Although Chevy Chase, the evening's subdued host, referred to the writers' strike and suggested this might mean more brevity and fewer fatuous remarks, he was wrong.

What a fatuous remark.

Chauvelin paid no heed to the fatuous remarks.

I haven't known distinguished men on whom I could pass fatuous remarks.

The irritating thing was that in the racket of voices Winston could hardly hear what Parsons was saying, and was constantly having to ask for some fatuous remark to be repeated.

Karoitoh grinned and fortunately his smile coincided with some fatuous remark of the security Emassi, and Karoitoh rose, able to signal that they really had best end their conversation.

Shawn defended the falsehoods with the fatuous remark that their author was "a man of utter integrity, and that's all I have to know."

It was in the course of your somewhat fatuous remarks concerning the recent Saurian remains discovered in the Solenhofen Slates.

If by then you are within five minutes of the end of the examination period don't waste time by writing such fatuous remarks as "sorry, no time".

You remember Will Rogers's fatuous remark about never having met a man he didn't like.