Just because we've had to live with the ghastly consequences of their fatuous, self-interested actions for the whole of our adult lives, that doesn't mean we're qualified to judge them.
I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.
The anonymous "man" responsible for starting it appears in line one, and we imagine a tyrant, making a cruel and fatuous demand, as tyrants do: "Range me all men of the world in rows".
You'd never think you were in Leicestershire.'" But he has managed to raise his consciousness: "I have now realised what a fatuous remark this is.
Their victimhood is an invention like, it has to be said much of the rest of what passes for history in Scotland, from the romantic myths about kilts and tartan to the fatuous film "Braveheart".Andrew Wilson, a Scottish Nationalist member of the Scottish Parliament, says Scotland must lose its national chip if it is to rise above "mediocrity".
Using the Marxist label is as fatuous as bringing Hitler into any political discussion.
"The activists did a great job of scaring people about their food sources," sighs Norm McAllister, a farmer (and Republican state senator) who grows GM corn in Vermont.The fatuous fear of FrankenfoodsGenetic modification is one of the most promising tools for feeding a global population that will one day hit 9 or 10 billion.
That dark secret lies at the heart of "Pound Foolish", Helaine Olen's excellent book, a contemptuous exposé of the American personal-finance industry.With icy logic, Ms Olen, a journalist, demonstrates that much of the advice given by moneymaking gurus on television or in print is either fatuous or based on ridiculously optimistic assumptions about future investment returns.
The union is functioning as well (or as badly) as it did before French and Dutch voters rejected the constitution.The efforts by the Germans to use their stint in the EU president's chair to resuscitate the constitution may thus be as mistaken as the fatuous logo they have chosen (above).
The idea is wicked and fatuous in equal measure but also, as the economy liberalises, probably unworkable.
Once lost, credibility is hard to regain.That may seem a fatuous warning just now, with inflation, on the Fed's preferred measure, at only 1.8% in August.
