How To Use Vapid In A Sentence
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Locale: Staging and dressing together constitute locale and their absence will render it "vague" or "vapid" -- though a writer might, of course, pare away the requisite details deliberately, in the same way they might pare away features distinguishing voice.
Archive 2009-12-01
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This may by some readers be attributed to the absence of that dashing _caricatura_ style and constant aiming at antitheses, which, if it relieve the vapidness of the story, does not add to its natural attractions.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832
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The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
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Hannah McGill called the movie a ‘challenge to apathetic, vapidly amoral cinematic shock tactics’.
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The British are still reticent about their deepest fears - class war, a reversion to economic feudalism, the spectre of an all-dominant and all-vapid consumer society.
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In a time of vapid politicians who only speak from pre-agreed scripts, a bit of colour, rank mischief and sharp politics cannot go amiss.
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There's a satire in here but it's hidden under layers of misogyny and vapid violence.
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But we hadn't seen any evidence of the network's vapidity at this point.
Times, Sunday Times
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People criticise her as being a sort of vapid, attention seeking pseudo-feminist man-hater, failing, I think, to recognise the context within which she became important.
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It may be true that, according to Freddoso, Obama dismissed the slogan “Yes we can” as “vapid and mindless” when it was first proposed to him, in 2004, but he liked it well enough in 2008, and then came the null emptiness of the phrase — the audacity of hope — that he annexed from a windy sermon by Jeremiah Wright.
Cool Cat
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I get so angry with the vapid women who fill our airwaves with their cute, giggly soundbites.
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But theproblem is that Ms Merkel has been delivering similarly vapid speeches aroundthe whole country.
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But perhaps we should be asking whether IQs are vapid and pointless.
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The vapidity of their comments is about what I'd expected it to be.
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Why does this have to be about meatheads versus vapid bimboes?
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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He summarises the anti-capitalists' annual international get-together at Porto Alegre in Brazil as ‘a ragbag of declamation, hot air and vapidity’.
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From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the 2000 campaign, principled conservatives knew they were in trouble.
The Reality Check
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Likened to bimbos, or called vapid, or whatever else?
Renegade Evolution
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After the strong beginning, Louret seems increasingly vapid and inexpressive.
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The party gained seats, recovering from its winter crisis, but it did so on the back of a vapid campaign.
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vapid tea
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She seems nice if a bit vapid, staring at him, hanging on his every word, etc.
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a vapid conversation
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Budget restrictions will mean the ‘Late Late Show’ producers can now only afford a vapid, self-important and uncharismatic host.
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They may, for example, want to place their commercials after something relatively more vapid.
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They may, for example, want to place their commercials after something relatively more vapid.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, his vapid surface concealed a beast, one that roared in violent protest.
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John Mariani, a longtime wine and food writer, predicts a rise in vapid wine blogs.
Imperfect storage, blogging, new critics, Johnny Apple – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
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The African pig is more noted for his _speed_ than for the rashers he offers when his race is run; he is tough, and grunts vapidly; his tail corrugates rather than curls; he eschews jewellery -- his nose is free; and the land also being free, he pays no rent.
The Siege of Kimberley
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I am computer literate but I find surfing the net is only equalled in its vapidity by the banality of today's TV programmes.
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Yes, Cher is vapid and, well, clueless, but she also means well, is surrounded by good looking people, money and a choice wardrobe.
Brittany Murphy And Alicia Silverstone Are ‘Clueless’ In Today’s Sick Day Stash » MTV Movies Blog
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But perhaps we should be asking whether IQs are vapid and pointless.
Times, Sunday Times
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He constantly puts baceolus for stultus, pullejaceus for pullus, vacerrosus for cerritus, vapide se habere for male, and betizare for languere, which is commonly called lachanizare.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
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She says she loves being a designer - and insists the fashion world is not as vapid and self-regarding as it can seem.
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And about 90% of them say Avatar is a rousing spectacle with a vapid, recyled plot, thin characterizations, and cliched dialogue.
Will You Go See Avatar?
