The impropriety of such a course, unless the work was, like Buffon's, transparently ironical, could only be matched by its fatuousness, or indeed by the folly of one who should assign action so motiveless to any one out of a lunatic asylum.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
We want to reap where we have not sown, the fatuousness of which we should see as soon as it is mentioned.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
He had even told her in his fatuousness-it was true, but how fatuous-that he hadn't been able to help coming.
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim