| 单词 | inanity |
| 例句 | These harmless inanities, far preferable to silence, allowed Robbie to retreat behind a mask of amused attention. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They were exchanging inanities about the size and terrors of New York, but my body knew that the conversation was about something far more threatening. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Although neophyte writers may repeat a simple sentence structure to the point of inanity, most writers go to the opposite extreme and vary their syntax capriciously. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Methodists and their inanities had no place in the bosom of King Cotton. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But she was miserably nervous too, incapable of stepping around the inanities. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But Simon Pegg in "The World's End," the latest work of brilliant inanity from director Edgar Wright, takes this whole reluctant-savior-of-humanity thing to a new plane. Review: In 'World's End,' one hilarious apocalypse 2013-08-20T22:45:57Z The language ranges from Victorian pastiche to modern vernacular and inanity. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z I think I just said inanities to her. The best performance I've ever seen: Katie Mitchell 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z However, she rarely shows the native wit that tempers Truffaldino’s inanity. Goldoni’s ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ in the Country 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z To try and distract us all from the red carpet inanity, I’m going to point you at some of The Guardian’s fine Oscars coverage. Oscars 2022: the winners, the losers, the dresses, the show – live! 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Middle American inanity is skewered: witness the hick who thinks the sun is a UFO. Will Franken – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-09T15:24:46Z Of course, what happens instead is a dazzling parade of moneyed inanity. The 2017 Grammys Have No Answers 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z It is in this production’s knowing riffs on the Hitchcock sensibility that theatergoers looking for substance amid the inanity can find it, if they squint. Review: ‘39 Steps,’ Frenetic Thriller Spoof, Rises Again 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z I’ll admit I still did, at least for some of this swaggering inanity. ‘Expend4bles’ Review: Band of Meatheads 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s a strangely satisfying exercise in the relentless inanity of the internet—and no one gets hurt. Watch John Oliver And Mario Van Peebles Launch A New App 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Performance art often straddles a fine line between brilliance and inanity. Performance Artist Searches for an Actual Needle in an Actual Haystack 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z “Happy Days” kind of did the trick — if only in showing me that the original “jumping the shark” image didn’t come close to reaching the level of inanity achieved on “Masters” this week. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: With an Ape, the Show Jumps the Shark 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z But whereas Hello Kitty is docile and friendly, Aggretsuko flies into rages — complete with wailing heavy metal music — against the inanity and repetition of her workplace. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Parts Unknown’ and an Avengers Marathon 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Watched this show and it so clearly dealt in stereotypes and inanity. ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z But was it the worst, or just a flip-side version of the approved inanities of contemporary art? Artist Jim Shaw stuffs American pop culture through the Rinse Cycle 2012-11-08T17:21:36Z Aiming for the endearingly zany, the new musical “Iowa” overshoots the runway, landing somewhere in the vicinity of complete inanity. Review: ‘Iowa’ Is a State of Absurdity at Playwrights Horizons 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z After only a little more inanity, Mr. Jay himself appeared. Sleights of Hand With Cards, Coins and a Colander 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Class disparity was chasmic, inflation had reached a point of inanity and the country seemed to hang its head in shame. Almost anarchy: The Style Council and the smooth sounds of sophisti-pop 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z A hot-blooded, Irish nationalist and proto-feminist during her youth, she raged that women were forced into lives of “vacuity, inanity, vanity, absurdity and idleness.” ‘Wilde’s Women’: the surprising force behind Oscar’s fame and success 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In The Green Wing and Rev, too, she made us laugh by playing women suffering from the inanity of men. Olivia Colman: 'It's slightly scary … it could all go wrong' 2013-07-07T17:30:00Z It’s yet another comedy of indignities — sorry, make that inanities. ‘Home Team’ Review: Fumblecore 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z When his boss in Africa inquires about his former calling, Rimbaud refuses to discuss his “inanities.” Books of The Times: The Prodigy Burned Out. Why Not Blame Mom? 2011-08-23T20:39:20Z There are amusing sideswipes at the corruption and inanity of 21st-century TV, and a gleefully unsporting riff on drugs in athletics. Frankie Boyle 2010-04-20T22:00:00Z And there are moments when “Chinglish” seems ready to take off into a similar stratosphere of inanity, in which misused words achieve their own giddy logic and rhythms. Theater Review: ?Chinglish,? by David Henry Hwang, at Longacre Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z Likely targets include the many travesties perpetrated in the names of Mills & Boon, bewilderingly crab-obsessed thriller writer Guy N Smith, and the many inanities and half-baked theories spouted by the creationist movement. This week's new comedy 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z He narrates his reporting, mumbling inanities like “A Sabbath silence brooded over the mire.” A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z That's why I feel a kind of head-swiveling awe in Your Highness's concentration of aimless inanity, in the purity of its devotion to its own louche principles. How Low Can They Go? James Franco, Danny McBride and Natalie Portman in Your Highness 2011-04-07T09:15:00Z Unfortunately, “Shook,” which is streaming on Shudder, does not fully exploit this intriguing premise and devolves into far-fetched inanity. ‘Shook’ Review: Unliked and Followed 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Sputtering about some inanity in the news, he seemed almost too fiery for the cool medium. Lewis Black returns to the home town that sparked his political fire 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Some shows reflect cacophonous social media timelines where inanity, tragedy and banality are all jumbled up together. 'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z But, as soon as the red-carpet inanities took hold, interest waned. Tony awards in Times Square make for perfect street theatre 2012-06-11T13:16:53Z Realizing that my story is but one entry on 2021's extensive list of celebrity inanity restored my fortitude. Calling out the saddest sacks of 2021, a reckoning by Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend's ... friends 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z I think I'm a fairly shy person and I need lots of time on my own, but blogging and Twitter and emailing feed my need for chat and inanity during the day. Jenn Ashworth: My desktop 2012-07-31T14:27:07Z This writer isn't usually one to enjoy being goaded into chanting along to such inanities as "Hell yeah!" Hypnotic Brass Ensemble at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-25T17:28:00Z Produced a dozen years after Mr. Rossiter’s death, it focused on the copious residual inanity among Reginald’s surviving family and friends. David Nobbs, Novelist and Creator of Reginald Perrin, Dies at 80 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z You may think he spends all his time researching and recovering from restaurant outings, but Rayner has a TV life as a principled investigator of the insanities and inanities of modern food retail. Feeding Frenzy by Paul McMahon; A Hungry Man in a Greedy World by Jay Rayner – review 2013-05-26T07:00:05Z It was graduation season, which made everyone a little nostalgic for the inanities of high school and its superlatives, and so my friends put together their own award show for the disembarking seniors. K-dramas cured my prejudice against Asian men 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z How much of the inanity and mediocrity around him would he absorb? Dennis Hopper's strange, brilliant career 2010-05-29T18:04:00Z To add insult to inanity, Jean has died again since then. The spandex-clad undead: Why comics love ridiculous resurrections 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z For all Serenata’s ranting about the inanity of acquiescing to crowds, she never seems to acknowledge that complaints about the oppression of white people stem from another crowd with a very nasty history. Review | ‘The Motion of the Body Through Space’ is a fitness industry satire weighed down by its own heavy-handedness 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Apropos of who-knows-what, messages like “Stop the inanity!” and “I dreamed I was assertive” were printed on Sassy spines. Clickbait Has a New Address 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z And the sick thing is that, even to a skeptic, Franco makes grinning inanity attractive. You Can't See The Interview, But I Did 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z For me, sending postcards is not simply force of habit or a tiny revolt against the “like us on Facebook” inanity of social media. Are postcards a thing of the past? 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “Trust Exercise,” which won the National Book Award for fiction, exaggerates some of the indignities and inanities of theater training. Is Theater Ridiculous? Movies, TV and Books Seem to Think So 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Because the instances I have quoted are chosen almost casually from a myriad competing instances of overstatement, false generalisation, self-congratulation and self-deception, pure silliness, inanity. Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z My first book was designed to expose the inanity of those, and other, arguments. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z And the inanity of Instagram poets is wickedly lampooned with his description of an app called Locket, on which poets assemble vast virtual crowds to listen to and praise Solomon Wiese’s stolen verse. Review | ‘Dead Souls’ is a witty, sharp, cruel critique of literary culture. But it’s not for everyone. 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z This paradise of inanity is on the south side of Washington Square — or, to be specific, the N.Y.U. Review: Sailing on Silly Seas With ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z In my book, it's persons of little wit and scant information clogging up your life with a constant stream of misspelt inanity. A plague on the Twitter Romeo and Juliet 2010-04-27T21:40:00Z At times, he slyly hints at judgment at the band’s various inanities and unsavory behavior. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s the casting of Mr. Turner, though, that lifts this production into its own special universe of razor-edged inanity. Orlando Bloom and Aidan Turner Are Drenched in Blood in London 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z But some of their reporting, especially on Congress and the inanity that goes on there in the name of lawmaking, is first-rate. Brian Williams and Seth Meyers Share Notes Over Lunch 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z “The Amazing Race” generates its heat via the bustle and confusion of city life, the frustration of airport logistics and, surprisingly, the inanity of its challenges, which serve mostly to generate arguments between teammates. Television Review: American Stereotypes Trek Across a Moroccan Desert 2011-06-22T22:06:19Z You’re aware just how far your inanities are From the world we know.. Style Invitational Week 1239: MASH 3 — combine two movie titles 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It is frequently Baron Cohen’s aim to see how far a subject will go in accepting, abetting, and perhaps even surpassing the inanity of a persona. Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” Reviewed 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Also, people are weirder, and tend to wander off point into thickets of inanity. Review: In ‘Judy,’ Societal Regression, Circa 2040 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z But you can’t take any of it seriously, and this is actually an upgrade over the inanity of the animated film. Perspective | If you’ve seen one princess fairy tale, you know what to expect with ‘Anastasia’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z And they didn’t have to look far to find a lot of congressional inanity. Style Invitational Week 1353: What’s playing at the retroplex 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z There is a glancing critical reference here to Samuel Beckett, and pokes at the inanity of reading profound meaning into "artistic" acts that are nothing more than adult child's play. Theater review: Irony, whimsy, isolation, tedium in French troupe's 'L'Effet de Serge' 2011-04-15T20:21:04Z But the question that Saunders’s directive inadvertently raises—how do we embrace a spiritual softness without also embracing the inanities long used to disseminate those ideas?—is, at present, a pressing one. Can We Escape the Diabolical Clichés of Coldplay? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z There are few online experiences more dispiriting, more arduously futile, than the downward scroll into the netherworld of half-assed provocations and inanities that exists beneath the typical opinion piece or YouTube video. It’s Comments All the Way Down 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Anyone who has spent time in the former Soviet Union will recognize the noxious mix of neglect, deception and bureaucratic inanity on which the camp runs. Books of The Times: ‘The Scent of Pine,’ by Lara Vapnyar 2013-12-31T21:47:12Z Yet hope we do, even as the vulgar sight gags and plot inanities pile up. Review: In ‘Central Intelligence,’ a Weaponized Kevin Hart 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z But the production, directed by Stephen Brackett, creaks along at a sluggish pace that allows us far too much time to chart the inanities and the often stilted dialogue. Theater Review: ‘The Correspondent,’ a New Play by Ken Urban 2014-02-18T22:15:19Z His mission: to skewer, mock and fact-check what he saw as the inanities of American politics and media. Jon Stewart and 'The Daily Show': A Comedy Family Tree 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Within a year, Alan Partridge was born – a sports commentator who knew nothing about sport, but everything about filling the airwaves with inanity. Steve Coogan: older, wiser, but as for his alter ego… 2013-07-27T23:05:40Z Bellow was aware that his repeated insistence on our “state of radical distraction” made him sound, at times, like a fogy, a turkey gobbling at the inanities of the young. Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z As smart as Medoff’s critique of corporate inanity is, it’s tempered by compassion for these people, who are ultimately tender with each other, too. Review | If you hate office life, you’ll love — and laugh at — this novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Besides these inanities, the film also elides or ignores key questions about Pavarotti’s career. Perspective | Even opera lovers should grit their teeth and watch this mediocre Pavarotti film 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z It became my instinct to counter her seriousness with playfulness, her pessimism with optimism, her insanity with inanity. My crushing student debt 2013-05-18T23:00:00Z But this film is not special, and like its shallow characters, it is persistently unaware of its own inanity. ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Review: ‘Euphoria’ With Knives 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In another time it was gratifying enough to witness the inanities of the very wealthy on “Dallas” and “Dynasty,” but now perhaps we want to know that a more egregious fall is destined. | 'Spartacus: Gods of the Arena': The Adventures of Spartacus Sixpack 2011-01-20T22:57:54Z It’s suitable for most ages, but without the crushing inanity of a “Fuller House.” Review: The Euphoria of ‘One Day at a Time’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Some are confronted by their Twitter inanities, others with compromising Facebook photos of themselves. Sanderson Jones ? review 2011-08-29T15:00:40Z But, in fact, his knowledge of the 14th century’s arcane culture may be the best preparation for capturing the inanity of contemporary educational theory and rhetoric. Review | Parents will stop at nothing to get their kids into a prestigious school 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z He rode herd on the musicological and critical communities, sending unsolicited — indeed, dreaded — postcards to colleagues with capsule critiques, noting errors or inanities, often scathingly. Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Of course the guy who played Barney Miller in one of TV’s smarter sitcoms knows how to drop dry punchlines into the prevailing inanity. Review | Hal Linden is right for ‘The Price’ at Arena Stage 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The inanity of the rituals of teen-age girls—the semi-rigid hierarchies, mandatory conformity, mob mentality, and rules of inclusion and exclusion—are mocked endlessly in 2004’s “Mean Girls,” a cult classic. What About the Girls? 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z It’s because it is leeching off the feminist zeitgeist and infecting it with its inanity. Take that, patriarchy! The horrific, cack-handed 'feminism' of Netflix's Girlboss 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. Review | A.D. Miller’s ‘Independence Square’ imagines how one diplomat tried to secretly manage Ukraine’s revolution 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z True, a certain amount of inanity is an accepted ingredient in farce, but you could handily herd the entire cast of “Aida,” elephants and all, through the holes in Mr. Ludwig’s labored plot. Theater Review | 'Lend Me a Tenor': LaPaglia and Shalhoub Clown Around at the Music Box 2010-04-05T02:09:00Z This is The Corner as it was: A bubbling brook of inanity punctuated occasionally by particularly vile or bizarre Jonah Goldberg asking readers to write his column for him, then posting their responses. Jonah Lehrer’s male arrogance 2012-06-21T15:00:00Z He’s so casually insightful, even as he offers such bracing diagnoses of our era — from faith-based violence to the inanity of identity politics — in phrases that ring with the real metal of genius. Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z For some viewers, Caroline’s inanity might seem a little much. ArtsBeat: A New Character, and a New Crazy, on ‘Girls’ 2014-01-20T03:30:15Z "Rick and Morty," however, consistently takes potshots at Christianity and the inanity of believing in the Almighty – any version of the Almighty. How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z February 3, 2010 5:44 pm Link Mr. Gross, if you “could care less” maybe you should try that, rather than get steamed up about inanities. 2010-02-03T13:55:00Z But you’ll most likely get a few laughs and mild enjoyment when you just surrender yourself to the inanity of it all. ‘Quasi’ Review: Medieval Inanity 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z There’s something almost quaint now about watching a prepandemic show whose focus is the inanity of office culture. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Forcing them to repeat themselves should prompt them to recognize their own inanity, if not their rudeness. Perspective | Miss Manners: Stay-at-home dad objects to ‘playing hooky’ remarks 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z They hold babies and are allowed only mild inanities. Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z In bookstores you will find inanities like “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Supercharged Kama Sutra Illustrated” sooner than a faithful translation of the original manuscript, which contained no drawings whatsoever. Books of The Times: The Kama Sutra, Newly Translated 2012-01-31T17:03:33Z Photograph: Getty Images In your third novel, Americanah, one of the characters warns about the inanity of asking what a book is about – "as if it were only about one thing". Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: my new novel is about love, race... and hair 2013-04-06T23:05:05Z Then the Mail on Sunday, reliably, managed to scale new heights of inanity on this topic. To Kill a Mockingbird: the backlash 2010-06-29T19:30:00Z Trump’s Liberty performance proves one thing decisively: mouth a few faith-sodden inanities before a faith-sodden segment of the electorate, and you can get away with anything. Donald Trump’s phony faith-mongering, Ted Cruz doomed crusader: Sex, lies, religion and the GOP’s 2016 carnival 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The fact that the Ortas' commission is a step upward just adds to the sense of shoddy artistic values littering this magnificent public space with well-meaning inanities. Why St Pancras's Clouds sculptures are on the right track 2013-04-18T16:01:53Z It’s satirized the media through its local news personalities, and the general inanity of politics through its various town forums, but it doesn’t often fall into current-events parable. TV Tonight: What Are Parks and Rec?s Politics? 2012-04-26T14:19:34Z As long ago as 1992, it became clear that American campaign coverage was becoming consumed with inanity. Column: How the media's obsession with Biden's age could help reelect Trump 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Coverage of the episode raises doubts about whether our political news media will be prepared to see past the inanities of political campaigning in the coming elections and focus on what’s important. Column: The saga of DeSantis' migrant flights gets uglier 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z What makes me grumpy these days is less the market than the hokum and inanity that would-be experts are using to calm investors right now. Bear market brings out bad advice 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z The quarter-final and semi-final draws for the Champions League and Europa League will be coming up from 11am, with the usual pleasantries/inanities thrown in before the balls come out of the pot. Champions League and Europa League draws, Chelsea sale news – live! 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z For four long years, Americans woke every morning to a fresh barrage of insanity, inanity and insults from the president and his administration. Opinion | Biden’s State of the Union address should build on his record 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Two decades ago, during Stewart’s heyday in the George W. Bush years, the comedian offered some catharsis from the day’s cruelties and inanities by doing what the mainstream news largely didn’t: cutting through the bull. Perspective | Why John Oliver’s anti-catharsis comedy is political late night’s reigning template 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z What is their reward for such slavish service to a greedy charlatan, a sexual abuser, a spouter of spiritual inanities? Review | Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘The Books of Jacob’ is finally here. Now we know why the Nobel judges were so awestruck. