| 单词 | insipidity |
| 例句 | Instead, I spent some two hours a day in the translation of fragments from Greek and Latin; the texts being chosen for their convolution, recondite meaning, dryness, and insipidity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But to me, the tedious insipidity of many processed wines is just as much a flaw. Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z “Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest dainty to hopeless insipidity, and the diner to despair.” Year-round, we take onions for granted. Winter is the time for them to shine. 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z The action, and the elements of mystery that accompany it, don’t really make up for the insipidity of the melodrama. ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Review: Making the Leap, Again 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Clara – despite being herself perhaps the only character in the history of the show who could rival this new Doctor for insipidity – thought he was insipid. TV Review: 'Doctor Who' Episode 801, 'Deep Breath' -- A Heroic Failure 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z I had to kiss some frogs — weird flavors, bitterness in the wrong places, insipidity. Perspective | Even moderate drinking is bad for us. Enter nonalcoholic beer. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Butter or cream of unique quality may be more essential to French cuisine, but many an unctuous sauce withers into insipidity without mustard. Mon Dieu! No Mustard. France Stews Without its Beloved Condiment. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z And of course it is not just children that inspire sentimental insipidity. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z And the element of austere gloom in his character, rarely exposed, but always, we know, in the background, is what most of all relieves his letters from insipidity. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z He found the heavy youth an insufferable bore, and he was soon, as his relation, Horace Walpole, relates, "thoroughly fatigued with the insipidity of his pupil." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Neither unwarily condemn your bride’s insipidity, till you have recollected that no object, however sublime, no sound, however charming, can continue to transport us with delight, when they no longer strike us with novelty. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z When they get beyond the literal and the formal, and attempt the impressive and the grand, as in David’s and Girardot’s pictures, defend us from sublimity heaped on insipidity and petit-maîtreism. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z But dullness and insipidity at length gave way, and retreated rapidly to the trunk-makers and green grocers. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The first, that in the year 1759, the Italian painters were, in our author's opinion, sunk in the very bathos of insipidity. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z None knew better than he that the insipidity of doll-like prettiness may grow exasperating. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z In fact, it looked dull and dreary; its mountains appeared barren and sunburnt; and the distance prevented me from seeing the valleys and dingles which in some degree redeem it from insipidity. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z He clung to civilisation, he was faithful throughout to a few yards of town-pavement, not because he was scared by the rough freedom of the wild, but rather because he was impatient of its insipidity. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z To make matters worse he had been obliged to make a business visit in Philadelphia, and this filled the cup of insipidity to the brim. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z Food that is too highly seasoned quickly becomes injurious and sometimes fatal in its effects; that which is not seasoned at all soon becomes unendurable because of its insipidity and unpalatableness. Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears 2011-12-22T03:00:27.660Z The insipidity which affronted Boz has no effect in stopping the demand for "the fireside plate." George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Every one was wearied with the insipidities and conventionalities of an art upon the wane. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z The drawback is, of course, the great surrounding human vacuum—the historic silence fairly rings in your ears when you listen—and the social insipidity. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Thanks to him, she insists, American novels are pale and colourless productions, and are known the world over for their tameness and insipidity. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The insipidity and yet the noise;—the nothingness and yet the self-importance of all these people! Pride and Predjudice, a play 2011-09-17T02:00:30.190Z To indulge our little miserable fears and propensities, we give flattering epithets to all our meannesses; for what is endurance of worldly pain and affliction but folly? what patience, but insipidity? what suffering, but cowardice? The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:29.433Z When applied to sermons, the Wolffian method led to the most extreme insipidity and absurdity. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z He has affected neither the insipidity of neutrality, nor the bigotry of party zeal. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z To me, however, his performance was insipidity itself compared with that to which I had just listened. A Cabinet Secret 2011-07-31T02:00:10.693Z Now, I really do not object to natural insipidity, but I do object to conventional insipidity: I object to a rule of elegance which makes the negative the test of the natural. