| 单词 | vapid |
| 例句 | These painful testimonials explained more—a lot more— about Littleton than all the vapid media stories about video violence, Goths, game-crazed geeks. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, but I don’t understand how a person can say they hate nature. It’s like saying you hate happiness or laughter. Or fun. I don’t get how someone could be so freaking vapid.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston’s face at the mention of Big Brother. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z With his deep brown, almost black eyes, he’d glare so intently at his opponents that some said he was attempting to hypnotize them into making a vapid move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The white batting is fluffed out, exposed, the whole effect of him vapid and dislodged. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I learn that Lou Anne, whom I find dull and vapid and have never paid much mind to, gave Louvenia two weeks off with pay so she could help her grandson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I will not tolerate childish pastimes or vapid communications with friends. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “If it isn’t the genius who thinks vapid video games about intergalactic zombies are twenty-first-century learning tools.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z And when you’re not looking, she stares at you with that vapid, toothy smile. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z "Outlander" transformed him from a pretty, vapid romantic into a sinister pirate. From "You" to "Barry," we're fascinated by audacious grifters: The man who deceives us and himself 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Mr Silver delighted in savaging commentators who relied on vapid clichés like “momentum shifts” and “game-changers”. Pushback 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z With the exception of Edgar, the main characters and those around them can be vicious, vapid, narcissist. "What is happy?" Salon talks to the cast and creator of FXX's "You're the Worst" 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Though there are two more "Divergent" films coming, "'Insurgent' is so vapid it seems impossible that there's enough story left for another sequel." 'Insurgent' a routine action flick with no rebel spirit, reviews say 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z As he reflects on the possibility of writing again, he questions his hedonistic life and his rich, vapid friends, whom he entertains at raucous parties at his apartment overlooking Rome's Colosseum. La Dolce Vita plays out with Italian films at Cannes 2013-05-21T17:22:29Z In other circumstances, watching barefoot children swarm the politician could feel like yet another white-man-savior ploy for a vapid photo opp. Robert F. Kennedy and Mr. Rogers: Two icons of masculine empathy sorely missed today 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z As a conceptual artist, Yoko Ono practices a vapid kind of spiritual therapy. Yoko Ono’s ‘The Riverbed’ Has a Therapeutic Bent 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The protagonist of his first feature, “Perfect Blue,” is a vapid girl-group singer named Mima, who angers her fans when she leaves a successful trio for an acting career. Animation That Broke the Rules 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In Facebook rants, emails, and private conversations, friends and colleagues of mine have critiqued “Formation’s” lyrics as “dumb” and “meaningless,” her video as “vapid.” Dear liberal white guys: Before you offer your critique of Beyoncé’s “Formation,” read this 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Miley Cyrus, depending on one’s interpretation, is a genderqueer rebel, a fallen teen idol, a privileged white person appropriating black culture, or a vapid annoyance. It’s all fake: How the leaked call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West exposes the artifice of celebrity culture 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The bitter ex-wife who hires him to ruin her ex-husband’s favorite team, the vapid influencer, the prima donna athlete — nearly everybody embodies a stereotype that eventually gets subverted. ‘Ted Lasso’ Is Back, but No Longer an Underdog 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z He was brought up at Cliveden, a great house on the Thames: “a shallow, vapid, cotton-wool life”, he once said, dominated by his obtrusive and overbearing American mother Nancy, Britain’s first female member of parliament. Per ardua ad Astor 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z This speaks to what makes the central conflict feel so vapid and vanilla, as if the challenges of monogamy had only to do with the unavoidable friction between love and good sex. ‘The End of Sex’ Review: When Domesticity Kills the Mood 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Not the vapid mass-market imitations that purport to be pilsners but are really diluted and dull, but any number of craft expressions. Beer Outdoors and Around the Clock 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Don’t get me wrong, I’m not dismissing Trump’s tome as a vapid “Lean In for heiresses” or a “#Girlboss for girls whose dad is the boss”. #WomenWhoWork: what we know about Ivanka Trump's plan to empower women 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Abandoned dreams of artistic achievement, replaced by a television show fraught with vapid comments by its principals, fraudulent vérité and a highlight segment called “Vomit at the Coke Party.” | 'Cut': Behind the Scenes, Action and Angst 2011-05-27T21:40:40Z To an amateur observer, the quality of their performances looked higher than usual for a film drama, while the pieces they had to dance looked mostly vapid, garish or both. | 'Mao?s Last Dancer': Bruce Beresford on Li Cunxin?s Immersion in America 2010-08-19T23:20:00Z Society as a whole has a problem with decrying the things many girls and women like — from musical artists, to the entire genre of romance novels, to feminine-coded coffee drinks — as vapid. Drink this decadent pumpkin spice milkshake while contemplating seasonal creep 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z As summer ramps up, there are few who oppose a sublimely vapid pop single and its accompanying self-deprecating video. Iggy Azalea and Britney Spears' 'Pretty Girls' video is enough to make John Waters cringe 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z If you prefer your history whitewashed, then you probably won’t be too offended by Pocahontas, the weakest and most vapid entry in the Renaissance Ten. Ranking: The Disney Renaissance From Worst to Best 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Roxy’s delighted to waste vapid cheerleaders and reactionary creeps, but wants to up the ante: People who high-five! Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z Jason, a vapid designer of book jackets, is the de facto leader of a triumvirate of college buddies. Movie Review: ‘That Awkward Moment,’ About Men Evading Commitment 2014-01-31T00:15:53Z I'm all for rapacious corporations co-starring in vapid propaganda-comedies that only undermine them in the public eye. The Internship, a $60m pr blowjob for Google that thankfully flopped 2013-06-28T16:00:00Z Please be advised that the award ceremonies that follow are liable to be garish and vapid, shamelessly self-satisfied and arguably reductive in rubber-stamping the credentials of major Hollywood movies at the expense of everything else. Oscars 2013: which films will prevail? 2013-01-08T11:54:30Z That's the big underlying theme in "Green Lantern," which carries a healthy dose of Spider-Man and Superman morality in its brisk, yet often vapid narrative. 'Green Lantern': Ryan Reynolds lights the way through brisk, vapid narrative 2011-06-16T17:32:04Z It’s a vapid piece involving a tall table to slam and jump off and slide underneath. Review: Moves Versatile Enough for Philip Glass and James Brown 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z If not, there is unfortunately little to recommend this bafflingly vapid work, choreographed last year by Adam Hougland, the company’s resident artist, to a commissioned score by Mr. Frampton. Dance Review: Cincinnati Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2014-05-08T20:58:00Z She had also been a staff writer at Glamour, where she despised writing vapid relationship articles and ridiculous sex quizzes. Ten years of Jezebel: the website that changed women's media forever 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Yes, the houses get bigger every year, gables and gazebos come and go, but what is really striking about the McMansion is its vapid consistency as the decades pass. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z Most people assume it’s going to be wet, saccharine-sweet, limp, a vapid experience. Toni Collette brings life to the role of a dying woman 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z But these bees, with their foolish helmets and petty wing beats, and the giddy, vapid flowers are the ballet’s most trivial characters; and theirs is a long waltz, played here at a very moderate tempo. Critic?s Notebook: Ratmansky?s ?Nutcracker? Occurs in a Child?s World 2012-01-01T23:17:55Z Now they will have to re-concoct situations in which other women can emerge as cruel, opportunistic, vapid — or whatever Quinn demands of the show’s story arc. ‘UnREAL’ and ‘Another Period’: From female creators, sharp jabs at reality 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z But despite the high-tone interview subjects and visual references, there’s something unsparingly vapid about the project. Art Review: ‘Alexandre Singh: The Pledge’ at the Drawing Center 2013-01-17T20:50:38Z Here, yet another lovelorn, love-scorned killer takes on a series of vapid young actors for gore and profit. Ranking: Valentine’s Day Films From Worst to Best 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z In order to hammer home the women's vapid, degenerate existence, the story takes them out of New York and contrasts them with normal, right-thinking people. Sex and the City 2: What happened to good old Sex?| Victoria Coren 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z A person you thought humourless might show you their silly, goofy side; or maybe a colleague you pegged as vapid and one-dimensional is actually just shy and quite deep. Ask Molly Ringwald: do I have to go for drinks with work colleagues? 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Was the pale green puree under the vapid zucchini tortellini meant to taste like nothing? Review | La Vie on the Wharf is so bad I’m only writing about it as a warning 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Hers are our kind of vocals: high, a series of careless whispers, vaporous not vapid, and dispassionate meant as a compliment, as though passion itself can be measured in spittle and spume. New band of the day (Jessy Lanza 1,547) 2013-07-05T12:25:30Z Worse, because even vapid jukebox musicals apparently require a moral these days, this one forces Tully to give up his toxic bachelor ways in favor of his singing career, which instantly takes off. Review: ‘Escape to Margaritaville,’ Where Work Is a Dirty Word 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But of its five works, at least three made this art form look vapid and unimportant. City Ballet Features Works by Christopher Wheeldon and Troy Schumacher 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Related: My favourite film: Rushmore Murray has also been one of the few celebrities to be consistently funny, engaging and original on the late-night talkshows typically dominated by vapid chitchat. Bill Murray finally wins this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z The absence of a story produces problematic replacements, such as the American Dream, which easily morphs into vapid consumption and often reduces life to material gain. “Cultural anxiety” is unpatriotic: America’s mission is for liberty and justice for all 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Allen presents his Sid as the one sane man who, despite—or rather, because of—his neurotic inhibitions and practical artistic ambitions and ideals, remains invulnerable to such flights of grandiose and vapid thinking. Woody Allen’s Secondhand Sixties Radicalism 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In the book he refers to Ms. Lakshmi as his “Illusion,” and he describes her as irrational, vapid and vain. Padma Lakshmi Opens Up About Rushdie in Memoir 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Never mind that as soon as this scene is over, they lapse into mumbling, vapid chatter reminiscent of a high school first date. Movie Review: ‘Green,’ Directed by Sophia Takal 2012-09-07T00:07:34Z Yet the enduring interest of 1922 lies in the brilliance, madness, beauty, comedy and devastation with which writers that year fused the fragments of the ages to a noisily vapid postwar present. 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z As it progresses from the shock of Ms. Dugard’s early years with the Garridos to the weird domesticity of her later ones, “A Stolen Life” makes enough sharply insightful observations to offset vapid ones. Books of The Times: A Captivity No Novelist Could Invent 2011-07-17T21:24:39Z I took my uncle to father-daughter night at school, and I viewed the fathers of my friends with some skepticism—they seemed tall and vapid, much less dynamic than the mothers. My Absent Father 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z They have been celebrated in places where they have a long history, like Georgia and Slovenia, as emblems of cultural identity, while simultaneously being dismissed elsewhere for their vapid trendiness. The Polarizing Power of Orange Wine 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The first thing you notice about working at HubSpot is how cheerful and vapid everyone is. Review: ‘Disrupted,’ a Tech Takedown by Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Why build such a sophisticated system, only to run it through such a vapid game? 