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Old virtues turn into self-evident vices or, worse, convictions that get remembered as inanities. Review | When communism crumbled, so did an 11-year-old’s reality 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Ever since candidate Ronald Reagan solemnly pronounced the incessantly and giddily repeated inanity that “government is not the solution, government is the problem,” there have been plenty of people who are “against the government.” Opinion | Taking the nation’s temperature 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The covid pandemic has brought forth a corresponding pandemic of right-wing inanity. Opinion | The GOP has become the stupid party — and proud of it 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z As for the holdouts, they seem to believe that inanity has no place in their brands. The Mascot Whisperer 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Following the Atlanta and Boulder murders, we now fall somewhere between hope and inanity. Opinion | If there were ever an issue where conscience should rule, it is this one 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Rather than being lost in Twitter’s netherworld of inanity and insanity, Republicans are conducting a real-world policy debate. Opinion | The child tax credit is a conservative dream fulfilled. Let’s help make it permanent. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z If anything, it is the perfect distillation of this entire era of contemporary art, which is to say the very inanity of Companion is, at times, thrilling. The Surprising Ascent of KAWS 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z What we’re living through right now might be characterized as the inanity of evil. Trump's 1776 commission is proof America is spiraling toward facism | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z The inanity of talk of sending 75,000 federal agents to police Democratic city streets joins a long list of Trump statements that cannot be backed up and enforced. Trump tries "dominating" the streets — but his utter incompetence gets in the way 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Instead of trying to argue with Glassman's inanity, this anonymous person decided to simply expose his racist rant. Trump's peddling of a conspiracy theory about Antifa and protesters is part of a right wing trend 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z It also led him to believe that the tree of life suggested by Darwinian evolution is “entirely false,” he told me, and that Darwin himself “wrote nothing but inanities.” He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The emperor surrounds himself with people who laugh at his jokes and applaud his inanities and answer “Huzzah!” when he says “Huzzah,” which he says a lot. 'The Great' tears up the history books. It's not Shakespeare, but it works 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Cue some more “let’s go Roger, let’s go” inanity – but given Federer’s wounds are still raw from the first set the chants seem more in hope than belief. Roger Federer v Novak Djokovic: Australian Open semi-final – live! 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “A Very Stable Genius” repeatedly shows how these professionals were worn down by what they considered the inanity, impropriety and illegality of his ideas and directives. ‘A Very Stable Genius’ steps inside the Oval Office of the chaotic Trump administration 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Yet as the months clicked by, the president wore down these “adults in the room” with what they considered the inanity, impropriety and illegality of his ideas and directives. ‘Why haven’t you shut down the border?’: inside Trump’s White House 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z He once called on Americans to oppose her father because of "his racism and inanity". CES 2020: First look at tomorrow's freshest tech 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The 1971 Pentagon papers detailed how the true inanities of Vietnam were also concealed from view. Afghanistan agony is a product of political self-delusion – and public indifference | Simon Tisdall 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z But any attention given to the House’s shock troops of inanity and unreason is misdirected. Opinion | Senate Republicans must weigh the full cost of complicity 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z His fans ate it all up, delighting in the insults and inanities. Opinion | Biden’s rivals won’t oust him in the debates 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Several sources confirmed to me that Murdoch regales friends with Trump’s latest inanities. The Making of the Fox News White House 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s hard to keep a civil tongue in the face of such inanity. Opinion | Kamala Harris’s record and character matter — not the race of her father and husband 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z As the bidding war for the affection of the Democratic left spirals into inanity ... Analysis | The Daily 202: Sherrod Brown wants to wrest the populist mantle away from Trump as he heads from Ohio to Iowa 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z As the bidding war for the affection of the Democratic left spirals into inanity — “Abolish ICE!” Opinion | Amy Klobuchar may be best equipped to send the president packing 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z As an anatomy of idiocy on so many levels it is a fairly complete picture, from the inanity of the original tableau, to the confected outrage, to the undeniable weirdness of the basic spectacle. Can Franck Ribéry not have his gold-leaf steak and eat it? | Barney Ronay 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Now, though, as I pass the White House, it looks sad, the home of a hoarder — lies and scandals and crimes spilling out of the closets and Trump tweeting some inanity. Opinion | Trump turned the White House into a madhouse 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z It was not until House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton tried to “win” a shutdown in December of 1995 that we got to the current inanity. Congress too tired to even fake it 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Like “The Daily Show” in its prime, Mr. Plante soars when he’s mocking the inanity pumped out by cable news shows. Chris Plante reigns over D.C. airwaves through wit, astonishing energy 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Plus, of course, there are the wider inanities of modern football, the billionaire-ball short-termism, the shrill tides of contrary opinion and vested interest. Paul Scholes should turn fire to those behind Manchester United’s demise | Barney Ronay 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z It is slowly dawning on the anti-Trump camp that repeating every inanity only feeds the propaganda machine. How opponents feed Trump media machine 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Fourteen years from now, some of the inanities from this weekend will still be bothering Dustin Johnson, who shot a 41 on the front nine Saturday yet is still tied for the lead. Perspective | Once again, the USGA has created an identity crisis for Shinnecock Hills 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Via many endearing digressions and changes of heart, Montaigne talks to all our human fears and guides us towards freedom from our habitual “inanity and nonsense”. Books to give us hope: Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Rose McGowan and more share their picks 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Indeed, to overhear the baby-faced billionaire wannabes exchanging boastful inanities in public could be enraging. How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley | Corey Pein 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The WH is probably concerned that he doesn't do something inappropriate to make matters worse, such as throwing paper towels at the survivors and parents, giving them WH souvenirs, or some other inanity. Trump Suggests Teachers Get a ‘Bit of a Bonus’ to Carry Guns 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z “Fox & Friends,” which had been known primarily for its goofy inanity, turned into the Donald Trump Cheerleader Show so enthusiastically that the president frequently live-tweets its broadcasts. Perspective | How Breitbart became just another right-wing Trump cheerleader 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z We risk letting this man dominate our information flow with his own inanities for the next three years. Opinion | Trump’s Petticoat Government 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z But then the target for ridicule is often some political inanity or offensive distortion of truth. You can log off, sure. But you can’t stop the outrage economy | Rafael Behr 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Imagine having to sacrifice time from tweeting inanities, stealing health insurance coverage from working Americans, passing tax breaks for his fellow billionaires, and other really pressing stuff. Opinion | Trump’s Self-Absorption on War Deaths 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The statements were so totally poised in their assault on art-world inanities that observers believed they were by a disaffected conceptual artist, someone already famous. Race, power, money – the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z “And critics of climate change inanity are equally correct today,” Ms. Eastman said in a post on Legal Insurrection. Gregory Okin, UCLA professor, blames dogs and cats for contributing to climate change 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z So now Pence stands to Trump’s side, his head nodding at every inanity. Opinion | Who’s worse for the nation — Trump or Pence? 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z You secretly suspect that even if you did, the meaning would simply glide past the eyes in a seizure of inanity. From bae to millennial, 11 words that make the heart sink 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Waking up in the night cringing at small talk, blurted inanities, perceived slights. Rei Kawakubo, Interpreter of Dreams 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z One of the few gifts of Donald Trump’s presidency is that it unmasks all the hypocrisy and inanity of right-wing ideology. Trumpcare fiasco proved it: Republicans are utterly divorced from reality 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Where to begin with the inanity of the Republican accusation? Opinion | A Virginia Democrat visits a mosque, and the state GOP puffs up with phony indignation 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “They adjourned trying to debate what time to start this morning,” said Ms. Comes, 47, marveling at the inanity. Civics Lesson Unfolds at Capitol as Health Care Bill Incinerates 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Livingston, always respected for his intellect, could blame meager career prospects on injury rather than inanity. JaVale McGee: The smart, hard-working player and ‘phenomenal teammate’ Shaq is overlooking 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z “The clear disagreement between the two magistrates in charge of the matter is such a rare event that it is worth underlining,” he said, “as it illustrates the inanity of the decision.” Nicolas Sarkozy Ordered to Stand Trial Over Campaign Finances 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z You could write a treatise on the convoluted inanities and inefficiencies of state-run construction projects. The Second Avenue Subway Is Here! 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z It allows you to compartmentalize, to lend sports the importance you feel they should have in our world, without being swept up too deeply in the balming inanities of sports talk. Letter of Recommendation: Fair-Weather Fandom 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z And Hero Complex editor Meredith Woerner wrote a great tribute to Fisher here, noting her talent for “skewering stereotypes, inanities and lazy thinking with a lance of wit and hard-won insight.” Saying goodbye to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z It helps me survive the daily inanities of the election cycle, the daily ways we are dehumanized. The Donald Trump nightmare will endure for Latinos – no matter who wins | John Paul Brammer 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z It should not be confused with a cosmic political error, mind-boggling in its inanity, inexplicable on any level, the electoral equivalent of stuffing your opponent’s ballot box. Trump’s ObamaCare Silence 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Again and again they mocked the anything-for-a-rhyme inanity of so many rap lyrics, the mindless aesthetics of so many music videos, and the lifestyle excesses of so much musical stardom. Andy Samberg is perfectly dim in the pop pastiche 'Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z David Harsanyi of the Federalist is dismayed by “the inanity of the ongoing presidential race.” The Troll Booth 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z A person need only survey the inanity of the ongoing presidential race to comprehend that the most pressing problem facing the nation isn’t Big Business, Big Labor, Big Media or even Big Money in politics. We must weed out ignorant Americans from the electorate 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z He becomes the experiment, making himself annotate everything Harpo did “even though it courts inanity and idiocy, even if it’s not the right way to do things.” Maggie Nelson on intellectualism and having 'baggage' 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z This hardly qualifies as a controversy, especially at a time when the grim reality of the world once again intrudes on the inanity of our politics. A Bill Clinton gaffe reveals a Hillary Clinton strength 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The broadcasters' complicity in the inanity of our politics is no laughing matter. Les Moonves, CBS, and Trump: Is TV's business model killing democracy? 