The accolades being showered upon him for finessing a potentially violent confrontation are all too reminiscent to the response to the British leader's fatuous claim to have secured "peace for our time" from Adolf Hitler by appeasing him.
It is all very well redirecting the Bank of England from one target to another, but that's pretty fatuous if the Bank of England doesn't have any bows or arrows.
To catalog the kaleidoscopic excellences of Mr. Brown's cast would leave no room to say more, though brief mention must be made of Jonathan Weir's letter-perfect Fredrik Egerman and Brandon Dahlquist's gloriously fatuous Count Carl-Magnus.
On its face it was fatuous given that Galant's behavior constituted an administrative offense for which one pays a fine, rather than a criminal offense for which one goes to jail.
On the other hand, the Post also served up a double-dose of fatuous spin from Obama partisans about the President's derring-do as a hands-on leader in combating terrorism.
At that point she becomes an obsessive organizer of the search, and a compulsive scourge of anyone who threatens to stand in her way. (One fatuous Pakistani functionary insists that the abduction is an Indian plot.) Given Angelina Jolie's celebrity, the obvious danger in such a take-no-prisoners style of acting was imposing herself on the real-life story, but that hasn't happened.