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Stephen Gadd, sporting a copy of Strauss's moustache, is equally insightful as complacent husband Robert, while Kennedy is marvellously unctuous and vapid. Intermezzo – review 2012-07-09T17:13:13Z Do I realize that many of these shows are not only vapid, but horribly offensive, and are tearing apart the very fabric of our culture? Snooki cures my OCD 2011-05-20T19:01:00Z Somehow, Perry's vapid kitsch pop seemed wiser, funnier and more knowingly calibrated than before. , then, arrives as something of a rude shock after what might, in retrospect, have been a wilful suspension of disbelief. Katy Perry: Teenage Dream 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z These scenes range from hypnotic to vapid, with the majority falling in a sort of humdrum middle ground. | 'The Tenant': ?The Tenant? by Woodshed Collective - Review 2011-08-28T21:54:33Z Speaking on background, they lamented the rapid-fire presentation, the emphasis on visually arresting but largely vapid videos, and the diminution of news from Washington and abroad. How ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ became a ratings winner 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z “I was a tomboy and I thought fashion was vapid,” she said. Ilaria Urbinati: The Stylist for the Quieter Half of the Red Carpet 2014-04-23T19:46:57Z As the rich have got richer and rigged the rules in their favour, upward mobility for the poor is becoming nothing more than a vapid dream. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z Fourteen years after Hot or Not was invented, it’s trying to beat everyone else at its own vapid game. How 'Hot or Not' Created the Internet We Know Today 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Charlotte is the Secretary of State in an Administration of no demonstrable politics; despite Chambers’s rise to power through vapid celebrity, it’s never clear what party he belongs to. “Long Shot,” Reviewed: A Timid Political Rom-Com with the Politics Removed 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Not that this music is vapid waffle, far from it. New band of the day ? No 952: Swimming 2011-01-24T16:38:35Z Still, it's Rainbow's comedic character — which he describes as "a slightly arrogant, somewhat ignorant, hopefully loveable, part gossip girl, part man-about-town, part vapid social media star"—that has met the present moment so perfectly. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes accused of being vapid, Scott tries to account for what he lacks lyrically in energy and passion. Travis Scott delivers an adrenaline rush at Fillmore 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Most of the work here feels vapid and generic, not questioning enough the soil and the ground we stand on, be it red, black, white or concrete. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Too bad that the three heroes-by-default are pretty vapid compared with the villains. Oliver Stone's Savages: It's the Dope 2012-07-05T12:00:32Z Now the millennials are able to revolt against their parents' sold-out materialism and vapid comfort by diving deeper into the dream of "dropping out" than their boomer parents had the courage to do. Millennials Answer the Call of Mexican Wine Country 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Quotations from professional athletes and team executives are usually insipid, vapid and cliched, and we have come to expect that, even to demand it. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Guess what? Newspapers have published fake news for ages. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z A lot of what’s being said on the stage of the Vineyard Theater these days is maddeningly ordinary — the kind of friendly, vapid conversation you might exchange with a stranger in a grocery store line. ‘Is This a Room’ Review: Why’d She Blow the Whistle? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z At least as much as Mr. Levin’s novel, it helped make the phrase “Stepford wife,” describing any woman who seems vapid and compliant, an enduring part of the lexicon. Bryan Forbes, ‘Stepford Wives’ Director, Dies at 86 2013-05-09T00:42:58Z For a minute someone might mistake this performance for that of a vapid, self-obsessed character in a 1950s movie, one of those sexist or homophobic caricatures. Trump’s “alpha-male” paradox: How gender bias makes his behavior seem manly, no matter what 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z More normal interesting people please, and less vapid celebrity gloss. TV review: Danielle Lineker: My New Stepfamily 2010-07-21T07:00:00Z Meyers’ lobbed one grenade after another at Trump — his hair, his accent, his racism, his reputation as a vapid celebrity, nothing was spared. The Donald Trump jokes are on us now: This public humiliation should have tanked his politics career — but it only fueled his fire 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z But she is also critical of the vapid form so much feminist commentary takes. Rachel Weisz: 'My parents were refugees. Brexit feels like a death' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z But this building is the uncomfortable product of art, architecture and big business: a well-tailored envelope covering a vapid haul of corporate cultural capital. Renzo Piano's new Oslo art gallery is a strangely soulless place 2012-10-11T12:30:00Z Now Laika has been resurrected as the subject of a vapid new musical, “Space Dogs,” an MCC Theater production that opened on Sunday and that stars its creators, Nick Blaemire and Van Hughes. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s as if Juliet, incapable of remaining upright in Romeo’s presence, must succumb to a constant, vapid state of swoons. Review: Original Leads Return in City Ballet’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Time after time, she played the vapid love interest, characters so underwritten that they struggled to be one-dimensional. Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Virtually every performance falls flat, aided no doubt by the vapid dialogue. 'Seventh Son's' medieval fantasy falls flat on every level 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Most viewers who first saw her in the US Office, playing the spectacularly vapid Kelly Kapoor, probably wouldn't have known that she started on the series as a staff writer at just 24. Mindy Kaling: 'My biggest challenge is being frequently underestimated' 2013-03-22T14:00:00Z They're often portrayed as the most trashy, vapid and empty-headed forms of digital entertainment, but it looks as if they may be particularly good at sharpening your mental skills. Are video games really the villains in our violent age? 2012-12-30T00:05:46Z “I’m interested in men’s aspirations, how they feel confident and how vapid that confidence often is,” she says. The pleasure revolution: the sex women really want 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z But generally “I Am Cait” was boring where it wanted to be serious, vapid when it wanted to be classy, fearful when it could’ve been real, and cheesy when it could’ve delved deeper. 'I Am Cait' Season 1 Finale Recap: The Show Tried. It Really Did. 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The film contrasts bacchanalian revels and vapid dinner parties with soaring music and excursions through the gorgeous squares, churches and palazzi of the Italian capital. Sorrentino, Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes 2013-05-21T17:46:11Z “The Now Generation,” which is constructed around fashion clips, features such vapid declarations as “Out of the past and into the future comes this news, and the news is pleats!” The Archival Delights of Public Service Broadcasting 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Teeth are gnashed in the comments of NPR’s story, of course — see cries of anguish like “modern culture is a vapid wasteland” and “some of these make me want to cry.” Don’t get butthurt over the OED’s awesomesauce — ephemeral slang in the dictionary has a rich and delightful history 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Fox News' "Fox & Friends," with its perennially grinning, vapid hosts, is a Vegas Strip fountain of misinformation almost always delivered in agreement, and agreeably. Is Don Lemon sexist? Maybe, but that's just part of the problem for CNN 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z If he did, he wouldn’t draw you — his employee and the loving caretaker of his children — into his vapid treachery. I Keep Making Out With the Father of the Kids I Babysit 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z In an entertainment and media ecosystem that often feels ephemeral, vapid and divorced from reality, Trebek represents something timeless. Alex Trebek Is Still in the Game 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z She’s there to add texture to the otherwise totally vanilla reality of Bianca: a vapid, conventionally attractive young white woman whose primary role is to be the object of male fantasy. Token ethnic friends: how pop culture taught me I was support, not the lead | Zoya Patel 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The play wrings its laughs — and, in fairness, its horror — from just how vapid its characters are. Review: In ‘When We Went Electronic,’ Hell Is Available in Spandex 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z He would show up for fittings on time and not talk about vapid music stuff, but things about the world. Chris Cornell: Soundgarden’s dark knight of the grunge-music scene 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z It's certainly not because he loves vapid cocktail party chatter and Bunsen-burner banquet chicken. The Carpetbagger: Welcome to Hollywood, Baltasar Kormakur 2013-01-06T15:20:58Z The wars are not “like a video game” in the sense meant by those who do not play them: sterile, vapid, devoid of emotion. Video Game Review: Spec Ops: The Line, From 2K Games, Makes Killing Personal 2012-06-25T16:34:27Z Painters in particular are often supposed to be either stupid or vapid, and in any event inarticulate, unable or unwilling to explain themselves; some painters connive at this deception. Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z To his critics, Schnabel was synonymous with the decade’s excess, yuppie culture and penchant for vapid self-aggrandising. Julian Schnabel: ‘Why can’t a white person tell the story of a black person? Everyone is pink inside’ 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The conversation that followed with Brandon was brief and, frankly, embarrassing, with my father and I both caught off-guard and tongue-tied, offering up the most vapid of clichés. I survived mass Internet rage 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z The R-rated comedy stars James Franco and Rogen as a vapid celebrity talk show host and producer who are recruited by the CIA to try to kill Kim, a scheme that goes terribly awry. Before Sony hacking, 'Interview' co-directors knew of N. Korea risk 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Chiara is a poor little rich girl, spoiled and vapid, who complains about feeling trapped in her own life and begs for love from the people who see her as a commodity. When superstar and superfan collide: It's 'Future Thinking' at South Coast Rep 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z In a movie that mostly treats womanhood as something that’s both rigid and incidental, Hathaway, playing the vapid, self-entranced actress Daphne Kluger, delivers a subversive and shockingly funny disquisition on femininity performed to fit. Anne Hathaway Wins “Ocean’s 8” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Snow White and her ilk were largely defined by a sweet, vapid innocence that emerged barely ruffled by the various hags and handsome princes they encountered on the road. Finding emo: why the metaphysical mouldbreaker Inside Out will send kids out of their mind 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Most of Terror Jr’s songs are joyfully vapid, but in the middle of the album is “Terrible,” which is joltingly raw. Hey Violet and Terror Jr: The New Female Pop Rebels 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Handsome and aloof, he's living a vapid, easy life. Capsule reviews: 'True Grit,' 'Little Fockers' 2010-12-22T18:47:15Z She doesn't seem content with just being a pop star, and while others may decry her efforts, I'm happy she's not content with resting on her laurels with vapid meaningless music. Beyoncé Unearths Pain and Lets It Flow in ‘Lemonade’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Still, some of his replies are so vapid that it’s hard to tell whether he’s slippery or shallow. ‘The Unknown Known’ Explores How Rumsfeld Sees Himself 2014-03-28T17:00:01Z As the groom, Daniel, Ben Lewis is the handsome leading man who never allows himself to mock his vapid character. | ?Hysteria? and ?If That?s All There Is?: The Ordinary Can Pave the Road to Insanity 2010-12-19T22:49:44Z They test society’s edges, even subtly critique the more vapid ceremonies of élite fun. The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Rather than opening doors, pluralism sanctioned all manner of vapid creation and the acceptance of commercial design as art. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z I raged about sexist, garbage-disposal rock, about the grossness of vapid nihilism and desperate, borderline illegal sex appeal. Burgerama draws the approval of a music festival-hating musician 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Still, Liszt’s disasters are at least characteristic, more satisfying than the products of many accomplished but ultimately vapid also-rans of Romantic music, like his onetime assistant, Joachim Raff. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Unlike Ms. Zoe, whose gift for vapid and catchy utterances made for sticky television, Mr. Goreski has to rely on his sartorial choices, his Canadian good will, and the occasional bolt of drama and anguish. Television Review: ?It?s a Brad, Brad World? on Bravo - Review 2012-01-01T23:21:52Z Captions state that at least one person in a given picture is “the soul of kindness” or “his or her worst enemy” or some such vapid characterization. Art In Review: DOUGLAS HUEBLER: ?Crocodile Tears? 2012-04-12T19:55:48Z I thought it was vapid and I thought maybe it didn't really offer the world much. HBO doc shows how it's easy to make "Fake Famous" influencers, whose job is to "make you feel bad" 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z And it’s hard not to feel there’s a gender bias, with women in vapid magazine roles and men taking the positions of power in papers. Breaking news: why does Hollywood gloss over the world of magazine journalism? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z But there also is an implicit connection of the worst of this work — the least critical, most vapid and fully co-opted — to the contemporary art market in a way that feels like self-justification. Review | The 1980s New York art world was cynical and crass. Should we be honoring it? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z A museum devoted to dogs seems like it could be vapid Instagram candy, like the Museum of Ice Cream. The Museum of the Dog is unleashed in Manhattan 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Their characters are vain, vapid and almost too self-absorbed to be cruel to Cinderella, who is more ignored than abused. Dance Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Edinburgh International Festival 2012-08-31T22:50:44Z The 1779 satire features a vapid critic named Dangle and his pal Sneer watching a rehearsal of a new extravaganza from critic-playwright Mr. Puff. The wrath of Michael Kahn in comedies about critics 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Some works even conjure the vapid, cheery paintings you’d find in hotel rooms or at a local cafe. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Word on the street: Critics weren't impressed by "A Dame to Kill For," panning the film as vapid and violent. 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' bombs: 5 things that went wrong 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z A verdant but vapid zucchini puree under the fish begs for more of the advertised basil. Review | Gravitas is a beautiful work in progress that needs a dash more flavor 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z On another, it’s kind of pointless and vapid to sit around discussing the philosophical implications of highbrow literature while around you terrible people are doing terrible things all day long. “The Third Man”: Why this masterful 1949 Euro-noir about the age of American arrogance and power is more relevant than ever 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z They say we are vapid; that there’s little to no substance. How comedy photographers capture the energy of L.A.'s post-pandemic stand-up scene 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z But ultimately, this short, vapid number does nothing to further the already-thin plot and probably could have sufficed as a deleted scene. All the songs from 'High School Musical 3,' ranked 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z I figured, correctly, the network would simply force this set of contestants into the same vapid, “Oh, he’s so hot / Ladies, you’re all so beautiful,” put-a-ring-on-it mentality of the original. Column: There's nothing 'courageous' about 'The Golden Bachelor' 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z If you don’t live in South Seattle, perhaps last Friday was simply another installment in a long-running and vapid narrative that the area is as hazardous as it is hopeless. Rainier Beach shooting: Keeping perspective when trauma strikes a sacred space 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, much of today’s synthesized, monotonous, cookie-cutter and somewhat vapid music will be lucky to last a year, maybe 10, but certainly not 60 years or more, as is the case with Bennett’s repertoire. Reader letters: Memories of the Roxy and the debate over 'Sound of Freedom' 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z While performative contrarians might bluster and fume, he has pursued a far more productive route than any vapid “debate” could ever offer. Debating Antivaccine Cranks Debases Science and Harms the Public 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Handsome boys and beautiful girls often age into vapid adults as a result of this privilege; they never had to put any effort into being accepted. Why the right is so terrified of "woke": There are truths it just can't face 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z They’re contending with the astronomical cost of living, vapid colleagues and ageism. Review: 'Based on a True Story' is a funny, clever sendup of true-crime obsession 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Stahl let Greene get away with blowing all that off by referring to that vapid House floor speech in which she said she regretted "being allowed to believe things that were not true." "60 Minutes" catapults Marjorie Taylor Greene from "the fringe to the front row" 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z It didn’t seem to occur to him that defecting to LIV for the money wasn’t the cure to his bored, vapid and anchorless existence. Perspective | Claiming to be ‘Golf, but louder,’ LIV’s sound and fury signify nothing 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The new Trump majority within the party captured a chunk of the previously nonvoting public that believes in fringe conspiracy theories and far-right ideologies and worships at the altar of vapid TV celebrity. Worst Republicans of 2022: It's just so hard to choose! 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z It turns out the tip line was an inherently vapid concept. Opinion | Glenn Youngkin’s ‘tip line’ was a partisan puff of hot air 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z “The actions of our colleagues should not be tolerated and a vapid tongue has no place in city hall,” the statement read. Leaked audio reveals L.A. city council members making anti-Black, offensive remarks 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z “I’ve been on a lot of sets with a lot of models and stylists and it’s, like, no shade to anybody, but it’s vapid or there’s no talking at all,” he says. L.A. is about warm energy. This stylist will show you how to get your shine on 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z While the opposition was tedious and vapid, it wasn’t mean. Opinion | How Low Will Senate Republicans Go on Ketanji Brown Jackson? 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The vapid trio’s collective obsession with living large on social media is fun to despise. 'Inventing Anna's' greatest failure: It's as shallow as its subject 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z In the M.M.T. view of the world, “How will you pay for it?” is a vapid policy question. Time For a Victory Lap* 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Although a titanic waste of time, the bill epitomizes the crux of this campaign of vapid legislative proposals dressed up as “colorblind” curriculum: No presentation of knowledge is ever neutral. Before you rage against critical race theory, it might be helpful to know what it is 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z About one-third of the way into Adam McKay's new film "Don't Look Up," there is a remarkable scene that takes place on the set of a vapid, "Good Morning America"-esque talk show. The existential panic in "Don't Look Up" is real. I see it in my clients 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z But the show seems more aware of Emily’s flaws this time around, which I will attribute to Collins’s Globe-nominated ability to play up the character’s vapid nature. Perspective | ‘Emily in Paris’ is exactly as bad as you remember, which is perfect 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z I’m a little hesitant to praise a political movie, because Hollywood’s political statements tend to be vapid. A Comedy Nails the Media Apocalypse 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z I'll hold it more fiercely than any vapid statement coming from Glasgow. Profound climate change may be inevitable, but society can go on 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Maybe that’s because the burden of celebrity is so insane, so vapid that it can only be expressed through melodrama — through vibes. Review | In ‘Spencer,’ a messy but moving portrait of Princess Diana, Kristen Stewart inhabits the title role 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The horrifying black comedy from 2000 starred Christian Bale in a career-defining role as Patrick Bateman, a vapid Manhattan investment banker with a penchant for brutal serial killing and the torturing of women. Best Blu-ray & 4K horror movies: ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘American Psycho,’ ‘Unbreakable,’ ‘Doctor X” & more 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Even though he’s starved for attention and tweeting vapid baseball takes throughout the playoffs, Bauer’s shadow doesn’t hang over the Dodgers when they play on the road. Perspective | The comforting villainy of the Houston Astros is the simplest morality play in sports 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z More, still, found the whole uproar to be vapid, if not absurd. John Mulaney’s shockingly personal interview answered many questions about the year’s most surprising tabloid celebrity 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Google has itself come under fire for its YouTube Kids product, with US politicians calling it a "wasteland of vapid, consumerist content". Google lets parents remove children from image-search results 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Other metropolitan cities — including Orlando, Sacramento, Portland — are also keen on acquiring an NFL franchise, so an exodus from Buffalo is possible, even if the news sounds like a vapid ultimatum. Buffalo Bills reportedly eyeing move to Austin, TX 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z On Monday, "The View" — the daytime talk show popular precisely because of its vapid, overheated "debates" about politics — discussed the critical issue of Trump's trousers and supposed incontinence. Laughing at Trump's "backward" pants won't save us from the 21st-century gulag 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z “Bridgerton” We’ll remember it as a fun, vapid distraction at a time when we needed a little burlesque to get us through the isolation. 2021 Emmys: 'The Crown' prepares to ascend to the drama series throne 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The men behave badly, of course, but Sasha is also vapid and flawed. In ‘The Atmospherians,’ hordes of men spontaneously mow lawns and commit murders 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z “I think it’s a vapid argument on their part to say they are concerned about the victims at the end of the day,” Mr. Mones said. ‘Staggering’ Legal Fees in Boy Scouts Bankruptcy Case 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z He thought I was too vapid for him. L.A. Affairs: Why I'm so very grateful for my mother-in-law on Mother's Day 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Were these claims merely vapid that would be bad enough. COVID Has Created a Perfect Storm for Fringe Science 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z It is perhaps easiest to think of him as soccer’s equivalent to Stewart Pearson, the policy strategist/vapid marketing guru skewered so perfectly in “The Thick of It,” the British political satire. Don’t Reject the Champions League’s Changes Out of Hand 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z “They thought that she was vapid, not really representing what was culture,” Dickson said in an interview. More inclusive, realistic Barbie dolls help Mattel turn the corner 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z It could seem a bit much — his persistent winning, his sunny but vapid California disposition, his supermodel wife, his Uggs. Through Genetics, Luck or ‘Prehab,’ Tom Brady Endures at 43 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Her time before the Senate Judiciary Committee largely confirmed what Justice Elena Kagan declared before her own elevation to the Supreme Court: Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominees are a “vapid, hollow charade.” Opinion | The wisdom of dodging questions 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z It is tempting, then, to again pronounce confirmation hearings the “vapid, hollow charade” that Justice Elena Kagan, while still a law professor, found them to be and give up on them entirely. Opinion | Barrett’s hearings were a frustrating charade. But they were still chilling. 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “Subsequent hearings have presented to the public a vapid and hollow charade, in which repetition of platitudes has replaced discussion of viewpoints, and personal anecdotes have supplanted legal analysis.” Barrett’s Testimony Is a Deft Mix of Expertise and Evasion 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The parts produced for at-home viewers are dominated by speeches - many of them boring, vapid or even frightening, with an eye toward whipping up the party faithful. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The parts produced for at-home viewers are dominated by speeches — many of them boring, vapid or even frightening, with an eye toward whipping up the party faithful. Opinion | The Pandemic Could Make Political Conventions Less Terrible 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z “People wanted to just play to the vapid side of the character,” Bliss adds, “but Shalita brought in the depth and the vulnerability of Cassidy — and then some.” Shalita Grant isn't here just to be tolerated 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Mark, Sheryl and Jack, you have revealed yourselves to be vapid vulgarians who put at risk Americans’ health, racial justice, fair elections and basic truths. Opinion | Zuckerberg says he's ‘disgusted’ by Trump’s rhetoric. It’s just crocodile tears. 