Both Uses
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Into the Wild
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- McCandless conveniently overlooked the fact that London himself had spent just a single winter in the North and that he'd died by his own hand on his California estate at the age of forty, a fatuous drunk, obese and pathetic, maintaining a sedentary existence that bore scant resemblance to the ideals he espoused in print.†
p. 44.5
- Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow.†
p. 132.8 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(fatuous) without intelligence -- often implying a smugness or complacency
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)