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  • n  a ludicrous folly

  • He's happy to play dumb allowing Dewey to live profitably within the unexamined premises, the mythic fatuity, of his media-driven myth.
  • You might just as well talk about the general fatuity of American journalism, American medicine, American mathematicsor American finance.
  • None of them require the audience to embrace heavy-duty fantasy or comic-romantic fatuity.
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  • Christopher Hitchens in Bloomberg
    Slamming the Nobel committee's decision as a "selection of absurdity," UK writer Christopher Hitchens described anti-war poems written by Pinter as "a preference for dictatorship larded with obscenity and fatuity," in a Wall Street...

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