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Galet cites scores of different Gamays, many quite unrelated to the Beaujolais archetype, many of them particular clonal selections of it, and many more of them red-fleshed teinturiers once widely used to add colour to vapid blends.
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This is the cheapest kind of novelistic landfill, invented musings meant to show a vapid fool on the brink of an awesome event.
Trashing Teddy Kennedy
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Cynics vapidly pointing out that Meercats cannot drive are missing the point, which any fool should be able to see is to reduce RTAs involving police vehicles to zero.
“Response Times” Are Back SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Her counterpart left in vain and vapidity.
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I have been around them enough to know that your mother is a manipulative gossip, and your sisters are empty-headed and vapid.
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The whole thing would be hilarious if it wasn't so vapid.
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Sure, Ann Coulter has proven that being shrill and vapid is no serious barrier to success, but Coulter is at least sporadically witty and entertaining — she can turn a phrase, whether or not she uses it to say much of anything.
Peer Produced Harassment
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These, Denny, are empty and vapid slogans because those who use them are destitute of any imagination or feeling of what such greed, racism or imperialism is like.
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You mean only a quick-fix, vapid, nonsolution will satisfy you?
Obama's Speech On Economy Is All About McCain -- No Mentions Of Hillary
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Needless to say, anyone shown to be a member of the former camp is depicted as being vapid, graceless, and generally without any redeeming values, while those in the latter group are kind, intelligent, and well-adjusted.
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He had not even climbed far into sensual decadence, a different mountain entirely, with play for the playboy tearing his crepe paper heart the inwardly lachrymose and outwardly debonair way that it did, with these bouts of sensing a woman's genitalia as vapid holes being banged as empty drums from inside by a man's stick; these conclusions that sex was just a bored erumpent man banging on any tin trash can in reach for a bit of sound and vibration, and brief moments of total, pellucid understanding called enlightenment as to the absolute absurdity of an instrument of urination being used for intimacy.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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It is not a trait that endears Allen to neoconservatives, who regard him as intellectually vapid and ideologically bland.
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The restaurant critic also noted the unbuttered frozen peas that were cold and the vapid vichyssoise that tasted commercially made.
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So what if Avatar has a vapid lowest-common-denominator self-contradictory moralistic message?
Will You Go See Avatar?
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The gentle and intelligent reader will remember (though that miserable worm, the vapid and irreflective reader, will have forgotten) that at the beginning of the term the fags of Kay's had endeavoured to show their approval of Fenn and their disapproval of Kennedy by applying to the former for leave when they wished to go to the town; and that Fenn had received them in the most ungrateful manner with blows instead of exeats.
The Head of Kay's
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The overwhelming musical score and the too consistent whirling dervish camera only work to expose the film's desperate bid to keep its core vapidity under wraps.
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The most highly regarded also had an articulate vision, going beyond vapid cliches of what the nation should become.
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Should we see it as a lament on the vapidity of today's artistic culture?
Times, Sunday Times
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Media outlets are filled with ads, commercial plugs and vapid - or corrosive - content leaving the impression that gifted artists sell out to the almighty dollar sooner or later.
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There's not an ounce of intelligence in her vapid dark eyes, the glossy lips, the soft words slipping off her tongue in a relentless, unceasing confession.
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Despite the fact that the Hiltons are well-known for their vapidness, they do occasionally step up and participate in worthwhile activities like this from time to time.
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Paris Hilton Flaunts Her Love Of Sea Men
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The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
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Let the jargon slinger know that you know who they are: a vapid, message-clouding, English-avoiding, communications nightmare.
The Most Annoying Business Jargon
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Read it, by all means, and enjoy its many strengths but don't hope for much more than a depiction of how a modern yuppy realises the vapidity of his existence.
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Would the beautiful and vapid please stop getting robbed?
Times, Sunday Times
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In that case, they have nobody but themselves to blame for such vapidity and unoriginality.
Times, Sunday Times
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While such lyrical vapidity precludes ‘I Wonder’ from moving the listener emotionally, the track does serve as respite in an otherwise aggressive mix.