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Trump’s West Point speech was studiously vapid, with only a modicum of partisan boasting. Why Trump loves the US military – but it doesn't love him back 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z For Mack, in light of current events, the 2015 encounter “seems vapid by comparison.” L.A. choreographer Instagrammed solidarity with protesters. Then came a backlash 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Beyond MO, all three of the other women basically share the same vapid, empty politics of the fully "Obama-fied" Democratic Party. Joe Biden’s VP choice? Stacey Abrams makes her case 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z We got the chance to see players being themselves in their homes with loved ones, instead of donning garish suits for vapid red carpet photo ops and hugs with the commissioner. Letters: Lakers changing their name to the Loan Rangers? 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Naturally, if a medical doctor could make such outrageous statements with no evidence, then vapid celebs, looking for attention in a locked-down world, could have a field day. The great 5G coronavirus conspiracy 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z But no, the vapid messages of hope from celebs keep coming – as do the disgusted responses from the public. The coronavirus crisis has exposed the ugly truth about celebrity culture and capitalism | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z But contagion at least means that the vapid slogan from the last crisis – that “we’re all in it together” – might this time be true. Three weeks of lockdown in Italy has given us vital perspective – and crumbs of comfort 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Even if you think “The Bachelor” is vapid garbage, millions of people still watch it. Why it's so important the new 'Bachelorette' is 38 years old 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z The banner headline in the New York Times was singularly vapid: "Democrats Hurl Stinging Attacks Across the Stage." Warren reduced Bloomberg to rubble — but political media remains focused on stopping Bernie 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z That it is intellectually vapid is not important, but the fact that it adds to an atmosphere of suspicion and credulity and conspiracy is not helpful at all. It’s Time to Ask What Africa Needs 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z It was an attempt at conveying that I was feeling very anxious and was worried about appearing vain or vapid. Confessions of an accidental influencer 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z The lives she evokes—devoted to that most chimerical, evanescent quality “cool”—play out in a ceaseless round of nebulous achievements and vapid, exclusive parties. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Poppy Noor wonders whether the first lady, who spent five months designing White House Christmas decorations, is vapid – or just private. US briefing: Impeachment, Nato summit and Kamala Harris drops out 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Looking at the evidence, an unforgiving audience might describe Melania as vapid. What we learned from Free Melania, the salacious new book about the first lady 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z These influencers who produce photos of themselves, who turn their wider lives into content rather than confining themselves to a byline, are thus dismissed as vapid and shallow, sources of pleasure and no more. The journalist as influencer: how we sell ourselves on social media 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Initially considered an awards contender, the movie was called "a vapid prestige picture" and "grotesque" by Matt Goldberg in Collider. Goldfinch heads for box office crash landing 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Don't buy whatever this vapid person is selling. Ivanka Trump's embrace of nature sparks cries of hypocrisy 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z That did not surprise Ms. Li, who said Ms. Fan’s strength and authenticity belied popular perceptions of beautiful actresses as weak and vapid. Fan Bingbing, China’s Top Actress, Talks of Comeback After Scandal 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Everyone understood throughout this vapid exercise in virtue-signaling, of course, that Trump would walk back the walk-back almost immediately, delighting the faithful and pantsing the “fake news” industry one more time. Paralyzed by the God Emperor: As Democrats dither and bicker, the media gets punk'd again 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z His useless, vapid books are the measure of the man. Calling the French ‘turds’ shows Boris Johnson is the eternal spoilt 15-year-old | Stephen Moss 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z The show helped propel Essex to global fame – in 2014, the Oscar-winning American actor Jennifer Lawrence declared herself addicted – and refined the Essex caricature into an extravagantly vapid parody of itself. The invention of Essex: how a county became a caricature 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z In attempting to define “The Trump Doctrine,” he mostly resorts to vapid catchphrases: “principled realism,” “There’s no place like home,” “Don’t be a chump.” Opinion | Trump’s pet intellectuals are embarrassing themselves 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z That he’s been putting forth some of the more vapid, consultant-driven bromides ever heard in politics is part of the problem. It’s getting late early out there, as both of Washington’s presidential contenders already are flopping 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z That’s the kind of vapid rhetoric that has characterized much of O’Rourke’s campaign so far, but he fails to put any meat and bones on his proposals to deal with the pathologies that he describes. Beto vs. Liz Warren 2020 Democratic Debate: at odds on breaking up tech giants like Amazon 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z The article said the film is as vapid and sexist as the band was. Feedback: Understanding Muslims can help 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Rieff found America’s therapeutic culture vapid, but it’s also open-minded and even egalitarian. Pro tip from Aristotle: Living your best life isn’t the best way to live 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The overscaled hallways and caverns increase the sense of alienation: The characters are as vapid as the hotel that symbolizes the colonial regime. Review: ‘This Magnificent Cake!’ explores Belgian colonialism through animation 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z We’ve watched over the past decade as local politics is increasingly washed away by a loud, angry, vapid nationalized version. Are the early states still special? 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z "Even if country music queen Dolly Parton herself had been cast," he said, "she couldn't have saved this vapid, musical version of her 1980 movie." Parton's 9 to 5 'energetic but lightweight' 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The comedy routines were curiously vapid, as though no one dared to risk saying anything challenging in the post-Harvey Weinstein Hollywood era, for fear of a Twitter backlash. Is standup comedy dead? Exploring the future of funny post-Kevin Hart, Louis CK and Nanette 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Seen this way, relatability is a crutch for those who lack the faculty or the patience to be challenged by art — it’s a vapid, selfish lens through which to offer a critique. Why Do We Obsess Over What’s ‘Relatable’? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z I grew up hearing tired jokes and cliches about Los Angeles as a vapid, culture-less place. Q&A: Get to know Patricia Escárcega, new restaurant critic for the L.A. Times 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Someone should confront the rich, vapid and condescending every day as they ignore the homeless people all around them. I Am Begging You to Stop Sleeping With Your Co-Workers 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z It may seem a cheap bid for younger readers at first, but the authors draw smart and eerie parallels between terrorist groups and seemingly vapid celebrities. Review | How Trump, ISIS and Russia have mastered the Internet as a weapon 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z There are two types of golfers: Those who were delighted when Pernice's name fell into the broadcast, and those who live vapid existences. Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson Match: The best and worst from Shadow Creek - Golf Digest 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z The language of egoism, self-interest, hyper-masculinity and a vapid individualism erase any reference to social bonds, public commitments, the public good and the commons. Donald Trump’s fascist politics and the language of disappearance 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z "I find his assessments to be vapid and shallow," Abrams told "Meet the Press." Trump calls Gillum a “radical socialist,” says Abrams is unqualified 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z How do I deal with dozens and dozens of rich, vapid and condescending office workers daily? I Am Begging You to Stop Sleeping With Your Co-Workers 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The question should prompt a quest for a political culture that isn’t too commercial and vapid and that isn't held together only by demagoguery and delusion. Our republic is in crisis — and it’s killing us. Can we really claim we didn’t see it coming? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Eventually, some sniping naysayer might say these comments seem pretty vapid. How to use Instagram like an appropriation artist 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z But that doesn’t matter to the vapid, glossy-profile writers fawning over his candidacy. Opinion | Anti-Trump, anti-business Beto O’Rourke won’t beat Ted Cruz 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z And the required Senate confirmation of a nominee may well be a “vapid and hollow charade,” in Justice Elena Kagan’s words, since partisan support matters over merit. On the Supreme Court, difficult nominations have led to historical injustices 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z “It wasn’t like we were a bunch of vapid preppies, but God, we were preppy then.” She moved to the opposite coast, but past catches up to Kavanaugh accuser 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z I was watching the most vapid show in the history of television—it had always been vapid and we, the viewers, had always been duped. “Audition” 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Or, in the tart assessment a decade earlier, by then-law professor Elena Kagan, before she found herself on the other side of the dais, that the confirmation process had become “a vapid, hollow charade.” Opinion | Brace yourselves for talk of Kabuki 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It’s easy to write Paul off as another careless creator, the worst example of vapid modern celebrity culture, but his actions triggered a tidal wave of consequences. Logan Paul’s redemption arc is proceeding exactly as planned 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z They’re really vapid, she says, and so uncomfortable as to be very entertaining. If you ask me, this sushi is a little 'bougie' 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z I didn’t want a vapid exchange, and in-depth conversation wouldn’t have been appropriate either, and I had no intention of launching into either. Opinion | Americans Are Terrible at Small Talk 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z A vapid slogan, perhaps, but one that nonetheless reflected their awareness of a changing landscape that would define the course of their professional lives. How E-Commerce Is Transforming Rural China 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “Believe in yourself and in your future” may sound like a vapid self-help mantra. Think Positive, Climb Out of Poverty? It Just Might Work 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Dawn of the Dead is a startlingly gory movie, and it openly laughs at American news media as out-of-touch and inaccurate, and at capitalist culture as vapid and mindless. 10 subversive, dark American futures to stream on July 4th 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Meaning, following a nice four-year respite, being a Cleveland fan once more means staring into a dark, vapid, soulless existence. TUMS is giving away free heartburn medicine to Clevelands fans after LeBron James' departure - Golf Digest 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Kardashian serves as an avatar for the most vapid and derided kind of celebrity. Analysis | Kim Kardashian was ridiculed for her White House visit. Who’s laughing now? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z But Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 isn’t just aiming at clearly vapid forms of media. HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 has a new villain: popular tech trends 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z For my audition, I try to wrap my mouth around the vapid script. The lie pictures tell: an ex-model on the truth behind her perfect photos 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Eliot, writing at roughly the age of young Laertes, described this urgent yet somehow vapid dad as “full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse.” Opinion | Shakespeare was right: America should beware debt 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z I wish these vapid reading practices masquerading as insight were limited to early American satirists, but of course they aren’t. The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z “Crushed Coins” isn’t shallow or vapid, but it is definitely easy on the ears. Review: Caleb Caudle’s “Crushed Coins” is easy on the ears 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z You see so many movies that are impeccably shot but are vapid, and there’s no audience for that, except for other cinematographers who just like to watch two-hour-long music videos. Rachel Morrison Wants More Women Behind the Camera 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z This slap in the figurative face should be expected more often in the future as this administration pursues foreign policy that suffers from ignorance and ideologically vapid initiatives. U.N. vote: U.S. loses standing 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Elves, on the other hand, seem to be prissy, elitist and vapid. Review: ‘Bright’ is when Harry Potter vomits on a cop flick 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z “He has some great songs, but they were oftentimes vapid,” says Bates. How rocker and film score composer Tyler Bates went from Marilyn Manson to 'Guardians of the Galaxy' 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z There is no point in telling them it’s vapid. ‘I view the hurtful messages as sadism’ – what it's like to be Instagram famous 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Eminem himself also spoke at the "convention," in a rhetorically vapid parody of official party speeches. Donald Trump and Eminem Weren't Always Enemies. Here's Proof 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z But it seems to me the one thing of permanent value to survive the manufactured excitement about the millennium – the vapid dome having long-since been repurposed as an entertainment venue. The Caligula of Cannes: my encounter with Harvey Weinstein | Peter Bradshaw 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z But the smile looks overdetermined and vapid, like the grin of a car salesman, not a Buddha. Preacher and American Gods take similar fantasies in opposite directions 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z We see people all the time who are super-beautiful, but it’s a vapid beauty. 'Hi, Gorgeous' author Candis Cayne on beauty standards and the importance of being yourself 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s the purest form of vapid entertainment — the type that lets us talk about ourselves for hours while saying nothing at all. American Horror Story: Cult takes drunken aim at the ‘politics of fear’ 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z No. Kill Me Please plants its core foursome in a headspace and philosophical universe completely separate from their romantic interests, who are clueless and vapid. Kill Me Please is a dazzling teen nightmare, and the first great horror film of fall 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The Trump administration’s war on drugs, Jarecki says, is like its approach to so many issues: “It is both destructive and vapid.” How Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump have restarted the war on drugs 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s just vapid nonsense,” said Spencer, who popularized the term “alt-right” to describe the fringe movement mixing white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-Semitism and anti-immigration populism. Trump’s denouncement disappoints, angers white nationalists 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Richard Spencer, a prominent white nationalist, said Trump’s statement was “vapid nonsense.” Trump’s denouncement disappoints, angers white nationalists 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Spencer also dismissed Trump’s condemnation of white supremacists as “hollow and vapid . . . kumbaya nonsense.” ‘Very threatening’: Mother of Charlottesville suspect James A. Fields called 911 twice 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Disputes about the relevance of historical moments are not vapid 140-character one-offs, but they also needn’t be 140-page monographs on arcane topics. US history is a Pandora's box. There has never been a better moment to open it | Yuliya Komska 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Shapiro shows us a vapid, childlike woman who ate very little in order to stay slender. Opinion | What a meal can reveal about a woman’s life 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s as inspiring and vapid as anything else on social media — and somehow manages to invoke awe and envy at the same time. Finding a More Inclusive Vision of Fitness in Our Feeds 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s exactly the kind of vapid Independence Day rhetoric I can’t stand. Perspective | My fellow liberals hate Lee Greenwood’s ‘God Bless the USA.’ I love it. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z We live in the age of the Kardashians, those vapid products of “reality” television who resonate only in terms of their image, recognisability and brand allegiances. The Jenners are Instagram stars, not icons – the T-shirt backlash is proof | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z He filled his time by rising to a level of vapid generality that was utterly detached from the choices in the actual legislation. The bankrupt GOP 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z “He doesn’t like pandering to the media, and he is perplexed by Trump’s tweeting. That’s pretty vapid stuff.” Where Trump Zigs, Tillerson Zags, Putting Him at Odds With White House 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z We pump them full of vapid but haunting praise about how talented they are and how their future is limitless. Swimming in uncharted waters 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z I’m tired of seeing my faith trapped in a cancerous cycle of terror, reduced to a vapid discussion of veils, burqas and burkinis, and held back by an obsessive fixation with fatwas. Muslims today face a deep malaise. We must confront it | Nabil Echchaibi 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The phrase “strong and stable” has been criticised as a vapid advertising slogan but, like all brilliant slogans, it is pregnant with meaning. 'Strong and stable leadership!' Could Theresa May's rhetorical carpet-bombing backfire? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z It was the closest one could come to an even playing field, even if it is vapid, shallow and obsessed with its weight. Angelenos talking to Angelenos: Covering the L.A. riots when local news still mattered 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z He had assumed that the slightly vapid teenager he was settling for would at least be docile, but she turned out to be the biggest bully he had encountered since Gordonstoun. Where Prince Charles Went Wrong 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Creator Ben Rolnik says the dinners are about creating a new form of play that facilitates meaningful connections, not the vapid chitchat that often proliferates at cocktail parties or bars. Millennials, hoping to find real connections, ban the booze 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The new elite is worse than the old elite — and certainly more vapid. The Trump Elite. Like the Old Elite, but Worse! 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Her 1995 essay had been critical of modern confirmation hearings, which she had called “a vapid and hollow charade.” Avoid, Sidestep, Retreat: Justices’ Advice on Confirmation Tactics 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Anna and her equally vapid, uninhibited fellow travelers inexplicably befriend the uncool Kostis, who is soon partying hearty with the kids, ineffectively — and embarrassingly — juggling beach and disco time with his busy work schedule. Schlubby Greek drama 'Suntan' fails to satisfy 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z It is through caramelization that the vapid sweetness of sugar becomes interesting. ‘Uh-oh, somebody burned something!’ Why burning food isn’t always bad 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The swings from election to election produce much the same vapid results which in the final analysis provide only slightly different variation of Red and Blue. The Electoral College Meets Monday. Here’s What to Expect. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z It was a celebration of masculine violence and vapid tradition, a pointless superficial contest. Letter of Recommendation: High-School-Football Games 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z It does not help to point out that there has been a massive failure of the presidential nomination process in both parties; one candidate stale and tainted, the other vapid and vile. This election, a vote for bad could defeat dreadful 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Many of the sentiments are vapid, like the title alone of “I Live to Make You Smile.” Review: Jamie Lidell is a wonder on new CD _ Stevie Wonder 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Lately, Bush had been plucked from the NBC-owned “Access Hollywood” and assigned to inflict himself on the vapid mess that now passes for the once useful “Today” show. Filthy! Farcical! Furious! From ‘Access Hollywood’ to SNL to the debate, three days of must-see campaign craziness. 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z She was left playing defense against innuendo at an event expressly billed as the antidote to vapid dialogue. We just got a terrifying taste of the Clinton-Trump debates to come | Lucia Graves 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Jonas is often vapid and self-indulgent, and players are tasked with enduring her dialogue while attempting to outrun paparazzi in a side mission. Lindsay Lohan’s GTA V lawsuit tossed out because the game is satire 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z After all, it's clear that House of Cards is, at heart, a satire of disingenuous Western politics, while BoJack Horseman is a takedown of the vapid self-involvement of America's West Coast elite. Finally, Netflix admits it's nothing more than a North Korean knockoff 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Head out to the vapid Hamptons and all you need to recharge is your credit card. The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z And to those who are not — or believe they are not — as attractive as someone else in their midst, the film’s message is simply and vapid: Beauty is the only thing worth killing for. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Neon Demon’ is a depraved exploitation film masquerading as art 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z A pushy young tech multimillionaire and his circle of vapid pals discover the ultimate designer drug in “Urge,” a stylish thriller that raises the question of what happens when shallow, self-centered folks lose their inhibitions. Impulsive free-for-all 'Urge' masquerades as a thriller but doesn't get high enough 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Our culture is beset by these problems because we worship vapid consumption instead of meaningful work and play. A Universal Basic Income Is a Poor Tool to Fight Poverty 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Those are so vapid as to be meaningless—and you young’uns need real advice. Dear Grads, You Need a P&L 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z No matter how vapid the article, I devour the click bait like a hungry shark. Please, Just Tell Me Whether I’m a Millennial 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z And for as vapid as Entourage was, it did manage to satirize nearly every aspect of Hollywood while still serving as a vicarious fantasy of life as a successful, famous, straight dude. Silicon Valley season 3 channels the story of Steve Jobs 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Western feminism today is so utterly vapid and shallow compared to what it was when I was growing up. How ‘Empowerment’ Became Something for Women to Buy 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z His campaign is as vapid as it gets, but demagogues don’t deal in specifics; they excite the populace while profiting from their rage. Donald Trump just reminded everyone how dangerous he is: His rage-ridden WSJ op-ed puts his big lie on paper 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z He’s a walking contradiction: self-deprecating yet condescending, at once vapid and smart, judgmental and forgiving. Review: Augusten Burroughs searches for love in new memoir 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z On foreign affairs, Trump was even more vague and vapid. Donald Trump’s shocking ignorance, laid bare 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Not on the merits, of course, but rather as a potential source for some vapid partisan squabbling, the bread and butter of the campaign press. Black lives don’t seem to matter to John Kasich: His disgraceful position on Flint crisis proves why the movement’s so crucial 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Lazio’s condescension, like his campaign, was awkward and vapid. Hillary Clinton’s Nineties Dance at the Flint Debate 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z It becomes a conglomeration of lowest common denominator blockbusters and vapid sequels. Fashion’s true auteurs are on the move — and their loss is felt at Paris Fashion Week 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Leaving aside perennial disappointment Theo Walcott, he was particularly vapid against Man U. Another one of those performances and fans’ ardour will quickly cool to freezing point. Arsenal v Swansea City: Premier League – live! 