The quotations by User Loomis, two of which in fact post-date my best'guesstimate'for the Holocaust order, are therefore " utterly and fatuously " beside the point.
22.
At points in this recounting, Boyer sits in an SUV in a rainstorm, looking fatuously reflective as his deliberate, monotonous voice-over narration, ponderously slow to the point of somnolence, metes out the facts.
23.
Mackin's bitterness has driven him to claim, fatuously : " I have really been able to see how the marchers in the civil rights movement must have felt, being American citizens and being denied ."
24.
In it, Mermaid Barbie grins fatuously near her swimming " pool, " a video screen on which Hallmark-style images fade into shots of the world the way it actually is : parched, crowded and ridden with filth.
25.
When the footage is punctuated by George Plimpton and Norman Mailer musing on the larger significance of it all, the results verge on self-parody as both seem to strain fatuously to get into some tough guys'club of the mind.
26.
In future episodes, David assails tasteless office gags ( only after he has become the victim of one ), becomes frighteningly petty during an office social function and fatuously injects his galloping ignorance into a management consultant's day of motivational speaking.
27.
As we're told in the amusingly ironic prologue _ it's one of those fatuously upbeat civic-booster films popular decades ago _ Sheffield was once " a city on the move, the jewel in Yorkshire's crown ."
28.
There is, for instance, Katherine's rich friend who boasts fatuously about a trip to Bali ( " $ 5, 000 just to get there . . . the most spiritual place I've ever been " ) but then becomes more honest.
29.
Allen's script roughly takes the form of a documentary, with the dramatic scenes introduced by a series of Ray experts, including Allen, his former writing partner Douglas McGrath, and a succession of fatuously tongue-in-cheek jazz authorities, including critic Nat Hentoff.
30.
At one point, the series fatuously observes, " Infidelities remained a source of marital strife "-- duly noted-- and also offers the earth-shattering suggestion, " the century closed much as it opened-- obsessed with sex ."