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z In truth, it’s a voraciously self-aware comedy, one that dines out on the inherent inanity of its own premise as much as it does the movies it’s competing with. ‘Deadpool’: Marvel’s ‘merc with a mouth’ has teeth, too 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But for all its inanity, the WEF’s tweeting does point to something real: a growing cult of extreme performance among the Davos crowd. Here comes SuperBoss 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Yet the results, at times, seem to border on inanity. In baseball’s new economy, the numbers either add up or they don’t 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Our next bout of inanity was the Square initial public offering. Telltale Signs That Deal Makers Swallowed the Silly Pills 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Carson’s approach is effective because it is so hard to capture its inanity in the confined space of a televised sound bite or newspaper article. Carson’s real scandal is his ignorance 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Then he was, pardon the word, trumped even on that topic by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s outburst on the inanity of the question. This strange, worrisome GOP race 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z But watching the Giants’ burly, bearded, longhair Madison Bumgarner pitch so masterfully was entertainment to treasure forever despite the annoying inanity of the interstitial musical fare. Baseball's postseason music makes me want to scratch out my eardrums | Dave Bry 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z As the fans entertained themselves with the harmless inanity of a few Mexican waves – always a sign of boredom with the fare on offer – the pounding of the brave outsiders continued. Ireland and Simon Zebo turn on speed to doom Romania’s insurrection 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Trump is terrifyingly popular, but we have come to expect dangerous inanities from him. The Dangerous Doctors of the G.O.P. 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z As the Washington Post reported, he sounds a little annoyed by the inanity of his own party’s talking points, which he recognizes as wrong. Iran deal quietly picks up some GOP backers 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z One of the most serious problems with religious faith is that it can afflict an otherwise intelligent person and incite her to utter arrant inanities with the gravitas of an old-time, Walter-Cronkite-style television newscaster. These religious clowns should scare you: GOP candidates’ gullible, lunatic faith is a massive character flaw 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z With military service normalised to the point of inanity, soldiers don’t seem to bother taking it seriously, and people don’t seem to afford them extraordinary reverence. How I learned to stop worrying and love the Iranian army 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The governor’s conversations with the staff shortly after his infidelity speech were exquisite in their inanity and self-involvement. What it’s like to write speeches for a rude, rambling and disgraced politician 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Even for congressional Republicans, this is reaching new levels of inanity. GOP senator might trust Ayatollah over Obama 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Skewering the staples of cable-news punditry, Stewart and Colbert laid bare its inanity: the endless shouting, the meaningless talking points, the inescapable echo chamber. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Helped Bury MSNBC 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z When developers merge entertainment with inanity, their games are often gems. The 5 Best iPhone Games to Play This Week 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z There’s a level of inanity to this game that’s hard to stomach, were it not for the fact that it’s been near the top of the iTunes chart for the last week. The 5 Best iPhone Games To Play This Week 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Boxing’s scandals, promoter battles and sanctioning body inanities long ago distanced the sport from the embrace of broadcast networks and advertisers. After an Absence, NBC Agrees to a Ringside Seat 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Sony put profit and inanity before common sense, imperiling national security with its idiotic, pointless, reportedly awful film. More Sanctions on North Korea After Sony Case 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z But it was the Staten Island race that captivated many New Yorkers, if only for its toxic brew of viciousness and inanity. Michael Grimm Overcomes Democrats’ Campaign to Capture His Congressional Seat 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z What’s not debatable is the inanity of the GOP whining about czars in the first place. McCain hitches his wagon to a czar 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Never mind the Fulton recovery system hijinks or the inanity in a game this lifelike of a dude scuttling around crablike under a piece of cardboard in lieu of executing actual stealth tactics. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's Live E3 2014 Demo Is Now Watchable 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z They understood very well that expecting the press and the people to see through such inanity and recognize it for the rank partisan hack job it is is a fool’s game. Put Alan Grayson on Benghazi panel! Why he’s Dems’ best option to expose this clown show 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z We would never indulge such inanity about actual weather, and yet we continue to pretend climate science deniers hold credible ideas that are worthy of being heard and considered. “Meet the Press” pretends Marsha Blackburn has reasonable ideas about climate science because “debate” 2014-02-17T12:43:00Z “So this year I went a lot goofy,” he said and took media day inanity to a new level. For $28.50, the Lull of Super Bowl Media Day Awaits 2014-01-29T01:53:27Z Robertson has come in for more criticism of his anti-gay remarks than his inanity on race, although it’s a little hard to take any of it seriously. 2013: The year in whiteness 2013-12-30T20:30:00Z The judge, a Republican, spoke scathingly of the “breathtaking inanity” of the creationists’ arguments. Eugenie C. Scott Fights the Teaching of Creationism in Schools 2013-09-02T19:17:50Z Charles Pasqua, the French former interior minister, who criticised the 'inanity of the slanderous accusations'. French court clears 20 of corruption over Iraq oil-for-food programme 2013-07-08T17:00:26Z In a statement, Mr Pasqua, 86, said his only regret was that it took eight years to establish "the inanity of the defamatory accusations against me". Total cleared of Iraq oil corruption 2013-07-08T15:49:58Z The depressed stock, the misguided political comments, the unguarded vanity of high school “friends”—all tend to reinforce the inanity of the social network. Who Would Recruit On Facebook? Try Pepsi, Gap, AIG And Oracle... 2013-07-02T18:48:00Z People forgive honesty; yet they find it more difficult to forgive inanity. Three Questions Great Leaders Ask Themselves More Than Once 2013-07-01T13:45:00Z Before that little slice of inanity, Hibbert was busy showing everyone what great centers used to look like, , a relic of a bygone era. Leading Off: Heat and Blackhawks — From Dominant to Merely Mighty 2013-06-03T15:00:55Z And also to acknowledge the basic inanity of the billionaire himself, a creature whose existence is essentially the complete opposite of sport, with all its ragged edges and imperfections. Superman Beckham's fond farewell as Spider-Man Terry spreads magic dust 2013-05-17T12:59:36Z If he spoke German, his inanities would escalate into parable. Ben Marcus: “The Dark Arts.” 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z It is the Los Angeles Lakers’ special talent, however, to emerge from the weekend’s bedlam as the epicenter of inanity. Leading Off: When Chaos Is More Than a Theory 2013-04-29T14:47:20Z CNN’s political reporters were similarly unable to break out of their self-created shell of inanity and just react like human beings, with Wolf Blitzer and company fixated on the semantics of the president’s brief statement. Let’s not be terrorized 2013-04-16T14:31:00Z All is inanity at Vanity Fair's Oscar party A woman buys fruit at a market in Barcelona, Spain. Mediterranean diet reduces cardiovascular risk 2013-02-26T00:33:00Z I mean if it was important for the deadhead GOPers then I assume they would have spent more time in briefings then lollygagging with media recording all their inanities. Understanding the GOP's Benghazi Obsession 2013-02-21T20:20:21Z Hothoused, pursued by outside inanities, our last great crop of talents never quite allowed to thrive. Premier League predictions for 2013 2013-01-01T09:01:31Z It was Huckabee who didn’t just mouth off once, but kept mouthing off, clarifying his original vituperative inanity with ever more vituperative inanity from his apparently limitless supply. Huckabee blames gays for the Newtown massacre 2012-12-17T16:26:00Z He is after all not in China or Qatar, or safely retired into the welcoming inanity of golfing purgatory, or the early middle-aged love-rat personal reinvention of the TV dancing show. Michael Owen, destined to be The One, deserves one last hurrah 2012-12-14T15:20:57Z It used to be so simple: there were hardcore titles for real gamers, and then there were the mainstream inanities that brought families together at Christmas. Video games in 2012: five things we've learned 2012-12-11T13:48:32Z The approach of the so-called fiscal cliff has unleashed a torrent of inanity in Washington. Joe Klein: Blurring the Borders Between Obamacare vs. Medicare 2012-12-06T13:50:20Z I guarantee that three weeks of watching that will have you nostalgic for the beige inanities and odd shirt button arrangements of the Match of the Day panel. The Fiver 2012-12-04T16:03:43Z In the slinging of insults and inanities that seemed to characterize this election season, it is hard not see ourselves as fiddling while Rome burns. How To Innovate - Without A Miracle 2012-11-28T15:41:44Z Lately too, prescription uppers have become a playground for intrepid young journalists, whose love affairs with stimulants are woven into dull cautionary tales about the inanity of hyper-efficiency. Visualizing the Language of Drug Experience 2012-11-26T13:45:03.620Z Groening never shied away from ridiculing the inanities of primary education, he shifted to more serious topics in later years. Life Lessons from 'Life in Hell' and other Matt Groening Creations 2012-06-23T23:35:30Z Yet you also needed to catch Jon Stewart's hilarious verdict on the end of the Piers show, unleashing more inanities from this "car wash of an English June". BBC faces trouble if Ed Richards doesn't get director general's job 2012-06-09T23:00:13Z Our political system, for all its inanities and disappointments, is fairly well understood and quite widely trusted. Why America won?t go the way of Europe 2012-04-20T00:17:48Z The old sort of weather wisdom which was a startling compound of wisdom, superstition, and inanity has passed away, or is passing away as rational weather talk spreads. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z He has looked with like vision upon this scene of all-confessed inanity, By Saint, by Sage, by Preacher, and by Poet, and will not in his turn refrain "from holding up the nothingness of life." Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z What a change from the old style of painted doll inanities, dressed up in a style never seen in real life! Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 2012-04-14T02:00:21.840Z He whose broad forehead was circled with might; Sunk to a time-serving, driveling inanity— God! why not spare our loved country the sight? The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He twisted his cigarette between his fingers and remarked with an air of incisive inanity, "Life and death are inevitable." The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z If he exists, he has assumed a less offensive form than when he ate muffins and sniveled inanity in Mrs. Snagsby's back room. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z For half an hour they sat there, chatting inanities, all the while each mind was busy with deeper concerns. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Carlyle, in the tenth book of his Frederick the Great, says: “But mere inanity and darkness visible reign in all his Biographies over this period of his life, which was above all others worth investigating.” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Pedants in the pulpit, and scribblers of Rosa-Matilda verses in printed albums, saw, from other articles in the manifesto, that exterminating war was declared on their inanities and sentimentalities. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z With despair she heard herself bringing out these inanities. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Ormsgill felt he had deserved this, for he had recognized the inanity of the observation when he made it. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Is there, in fact, any one who can honestly deny that a splendid exhibition-room, crowded with ladies and gentlemen on canvass, as large as life, is a lounge of great tediousness and inanity? Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z “Oh, God, I have no idea,” he said, sitting in the stands at Lucas Oil Stadium during the annual crush of humanity and inanity known as Super Bowl media day. On Pro Football: Hello, Hollywood. Need a Follow to ?Moneyball?? 2012-02-01T02:58:39Z Even Elcot would have been capable of something more skilful than his too familiar inanities. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z The revelation of this truth was the demonstration to us of the inanity—not to use a stronger term—of the system called "Positivism." The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z Hobbs knew that M. de Lussac was a friend, and not one of those inconvenient people who bore artists by going to their studios and talking inanities to them about their work. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z I realized for the first time the inanity of imposed pretences, the thick, the suffocating armor of triviality that criminally and ludicrously muffled life. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z 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 The great fault I find in woman is that inanity in character which places them below the line of equality with men. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z "Ben-Hur," fit work for a country clergyman with a pretty literary gift, is a ridiculous inanity to come from a man who has seen the things that Wallace saw! Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Blitzer interrupts the inanity with a direct question about the topic no one wants to talk about. What You Missed While Not Watching the GOP National Security Debate 2011-11-23T10:05:37Z His extraordinary voulu Scotch provincialism crowns it and rounds it off really making one at moments ask with what kind of an innermost intelligence such inanities and follies were compatible. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z The "British Association" has just been making, at Southampton, as I see by the papers, one of its annual exhibitions of childish inanity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z To collect every particle of inanity which may be found in our patriot's works is infinitely beyond the limits of an eighteen-pence pamphlet. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Across the vast inanity of that waiting time, streaks of vision used to flash, like distant summer lightning. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Though, apart from that, I’d grow weary to death of the inanity long before the looks were faded. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z Thank heavens that all the vulgar modern dances were not only perishing of their own inanity at that time, but had never been allowed in Brentford House. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z Too weak to grab their share of the spoil in the hurly-burly, they scavenged in these hours of universal inanity. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z However, it would not be amiss to commit that page of inanity to the power of cremation; and let not his fondest idolaters confide in its indiscerptibility. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z I was also made to record an audiotape saying that the ransom was $700,000 and summarizing several of the inanities held dear by the ARA. Golf Saved My Life 2011-08-19T04:00:00Z So he warns James against this: he hints that Ralegh will speak well of him only to gain some private benefit, fearing Cecil's inanity or animosity. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z Don't you think it unfair of an older generation to bring up a younger one in its antiquated inanities? The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Van Slyck's lips curled in cynical amusement at the inanity of the question. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z He was at a loss what to say, and the position is only to be regarded as a turbid ebullition of amphibological inanity. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z At Elsinore many people came aboard with whom I shook hands and muttered inanities in response to congratulations. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Photograph: Philip Brown/Reuters The trouble with cliches is not just their inanity but also their incompatibility. A series to compare with the 2005 Ashes 2011-07-28T17:02:24Z "Please go on, pastor," interrupted her ladyship, a little annoyed by the tactless manner in which her hostess defended her inanities; but the latter did not yet count the battle as lost. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Without her elixirs daily taken we perish of lassitude and inanity. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Many a solemnly-uttered sentence is often a sheer inanity, which will not bear the scrutiny of an observant intellect. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z There was not always a clear distinction between inanition and inanity. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z But I must confess that the following surprised me, even after a long acquaintance with the inanities of visitors’ books. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z A place where one is permitted to continue one's vices, excesses and inanities for an eternity. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z So this indefinite suspension is a nice first step, but I bet it won't be long before they allow him to come crawling back into Mika and Joe's little parlor of inanity. Mark Halperin comes up with great excuse to fire Mark Halperin 2011-06-30T14:40:00Z This act eventually expired of its own inanity. Gotham: Confession and Apology, Long and Late 2011-06-07T01:34:11Z The inanity of that race— Of gentlemen who wrote with ease, and made such free use of “the full-resounding line,” void of all thought, only betrayed their barrenness by this additional extension of their weakness. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The inanity of her remark would have made Hazel laugh at any other time. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Leicester, UK When life became about prioritising material acquisition and celebrating inanity and idiocy, the dreams of yesterday took a long-term back seat. Are we living in a sci fi future? 2011-05-20T07:31:47Z The mental inanity and moral corruption all about him swelled his sense of superiority and self-righteousness. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z I assumed the manner of a gauche, stupid school-girl, and began to simper with empty inanity. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z This is of course part of the objection to the IPL: not just the inanity of its presentation, but its corporate greed. IPL4 is the ideal accompaniment to the parochial intrigue of ECC112 2011-04-08T23:10:01Z English humor is meant to entertain a public lost in the cynical buffooneries of materialism; American humor is meant to amuse a public lost in the mazes of extravagant pleasures and provincial inanities. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z Lady McIntyre, in her fashionable mourning, more shrunken and piteous than ever, went on addressing to Julian her polite inanities, couched for the most part in that form of acknowledged intellectual poverty, the question. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The “much-too-many” are doomed to inanity by their lack of appetite at the banquet of life: Such folk sit down unto dinner and bring nothing with them, not even a good hunger. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z And dens black with inanity Where poisoned sits the clerk and fasts; And banks wide open to the blasts Of the winds of their insanity. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z The amiable inanities suitable to the occasion had scarcely begun before a violent clapping of hands announced the appearance of Lee. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The wise inanities of midnight sound perilously flat in the sunshine—flatter than the flattest champagne, which no bread-crumbs can galvanise into a single bubble. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z I did not care to be seen if it was human; I was in no mood to sacrifice a portion of this wonder-night to rustic inanities. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z In Morozov's view, the internet is merely the latest instalment in a series of communications technologies that spread trivia, gossip and inanity, crowding out serious thought and reflection. What we really need right now is a serious critique of net activism 2011-01-25T14:30:44Z There was no answer except that I was very well; and the hollow inanity of that under the circumstances left me standing speechless, defeated before the beginning. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z So the Post's print subscribers are no longer subjected to her inanities. 'Birther' leader stymied by Supreme Court 2011-01-10T16:07:00Z When I was little, my dad taught me the inanity of the “running leads to winning” fallacy. Why Passing Is More Important Than Running in the N.F.L. 2010-08-31T11:00:00Z Bonfire of inanities With the general election just days away, David Cameron has come up with an idea which should encourage support. A Short and Winding Road for the Euro 2010-05-03T21:14:00Z They are a reminder of the ocean of inanities that commercial modernity promises our lives, drowning all occasions in froth. Cheerleaders shame Indian cricket | Kanishk Tharoor 2010-03-27T18:00:00Z Along with fine-leg, this was once the habitual between-overs grazing land of pace bowlers intent on escaping the inanities and banalities of what is as often as not crumpet-based chatter of the close fielders. Whatever happened to the good old-fashioned, run-saving third man? 2010-03-25T00:05:00Z Seneca and Pliny, Martial and Juvenal,995 from various points of view, lament or ridicule the inanity and the slavery of city life. