Sentence examples for seems fatuous from inspiring English sources

Mr. Olmo, who opens the second part, strikes a great many poses and executes the evening's only ballet steps (rapid bourrées, multiple pirouettes en attitude) in a preening solo that seems fatuous.

Since our book "Worst Pills, Best Pills" lists many safer, equally effective alternatives to Feldene, Mr. Krugman's theory that the ban reflects part of the "general hostility toward corporations" seems fatuous.

Under such trying circumstances, it seems fatuous to counsel patience.

We hear that people who make $200,000 a year feel middle class and insecure, and it may seem fatuous, but I don't think it's insincere.

Will the words I'm spilling here seem fatuous or hysterical or naïve by the time they're read?

Hugo kept Republican liberalism from seeming fatuous by insisting that the liberal Republican has a singular, mystic insight into the intrinsic doubleness of life.

(Homer has a final love affair, with the flower child Lissy, whose youthful body is attractive to him even as her ideas seem fatuous).

A few years later, Mr. Pressman was a devotee of the French New Wave -- the age when the rules about how to make a film began to seem fatuous or suspicious.

What they are doing is a carefully thought-out comedy about the history of women in ballet: how ballet ennobled what might seem fatuous in femininity (e.g., those dinky hand gestures); how it also gave women athletic power (e.g., those grands jetés); how, through these means, it posited the female as an emblem of the ideal.

(Homer has a final love affair, with the flower child Lissy, whose youthful body is attractive to him even as her ideas seem fatuous). It's in these sections, where fictional characters cavort with historical figures, that "Homer & Langley" is most buoyant and entertaining.

The suggestion that Wesley's life and death mean that "an entire world is ending" also seems oddly fatuous since the qualities repeatedly attributed to him -- failed ambition, duplicity and self-delusion -- are familiar human frailties, common to every age and era.