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z He mocked the obsessive pursuit of the trivial and the superficial by public men with the vapid intensity of a goldfish. WESLEY PRUDEN: Antonin Scalia: The judge who set words on fire 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Bush continues to attack Trump as not serious, and has tried to position himself as the most courageous candidate in calling out Trump as a vapid entertainer unfit for the role of president. GOP debate: a reshuffled field, with Trump still at the center 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z And above all, he leaves the fashion industry, which the film portrays as a rat's nest of shallow, malevolent idiots and their vapid hangers-on. Zoolander 2 just can't relax 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, his points perilously teeter-totter back and forth between vapid political tea-leaf reading and baseless condemnation. Debunking the case against Sanders: Bernie’s liberal critics, like Jonathan Chait, resort to fatalism and blind trust in the status quo 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Leaving aside perennial disappointment Theo Walcott, he was particularly vapid against Man U. Another one of those performances and fans’ ardour will quickly cool to freezing point. Arsenal v Swansea City: Premier League – live! 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The DHS’s putative rationale is in keeping with the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism—specifically, with the president’s politically correct but theologically and intellectually vapid assertions to the effect that “ISIL speaks for no religion.” Washington’s Willful Ignorance 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Ignore the vapid writing and the overly similar enemies in the single-player and instead bask in one of the most exuberant, competitive multiplayer experiences around. The best video games of 2015: ‘Bloodborne,’ ‘Splatoon’ and ‘The Witcher 3’ helped make dreams come true 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z In part, he viewed this as an antidote to what he saw as the vapid internationalism of the country’s intellectual elite in the 1960s. “Ideological self-confidence and ruthless power politics”: Neo-conservatives, Charles Krauthammer and the real legacy of Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s a vision; a cause; a promise of the fallen, vapid world made meaningful and whole. French Muslims in a Time of War 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The belief that there is a difference between good and bad, meaningful and meaningless, profound and vapid, exciting and banal - this belief was once fundamental to musical education. A Point of View: Why it's time to turn the music off - BBC News 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z So if you thought Rush was just a self-serving blowhard, a man choking the airwaves with his vapid and offensive commentary, well, you’re wrong. Rush Limbaugh gave us Fox News and the Tea Party: How his conservative media revolution wrecked Washington for good 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In a nod to what currently passes for “alternative” rock, you get vapid inspirational anthems from Fall Out Boy, Imagine Dragons and Grouplove. Review: ‘Rock Band’ mounts a raucous reunion tour 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Like other Facebook tweaks, expect users to bemoan the clutter, distraction and vapid creativity until others start making cool clips. Facebook Is Changing People’s Profile Pages 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z First was the abysmally vapid implication by Donald Trump that autism in a nameless child he heard about was caused by a vaccination. The lack of seriousness on stage points to a broken process 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z He’s saying things that are completely vapid, things that are completely vulgar and completely non-sequitur … There’s no way the voters in the country will nominate him. Rand Paul calls Trump a ‘fake conservative’ 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z After so long of being forced to hear vapid talking points and carefully crafted political rhetoric, Americans yearn for honesty and clarity in leadership. Hillary’s bizarre Keystone dodge: Once again, she plays into Sanders’ hands 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The fear that an honest and genuine progressive candidate might ruffle the feathers of Wall Street lures many Democrats towards vapid centrism, or even blind acceptance of scandal and neoconservative foreign policy. They’re terrified of Bernie Sanders: Fox News, Hillary surrogates and Wall Street get extra-nervous 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Not the vapid or uninteresting kind but an incisive, seriously playful and intensely talented obsessive. Critics Picks: Critics' Picks: July 10 - July 16, 2015 - Los Angeles Times 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Lincoln was not making any vapid campaign speech when he uttered those words in 1862. On this July 4th, the task of maintaining a united nation remains 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z It makes you the person who posts vapid “inspirational” quotes that only apply to a tiny percent of the population who already has all the basics covered. Why 'Don’t Worry About Money, Just Travel' Is the Worst Advice of All Time 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Her character is vapid enough, as the novel demands, but anyone who hoped that Fontaine might unpick, rather than fortify, the male gaze is in for a letdown. Why Can’t the Future Be Fun? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Even with the relatively vapid subject matter taken into account, the Feeling Myself video still comes out on top. Why I'm (reluctantly) loving the Feeling Myself video 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z I know that descriptor is trivializing — but the American political class is itself trivial; and its treatment of this deathly serious issue has for the most part been typically vapid. Grover Norquist’s version of prison reform is a moral disgrace: Why America’s bipartisan fetish shouldn’t obscure its sins 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Clinton’s campaign launch video has variously been described as “slick,” “gauzy,” “icky” and “vapid.” Hillary Clinton is off to a fuzzy start 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z For one, the video was relentlessly, insultingly vapid — a Verizon commercial without the substance. Hillary Clinton’s insultingly vapid video 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z “Watch Dogs” went off the rails with its vapid main character and glut of side activities that couldn’t mask the emotional vacuum at its center. République Remastered: A game that taps into our police-state anxieties 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z All that Man Ray created in his photography he ruined in his paintings, which are self-importantly pretentious and vapid. See How Man Ray Made Elliptic Paraboloids Sexy At This Phillips Collection Photography Exhibit 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z In fact, a great deal of the Web is compiled of mind-numbingly vapid content, distracting us from things we actually need to do. Sure, Apps Distract You. But They Can Also Make You More Productive 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Republicans couldn’t dodge the issue with vapid rhetorical evasions, such as “I’m not a scientist.” Hope for Republicans on climate change? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Note, I don’t mean “nothing” in a colloquial sense, as if they issued press releases that struck me as vapid and meaningless. GOP greets economic news with total silence 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z A bigger one is the closed system of high-dollar fundraising, reductionist polling and vapid messaging in which it is seemingly trapped. Let’s abandon the Democrats: Stop blaming Fox News and stop hoping Elizabeth Warren will save us 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z If you were below the age of 20, it’s possible that you said so many cruel, vapid and ignorant things that there is simply no salvaging your younger digital self. You Asked: Can I Delete All My Old, Embarrassing Tweets? 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Instead of leaders looking to debate ideas, or even to express ideas, candidates appeared trained like parrots to repeat the same vapid lines over and over again. How This Election Marks the End of the Post-Partisan Dream 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Built around a trio of greedy, lying, vapid losers, the film opens in Athens at one of the world’s most clichéd tourist sights, the Parthenon. Review: ‘Two Faces’ builds tension, has nice cast 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Many music lovers who lament the habit of many Americana, country, rock and even folk artists of writing and performing vapid songs liken those artists to the most intellectually insipid frat boys and sorority girls. Country Times: Bros. Landreth’s soulful sound is a rare real deal 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z “HINT: vapid granolas who fear guns, hate babies, are ashamed of America, and think Islamic terrorists and illegal aliens are just misunderstood will not be comfortable here.” Biden likes well-timed reunions Anyway, a vapid social media maven gets embarrassed and tasks an uptight marketing guru to rebrand her image so everyone loves her. Selfie the TV show is just as annoying as the real thing 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The Scottish city’s Israeli community has dubbed the move a “vapid piece of gesture politics”. Glasgow Council To Fly Palestinian Flag, More Cities ‘Fully Expected’ To Follow And this reader was not encouraged by Clinton’s invocation of “what I call ‘smart power,’ ” the overused and vapid phrase meant to connote the kind of power between hard and soft. Clinton takes readers inside the meetings in ‘Hard Choices’ There are indeed poisonous souls who use "yeah, well women are just as bad" as a vapid and vacuous response to complaints about male violence against women, and that is shameful. Breaking the wall of secrecy on the sexual abuse of men by women 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Certainly seems that way, thanks to a vapid protest movement: Is British Columbia Wasting Its Natural Gas Potential? The Weekly Oil & Gas Follies 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Perry’s other characters include a Jewish MC, a downtrodden clown and a vapid princess. You Won’t Even Recognize Katy Perry in This “Birthday” Video Teaser 2014-04-22T18:36:49Z You could see Nirvana’s Top 40 sneer at Top 40 as satirizing DC and all those shimmering dancers and their vapid commerce. Beyoncé’s good, the bad, and weird: 12 crazy mashups of Queen Bey 2014-03-29T22:00:00Z The social media reaction was inevitable: steroid jokes and vapid accusations. Nationals star Bryce Harper works hard to take care of his body 2014-03-26T22:10:31Z L.A.’s savvy in communications would be a mark against the city if it were being used solely to propel vapid pursuits. Why L.A.'s Culture Of Narcissism Is A Good Thing For Entrepreneurs 2013-10-10T13:05:00Z That stands for most valuable player — and most vapid personality. Mariners savor same old pop from Ibanez 2013-06-25T03:23:17Z It may be that Americans are, as the tweeted jokes suggest, vapid airheads who respond only to words such as “Kardashian” and “beach pics” and “wellness.” The Government Is Spying. Does Anyone Even Care? 2013-06-07T22:29:26Z You eat it the same way you dance to that vapid song of the summer: horrified at yourself, looking over your shoulder to make sure no one’s watching. Hungry City: Los Perros Locos on the Lower East Side 2013-06-06T18:10:41Z What a dull old landscape it is in kid-food land: processed nuggets and fish fingers, mini burgers and pizzas, pasta with vapid sauces, chips. Kids' restaurant menus: does it have to be chips with everything? 2013-05-14T11:12:10Z We start with the top of the Premier League and Chelsea's cheeky victory over a slightly vapid Manchester United. Football Weekly: Hull City pip Watford to the Premier League 2013-05-06T15:55:47Z Witness the torrent of vapid tweeting and retweeting – by journalists as well as members of the public – that accompanied the Boston bombings. Fragile systems let hoax tweets make twits of us all 2013-04-27T23:05:36Z Chelsea had been so vapid until that point that it almost came as a shock when Demba Ba scored with an expertly taken volley midway through the second half. Chelsea 1-2 Manchester City 2013-04-14T17:12:44Z These end-of-the-year pledges tend to be either dour commitments to do something unpleasant but healthful like paying down debt, hitting the treadmill, or eating more Brussels sprouts, or vapid self-help-type resolutions like "realize your potential!" 2 Joyful New Year's Resolutions 2013-01-01T14:00:22Z But I also cherish Murray's taciturn mien when being interviewed and his choosing to forgo the vapid mince of other modern sports stars. Salute Scotland's great and good of 2012 2012-12-30T00:06:09Z "It was an awful, vapid, and inauthentic representation of 'entrepreneurship,'" Lacy wrote in a blog post last week. Will Viewers Miss 'Start-ups: Silicon Valley'? Probably Not 2012-12-26T17:10:00Z It says that yes, most Americans are vapid bros who couldn’t begin to imagine the violent horror that exists on a place like Rook Island. Racism in Far Cry 3 2012-12-10T20:05:11Z He's not some vapid celebrity but a campaigner for migrant workers suffering from lung diseases. China diary: Beijing air and Weibo warriors 2012-11-23T09:45:56Z Victory slipped away because the Tories sounded too vapid, too tentative, too polite. Lynton Crosby: no point in being polite 2012-11-19T21:30:01Z Besides, too much has been written about the spiritual uplift inherent in Obama’s success to take seriously the idea that blacks voting for a black man is a vapid choice, rather than a soul-affirming one. Viewpoint: Will Blacks Vote for Obama “Because He’s Black”? 