fatuity

How To Use fatuity In A Sentence

• From most silly novels we can at least extract a laugh; but those of the modern-antique school have a ponderous, a leaden kind of fatuity, under which we groan. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
• EU Referendum: The ultimate in fatuity? skip to main | skip to sidebar The ultimate in fatuity?
• The civilization is a concept which is opposite to barbarism, fatuity and ignorance. It symbolizes the progressive degree and civilized state of human society.
• Nevertheless, always willing to reinforce failure with, er … more failure, ICES are now calling for a complete ban on cod exploitation AND – in the height of moronic fatuity – are telling EU member state governments that other species, such as haddock and plaice, will have to be severely curtailed if cod is to be protected. Pity the poor readers
• To him, the fatuity of the learned judge is an example of our tendency to throw about words that have lost all meaning, even in the mouths of educated people.
• Perhaps I just realized the sheer fatuity of what I was trying to do. 52449_CLARA
• The men who assembled had just as good brains as anyone to-day, and ... they had a substantial understanding of the needs of the world situation, yet collectively, and because of their haunting paralyzing sense of the Mass and Press behind them and of their incalculable impulses and resentments, they achieved an effect of fatuity far beyond the pompous blunderings of Versailles. Garrett Johnson: The Crowning Failure of the Old Governments
• Unquestionably after all, how many people from a comprehensive to use the word "fatuity" in such a fluent manner? DK's schooldays...
• Perhaps I just realized the sheer fatuity of what I was trying to do. 52449_CLARA
• Martial, however, was one of those men who are capable of reckoning on the future in the midst of their intensest enjoyment; he had already learned to judge the world, and hid his ambition under the fatuity of a lady-killer, cloaking his talent under the commonplace of mediocrity as soon as he observed the rapid advancement of those men who gave the master little umbrage. Domestic Peace