I can think of twenty adjectives - fatuous, pointless, absurd. In this stage, he is always maudlin, expressing his love in a fatuous manner. Marcus was regarded as a fatuous young man, who had tastes for absurdities. Nor was the pledge mere idle words nor fatuous boasting. Lael Loewenstein of "Variety" called it "fairly fatuous but enjoyably slim family entertainment". Paul Fussell, the historian, describes him as "notoriously fatuous" during the war period. Otto falls into a series of fatuous affairs. Sheppard reportedly described the newspaper claim as "fatuous". Tim, a fatuous scholar, returns to London from Cambridge University with his Latin tutor. The moods of an individual with "fatuous affect" resemble the moods of a child. He suggests that such continuity, especially in the age of rapid electronic communication, is fatuous.