Sentence examples for fatuity from inspiring English sources

Muddling through is no substitute for clarity and the church is now paying for its fatuity and lack of a magisterium.

The book was a best-seller, but it provoked the scornful charge of personal fatuity that has dogged Boswell's name ever since.

Marlow is a bore, Sebald is guilty of rare "fatuity, and James wonders whether the hilarity he feels at Naipaul's description of an Indian cleaner "would be less hilarious if you were an Indian".

"Desolation" is an eloquent howl at the grotesque fatuity of a tame life, and a work of exceptional virtuosity.

Instead he pointed to the bound notebook in which so many sitters had written comments, expressed their praise and blame, wisdom and fatuity.

At another point, he identified, with un-Kerry-like concision, the fatuity of the President's reasoning: "It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and be wrong".

The eight Boston batters not named Ortiz, by contrast, stayed upbeat throughout — a boys' club, you felt — despite a similar collective fatuity at the plate.

Doubtless the public will resolve never to litter the subway atain, if only to protect itself against some greater fatuity by the men who deal in public relations.

Were history to take an interest, it would more likely conclude that the Avengers' bickering was super-fatuity writ large.

Instead, interviewees were selected on the basis of 150-word mini-essays on such fatuities as communication skills, demonstrating leadership and the like.

It would be, well, a Comment, or an op-ed piece, with all the necessary fatuities of its kind.