The little girl smiled
fatuously, as though I were paying her compliments.
The wife of the "odious person" was witless and
fatuously conceited.
This time the opportunity presented what he
fatuously termed to himself a "cinch.
Because he had been kind to me at school, when he was captain of the eleven, and I his fag, I had dared to look for kindness from him now; because I was ruined, and he rich enough to play cricket all the summer, and do nothing for the rest of the year, I had
fatuously counted on his mercy, his sympathy, his help
She had turned to wave her hand before going into the house, and he was still smiling
fatuously.
Whoever chooses to write on his childhood in Jerusalem, Cairo, and Dhour in our own day and age is duty bound to make less of the idiosyncrasies--the three piece suit, the pipe, the field sports, not forgetting the occasional amours--so
fatuously overdone in the past and more of how he related to the social, aesthetic, and political ideas that came and went in the Middle East in the 1940s and 50s.
Indeed, one of the final ironies that Kurlansky couldn't possibly have been aware of is the fact that the Basque Nationalist Party head he quotes in his book, Xabier Arzalluz--the man who so
fatuously boasted about the funding of the Guggenheim in Bilbao in all of its glory--is the same Arzalluz who, piqued after reading Juaristi's stinging critiques of Basque "autonomous" fantasies for the next millennium--descended to the level of repeatedly suggesting to Juaristi that "if he were not happy here, neighboring Castile is a broad and welcoming land.
Highley opens with an allusion to Sir Thomas Wilson, Keeper of the Records at Whitehall under James I, who
fatuously remarked upon surveying the State Paper Office that England appeared to have had "more ado with Ireland than all the world beside" (1).
Reconstruction drawings intended to illustrate the realities of prehistoric life can be
fatuously revealing of preconceptions in the minds of the modern illustrator and of the researcher who briefs the illustrator.
Henry attempted to intimidate the pilgrims: he
fatuously claimed their demands were not clear enough.
He kills more men than John Wesley Hardin, who
fatuously shot a man just for snoring.
Eschewing the
fatuously triumphalist drug war rhetoric that rings down from Capitol Hill, she also concedes that "the drug culture always will be with us in some form.