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z The children's games were tarred with the same brush, the same universal insipidity. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z Herder, a.d. 1744-1803, with his enthusiastic appreciation of the poetical contents of the Bible, especially of the Old Testament, was not slow to point out the insipidity of its ordinary treatment. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Generally speaking, Mary’s features were more Grecian than Roman, though without the insipidity that would have attached to them, had they been exactly regular. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z Now, however, our affairs went on so soberly and smoothly, that I have not even a curious insipidity to tell you of. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Nor are the gibes themselves quite unjustified so far as they touch merely the underbred insipidities of Leigh Hunt’s tea-party manner in Rimini. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z But the month of March, as it often will, made late amends for the insipidity of its predecessors. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z But Constance coolly greeted him with a "How d'ye do, Theodore?" in a tone of the politest insipidity, which he sincerely approved of. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z The most prejudiced, on perusing the work, must be convinced of its imbecility as a satire, and its insipidity as a poem. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z Its insipidity is concealed by the great amount of pepper that it contains. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z Gentleness was indeed his proper characteristic, without one particle of dullness, or insipidity, or want of spirit. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I am weary, however, I own, with so much insipidity. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Her hair was almost golden, her eyes a distinct blue, yet some trick of the mouth saved her face from any suggestion of insipidity. The Hillman Thus a joyous and agreeable harmony was added, at the festivals of Apollo, to the serious and solemn music, although the softness and insipidity of several Ionian and Asiatic tunes were, without doubt, always rejected. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 There was no mere form about it, no casual acts of duty, no hysterical nights, no insipidity, and no compromise,—the gods must go. The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril An insufferable sameness of colour, a depressing monotony, a sickening insipidity were the distinctive note of all the acts of the government. Underground Man Don't you think I am somewhat poetical this morning, for one of my years, and considering the gravity and insipidity of my employment? Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Again the people rose and talked, again visitors came to the box and uttered conventional insipidities. With Edge Tools On the subject of dress she was very voluble; in brief, she was prettiness and insipidity personified—the sort of woman that ought to be gagged and kept in bed with a doll. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel What insipidity it showed, despite their reputation for taste. Years of Plenty As mere narratives they are charming, and the perpetual presence of an undercurrent of sly, good-humoured, satirical meaning relieves them from all charge of insipidity. A Short History of French Literature His pastorals are brilliant, but overladen with colour and sweet to insipidity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Painting should possess 'brilliancy without gaudiness, solidity without harshness, truth without familiarity, and sweetness without insipidity; all conjoined in the greatest breadth of colour.' The Use of a Box of Colours In a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour. The long-endured insipidity of the false reputation for virtue gave him a sort of appetite for shame. Toilers of the Sea Some cynical or unsocial character, deeming himself superior to the vulgar vacuity and insipidity, will take no part in the every-day talk which deals so largely in commonplace and truisms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Where he departs from his text he seldom tempers an extravagance, and has more often rejected a beauty, or smoothed it down into insipidity. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Even in letters to his wife, he adhered to the conventional insipidity that makes an Englishman's letters home one of the wonders of the world. Command I really believe this ignoble course was more distasteful to me from its flatness and insipidity than from its mere humility. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Yet even your avid, brutal lust is a thousand times dearer to me than the refined insipidity of any other man's purest love. The Song of the Wolf Mrs. Tom was very golden-haired and blue-eyed and pink and white, but none was further removed from insipidity than she. Ancestors A Novel The insipidity did not exclude extravagance; for both poetry and patriotism were thought to be displayed by a nonsensical exaggeration of British beauty, valour, and power. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition He had been raised under difficult conditions himself in a back street in Brooklyn, and had no sympathy with the airs and intellectual insipidities which characterized the editorial and literary element which filled the place. The "Genius" Excellent weed! that can make dulness imaginative, and imagination plodding; that renders stupid men companionable to clever ones, and gives a meek air of thought to the very flattest insipidity! Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas But we abhorred insipidity, affectation, and fine gentlemen. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature What a giant Zuloaga seems when matched against the insipidity and coarseness of modern German art. Ivory Apes and Peacocks These Romeos always marry a Miss Something; who, owing to the way she comes into the story, is always on the top-rung of the ladder of insipidity. When Ghost Meets Ghost I think the streets look deserted-like since Monday; and there’s a certain insipidity in good 63 kind folks I once enjoyed not a little. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) Here was tasteless insipidity, vulgarity of soul, and mercenary fawning; there, polished good sense, heaven-born genius, and the most generous, the most delicate, the most tender passion. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series The form and rhythm of this piece are quite satisfactory, but the insipidity of the sentiment leaves much to be desired. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Health, animation, and energy, will take the place of former insipidity and dulness. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Compared with these genuine delights, how trivial and unworthy, to susceptible minds, must appeal the steams and noise of a ball-room, the insipidities of an opera, or the vexations and wranglings of a card-table.—Preface. Percy A Tragedy I am disgusted with her; I cannot endure her“; and he accused her of “tasteless insipidity, vulgarity of soul, and mercenary fawning.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) He had, for breakfast, oranges brought down the coast, and he was surprised at their sudden insipidity. Wild Oranges Whilst it exhibits no little cleverness in construction, we must own that it possesses certain looseness, insipidity, and almost rambling quality, which detract from its merit as a piece of literature. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Not but what Yerbury opened spacious doors to them, and proffered flattering welcomes; but they could not tone themselves to the insipidities of society. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart He visited England; a mere boy in years, and still more a weak boy in insipidity of character. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series A certain evasiveness, polish, distrust of ourselves, amounting to insipidity and insincerity, is spoken of by observant foreigners. Whitman A Study The intellectual palate then will find only insipidity in such books as pour from our presses now. Carmen Ariza The mind which has feasted on the luxurious wonders of fiction, has no taste of the insipidity of truth. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare When once we grew accustomed to the heat, how thankful we should be at having escaped the dreary insipidity of heaven, with its perpetual psalms, its dolorous trumpets, its gruesome elders, and its elderly beasts! Arrows of Freethought If for instance one could conceive of taste or flavor in a proposition of Euclid, so also might we of insipidity, but if not of the one, then not of the other. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) Even the most ascetic of men cannot resist the insidiousness of spicy delights, nor can he for any length of time endure the insipidity of plain food sans sauce. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome Lord Glenvarloch adds, to the insipidity which is the bane of Scott's good heroes, some rather disagreeable traits which none of them had hitherto shown. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series There were no women in the kitchen, but there was an amatory stewardess, fat and forty, upon whom the factitious technique of the saloon fell with singular insipidity. The Vagrant Duke Any one, mistress or girl, who makes good education to be associated with dulness and boredom and insipidity is again a traitor to the cause of higher education. Three Addresses to Girls at School I was perhaps to be excused, as nothing could equal the dryness and insipidity of our studies. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 I do not mean the grace of insipidity, nor the quality of mere form and colour; but the full lustrous softness that speaks a character strong in the foundations of peace and sweetness. Say and Seal, Volume I As a matter of fact, Zeke, while he drank, lamented the insipidity of the draught, and sighed for a swig of moonshine to rout the chill in his veins with its fluid flames. Heart of the Blue Ridge We long for some repose amidst the constant repetition of dazzling objects; monotony, insipidity, ordinary life, even dulness itself, would often be a relief amidst the ceaseless flow of rousing images. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 More than ever, in the enlarged and sweeter life which seemed opening up before her, she saw the littleness and enervating insipidity of it all. The New Tenant The endless tea-parties began to pall, and the insipidity of my home life. The Rhodesian What if we are so constituted that its insipidity sickens us as much as the most poisonous and putrescent colours which Blake ever mixed to paint hell and sin? Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Whatever faults are in the work of the master himself, he is never, up to the last, guilty of any feebleness or insipidity, such, for instance, as in the painting of this unsolid figure. Luca Signorelli When he had taken sufficient time to study her character, he decided that the inelegant mirth, and ungoverned vanity of Amaranthé were preferable to the dawdling insipidity of Claribel. The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale Health, animation, and acuteness will take the place of former insipidity and dullness. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Frederick tried to express his opinion, and, at the same time, to avoid anything like coarseness or insipidity. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man It possessed none of the graceful insipidity of the water colours which young ladies are taught to produce at all good boarding-schools and convents, but was characterised by the same vigour which informed Flamby's conversation. The Orchard of Tears How such a wretched jumble of inconsistencies, absurdity, and insipidity, can have been suffered ever to be performed, is a subject at once of wonder and regret. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 Insipidity of mind is perhaps a trifle objectionable, because there are a few young men of property who dislike insipidity, and who therefore might be lost from the toils in consequence. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) We should avoid as a shock or an insipidity, the suggestion of anything not intrinsically beautiful. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory So I can most of his fellows, no one of whom, I think, ever quite approaches the insipidity of their worst English imitators. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 At any rate, to operate upon it is our only chance of approaching it; for never can we get a glimpse of it in the unimaginable insipidity of its virgin estate. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The very idea is but a remnant of the tawdry sentimentality of an age in which the mawkish insipidity of the women was the reaction from the vice of that preceding it. The Vicar of Bullhampton Mrs. Owl would get a divorce from him inside of a month, on the ground of insipidity. How to Cook Husbands The censure," observes Schlegel, "originates in a fanciless way of thinking, to which every thing appears unnatural that does not suit its tame insipidity. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical Neither unwarily condemn your bride’s insipidity till you have recollected that no object however sublime, no sounds however charming, can continue to transport us with delight when they no longer strike us with novelty. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World The actresses were properly made up to charm, and the statesmen must surely have brought plenty of empires to ruin, if insipidity has power to cause such wreckage. Tongues of Conscience "I can do nothing," writes he to Dallas, "and my days pass, except for a few bodily exercises, in uniform indolence and idle insipidity." My Recollections of Lord Byron She is divinely innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity. A Cathedral Courtship It was the jejune insipidity of an entire age, the stale flatness of the world that she felt to the very depths of her soul. The Goose Man Madeleine was listening with patient courtesy to the meaningless nothings of the one lady, and the stereotyped insipidity of the other. Fairy Fingers A Novel In some hands it has uncontrollable tendency to the artificiality and insipidity of funeral baked meats. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 Where others find insipidity I find salt and fire. Nights in London Ponderosity, profundity and insipidity may have their place, but the man with Charm of Manner keeps his capital active. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen He felt that he was being fearfully endangered by the prosy insipidity of the age and the world he was living in. The Goose Man Waves of maize-coloured hair with a sheen of its own went with the fairness of the skin, and the pretty features were redeemed from a suspicion of insipidity by large violet eyes. Gulmore, The Boss It is well to discourage insipidity, impudent pretension, and every species of affectation; but critics are, like authors, fallible, and not unfrequently present glaring examples of the very faults they condemn. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy She found that his exhibitions of conceit and insipidity did not affect her in the same way as before. Potts's Painless Cure 1898 Be above convention and rule, above vulgarities and insipidities. The Chief End of Man The insipidity, the drudgery of it, would kill me. Molly Bawn Another way in which Milton has contrived to strengthen our interest in Satan is the number and insipidity of the good angels. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American I had no reasonable ground of complaint, but I began to grow weary of the insipidity of my life, and to ask myself whether this could be my only destiny. The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina As soon as she ceased to seem shocked or surprised at his disclosures of insipidity or conceit, it became comparatively easy work to make them. Potts's Painless Cure 1898 I did not conceive till now, I own, what it was to lose you, nor felt the solitude and insipidity of my own condition before I possest the happiness of your friendship. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II In a word, these sermons were addressed to the multitude; and therefore they show good sense and absurdity; fancy and puerility; satire and insipidity; extravagance and truth. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 He handled people without gloves, himself, and one has no right to retouch his photograph until its features are softened into insipidity. Memories and Studies What is the secret of its weakness and utter insipidity? Sermons on Biblical Characters The decline of the old English poetry is shown by an increase of diffuseness and insipidity. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature People at home are very apt to despise lakes, perhaps from the usual insipidity of lake poetry, and to imagine that they can exhibit nothing but very placid and tranquil scenery. Canada and the Canadians Volume I Close the curtains; even visions of the Furies are preferable to these insipidities.' The Infernal Marriage There is such a thing as a conceited simplicity, and there is a technical simplicity, that in its barrenness and insipidity is worthy only of a simpleton. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 And one day we felt called upon to clothe this colorless insipidity, this incarnate nonentity, with some sort of an adjective, and so we threw around its scrawny shoulders this once glorious robe "good." Sermons on Biblical Characters The English, and many other European nations, put no salt in their table butter; and we, who had been accustomed to the American usage, exclaimed with one voice against its insipidity. Recollections of Europe All the spice and joy of evil doing had been exchanged for the insipidity of Paradise. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 His later pictures, like Guido's, are fascinating in softness, delicate colouring and tender sentiment, degenerating, however, into mannerism and insipidity, while his colouring becomes at last pale and washy. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Not that she strikes one exactly as a young girl, either,—she exhibits too plentiful a lack of young-girlish rawness and insipidity,—she 's a woman, she 's a femme faite. The Lady Paramount Robertson's insipidity without its freshness, and restored an element of vulgarity which his predecessor had laboured to eradicate from theatrical tradition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" It should not be forgotten, while condemning the meaningless insipidity of Wyatt's work, that it was enthusiastically approved in his own day, and that the public generally were as much to blame as himself. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See Frivolity and insipidity are the prevailing characteristics of conversation; and nowhere in Europe, perhaps, does difference of fortune or of station produce more unsocial or illiberal separation. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 The cure of that insipidity is to direct upon it the energy of an objective earnestness, a current of positive faith and love. The Friendships of Women Oddly enough, that same presentiment did not make us particularly melancholy or uncomfortable, but seemed rather to give a zest to our simple pleasures, relieving them from any tinge of sameness or insipidity. Sword and Gown A Novel They are more refined than the northern religious dramas, but only too often fall into insipidity. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Indeed, all our walks p. 38have now an insipidity in them which I never thought they would have possessed. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle With an uncommon equability of temper, which, however, never degenerated into insipidity or apathy, he possessed a constant flow of spirits which rendered him at all times a most pleasing companion.... Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation It is insipidity of the feelings that gives rise to sentimentality, as, when the tongue is disordered, we are always trying it. The Friendships of Women In making trifles of this sort, girls should not forget that nothing is more effectual in preventing insipidity than a tiny scrap of onion. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886. For the poor Lady Clare, she is a personage of still greater insipidity and insignificance. Early Reviews of English Poets In spite of a certain undeniable insipidity, the volumes of Contarini Fleming cannot but be read with pleasure. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters No soul, no grandeur, no simplicity; a meagre insipidity in the conception, a nicety of finish in the detail; affectation instead of grace, distortion instead of power, and prettiness instead of beauty. The Diary of an Ennuyée She had the childish quality of voice, the insipidity of intonation, which is best appreciated in steamboat saloons. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories The change from the Saadee's atmosphere of savage fanaticism to this mild and tinkling insipidity threw Mrs. Armine's nerves off their balance. Bella Donna A Novel It is very pure, and if its range is not great, it is at any rate not grayed into insipidity and ineffectualness, but is as positive as if it were more vivid. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture One of the secrets of his own freedom from this ordinary insipidity of moralists was his freedom also from their pretentiousness and insincerity. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues It is possible to overrate the superlative merits of insipidity as a mental and moral force in the development of youth. Americans and Others He was fair to the point of insipidity, and his weak blue eyes bulged with joviality. The Voice of the People The cup has been so highly flavored that life is absolutely without savor or sweetness to her now, nothing but tasteless insipidity. Records of a Girlhood But how the manner, the treatment, triumphs over the Canova insipidity! French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture He was a little disconcerted at seeing me, and blushed extremely; but soon recovered his amiable, uniform insipidity of countenance, and smiled and simpered as usual. The History of Emily Montague In the second part of Absalom and Achitophel there are about two hundred lines in all by Dryden which contrast strongly with the insipidity of the rest. English Satires He is in many ways a successful hero, and acts his part without either insipidity or priggishness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. The reason of this insipidity is, that the ideality aimed at is all on the outside. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Macaulay, who confesses its absurdity and insipidity, says that no reader, probably, ever thought it dull. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The first, that in the year 1759 the Italian painters were, in our author's opinion, sunk in the very bathos of insipidity. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin Frivolity and insipidity are the prevailing characters of conversation; and nowhere in Europe, perhaps, does difference of fortune or station produce more unsocial and illiberal separation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 There needs an infusion of strong Anglo-Saxon into religious literature, and a brawnier manliness and more impatience with insipidity, though it be prayerful and sanctimonious. Around The Tea-Table As for Miss Stafford, one need not be a professed stole to draw the line at a little country girl, pious to insipidity and simple to the brink of silliness. Nightfall Many of Handel's songs are truly dramatic; but the purists of "the good old school," sternly adhering to their—self-styled classic—insipidity, never condescend to a meretricious display of dramatic power. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 So, this second draught of the spirit of the past had not only something of the insipidity of custom, but brought rather a depression than a lightness to our hearts. Italian Journeys All sweet puddings require a little salt to prevent insipidity and to draw out the flavor of the several ingredients, but a grain too much will spoil any pudding. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home They would, for once, show to all this civilised littleness the terrible grandeur and greatness of the mighty ocean, and flavour the insipidity of the town with a little sea-salt terror. The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Richardson is also in favour of this etymon, notwithstanding its harshness and insipidity. Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 But the "Law" would not permit us to sweeten the "pap" any more—that is to say, the reduced allowance of sugar was all too little for neutralising the insipidity of black tea. The Siege of Kimberley Women have a way of turning from the insipidities and proprieties of life to the wooer who has the stronger hand; from the silken Darnley to the rude Bothwell. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays Leucippe herself goes far to make amends for the general insipidity of the other characters. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Pretty, without vanity or affectation; gentle, without insipidity; and simple, yet highly polished, in mariners. The Idler in France The insipidity we observe in most of our acquaintances is largely due to our imperfect knowledge of them. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull "Nonsense!" said Esther, reluctantly returning from the realities of the play to the insipidities of actual life. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People He was aware of a terrible apprehension that he would never be the same man again, and that henceforth his own abode would be eternally stricken for him with the curse of insipidity. The Pretty Lady In both instances the English reader is looking for variety, surprise, elaboration; and when he is given, instead, simplicity, clarity, ease, he is apt to see nothing but insipidity and flatness. Landmarks in French Literature She is forbearing, without meanness—gentle, without insipidity—sincere, without rudeness. Marriage The only fault is its insipidity; which is apt now and then to give a sort of Ennui, which makes one form certain little wishes that signify nothing. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) The most deplorable mediocrity began to show itself more repulsively than ever, and flatness and insipidity blew themselves up like the frog in the fable. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Avoiding the insipidity of a direct panegyric, he has more delicately praised us by assuming our own air in professed satire. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 So Des Esseintes, horror-stricken at such insipidities, entirely forsook this literature. Against the Grain There may, perhaps, be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler He is refined without false delicacy, and correct without insipidity. The Illustrated London Reading Book Many satirical jests, found in ancient books, have had the same fate; their spirit has evaporated by time, and have left nothing to us but insipidity. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces As to their reading, it was confined to romantic tales whereof the exceeding insipidity could not awaken any symptom of intelligence. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. The waxlike finish of the finely chiselled marble alone betrays that delicacy which with Mino verged on insipidity. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Thrasybulus had now banqueted on flattery, till he could no longer bear the harshness of remonstrance or the insipidity of truth. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II The insipidity of many of the antique Statues may be traced to the false assumption of identity in the corresponding parts. Lectures on Art Coquenil was convinced that this journal would contain what he wanted; he did not believe that a man like De Heidelmann-Bruck would keep a diary simply to fill in with insipidities. Through the Wall The insipidity of this author's heroes may be also in part referred to the readiness with which the twists and turns his story to produce some immediate and perhaps temporary effect. Famous Reviews To charge them with insipidity, immaturity, and monotony, would be to mistake the force of genius and skill displayed by them. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts The lady had an air of sweet insipidity, and a face of engaging paleness; there was a faded look about her, and about the furniture, and about the house. Nicholas Nickleby Their prose is soaring to the vicious affectation of poetry: their poetry is sinking below the flatness and insipidity of prose. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 I think the streets look deserted-like since Monday; and there's a certain insipidity in good kind folks I once enjoyed not a little. Familiar Studies of Men and Books Erstwhile worth-while fun and stunts seemed no longer worth while; and it was a torment to listen to the insipidities and stupidities of women, to the pompous, arrogant sayings of the little half-baked men. John Barleycorn Her face was weak rather than decided, saved from insipidity by the large enquiring eyes; denied beauty, now that she was sheltered indoors, by the lack of colour and definite outline. The Voyage Out The moment and the act he had prefigured for weeks with a thrill of pleasure; yet it was no less than a miserable insipidity to him now that it had come. The Mayor of Casterbridge Such and such a formality or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against it. Les Misérables In his second part of Absalom and Achitophel are above two hundred admirable lines together of that great hand, which strongly shine through the insipidity of the rest. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 In The Idler, No. 34, he says 'that companion will be oftenest welcome whose talk flows out with inoffensive copiousness and unenvied insipidity.' Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 And how mean and vulgar did all the others she had known seem by comparison with him—how contemptible the polished insipidity of Walpole, how artificial the neatly-turned epigrams of Atlee. Lord Kilgobbin They descend into simple prettiness, which is simple insipidity. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays It was like a dish exactly suited to his taste, but delicate to insipidity because his palate was hardened to pepper. The Heavenly Twins Neither is the matter much mended, if, barring the insipidity of bon-ton company, you plunge into the formal gravity of the middle classes, or into the noisy, empty mirth of the lower. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 The 'jeu-de-mots' just below— Read a lecture Upon Aquinas at St. Thomas à _Water_ings— had a learned smack in it to season its insipidity. Literary Remains, Volume 2 We know this from the classics of our own tongue, which abound in marvels of insipidity and emptiness. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions Yet it was not an age of gross and open vices; manners were not flagitious, they were merely of a nauseous insipidity. Henrik Ibsen But there are thousands of pictorial poems that do not; and these would seem mere insipidities to a reader ignorant of their true purpose. In Ghostly Japan It is this insipidity of society that forces so many of its members upon desperate adventures of gallantry, and upon deep play. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 The duchesse's flattery was charmingly put, with just enough vivacity of tone to save it from the charge of insipidity. In and out of Three Normady Inns It is the work of a cunning artist; but it has a certain insipidity, and it wearies. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions The comedian is sure of a shout of bravo if he puts forth an insipidity, and rubs his legs together as if replying with spirit and humor. O. T. a Danish Romance Waves of maize- coloured hair with a sheen of its own went with the fairness of the skin, and the pretty features were redeemed from a suspicion of insipidity by large violet eyes. Elder Conklin and Other Stories Advantage might be taken of this prevailing inclination to furnish a better description of entertainment: since most of the melo-dramas are unfortunately rude even to insipidity, and resemble abortive attempts at the romantic. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature And then, with a smile of yet greater insipidity, he protested he was reduced to despair in leaving her, and walked on. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Rose was a man of wit, and a scholar; yet he has undoubtedly turned the ease and animation of his original into inversion and insipidity. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 Nor is it otherwise in art; for there genuine work, seldom found and still more seldom appreciated, is again and again driven out by dullness, insipidity, and affectation. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy Elise, to whom Valère uttered a few general compliments, responded, perhaps without intending to, in a more affectionate manner than is usual in the case of such insipidities. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century "We are sick—we are quite tired—we can no longer bear corporal Trim's insipidity—thread-bare—stupid and unaffecting—absolutely dull—misapplication of talents—he will unavoidably sink into contempt." Four Early Pamphlets His mop of curly hair and thick red lips gave that touch of character and individuality to his appearance which redeem a handsome face from insipidity. Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire This extraordinary literary movement was started by Sir Walter Scott, who made a revolution in novel-writing, introducing a new style, freeing romances from bad taste, vulgarity, insipidity, and false sentiment. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women After six hours' slow and gentle simmering, the stock is done; and it should not be continued on the fire, longer than is necessary, or it will tend to insipidity. The Book of Household Management The heaviness and insipidity incident to boiled water may be somewhat relieved by afterward filtering it. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics He is vulgar, and even ostentatiously and atrociously vulgar; but the vulgarity is mixed with a real shrewdness which rescues it from simple insipidity. Mark Twain Therefore this is not a danger for the sentimental poet, but only for the imitator, who has no vocation; it is therefore often found with platitude, insipidity, and even baseness. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller If I can keep my drawing-room free from insipidity, I am content. The Earth Trembled And then she became dumb, and kissed me with the kisses she alone was able to give, and in comparison with which the caresses of any other woman were but an insipidity. The Queen Pedauque The insipidity of his objections to Shakspeare may be judged from this, that he comments in a spirit of absolute puerility upon the name Desdemona, as though intentionally formed from the Greek word for superstition. Biographical Essays That is one of the penalties which Nature exacts when she vouchsafes a great man to earth—all others are condemned to insipidity. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists The absence of strong literary tradition, the lack of deep literary soil, has been responsible for the insipidity of the product. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism She has almost a constant smile, not of softness, nor of insipidity, but of selfsufficiency and internal satisfaction. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 There was no gayer supper party in the Savoy that night, and the champagne paid for with the proceeds of "Baby's Boredom" proved none the less vivifying for the insipidity of its source. Winding Paths In some of these animals it loses its insipidity and acquires a slight and agreeable aroma. The Physiology of Taste Miss Lou, also, had been unconsciously revealing her nature to the sagacious matron, who felt the girl, if won, would not become a pretty toy, soon wearying her son by insipidity of character. Miss Lou With this exception, the censure originates only in a fanciless way of thinking, to which everything appears unnatural that does not suit its own tame insipidity. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays The insipidity of my life, that is passed with a few old people that are wearing out like myself, after surviving so many of my acquaintance, can furnish no matter of correspondence. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 By having imitated trait for trait her insipidity, her cold gravity, I pleased her. The Forfeiture The flow of thought, the entire freedom from restraint, were of a character so pure that no insipidity or bitterness ever ensued, no ill humor was ever provoked. Life of Chopin It is now that we get the smack of the soil, the taste of cask or wood, the insipidity of salts, or any bitterness. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken But as it is, you would die of my violence, or I of your insipidity. Joseph II. and His Court To our tongue the sonnet is mortal, and the parent of insipidity. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 That is a state of things which cannot come about frequently,—which can only be reproduced by men who have never hitherto felt the mean insipidity of such a condition. The Duke's Children Someone had sprung his mine before he had intended—it had exploded prematurely and with, what seemed to him, as he read on, a futile insipidity. Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Is it a delusion of insipidity as usual? Clever Woman of the Family It was our sophistication which enabled us to taste pleasures which would have been insipidities to them. An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga They deal in home truths, unpleasant reflections, and unwelcome matters of fact; as the others are all compliment and complaisance, insincerity and insipidity. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners But to write of it seemed mere insipidity! Five Tales On the contrary, after so many compliments, insipidities and petty versification all this quickens the blunted taste; it is the sensation of strong common wine after long indulgence in orgeat and preserved citron. The Ancient Regime But the other, the solitary letter, in its threatening whiteness, with its exquisitely penned address—there it would lie awaiting me, destroying the taste of the bacon, reducing the flavour of the tea to insipidity. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments She was a pretty, soulless little animal, coloured like peach-blossoms, and with a great deal of that soft insipidity which is usually found in a boy's ideal of maiden innocence. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields But we have the sanction of all mankind in preferring genius in a lower rank of art to feebleness and insipidity in the highest.' Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Indeed, it is the peculiar characteristic of men of genius to be afraid of coldness and insipidity, from which they think they never can be too far removed. Seven Discourses on Art There could be nothing for him now till the insipidity of life should gradually fade away into the grave. The Prime Minister My other apartments are by no means of the same order—mere ultras of fashionable insipidity. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 I had the honor to kiss her Serene Highness's hand, and to talk a great many peppered insipidities suitable to the occasion. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 Mediocrity, insipidity, want of character is the great fault. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners His innocent insipidity of a Wife, too, appears to have been happy. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 The characteristics of rhetoric are insipidity, mannerism, and monotonous parallelism of clauses. Phaedrus She is divinely innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity. A Cathedral Courtship The insipidity, and yet the noise—the nothingness, and yet the self-importance of all those people! Pride and Prejudice Mrs. Blunt seemed to have come into personal contact with a good many of them and the marvellous insipidity of her recollections was astonishing to my inexperience. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes |
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