vapidity

When we had been there half an hour or so, the case in progress--if I may use a phrase so ridiculous in such a connexion--seemed to die out of its own vapidity, without coming, or being by anybody expected to come, to any resuIt.

These three, all in their late twenties, are lonely, disenchanted with the bland vapidity of their everyday lives, and yearning for solidarity.

A new contender for clickbait vapidity has emerged.

The rise of populism in Poland and elsewhere is a reminder of the vapidity of that idea.

Yet her measured arrangement of all the kitsch totems and pretensions that have come to stand in for a particularly lobotomized affect supposedly native to upscale subdivisions--a near-eugenicist obsession with fitness and cleansing, loungewear, yappy toy-dog breeds, and manicured pools, as well as an outmoded belief in the virtues of modernist singlefamily home architecture, all tastefully modulated by a feigned noir voyeurism--does not defamiliarize their surroundings so much as reinforce their vapidity.

Due in part to his two opponents, now both largely forgotten--John Lindsay, "six-feet-three-inches of vapidity," (a smoother version of the current mayor), and Abe Beame, "five-feet-five inches of banality"--the press corps increasingly focused on Buckley.

Corbyn's leadership, which prior to the general election had been criticised for doctrinal confusion, vapidity and incoherence when it came to policy, is a potent force as a particular kind of representation of Labour's ethos--though Corbyn's is far from the only kind of ethos within the Labour movement.

(19) In Shakespeare's play, the advice is addressed to Laertes, while Polonius's instruction to Ophelia, "think yourself a baby" (1.3.114), suggests that Ophelia best enter into an infant-like mental vapidity. In other words, Shakespeare's Ophelia is instructed not to have a "self" that she might be true to.