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Yet "Revolutionary Road" -- the name fatuously meant to imply that America's revolutionary promise withers and dies in the suburbs -- caught the reflexive attitudes of many readers.

Why Does Hollywood Hate the Suburbs? 2008

"I should think it did," Kendal replied; and then their eyes met, and they laughed the healthy instinctive laugh of youth when it is asked to mourn fatuously, which is always a little cruel.

A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

You employ meaningless phrases as fatuously as the mayor.

McGinn Plans Second Housing Meeting; Still No Word on Fate of Housing Office « PubliCola 2010

The other reason cuts on this scale have been possible is that the government has hidden behind Darling's tax increases, arguing fatuously that it should receive credit for keeping them in place.

Tax cuts for high earners make no sense – give them to those on low incomes 2011

Ronald Reagan used to say rather fatuously that Democrats had gone so far left they'd left the country.

John Feffer: The Confederacy of Cupidity John Feffer 2011

Newt Gingrich, as a former professor of history, ought to know better than to characterize Obama fatuously as "the most radical president in American history."

Obama a 'Radical'? Get Real Michael Medved 2011

Silverberg famously and fatuously stated that it was obvious from their masculine content that the stories of James Tiptree, Jr. could only have been written by a man.

TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

What appears to be a commercial-ended product scowls at its own small coterie of advisors and grins fatuously at all the end-users.

Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri 2010

It's not, as Obama fatuously suggested, because of oil company lobbying but because it is very portable, energy-dense and easy to use.

Obama and the vision thing 2010

This week we've watched the euro continue to sink to record lows against the Swiss franc, sometimes fatuously referred to as Europe's new D-Mark but nonetheless the region's currency gold standard.

Time for EU to Finish the Job Terence Roth 2010