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius There was no help for it, and Peckover resigned himself to the tolerance of aristocratic age and presumed inanity. A Poached Peerage The men he had despised would pity him, and utter inanities about him. The Man Who Rose Again These smiling tours of the Prince of Wales in these years of shortage, stress, and insecurity, constitute a propaganda of inanity unparalleled in the world's history. The Salvaging Of Civilisation And never be gulled by her feminine vanity, 'Tis only a pose, all her vacant inanity! Provocations Down he sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair— And chanted in mimsiest tones Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity, While he rattled a couple of bones. Rhyme? And Reason? His conversation is filled with unutterable inanities till he is gathered to his fathers. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology She prayed that he might not spoil everything, by some inanity. H. R. Her heroes and heroines moving in the dismal round of inanities, miscalled diversions, are portraits touched up with nice care in detail, with a keen eye for subtleties and demi-tints. Maria Edgeworth The same inanity of mind that had assailed her that day in the October woods, under his first outburst, again made her feel at a loss. Shadows of Flames A Novel On the whole I think this part of the show must be given the prize for inanity. The Book of This and That In an angle a group of violinists were strumming an inanity of Strauss with perfect independence of one another. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel Then they went back to the house, exchanging—for the first time between them—ordinary inanities. The Blind Man's Eyes 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. Obediently she began to sing in her rich contralto that was like the flutes and viols of love, tempered to the inanity of the nursery rhyme. Shadows of Flames A Novel Nobody, nothing could, in the time of his inanity, have made him turn a hair. The Sacred Fount With the usual inanity of people at a loss for words, I said the first thing that came into my mind: "Perhaps Rougemont has been calling you." The Lost Door As to the romances that preceded it, they seem to our age duller than any ever written—"huge folios of inanity," said Sir Walter, "over which our ancestors yawned themselves to sleep." The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. And the mother, whose life is given to the trivialities and inanities of every season's mandate, merits not her children's reverence despite all Biblical injunction. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home But MacLeod, who cared nothing about inanities once their purpose was served, whirled her away from further challenge and reply. Rose MacLeod The best proof of it was that she was here, far from their wearying inanities and hollow gilded gauds by deliberate choice. The Song of the Wolf No, she decided, Rosewater could work out of its present inertia by itself, and she began to wish her guests would go home; she was tired of their inanities. Ancestors A Novel Compared with the admired inanities of Barry Cornwall, his praised contemporary, Hood's "Fair Ines," his "Time of Roses," his exquisite "Last Stanzas," and not a few other things, are as gold to gilt copper. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) How could she think to please even the savage she fancied him to be by such an inanity, Jrann-Pttt wondered. Collector's Item Let them read the tale of real every-day life we are now to lay before them, and then say, if they dare, that it is impossible that anything can come out of inanity. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III But this life out here has spoiled me for inanities forever. The Song of the Wolf For Greek sculpture, nurtured in the habit of perfect form, art to whom beauty was a cheap necessity, invariably idealized portrait, idealized it into beauty or inanity. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II Have "Marmion," and "The Lady of the Lake," and the immortal "Lay" been superseded by the trivialities and inanities of modern poetasters? or do the good old lines still hold their own? Home Life of Great Authors He lingered a moment to talk the usual inanities that pass between a democratic foreman and a couple of new girls. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself And the next moment I had recognised the inanity of that fool’s paradise. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Her glance fell on the picture again and again, the usual picture of a soldier which told nothing whatever in its stereotyped inanity, and then on little Jean-Pierre's cradle. The Son of His Mother There was a light of something extraordinary in them, even while her tongue was lisping the emptiest of inanities. Fathers and Children For some occult reason, known only to Brixton and Peckham Rye, a hero is the person who jumps into the Thames and pulls a woman out, or the interesting inanity of a popular serial. An Ocean Tramp These, and not the British press, present the pathetic spectacle of utter inanity and repulsive grotesqueness without the faintest redeeming touch of genuine comedy, legitimate satire, or refined humour. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 He would fiddle around and scratch his head and mumble inanities! The Monk of Hambleton On this particular afternoon Carmen was lost in contemplation of the gorgeous dress, the lavish display of jewelry, and the general inanity of conversation; and her score was pitiably low. Carmen Ariza His waiting companion had on that occasion waited for him to say he would; and what he had meantime glowered forth at was the inanity of such a hope. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II Yet this mere negation, this ethereal inanity, is pronounced by Utilitarianism to be preferable to aught that can come into competition with it. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications The editorials are certainly not lacking in force, and seem well calculated to stir the average amateur from his torpor of triteness and inanity. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 He who endeavors to unite simplicity with magnificence, to guide from solitude to festivity, and to contrast melancholy with mirth, must end by the production of confused inanity. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) But all lovers of art must regret to find Mr. Landseer wasting his energies on such inanities as the "Shoeing," and sacrificing color, expression, and action, to an imitation of glossy hide. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) A young Englishman of aristocratic family, tired of the inanities of social life, and denied the privilege of entering the commercial world, emigrated to the South Seas. Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex Wyndham was surprised at his own fatuity; his remarks sounded like the weird inanities that pass for witticisms in dreams. Audrey Craven Those fellows must get deadly sick of the inanities people talk when they are being introduced. The Dominant Strain But 'Alas, for the rarity Of Christian charity,' and 'Ah! the inanity Of frail humanity,' that first induced some luckless mortal to give to certain mysterious compounds the appellation of cosmetics! Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Baroness von Lyndal’s color rallied to the support of her rouge, and her smile dwindled to inanity, for she had insisted upon the argument, and it was going against her. The Princess Virginia And when he spoke his first remark was a hopeless inanity. The Twins of Suffering Creek It is not exactly the most suitable post for an elderly diplomatist accustomed to the pomps and inanities of European courts. Six Letters From the Colonies I will be in a beautiful state of mind, and people around me will drag me from it with their maddening inanities of conversation. The Golden Fountain or, The Soul's Love for God. Being some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers The meretricious stanzas of Brady and Tate are inanity itself in comparison. Leading Articles on Various Subjects He must be a stranger to the dyspeptic melancholy through which Carlyle saw the world as a “noisy inanity” and life as an incomprehensible monstrosity. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war My hope is that the true American spirit will soar above the vanity and pettiness of corporated wisdom, and that this scientific Academy bubble will end in inanity and in ridicule. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 And all these, without Light, Love, and Will, are but hollow affairs, high-sounding inanities. The Book of Khalid And the usually composed girl prattled aimlessly, voicing platitudes, conventionalities, banalities, inanities––anything to gain time and to cover her embarrassment: to all of which the man listened in sober silence, watching her steadily. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Half of them were modern, half Oriental; all artificial and stilted, and full of long-winded inanity. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real "Yes," said Anna, shy, but bored by these inanities. The Rainbow It is a long cry from the graceful Geisha to the inanities and banalities which appear to be the stock-in-trade of music-hall performances in this country. The Empire of the East Whiskey and debauch and high-sounding inanities about fraternity and equality can not regenerate an Empire. The Book of Khalid It is no small honour for this nation to have been wise enough to see the inanity of this and all other forms of divination. . . . The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture Miss Mewlstone’s face was crimson; her small eyes were sparkling with angry excitement: all her softness and gentle inanity had vanished. Not Like Other Girls He would go stark mad from sheer inanity. The Land of Thor As the learned Grotius said of his own life, he consumed it in levities and strenuous inanities. Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky A Sketch The inanities of an afternoon At Home are more than I can bear. The Smart Set Correspondence & Conversations She hated the flattery, the inanities, the utter dulness of the great Craigie mansion, and she began to have a restless conviction that time spent with Caroline was time lost. The Beloved Woman The poet flings forth his melody, and to the gross ear it seems a mere tinkle of inanity. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy Such an accusation of a crime at common law, launched against a whole people and a whole State, aroused, by its evident inanity, widespread sympathy for Serbia throughout all classes of European society. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Its verbose platitudes and pretentious inanities continue to be repeated, furnishing almost as good an antithesis to science and philosophy as Mrs. Eddy and her disciples. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 The inanity of sublunary things has afforded a theme to philosophers, moralists, and divines, from the earliest records of antiquity; "Vanity of vanities!" says the preacher, "all is vanity!" Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Subsequent to this we see the light vanishing and earnestness giving place to triviality of thought, to the ravings of superstition, to the inanities of ceremonialism and to the laws of social and religious bondage. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ For him the piece offered no illusions; he could only see painted actors strutting affectedly in unnatural costumes; the scenery was mere painted cloth, and the dialogue senseless inanity. The Hero A few more years of infirmity, inanity and pain must consign him to idiocy or the grave. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 "It was not the inanities of the divorce court, Colonel," I remarked; "but the most astonishing——" He checked me with uplifted hand. The Motor Pirate The contrast between my mental excitement and the inanities of the stage was too acute, so this resource speedily failed me. The Crack of Doom “And what can we do for you, Mr. Trimmer?” he asked after the usual inanities of greeting had been exchanged. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man After the Restoration, among the other inanities came, in 1816, a second statue of Louis XV., and the Place resumed its original name. The Story of Paris For how long must she sit and talk inanities with this mother whose only child was lying fathoms deep beneath the sea? A Sheaf of Corn True democracy consists in bringing each man out, not in reducing him to a common level of inanity. Penguin Persons & Peppermints Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere,—if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity; with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. To be a traveller in the inanity of buttonholes was the only lower degradation. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol From that brilliant composition the selections ranged through four years of fun and sentiment with an occasional flight to the 303 poetry of earnest feeling as well as many a joyous swoop into hilarious inanity. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls And so there are none of the groups of vacant faces, the joyless chawbacons lounging gloomily from stall to stall, the settled inanity and dreariness of the crowd that drifts through an English fair. Stray Studies from England and Italy They are some times so serious that they are almost tragic the look of the particular pretension, combined with inanity, is carried almost to madness. Picture and Text 1893 Our reasons do often anticipate the effect and have the extension of their jurisdiction so infinite, that they judge and exercise themselves in inanity, and to a not being. Montaigne and Shakspere We must live at fever heat, must agitate, and be infatuated for inanities, must create imaginary desires and torments. Astronomy for Amateurs As Julie d'Angennes and her sister Ang�lique attained an age to divide their mother's authority in the salon, its sentiment grew quintessential, and its taste was subtilised well-nigh to inanity. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. The lowest copyboy knows better than to utter such an inanity. Greener Than You Think As for the talk of ball-rooms, its silliness and inanity are almost proverbial. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 He saw himself submitting to the confusion of controversies, the cowardice of conventionality, the vanity of declarations, the inanity of proofs. En Route The more exclusive dinners are not without their special charm as occasions when conversation becomes possible on a less unsatisfactory scale than the exchange of inanities in crowded receptions. The Life Radiant There were days when she grew very tired of miladi's whims and inanities, and longed to fly to her beloved wood. A Little Girl in Old Quebec I recognized in it those inanities with which youth busies the lips, leaving the mind at rest, that the interplay of magnetic discharges from heart to heart may go on uninterruptedly. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Meeting it, I must become to her as any other man she knew—a formal creature, a lay figure for the barber's and tailor's art, with a gift of talking inanities. David Malcolm People were weary of the inanities of the fashionable novel, and were ready to listen to one who had a power of vivacious narrative. Rookwood On the other hand, many sink almost into inanity beneath the burden of quibbles and conceits. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles "Do not interrupt me," she added coldly as I was about to utter some inanity. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story I lamely murmured some inanity, of which she took not the slightest notice. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic If to listen to insinuating inanities was the price of his attention, she would pay it. A Philanthropist “A miss is as good as a mile,” Mike said with cheerful inanity. Unwise Child The thousands of sonnets that were circulated in England between 1591 and 1597 were of every literary quality, from sublimity to inanity, and they illustrated in form and topic every known phase of sonnetteering activity. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles These were the men whom he had despised as slow, yet what a contrast between their way of talking and the inanities of Fitzurse or the shallow flippancy of Bruce. Julian Home Transformed by contact hourly With heroes simple-souled, He looks no longer sourly On men of normal mould, But, purged of mental vanity And erudite inanity, The clay of his humanity Is turning fast to gold. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 Then he recalled the inanity and exacting requests of the great lady, and guessed how her reader was able to so boldly play his annoying trick. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette He remembers the flush of shame that tingled him as he walked sadly homeward, thinking of some atrocious inanity he had sent upstairs to the composing-room. Pipefuls The blundering inanity of this kind of writing is equaled only by its bumptious grandiloquence. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. It has been, and now is, a curse to humanity, A sinful, ridiculous species of vanity, The very quintessence of perfect inanity, And is likely to lead to a 'moral insanity.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I never thought when I talked to you that night at your sister's that I was addressing my inanities to a poet. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! The discipline of the paper protects the flock alike against shambling inanities, and against a too boisterous rhetoric. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography For many days my mind remained in a state of listless inanity; and Talbot applied, or suffered others to apply, the most pernicious stimulant that could be thought of to rouse me to action. Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer And his gallant answer was interrupted by some inanity from Herr von Mark. High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn Borrow’s sturdy forthrightness, his abhorrence of suave ambiguities and formal inanities, found vent in most vigorous and unmistakeable language; dogmatic obiter dicta came from his mouth or his pen like so many cudgel-thwacks. Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 It is almost a p. 14Shame to put you to it by such a piece of inanity as this letter. Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) What was the use of a lady chaperon if she could not fill up the gaps with harmless inanities? The Fortunes of the Farrells Surely it was a forgivable sin to be conspicuously attractive; to stand out, vivid and dazzling, from the surrounding throng, whose chief characteristics seemed to be a bleached inanity, and indifference... Flaming June After the usual inanities—"I am sure you are pushing." Seen and Unseen The book of nature is not spread before us, turning leaf after leaf at every sunrise, with new delineations on every page, to be stared at with vacant inanity, or criticized with imbecile verbosity. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Even at Vienna Gluck was planning the reforms in opera that were to banish the prevailing vocal inanities from the stage, and make his name immortal. Woman's Work in Music At all events his personality magnetised the poet, then a man of fifty-six, already a trifle weary of the inanities of life. Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" Each of Buchan’s ballads is tediously spun out to enormous and unnecessary length, and is filled with solecisms and inanities quite inconsistent with the spirit of the true ballad. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series You p. 93are lost to England, I calculate: and I am given over to turnips and inanity. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 He will not be gulled into experiments upon decent-looking, respectable dross and plausible inanity. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 The faults of his portraits consist in their over-conscious graciousness; they smile and sparkle and are arch and winning to an excess that sometimes approaches inanity. Art in England Notes and Studies The expression that came nearest belonging to her, as it were, was the one that came nearest being a blank—an air of inanity when she forgot herself in some act of sincere attention. The Tragic Muse Deign to let the matter rest there, and not pursue him into the inanity, the nothingness of Nirvana. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 It is the sanity of the leading poet of the nineteenth century, and the greatest poet since Shakespeare, who saw clearly the inanity of so-called scientific conclusions and godless theories of the evolution of mankind. A Hero and Some Other Folks And this something, that was of the soul of the man, was incessantly feeling its way through the absurdities, the vulgarities, the deceptions, the inanities, toward a goal that was worth the winning. The Way of Ambition Platitudes, generalities, inanities; and inanities, platitudes and generalities in reply. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Her hearers did not pause an instant to determine whether the utterance was wit or humor or pure inanity. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi In opposition to its dolorous gloom and repulsive inanity are vividly pictured the glad light of day, the glory and happiness of life. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life "Warm, isn't it?" he commented; and at that inanity Blue Jeans raised his head. Winner Take All He imagined the spurious epistle must die of its own inanity. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays We know that among a certain class this outrage and this inanity meet with some attempt at palliation, under the idea that frenzy holds the pen. Early Reviews of English Poets Perhaps I was but startled yesterday to find a celestial loveliness where I expected to encounter pallid inanity. The Circular Study Why should the power of hope, and joy, and faith, change into inanity and oblivion? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life These oral inanities only served to make Lyn give me the benefit of a look of amused wonder. Raw Gold A Novel The Quarterly Review informed its readers that "the supreme felicity of a true-born American is inaction of body and inanity of mind." From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy Leave us not alone with the Absolute of the orthodox mystic, or we perish of inanity! Nature Mysticism For these Germans will understand the inanity of their Machiavellian scheming and of their spy system only when they shall see these methods fall to pieces, when they shall see their system fail absolutely. Fighting France Prudence stopped to interchange polite inanities with her neighbor, and Mattie, wheeling the bicycle lightly beside her, came across the street and stood beneath the parsonage maples with Prudence. Prudence of the Parsonage He felt ridiculously proud of himself for these inanities. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" They had had charming dinners together, falling easily into conversations that were worth while, and by tacit consent forgetting the inanities of town gossip. Roads from Rome In the extraordinary record of inanity which Addison printed as the diary of a citizen in the Spectator of March 4, 1712, the devotion of the worthy retired tradesman to tobacco is emphasized. The Social History of Smoking The last mentioned poet gives a striking illustration of the inanity of most of this kind of work. The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany Nothing should ever shock the spectator out of his interest in the picture by its incongruity, extravagance or inanity. Writing the Photoplay The very inanity of the man disgusted her, and on a sudden impulse she sprang up and struck him full in the face with the flat of her hand. The Sport of the Gods I fancy that all his disordered imagination longed for was merely to stop the ghostly inanity of the skipper's talk. Tales Of Hearsay For that reason Val would have accompanied me that evening, in spite of his aversion to such "inanities," as he chose to call dinner parties, had he not been otherwise engaged. Up in Ardmuirland In these solemn woods one realises the inanity of sepulchres and the pomp of funerals. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 From this trance-like condition he was recalled by the quizzical amusement of his employer and, bowing from the hips, he found himself murmuring some well-bred inanity. Destiny PC McGivens shook his head slowly, as though marveling at the previously unsuspected inanity of his daily round. Eastern Standard Tribe He could not endure, in favour of any pretensions of birth, fortune, or fashion, the stupidity of a formal circle, or the inanity of commonplace conversation. Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir These metaphysical explanations, besides their inanity, did serious harm, by directing the course of positive scientific inquiry into wrong channels. Auguste Comte and Positivism "I have come on an unusual mission," I began foolishly and stopped, conscious of the inanity of this address. Jacqueline of Golden River The childish bombast of "Titus Andronicus," the commonplace of Wordsworth, the frequent inanity of the youthful Coleridge and the youthful Byron, Shelley's extravagance, Keats's cockneyism, Tennyson's mawkishness, find no counterpart in Milton's early compositions. Life of John Milton For a moment, I lie down atop it, like a stupefied lover, awestruck by my own inanity. Eastern Standard Tribe There is peace amongst the stones which have fallen and rolled down the mountain's side, and lie there quietly at rest; but that is the peace of inanity. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series What is life on the largest scale, he asks, but the same recurrent inanities, the same dog barking, the same fly buzzing, forevermore? Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals But to show the inanity of the constitutional proposition, it is only needed to show that it may be reversed, not only without inconvenience, but even with advantage. Essays on Political Economy But he wavered badly over facing the ordeal of wholesale congratulations—the chaff of the men, the reiterate inanities of the women. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India They came laughing, supercilious, tolerant, contemptuous, pitying the inanity of those they held less strongly-minded than themselves who should be taken in by so apparent, glaring and monstrous a fake. The Miracle Man He looked rather bewildered, I think, at the inanity of her conversation. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment Yet of the kind of fibre of which such inanities consist is the material woven of all the excitements, joys, and meanings that ever were, or ever shall be, in this world. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals One of the officers was very surly, and declared he could not be responsible for the inanity of passengers. The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin Then, if you plan it, he Changes organity, With an urbanity, Full of Satanity, Vexes humanity With an inanity Fatal to vanity— Driving your foes to the verge of insanity! Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs Freda glances up, and perceives a smile of amusement on Colonel Vaughan's lips, and the usual calm inanity on Miss Nugent's handsome features. Gladys, the Reaper A cloud seemed to pass gradually over his sharp features, until their expression was absorbed, giving place to a look of mere lifeless inanity. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 And that she should throw herself away on a Charles Pixley!—Charles the smiling, the imperturbable, the fount of irrepressible chatter and everlasting inanities! Pearl of Pearl Island Here also, on Sunday afternoon, young gentlemen and younger ladies patrol in pairs, and discourse of the most saccharine inanities, not knowing what they shall say, and taking no thought, for obvious reasons. Doctor Claudius, A True Story If she persisted in preferring this noisy bunch of inanity to a quiet stroll on the promenade-deck with him, then he supposed for the time being he must humor her. The Honorable Percival Wearied as the world had been by what Sir Walter Scott calls the "huge folios of inanity" which had preceded him, the work was hailed with delight. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction “Interrupting the service,” I put in with the usual inanity that is essential to the maintenance of this kind of conversation. The Jervaise Comedy If we were all built alike, he thought, and all dribbled smart inanities, and nothing but inanities, with the glibness of a Charles Pixley, what a world it would be! Pearl of Pearl Island The luxuriant phrase, the inanity of tuneful periods, and the wanton levity of the whole composition, are fit for nothing but the histrionic art, as if they were written for the stage. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements "What a noisy inanity is this world," wrote Carlyle in his diary at the opening of the year 1835. The Life of Froude Frivolity so extreme as they were required to represent demands the utmost nicety of colouring to rescue it from silliness and inanity. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 “They may be very heavy sleepers,” I tried, fully aware of the inanity of my suggestion. The Jervaise Comedy And I had been wasting all this time; had been writing my inanities. The Inheritors He loved better yet ancient history, medieval inanities and atrocities—a most singular, curious and wonderful mind. Twelve Men "Perhaps they appeal to the barbaric part of us," suggested Trent, becoming suddenly at ease amid the battle of inanities. The Wheel of Life I have wearied my spirit long enough with listening to social inanities, and in lowering my standards to hers for the sake of appearing friendly and conventional. Unleavened Bread But that is an inanity, Miss Bell, and unworthy of me. A Daughter of To-Day In such an atmosphere it is possible to be serious without pompousness and flippant without inanity. The Magician Our smiles betray our instincts and our burdens; they reflect our virtues and our inanity. The Dangerous Age Could it be pride, Or modesty, or absence, or inanity? Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Mendacity, slander, sensationalism, inanity, vapid triviality, all are potent factors for the debauchery of the public mind and conscience. African and European Addresses "How could I divine an inanity in connection with you?" she answered, and her eyes underlined her words. A Daughter of To-Day When he beholds dawdling inanity and dowdy vanity growing lush as jimson, where yesterday, with strained prophetic vision, he saw budding excellence and worth, his soul is wrung by a worry that knows no peace. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen The stars and sounding vanities That half the crowd bewitch, What are they but inanities To him that treads the pitch? Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt People betrayed a tendency to form groups around her; women, prepared by her unusual beauty for anything between mediocrity and inanity, were a little perplexed at her intelligence and candour. The Common Law Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere,—if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee. Past and Present His cheek resumed its wonted paleness; but he did not relapse into inanity. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists I am sick to death of the inanities of the dandies and fops of the town. Tom Tufton's Travels Night after night they laugh with senseless glee, night after night inanities which pass for wit are poured forth; and daily the nerve and strength of each carouser grow weaker. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Come, come," he answered, "we are bandying terms and words, as if empty breath amounted to anything but inanity. Mr. Isaacs It shows itself principally in the subdued tone of the debates, if debates they can be called, of the Corps Législatif, and the inanity of the newspapers. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 As Monet exposed the fallacy of studio lighting, so Degas revealed the inanity of its poses. Promenades of an Impressionist Take one of Sully's women and compare it with the smoothest print softened into inanity by the dots of the retoucher of negatives—the representative of the element of art in the process. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 People call her smile sweet; but then it is the mere sweetness of inanity. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series For many days my mind remained in a state, of listless inanity; and Talbot applied, or suffered others to apply, the most pernicious stimulant that could be thought of to rouse me to action. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer "Yes," he repeated, with smiling inanity, after he had shaken hands. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) There was an expression of anxious watchfulness and aimless attention in both faces, such as deaf people often have, and which is apt to degenerate into a look of inanity and distrust. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes He was terribly severe on Parliament, which he described as "endless babblement and windy talk—the same hurdy-gurdies grinding out lies and inanities." Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography Carlyle, who gave a hasty glance at it in his life of Frederick, declared that he could find nothing but 'mere inanity and darkness visible'; and since Carlyle's day the progress has been small. Books and Characters French and English Ah men! men! gentlemen! was there ever such a poor sneaking scarecrow of an idol as that gaping straw-stuffed inanity you worship, and call honor? Paul Faber, Surgeon As a general rule, however, pastoral inanity seldom strayed beyond the limits of the opera. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England I had learned the inanity of individual reason in a matter of experience. Delsarte System of Oratory There was no chance of quiet, reasonable talk; one pumped up a few inanities to person after person. The Silent Isle For every time the tormenting inanity won its way, that other note, that unvoiced agony, hurled itself against the bars of its throbbing prison. Kincaid's Battery In the meantime the old man was sitting in his arm-chair up in his bedroom, reduced almost to inanity of mind by the horror of the occasion. John Caldigate Does he realize the inanity of the hypothesis I try to pass off on him? Facing the Flag And as there was no one less impatient under sentiment or poetry than madame, her feet began to agitate themselves as if Jules were perorating some of his culinary inanities before her. Balcony Stories I stammered some inanity about making up in affection what I lacked in merit; about my expectations, family and the like. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 He is wholly ennuyé, sees nothing to admire in anything; but is a living personification of mental inanity and physical imbecility. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The observations with which Walsh has introduced his pages of inanity, are such as give him little claim to the rank assigned him by Dryden among the criticks. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Baldness, and uniformity, and inanity are the inevitable results of this slovenly and unintellectual proceeding. Famous Reviews "That's the proper thing for a lover to think!" she said with cheerful, commonplace inanity. The Bent Twig I answered with some inanity about my mother's Poltalloch, and we talked for a moment. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract "There's no place like home," replied his elderly colleague, with his usual inanity. Essays in Rebellion For discursiveness, for repetition, for sheer inanity, I suppose it has never been equaled. A Man of Mark By Jove! that would account for the utter inanity and wrong-headedness of the thing. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale If this young lord does dog your footsteps, and whisper his drivelling inanities in your ears, what of it? Nicholas Nickleby Then, if you plan it, he Changes organity With an urbanity, Full of Satanity, Vexes humanity With an inanity Fatal to vanity - Driving your foes to the verge of insanity. Songs of a Savoyard On sweet urbanity, Through mere inanity, To touch their vanity We will rely! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan Sir Percy's coats were the talk of the town, his inanities were quoted, his foolish laugh copied by the gilded youth at Almack's or the Mall. The Scarlet Pimpernel One of the village women, whose white wild face I remembered the picture of terror when we pulled down the beam, was giggling with another woman, the picture of inanity, over an old washing-tub. The Woman in White And it is going from bad to worse in a ratio of geometrical progression; for how can effeminate men—a canesucking, primping, mincing, affected conglomeration of masculine inanity and asininity beget world-compellers. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 |
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