2012-10-19T11:45:16Z Either way, the point is that the Daily Kansan’s readers, like ours at the Tribune, are not a vapid bunch of brainwashed football players and certainly not a mewling band of intimidated school wonks. Weis still a loser, on and off the field 2012-10-11T15:13:00Z You can't have a substantive debate without substance, and this has been the most vapid, vaporous campaign of the 10 presidential races I've covered. Presidential Elections: Two Men, Two Weak Spots 2012-08-02T14:05:31Z Personally, I would ten thousand times rather read a book written by Vladimir Nabokov than by a vapid genre hack. Room for magic: A conversation with Lyndsay Faye 2012-06-28T13:45:00.213Z There is nothing vapid, tentative or polite about Crosby.' Lynton Crosby: no point in being polite 2012-11-19T21:30:01Z Perhaps they were among the 86 percent of Greeks who don’t pay taxes, but there was something horribly reassuring about their vapid opulence. Hungry In Athens 2012-06-11T05:00:00Z On the other hand, how vapid would seem to them the explanation, more literal but less emotional, of a "Talib" pedant or a frigid grammarian. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Moreover, it would not have particularly interested you, for after all, "good society which does not offer materials for the smallest epigram," is equally vapid in a letter. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z "Yes, I often feel rather vapid," Jasmine admitted. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Victory slipped away because the Tories sounded too vapid, too tentative, too polite. Lynton Crosby: no point in being polite 2012-11-19T21:30:01Z It was a protest against the vague and feeble generalizations and the vapid classicism which were growing too common in art. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Writing in The New Republic in 2010, Eric A. Posner, a law professor at the University of Chicago, said Justice Kennedy’s writing could be vapid and disappointing for its lack of rigor. News Analysis: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy May Be Key to Health Law Ruling 2012-03-30T06:34:11Z No lack of music there; it echoes and vibrates there on every side; not in the vapid, tasteless theatres. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Instead of the full, pulpy feeling of youth tasting existence and every object in it, all is flat and vapid,—a whited sepulchre, fair without but full of ravening and all uncleanness within. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z There is nothing vapid, tentative or polite about Crosby. Lynton Crosby: no point in being polite 2012-11-19T21:30:01Z Yet I know that the journal which indulged in this vapid and vulgar buffoonery is written for by scholars and men of ability. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The fire had been allowed to sink low, and the squalor and the chill, vapid air of the place wrapped her about. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z In its case it is the ghost of a penny, the ghost of the representative penny of all the pennies ready to buy vapid twaddle, but not earnest thought. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z But this additional interpolation is in style and language unlike the words of any Gospels, and ends with the vapid piece of information, “and this shall be useful to thee.” The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z Hence in the grounds of this period, house and country "Wrapt all o'er in everlasting green Make one dull, vapid, smooth and tranquil scene." Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z His unequalled personal influence over the most graceful minds of his age gives him an importance in the history of literature for which his own somewhat vapid writings do not fully account. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z My Brother-in-law, who manufactured it, deserves for such vapid cookery to be named before you without reserve, as the malt-master of this washy brewage. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Like his predecessors at other networks, Cannon had a dreadful task: asking vapid questions to stars with little to do or say but promote their projects, like Danny DeVito hyping “The Lorax.” TV Sports: Pregame Show by NBC Typically Overblown 2012-02-06T01:52:07Z And in no other way can I explain D's vapid substitution, made as if from habit, of “a Galilean city” for “a city of Galilee, named Nazareth” in St. Luke i. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z "I assure—" "Remember, no vapid compliments!" she besought. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z So ran the talk of the speculators, vapid and valueless, without end or beginning, and begotten of the fever which consumed their veins. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z The depravity of the system and the vapid idleness of harem life are much exaggerated by observers whose sympathies are wholly against the system. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Nothing was left for her, nor had been for some time, but the vapid, vulgar inanities of aristocratic fops, all equally commonplace in their tastes, their speech, and their unfathomable vanity. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z I went to a cottage near the road to ask for a draught, when a pitcherful was given to me that looked like pale coffee, and was vapid and unrefreshing. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z I had at first taken him for a mere coxcomb, a vapid and frivolous young man. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z How profitably, again, might the following observations be enunciated from our pulpits, instead of the vapid and superficial divinity, which disgraces both the utterer and the listener:— 21. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Sounds like something on the jacket of a vapid, feel-good self-help book, and about as useful. The Jobs Crisis Among Veterans 2011-11-15T06:15:22Z I was sometimes commanded, with a vapid imperiousness, to make much of them. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z When I left Ostend on a fine February morning, and found myself on the road to Brussels, nothing could look vapid to me. The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z "There'll be fewer hospitals," her father was saying, with staccato emphasis, "and less vapid sentimentalizing over those who suffer from violation of the plain laws of health." The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z He tires of the sameness of tennis in the afternoons, the vapid conversation of the tea-tables, and nights spent in the heated atmosphere of ball-rooms. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z I tire of these empty masks, These faces of city women That seem so vapid and well-controlled. Open Water 2011-10-14T02:00:31.043Z What have we done Amiss? how erred, that God a water-bubble, Blown full of vapid air, exalts. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Deeply pledged though she was to the most vapid figments of Christianity, Mrs. Darnley was yet proud beyond measure of her husband's worldwide fame, for she did but imperfectly understand the grounds of it. The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z And if the poor thing had lived, what hope was there for anything but a vapid old age, haunted by visions of her decreasing notoriety? Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z But perhaps that was what Walter meant—real affinities, as distinct from the ordinary vapid assumptions about marriages being made in Heaven. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z They were different from the rather vapid loungers she would have been talking to had she stayed at the hotel. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z And you, even you, victorious Ellis! will sink to vapid rest, like those who have never known happiness!' The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z I have admired fine features, only to be disgusted with vapid vanity. The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z A ceaseless round of every variety of money-consuming, vapid amusement occupies their days and nights from January to January, and for what purpose? Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Nothing that Mr. Browning writes, of course, can be vapid; if this were possible, it would be a much simpler affair. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z He was none of your easy-going professors, full of flippant, vapid, worthless talk, but doing nothing. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z Its stem was vapid and of no diameter, and its grasslike leaves grew in whorls at the joints. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z That it glorifies vapid behavior, rewarding its stars with fame and wealth despite their lack of any specific talent or skills. MTV turns 30: Was the network really at its best in the ?80s? 2011-08-01T04:23:00Z I looked in vain in the countenance of Lucrezia for some trace, some testimony of the crimes imputed to her; but she is a fair, golden-haired, gentle-looking creature, with a feeble and vapid expression. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z As a diplomat, he has no public to please, no emotions to counterfeit, no vapid clichés to repeat. The All-American 2011-07-15T21:33:30Z The poor vapid sentiment that they call by its name, suffices, it is true, for domestic use,--little is given, little required,--how were you to differ from the rest? Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z He signed all the tags with a loose and vapid grin, and if he suffered from writer's cramp he never mentioned the fact. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z Just as they gain the road an equestrian trots by, a young man with a pale vapid countenance. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z She did not answer that “that sort of thing” was an inane and vapid method of enjoying herself, compared with half-an-hour of ordinary conversation with him. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z This is no ball-room interlude, and such a vapid compliment is out of place here. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z This weekend, the utterly vapid Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides crossed the $1 billion mark in worldwide ticket sales. Box Office: Transformers Shoots Off Worldwide Fireworks 2011-07-04T20:00:00Z Aglow and eager, she murmured something vapid about the prettiness of the sky. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z These are words that look tough and sound good, but like "green", they are vapid. Failed policy? 2011-06-07T16:36:32Z The most racy and picturesque expressions of our elder writers were then to be weakened down to a vapid colloquial style. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z With all their beauty and power, they have left our common life so poor, and vapid, and vicious, because only half their lesson has been learned. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z “After this,” Grimsson replied, “he had a much better chance of growing up to be a real person instead of a vapid airhead.” Magazine Preview: Iceland?s Big Thaw 2011-05-13T16:59:01Z Today I saw a face—it was a beak, That peered, with pale round yellow vapid eyes, Above the bloody muck that had been lips And teeth and chin. Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z What we want is, power, energy, pathos—not mere vapid sentiment, so diligently distilled that scarce a flavour of the original material is left to enable us to discover its origin. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z My brother-in-law, who manufactured it, deserves for such vapid cookery to be named before you without reserve, as the maltmaster of this washy brewage. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z The flattering courtiers and meddlesome women who surrounded her seemed to Lydie this morning more than usually brainless and vapid. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z With the best will in the world there are days when our dinners go off ill, our sherry is acrid, our entr�es cold, and our jests vapid. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Outside the Christian Year, indeed, in the Lyra Innocentium the studied avoidance of the ornamental and the attractive, degenerated into vapid debility. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z I admit that this agony of regret for the death of good Queen Mary II may not have been very sincere, and that the imagery is often vapid. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z To gratify a caprice, to paint the moral of a vapid theory about Irish intelligence. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Lydie was far too clever to dwell on such foolish matters as the vapid flirtations of a brainless doll, even if the object of such flirtations was the subjugation of milor. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z That occasion was goalless and while Zlatko Kranjcar's side are admirable in many regards, it did not excuse the hosts for being so vapid. England look to Darren Bent to shed the air of predictability 2011-03-25T23:01:01Z You will need patience: the parties are dull and the guests vapid and greedy. Reputation management: Glitzkrieg 2011-03-10T10:55:19Z In winter the spawning time comes on, when the laws of nature and of man alike forbid their capture; for the fish, at other times so rich a luxury, are now vapid and unwholesome. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z She could think of nothing but the quiet, silent, pitiful corpse; and all this vapid mouthing exasperated her beyond sufferance. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Louis was too dull and vapid to notice the change in his partner's attitude, the icy touch of her fingers, the deathly whiteness of her lips. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z He went twaddling on with his vapid discourse upon the state of the political atmosphere, placid as some babbling stream, until the dusky shadows began to gather in the corners of the low old-fashioned chamber. