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An interlude satirizing the stultifying fatuousness of the royal mission is followed by one that fawningly celebrates the magnificence of Diana deigning to speak to Welsh well-wishers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

In “Spectacular” he rescues a middling segment called “Downtown Addy’s,” a “Downton Abbey” sendup in which Harlem Renaissance figures like Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston and Adelaide Hall gossip and declaim with mock-aristocratic fatuousness.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2020

The sheer fatuousness of Johnson’s speech, the absence of any discernible values, or a backbone to put behind them, raises in me an unfathomable, hot, eye-pricking sense of having been betrayed.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2016

Travolta plays Shapiro as an Easter Island head of fatuousness, with Spock eyebrows and pursed lips, trailing famous names like bread crumbs.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2016

The fatuousness of this appealed suddenly to Bedient.

From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Comfort, Will Levington