| 单词 | vapidity |
| 例句 | But Bobby’s untenanted look owed itself not to vapidity but to a certain lack of interest in the world around him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There was a certain vapidity to her reassurance, an automatic way of expressing goodwill, which did not require any concrete efforts on her part to help him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But they are way too few, and by the end of the night their hoary-handed riffs and clunking lyrical vapidity merely grate. Cast ? review 2010-12-06T22:45:00Z His thoughtful pictures of vapidity and antipainting permeated the painting culture until every MFA program included a painter using tape as decoration rather than tool. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z If you feel differently about such art, that’s okay, and I will agree if you say it has produced mudslides of cynicism and intellectual vapidity. Perspective | Don’t ask if the duct-tape banana is art. Ask if it’s any good. 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z As well as great voices, spectacular eye-rolling and a high density of gags, he offers some pointed attacks on the vapidities and hypocrisies of modern life. This week's new live comedy 2013-02-23T06:00:10Z "Community" has the advantage, of course, in that it's a comedy, but for the love of Hollywood, there is no excuse for the vapidity of the humor in "Skywalker." Forget "The Rise of Skywalker" — the only "Star Wars" sequel you need is this episode of "Community" 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z “It remains very hard for me to reconcile the vapidity of Austin’s narrative mind, on the one hand,” Mr. Amir says, “with the extraordinary mental powers required by world-class tennis, on the other.” Theater Review: David Foster Wallace Inspires Piece at Chocolate Factory 2012-03-25T21:57:25Z Though “The Canyons” captures the vapidity of these dimwitted souls all too well, the film falls short in its ambitions to be a psychological character study. ‘The Canyons’: Tale of Hollywood Z-listers falls short 2013-09-05T21:22:20Z Movies like “Heathers” spoke directly to the darkness of a youthful heart in that era, the disgust at the vapidity of so much it all. Director Michael Lehmann on why Ivanka and Kellyanne are today's "good Heathers" 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z But “Skintight” stops well short of exploring, let alone indicting, its characters’ vapidity and historical amnesia. Review: With ‘Skintight,’ Idina Menzel Takes On a Straight Play. Sort Of. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z It exudes melancholy even as the beat fires up; it's our old friend, sad disco, something to dance to even as you ponder the vapidity and meaninglessness of frivolous self-expression. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z "It's a way for them to prove they're smart and they're serious in an industry known for its vapidity," Clark said. Benefits can flow both ways at celeb charity galas 2012-10-18T14:20:17Z Again and again, songs such as "Blow" and "Blah Blah Blah" reveled in vapidity, but Kesha recognized that lack of substance affords a certain freedom. For Kesha, lack of substance means freedom 2011-02-25T15:21:15Z Paris and her unapologetic vapidity belong more in the E! family, along with the Kardashians, Kendra, and "Sex and the City" reruns. Paris Hilton's reality show may tank, but she won't 2011-06-07T20:08:00Z Snook does everything but rend her garments in a performance that only emphasizes the busy vapidity of Hannah Kent’s script. ‘Run Rabbit Run’ Review: No Child of Mine 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Hearing it again last week, I was surprised how well I remembered the sound of it, and even the melodic flow of the piano and voices, in all its vapidity. New Music: Albums by Christina Aguilera, Soundgarden and Brian Eno 2012-11-12T23:19:31Z Transformers: Age Of Extinction wasn’t spoiled by a TMI trailer; it was spoiled by its own vapidity. Are you a Game of Thrones blabbermouth? The 10 rules of spoiler etiquette 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The imagery often came from lifestyle magazines, aerial photography, and also family albums, and their cold, distanced style held up a mirror to the new Federal Republic’s consumerist vapidity and Nazi inheritance. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. O’Hara also asks you to cackle about the vapidity of talk shows, the clichés of dystopian dialogue, bromosexuality, sexism, Trumpism and futurism itself. Review: In ‘Mankind,’ Men Are Men and Women Are Extinct 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Always gorgeous and elegantly dressed — her husband, Ralph, describes her face when in society as “like a theatre with all the lustres blazing” — Undine is nevertheless limited by her vapidity. How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Images of diasporic Jews finding each other after lifetimes apart will always carry with it a certain bittersweet resonance, even when it comes after 80 minutes of regressive vapidity. Hallmark's latest Jewish offering: An order of "Hanukkah on Rye" piled high with racial pandering 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z His music is ambient in the sense that it hangs in the air and changes glacially, but its harshness, complexity and wry humor distance it from the vapidities of the style’s New Age corner. Music Review: Ecstatic Summer, Part of River to River, at Winter Garden 2012-07-15T22:11:58Z While it’s refreshing to see different sexualities presented in similar, if lurid, imagery as heteronormative sex, the complacency in the presentation pushes the episode beyond titillation and into vapidity. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 6: Impersonation of Love 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z In his thoughtful demeanour seems to be an implicit criticism of the vapidity of today's world. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z After all, its themes, centered on the emptiness of power — and the vapidity of those who seek to be close to it — are timeless, especially in this city. Inside L.A.'s famous Art Deco penthouse, this show has you choose your own dark adventure 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z As African American educators, we recognize the vapidity of this debate, which recalls the sometime description of Black people who are Christians as dupes of the “White man’s religion.” Opinion | As Black educators, we endorse classical studies 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Because the alternative is pallid mush, short on honesty and condemned to vapidity. Opinion | Stanford students lost a chance to learn when they shouted down a judge 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z "Enraged at my vapidity, I forced myself to sit down and read several articles in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books before I fixed my nighttime drink." Review | In ‘Vladimir,’ a woman’s desire takes her to dangerous places 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z This dereliction of both duty and common sense is annoying at the best of times, but right now, the vapidity is morally indefensible. Media messes up coverage of voting rights, blames Biden for GOP's racism 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Far from knocking Biden off message, the vapidity of the questions actually strengthened Biden's central theme: Regardless of what others are up to, he's just trying to get stuff done. At Joe Biden's first news conference, it wasn't the president who was out of touch 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z One is that a raft of changes in the second half of a game interrupts its flow — as often happens amid the inconsequential vapidity of international exhibition games — and ruins its spectacle. Stars in a Slog: The Premier League Grind Will Only Get Worse 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z We’re congested and sprawling, full of natural beauty and absurd vapidity, individualist culture and deep economic disparity. Under fire for protest coverage, local TV news tries to learn from its mistakes 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z “Aside from their intellectual vapidity,” Mr. Marcus wrote, “many of these programs poison the atmosphere on campus.” U.S. Orders Duke and U.N.C. to Recast Tone in Mideast Studies 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z And, as much as we want to acknowledge its vapidity, what else would we have to moan about if not the ills of technology, as every generation before us has done? 2019 in pop culture: from Adele’s 30 to ‘zapping’ your TV 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z In the early going, her character’s extreme vapidity is distracting and annoying, no matter how deliberate it is. Elizabeth Harvest is a high-tech, twist-packed take on Bluebeard 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z These are pictures that generously invite your laughter with their Architectural Digest trappings, their soapy excesses and their all-too-keen awareness of their own vapidity. Christian and Anastasia tie the knot in the sublimely ridiculous 'Fifty Shades Freed' 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Outsiders have long enjoyed mocking the City of Angels – its sprawl, its vapidity, its kookiness. 'This is definitely a moment': Olympics crown LA's remarkable renaissance 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The show itself is a mess, proving that the formula that made The Hills work was the particular and odd charisma of its leads, who managed to turn vapidity into something soulful. MTV's Siesta Key Is a Social-Media Soap That Fails at Being Either 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z His lobbying revealed the vapidity of his narcissism. The Trump Elite. Like the Old Elite, but Worse! 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z You don’t have to read or watch many interviews to see that the principal qualities now sought in a celebrity are vapidity, vacuity and physical beauty. Celebrity isn’t just harmless fun – it’s the smiling face of the corporate machine | George Monbiot 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Better yet, as soon as they get in the car, the vapidity returns. Revisiting "A Gentleman's Game," the worst golf movie ever made - Golf Digest 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z In his unquestioning embrace of the dominant pieties of his day, Hooper is a stand-in for the vapidity of the society Waugh saw emerging from the rubble of World War II. Meet Planned Parenthood’s Tim Kaine 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z How else to survive the concrete landscape and endless traffic, the airheads and flakes, the tinsel and hustle and sheer vapidity of a metropolis which considered la-la-land a compliment? The boho-drain: bohemians say goodbye San Francisco, hello LA 