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z There was nothing warm or earnest in his admiration, and all his gallantry is as vapid as his character. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z I must confess that it was somewhat of a shock to Regina when she found that among his fellows—young, vapid, rather raffish young men—he was known by the abbreviative of “Alf.” The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z At the other end of the hall a meagre handful of worshippers were collected, and on the raised platform stood Mr. Banks, vapid, perfunctory and fatigued. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z She wanted to go up to Lydie and to offer her vapid expressions of goodwill, but Gaston, heartily tired of the prolongation of this scene, dragged her somewhat roughly away. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z The vapid language of the savage admits of but a limited embodiment of the softer passions; but the simple courtship of the uncultivated was ably sustained. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Presenting his vapid little pamphlet, the chancellor said that Britain needed to stop bullying bankers and move "from retribution to recovery". Bankers got carte blanche on pay and a free pass on lending. We got six pages of nothing 2011-02-13T00:05:39Z "He's merely a nice, useful boy——" "Rather vapid, don't you think?" observed a thin young woman in sables and an abundance of front teeth. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Not vapid gabbling over the stale, worn-out cant, nor abuse of the enemy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z I really cannot bring myself to take part in their vapid talk through an entire evening. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z Although I did not think it brackish, I found it vapid and disagreeable. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z It was empty, vapid, meaningless, ugly; just a sound by which one was known. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z "Yes, it is very vapid poetry, do you not think?" Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z He found nothing there, but a vapid self-complacency. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z We've been going through vapid talks with the Iranians for a long time. Iran Faces Pressure at Nuclear Talks 2011-01-20T12:17:49Z But there was not even a shadow on his vapid face when he looked at Christopher, author of his misfortune. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Besides, he thought they would sound so unmeaning and vapid, so far from expressing the hunger of his heart; so he said nothing. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The party in power were avowedly expansionist; their retort was equally dialectic and vapid. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z Farther along under an exploring match a great vapid peony loomed like a dead heart. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z "Tehran won't find that more vapid meetings in Istanbul will allow for any alleviation of the growing economic pressure on them." Iran Faces Pressure at Nuclear Talks 2011-01-20T12:17:49Z I in your place," Lilly went on, "would not care a fig inside myself for all that vapid stuff. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z During United's 1-1 draw with Birmingham City, Rooney delivered yet another vapid performance, one completely lacking in the sort of menace, skill and all-round brilliance that defined him at the start of the year. Five things we learned from watching the Premier League this week 2010-12-30T12:42:21Z When once this higher flavor of stimulus has been tasted, all that is less becomes vapid and disgustful. Gamblers and Gambling 2010-12-26T03:00:19.913Z Pearl necklace mysteries, in nine cases out of ten, spring from the miasma of social pretence and vapid competition and only concern people who do not matter in the least. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z Ms. Church’s challenge was registering his persistently “vapid and vacant” expression. About New York: A Career Sketching the Famous as They Sweated in Court 2010-10-12T17:47:00Z Even the respectability she desired was utterly vapid. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Time magazine's James Poniewozik also felt uncomfortable, saying the show struggled to find its tone, and he called the closing "round-table" section "just vapid". CNN's "Spitzer Parker" debuts to scathing reviews 2010-10-05T18:55:00Z And the Heat bandwagon would be overrun by gorgeous but vapid posers; granted, I've only been on it for six years, so I shouldn't complain, but that's a lifetime in a region this transient. Waiting for LeBron: An Ambivalent Fan in Miami 2010-07-08T18:50:00Z I will watch because I am being taught the vapid, mindless value of reality TV. Opinion: A King?s ransom ? NBA joins reality TV 2010-07-08T04:04:00Z In it, she condemned the "vapid and hollow charade" of judicial confirmation hearings. Kagan says she would take a 'modest' approach on Supreme Court 2010-06-29T04:00:00Z One spring passes by like a dull, vapid game, because he himself just then happens to be dull and vapid. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z They will also remind her of her own words in a 1995 book review, when she denounced confirmation hearings as a “vapid and hollow charade” and called for nominees to be more forthcoming. Obama and Roberts Will Cast Shadows Over Kagan Hearings 2010-06-26T16:11:00Z President Obama's address to the nation from the Oval Office was, to be frank, vapid. Wishy-washy Obama missed an opportunity 2010-06-16T09:16:00Z As an example of cultural demise, the 66-year-old writer cites a rise of vapid entertainment on television. Author Peter Carey bemoans U.S. Tea Party boom 2010-05-09T13:31:00Z This whole subject is one that cannot be dismissed as the conclusion of a bit of vapid superficial argumentation. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time "Who says we aren't gentlemen?" demanded a very vapid, but slightly bellicose hero. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The vapid man that had trotted for his father that afternoon suddenly shut off his view. The Guarded Heights With faces as vapid as faces of wax they perched around Jane's bed like birds in tinsel plumage, ready for instant flight. The Cottage of Delight A Novel She spent her days, the long, vapid, sickening days, gazing down the road he must come, the nights in wakeful, frightened thought. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir And what a number of vapid and tasteless jokes would it provoke! Tony Butler They sparkle when drawn from the spring, or when poured into a glass; have an acidulous taste, and become vapid when exposed to the air. Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France After the ceremony she smiled wonderingly at George while she absorbed the vapid and pattered remarks of, perhaps, a hundred old friends of the family. The Guarded Heights The "little Fronsacquin" rose with a vapid smile, from which every trace of annoyance had vanished. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 Schumann, Franz, Strauss, Grieg and MacDowell have conquered the field formerly held by the vapid and meaningless compositions of brainless composers who wrote solely to amuse or to appeal to morbid sentimentality. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists In all those eyes staring at us there was neither sympathy nor ill-will; they simply expressed vapid curiosity. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Then she would think that perhaps the man that he had seemed in their first love-days was the real man, and this Morris only the result of their hectic, vapid life. Shadows of Flames A Novel Life’s lee is not more shallow, than impure, And vapid; sense and reason show the door, Call for my bier, and point me to the dust. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes How poor, how vapid, and how meagre is the effort to recall the wit that set the table in a roar! Jack Hinton The Guardsman We discard the class whose dress is apish, whose life is an inanity, whose thoughts are vapid, if not something fouler and worse. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. The music suited her voice; she delivered a good deal of it almost parlando, and the vapid speeches of Mr. Redding tripped so audibly off her tongue that their banality became painfully apparent. Interpreters This same class of tourists, it has also been observed, are usually free with hackneyed puns, vapid phrases, and alleged or bygone jokes. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The praises of his wine fell dead upon his ear, and the jokes of the good Innerkepple seemed to have become vapid and tiresome to him. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Then came the turn of the despicable Flesselles, that caricature of vapid, frothy impertinence, who thought he could baffle the roaring tiger with grimace and shallow excuses. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 All his political worrying and grievance-mongering seemed to have lost character somehow, and become prosaic, and unsatisfying, and vapid. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Blind Roman, how vapid was your motto, that life is warfare! how tawdry the triumphs you held over subjugated brethren! Black Forest Village Stories He was as gaunt and filthy as the woman, but less vapid of face. Pet Farm I paid little attention to their vapid talk till my ear caught the name of Beecher. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day It is flashy and vapid, or is like the rinsings of different liquors at a night-cellar instead of a bottle of fine old port. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time I may grant all that you will tell me of the deplorable amount of vapid, idle, bitter, malicious, foul, and profane talk. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 If he had been capable of higher flights, it would have done him no honour to have employed his melodious verse in piecing together stale, vapid, and often paltry ideas. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The women with leisure who read and discuss vapid books are not representative of woman's higher education. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 For the first time he did not admire it very much; for the first time he found it a trifle soulless and vapid. A Life Sentence A Novel The vapid and the ignorant are like a bad play; they owe the little figure they make to the dress, the scenery, the music, and the company. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Hence conversation in the saloons is a dexterous tossing about of the most vapid generalities, or a series of desperate attempts at non-committal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 There was a sunshiny dullness about the place, like the smiles of a vapid woman. Stories of the Foot-hills Hence arises a facile and perhaps vapid enthusiasm, with an inclination to praise through thick and thin, or to ignore such points as may not be susceptible of praise. Life of John Keats Even to herself she did not attempt to deny a feeling of annoyance, though she extracted a bitter amusement from the knowledge that she had been slighted by such a vapid creature. The Silent Barrier She discovered, or rather he discovered, but too late, that the country had not only no charms for her, but that it was a scene of constant ennui and vapid dullness. Coelebs In Search of a Wife These aphorisms want the terse brevity of Rochefoucauld, and are in many instances vapid and trivial. Old and New London Volume I Those 'Elaine' illustrations are just as impure as anything else that Doré has done; but they are also vapid, and without any one merit whatever in point of art. Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work They are valuable, and ought to be repeated, if they have not become quite common; and Johnson’s style both of reasoning and imagery holds the middle rank between startling novelty and vapid common-place. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature But you find her empty and vapid, and you weary of her, in spite of the very best intentions of being interested. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education He is never exactly vapid, and he never soars. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 In a word, with his mixture of vapid idealism and old-fashioned fatalism, he proved monotonous to me. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It’s all very fine, you know, and all that, but it’s vapid. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) The Adventurer, by Hawksworth, is completely trite and vapid, aping all the faults of Johnson’s style, without any thing to atone for them. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The painting is of small interest; the faces are vulgar, and the draperies have too much vapid historical dignity to be delightful. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) I will not pretend to regret that, for, to be frank, it is a vapid, foolish, empty life enough. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography You will understand how vapid are all amusements to a man who has acquired a taste for 27 this one. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) We have read a great deal of trash in our day; but 'Daisy's Necklace' is the king of all vapid novels,—sentimental in sentiment, flaccid in fiction, and entirely intolerable from beginning to end. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It Scarcely more did they interest her than her vapid adventure with Ahab Wright. In the Heart of a Fool Well could I quit my native land, and flee The rugged northern clime, the vapid mists, With thee to dwell, did I that only what me lists. Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia At all events I choose to thank my father for the fact that at no period of my life have I cared to waste time over mere vapid trash, whether spoken or printed. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography |
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