insipidness

With different creative choices, the whole thing could have been a syrupy stew of inspirational insipidness, in which all of the losers turn out be winners after all.

In addition, reduction in nutritive value, insipidness and discoloration are other problems resulted from contamination of grains by Alternaria (Kosiak et al., 2004).

And yet in such a clear, brief poem using easily comprehended words, the poet manages to balance the insipidness of the plain style by using repetition and skillful interchange of pronouns and tenses.

Given its literary insipidness and political toxicity, the question of why Transition, an apparently serious journal of African thought, chose to publish Howe's article becomes pertinent.

Ward's and Holland's evaluations revolve around the question of whether the poem resists or reflects the supposed insipidness of rationalism.

"Facino Cane" portrays the banality, the insipidness, indeed, the very futility of life, understood in a blatantly raw perspective, where the core of literary truth is to overshadow the "pleasure of the text." In this optic, "Facino Cane" can be said to embody at once the quintessence of realism and its ineluctable failure, rehearsing, as it does, the birth of novelistic truth and its requisite demise.

While each girl's backstory has some merit, there just is not enough to overcome the insipidness of the basic plot.

L'io-narratore, il personaggio che sta al centro dell'immaginario circolo del Post-boy, conclude la serie dei commenti dei lettori con la seguente dichiarazione: "For my part I am of opinion if these sort of Prophaneness are indications of Wit, every fool may be so at the expences of God Almighty, and I think this Letter like the rest of the Discourses of this Nature, is beholding to a little pert jingle of Words, flashy, and positive Assertions, with a rambling kind Mirth to make the insipidness, and sterility of the Reason pass; in this Letter he seems to aim at Self Preservation, and yet takes the sure Path to destruction, in Body, Soul, and Estate" (22-23).

Shklovsky suggests that to counter the insipidness of automatised language, the word needs to be resurrected by deautomatizing it.