Facing the mirror of the days to come, she tried it on. It was going to hurt. There was no doubt of that. She saw the fatuous, approving face of the eternal Mrs. Phillips, thrust ever between them, against the background of that hideous furniture, of those bilious wall papers--the loneliness that would ever walk with her, sit down beside her in the crowded restaurant, steal up the staircase with her, creep step by step with her from room to room-- the ever unsatisfied yearning for a tender word, a kindly touch. Yes, it was going to hurt. Poor Robert! It would be hard on him, too.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
The writer, with the fatuous presumption that was demanded of him by his readers, had concocted a romance suited to their palates. He bracketed the names of Miss Payne and Mr. Tolliver until he had well-nigh read the marriage ceremony over them. He played coyly and insinuatingly upon the strings of "~on dit~" and "Madame Rumor" and "a little bird" and "no one would be surprised," and ended with congratulations.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
The little girl smiled fatuously, as though I were paying her compliments. "It's all green and brown," she said, pointing. "Is it always like that?"英文原著 · 《Elizabeth and her German Garden》
COKESON. [Fatuously] S'pose I were to have a talk with him. We don't want to be hard on the young man.英文原著 · 《Justice》
The mansion
Had marked his fatuous expansion. The years were full, the house was fated,
The rotten structure crepitated!英文原著 · 《Moral Emblems》
I dined with Henry Christy last night, who was just returned from celt hunting with Lartet, amongst the Basques,--they are Pyreneans. Lubbock was there, and told me that my precious speculation was one of Von Baer's, and that the Finns are supposed to have made the Kjokken moddings. I read Max Muller a year ago--and quite agree, first part is excellent; last, on origin of language, fatuous and feeble as a scientific argument.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
A bunch of fatuous, mean-spirited bigots screaming platitudes about what America stands for.美剧 · 《The News Room》