Saxon wrote in a typical example, " are touted by educators who fatuously pronounce that, ` if students see how they will be able to use mathematics to solve problems that are interesting to them, then they will want to take more math courses .'Poppycock ."
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According to this bio-pic, Cassidy's problems stem from his father, Jack Cassidy, portrayed fatuously as a vain womanizer and fading actor, who at one jaw-droppingly campy point notes that his initials are the same as Jesus Christ's and wonders which of the two should be more impressed with the other.
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Like a student who has been cramming hard for the big test but has not paid attention all semester, Bush babbled fatuously about events abroad ( on the Rwanda genocide : " No one liked to see it on our, you know, on our TV screens " ) and displayed a truly lamentable grasp of the particulars.
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Eager to hop on the " Blue Room " gravy train for its own commercial purposes, Newsweek oversold the sexual come-on, taking a lead from the British critic, apparently on sabbatical from a monastery, who had fatuously labeled Ms . Kidman's performance " pure theatrical Viagra " at its debut in London.
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"Brave " is a word used too often and frequently fatuously when describing show-biz products or performances, but " Titus " comes close, laying bare one man's genuine pain and inviting the world to have a really good laugh at it . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ What : Comedy about a dysfunctional family.
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After decades in which the U . S . War Department covered up the records regarding Riley and the St . Patrick's Battalion, writers alternately depicted the deserters as traitors or heroes and a handful of 19th and early 20th-century writers fatuously used the St . Patrick's Battalion as " proof " that Irish-Catholics could not be trusted as loyal Americans, history's fog is beginning to lift from the saga of Riley and the St . Patrick's Battalion.
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A December 19, 2009, article by Stuart Taylor, Jr ., in the " National Journal ", in which he noted that McClain, in addition to signing the ad and letter, had slimed the lacrosse players in opaquely worded, academic-jargon-filled individual statements full of innuendo, pointed out that [ t ] his disgraceful behavior apparently did not trouble Duke's Academic Council, which in February 2007 made McClain its next chairwoman . Taylor further noted that a recent issue of Duke's own publication, " Duke Today ", had heaped special attention and praise on [ English professor Karla ] Holloway and McClain and featured their photos in a gushing five-part series titled'Diversity & Excellence,'focusing on Duke's efforts to hire more black faculty members . None of the articles in this series, Taylor wrote, mentioned the roles of Holloway, McClain, and most of the African and African-American studies faculty . . . in smearing innocent Duke students-- not only the lacrosse players but also the many others whom the letter fatuously accused of fostering an'atmosphere that allows sexism, racism, and sexual violence to be so prevalent on campus .'