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z A recent meeting of Syrian opposition representatives in London – designed to show moderate politicians in waiting – produced a vision of vapidity and incoherence. In Syria at sundown tomorrow the US-Russia deal faces its first test | Mary Dejevsky 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Or, to put it in the 1960s terms from which the current progressivism ultimately derives: Donald Trump, who in his vagueness and vapidity is unlikely to provide any solution, is himself part of the problem. Why Trumpkins Want Their Country Back 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z But his observations on dating, acting as a career goal and sad friends with kids are as funny in their vapidity as they are painfully true. Aziz Ansari avoids slapstick and stereotypes in 'Master of None' on Netflix 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Jeb’s response to being smacked around like this was some vapidity about how “the great majority of Republicans and Americans believe in a hopeful future.” The Not Ready for Prime Time Bush 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z IT IS fashionable to lament the vapidity and short-termism of institutional shareholders. The story and the numbers 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z No GPS yet invented will tell you, and that, of course, is the beauty of its fine blend of vagueness, vapidity and vacuity. The Unstoppable Appeal of ‘Going Forward’ 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Yet where the right sees liberal bias and seeks to create a conservative alternative, the left finds vapidity and seeks an outlet for ridicule. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Helped Bury MSNBC 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Charles and others also cited a certain artistic vapidity in massively commercial story-telling, while others chided Hogwarts, the wizardry academy attended by Potter, for only rewarding innate talents. Why Everyone Should Read Harry Potter 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z And this is the Obama Doctrine’s most serious problem: Its vapidity is evident to leaders around the world, who are even less inclined to trust or fear the United States when determining their own actions. Michael Gerson: Obama’s global war on straw men Had the "genre" finally collapsed in its own vapidity? Rhys Ifans interview exposed absurdity of interview genre 2013-06-09T08:04:01Z At last: "It's a beautiful morning," he ventured, and cursed his vapidity. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Imbecility, vapidity, and the commonplace distended themselves like the frog in the fable. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z She began to be tremendously bored by this mode of existence, to sense the emptiness, the vapidity of hotel life for a friendless woman. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z All the excited vapidity passed from Kent’s speech at once. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Suppose the gown is changed every day, while the face above it never varies, or varies only from one vapidity to another, and what is gained? A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z She began walking very fast, in much the same way from his passionate words as she had done from the frothy vapidity of that man, extinguished for ever. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z Such political confrontations in the past have contributed to athletic vapidity in the present. A Town, a Team, a Dream Deferred 2010-09-19T02:10:00Z The entire success of this dangerous arrangement depended on his ability to create an impression, where he was concerned, of unrelieved vapidity. The Bright Shawl The vapidity of a polite woman is bad, but the vapidity of a woman who is not polite is decidedly worse. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) The numerous additions, for which the distinguished coadjutors are responsible, reek with mawkish sentimentality, inane vapidity, or vulgar buffoonery. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The eminent criminal novel is taken as a tonic by minds satiated with the vapidity of fashionable fiction. A History of English Prose Fiction Its pettiness, its routine, its vapidity, its gossip, all oppress one like a hideous nightmare. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 It was an imposing array of sounds; a circulation of ciphers; a marshaling of tappas; a getting together of grimaces and furbelows; a masquerade of vapidities. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II The violent ferment which had been stirred in the nation by the affairs of Wilkes and the Middlesex election, was followed, as Burke said, by as remarkable a deadness and vapidity. Burke They are "whole teams" beside the "one-horse" vapidities which fail to bear our burdens. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Destiny, to his apprehension, is always either vapid, or clumsy, or brutal; and he feels certain that, do your worst, you can never rival the brutality, the clumsiness, or the vapidity of destiny. Archibald Malmaison A live, strong man having in his breast a sensitive, honest heart cannot help rebelling with all his force against this life so full of open cynicism, corruption, falsehood, and so blunted by vapidity. Mother As this went on, he came to hate the vapidities of the concerto in G major. Maurice Guest |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。