy semantic category, Orwell added the examples of people applying it fatuously to the Boy Scouts, the London Metropolitan Police, the Catholic Church and the British Labour Party, until he finally concluded that "as used, the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless.
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They both remind us that totalizing maxims have often been fatuously and unequivocally sententious in their urge toward controlling domination, embellished (as they seem to always be) with a sort of self-importance and fallacious, sweeping universalism that entangles the difficult idea of the multiple into the simple and unitary.
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I p. 90 He continued to write reviews and short stories for the university journals, and developed a reputation as a talented graphic artist, but formal study largely ceased. This neglect led to a bitter feud between Waugh and his history tutor, C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, dean (and later principal) of Hertford College. When Cruttwell advised him to mend his ways, Waugh responded in a manner which, he admitted later, was "fatuously haughty";Waugh, "A Little Learning", p.
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In March 2014, the show attracted controversy when Colbert used a "fatuously fake parody stereotype character, 'Ching-Chong Ding-Dong,'" to "satirize knee-jerk mockery" of Asian dialect. The name had been used before without incident, but the show's official Twitter account — run by an unknown individual — tweeted the remarks without context, leading to wide outrage over social media, including a hashtag campaign, "#CancelColbert", that was a worldwide trending topic for over 24 hours, thanks in-part by Colbert himself helping make it go viral for his show.
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China Legal Publishing (), 2006. although children were sometimes spared and women were sometimes permitted to choose slavery instead. Four of the purged scholars became known as the Four Martyrs, the most famous of whom was Fang Xiaoru, the former tutor to the Jianwen Emperor: threatened with execution of all nine degrees of his kinship, he fatuously replied "Never mind nine! Go with ten!" and alone in Chinese history he was sentenced to execution of 10 degrees of kinship: along with his entire family, every former student or peer of Fang Xiaoru that the Yongle Emperor's agents could find was also killed.
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The government of Napoleon III was undoubtedly startled by the Prussian victory over Austria, and urgently sought to reform their army to face the conflict with Prussia which seemed inevitable and imminent. Their senior officers entirely failed to grasp the methods of the Prussian General Staff. The Chief of Staff of the French Army, Marechal Edmond Leboeuf, fatuously stated in 1870 that the French Army was ready for war, "down to the last gaiter button." In the event, at the outset of the Franco- Prussian War, 462,000 German soldiers concentrated flawlessly on the French frontier while only 270,000 French soldiers could be moved to face them, the French army having lost 100,000 stragglers before a shot was fired through poor planning and administration.
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