Joe Longstaffe was by common consent a Christian man, and not of that too general kind which excuses its foolishness and fatuity on the ground of its religion.
The girl was almost sorry for the man: his fatness, his fatuity appealed to her pity.
He muttered the phrases lightly enough, but a certain fatuity in them seemed to attract his attention when he heard their sound.
With a fatuity hardly more credible than creditable, the Lalugwumps, as they call themselves, deny the immortality of the soul.
Who can believe that such fatuity can have entered into our mind?
It would be tedious to give an account of Würmser's second attempt, which belongs rather to the domain of political fatuity than that of military history.
He speedily convinced Clarke of thefatuity of the Directors' proposals.
Weeping is common in the insane, even after a complete state of fatuity has been reached and the power of speech lost.
As the disease advances other muscles become involved, but until complete fatuity is reached, the prevailing expression is that of feeble benevolence.
Harold Smith turned away his head, and struck his hands together in token of his astonishment at the fatuity of the age.
A sudden rage at her ownfatuity fills her, when she looks back on that idiotic hope that had upsprung in her mind, that his object in coming to Blessington was to pardon her, and take her back to himself.
She felt her talent and her strength, but did not feel the fatuity and pride which weakened them and rendered them ridiculous.
Fatuity and insolence were united in him, and by dint of mounting a hundred staircases a day, and bowing and scraping everywhere, he had gained the ear of I know not how many people.
Miss Bennett, with a fatuity of which I had not believed her capable.
When he arrived he had no plan; and the Czar, perplexed by the fatuity of his ally, and the hostility of the Turks, refused to march his troops forthwith into Prussia.
Ida smiled a wan smile, and pretended to be interested in Bessie's parochial anecdotes--the idiosyncrasies of the new curate, the fatuity of every young woman in the parish in running after him.
This paretic fatuity now had possession of James; in imagination he was crowning and draping himself with multi-millions, power and fame.
In Wall Street there is a fatuity which, always epidemic among the small fry, infects wise and foolish, great and small, whenever a paretic dream of an enormous haul at a single cast of the net happens to come true.
He is said[331] to have cherished with blind fatuity an unfounded faith in the fidelity of Bavaria.
Unfortunately, with an unthinkable fatuity we permit him to be told that but for the very agencies that have put him in possession he could successfully assert a God-given and world-old right to the noses of others.
With the fatuity of a self-indulgent nature he remembered its immediate relief from pain, and forgot the anguish it had caused.
The extraordinary fatuity of this course, judged from a military point of view, is evident from the description of the boundary furnished by Major Charters, military secretary to Sir George Napier.
The peace of all British South Africa was seriously jeopardized by the weakness andfatuity of the Government of the Transvaal Republic.
As the Zulu system makes war a necessity constantly thirsted for by the army, advantage was taken of the easy opportunity of getting firearms afforded by the inconceivable blindness and fatuity of the British Government.