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a bunch of vapid schoolgirls
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‘Space Ghost Coast to Coast ‘mocks late-night television shows where empty celebrities tell bad jokes and ramble vapidly.’
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Italian prime-time TV is filled with vapid variety shows featuring improbably hot chicks cavorting with goatish older men.
The Future Is Cheese
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He's just another slice off the loaf of shallow vapid pain - in - the - ass 09 erdom.
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With one eye on the clock, I would vapidly go through the motions of the Batteries and Grand jetés so that I could rush home to my queens: Lil' P, Terrible T and Sweet L.D collectively known as Oaktown's 3.5.7.
Sasha Brookner: Sabar: African Hip-Hop
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The once ridiculed arranged marriage is now a rating show with presumptuous hunks and vapid bimbos on television parading as the bachelors and batchelorettes.
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These vapid pseudo intellectuals are the problem with today's law schools.
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Would the beautiful and vapid please stop getting robbed?
Times, Sunday Times
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It wasn't that I was smart; I just grasped the normal concepts better than the rest of the vapid plebeians who cared more about that one pimple on their forehead.
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Even worse, I'm pretty sure there was a child in the front seat of the green monster - usually it's a vapid female - unstrapped and no doubt absorbing every dotish move made by the zombie at the wheel.
TrinidadExpress Today's News
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And when it is taught, history is too often batched together with other subjects into a vapid and generalised "humanities" course which fails to do it justice.
If we have no history, we have no future | Tristram Hunt
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Say something nice, something friendly, something clever, something ridiculous, something vapidly amusing, something about coffee or chocolate or how much you love person X or how much you admire person Y or has anybody seen that awesome thing that person Z wrote yesterday? or oh, look, MUPPETS.
Dealing With Trolls: A Holiday Primer | Her Bad Mother
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She made a vapid comment about the weather.
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As soon as the years begin to take a sufficiently obvious toll, she will vanish from the wingnut radar, to be replaced with some other newly discovered “cutie” who is as equally vapid and devoid of anything which might, by some reckless stretch of the imagination, ever be mistaken for principled ethics.
Think Progress » Chris Wallace on whether Palin will sit on his lap during their interview: ‘One can only hope.’
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This vapid, vacuous, uneducated, Alaska hillbilly is an international laughingstock.
McCain campaign adviser pushes back on Palin book
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Somewhere through the course of their vapid conversation, she caught my eye and smirked knowingly.
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Can you imagine viewing the vapid Palin favorably?
Poll: Palin decision doesn't change minds
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The secondary characters are a stock assortment of supersafe ethnic types, and Carroll's protosurrealism has been watered down into an ultrawholesome sermonette so vapid that Polonius would have blushed to deliver it: "We move too fast / We miss too much / We seldom see / All the miracles in front of us.
Turner, in Her Usual Role
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Greg Kinnear does a convincing job as the doomed star, deftly revealing a man vapidly oblivious to the harm he caused himself and others.
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Sun Xiu was taught a lesson, feeling vapid. He left with a touch of his nose.
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a vapid smile
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But perhaps we should be asking whether IQs are vapid and pointless.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is quite breathtaking to realise quite how rapacious the industry is and how conceited and vapid are its practitioners.
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She abandons her son for what can only be called a vapid frat boy.
Who Cares Who Is John Galt?
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It is not a trait that endears Allen to neoconservatives, who regard him as intellectually vapid and ideologically bland.
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The vapid storylines and woeful acting just leave me cold.
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For some, the minute attention to nuances of bygone manners makes her simple romances vapidly parochial.
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a vapidly smiling salesman
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But for those concerned about the impact of gay stereotypes and and the cause of acceptance and tolerance, I would suggest that Perez Hilton's vapidly vicious agenda and his bottomless bitchiness ferments much more repellent opinions against gays than Sacha Baron Cohen's slapstick in shaved legs.
John Wellington Ennis: Is Bruno Worse For Gays Than Perez Hilton?
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The backtrail of this dialog is available for anyone to read who might care to do so, and thus your vapid nature speaks eloquently for itself.
Think Progress » John Gibson Suggests North Korea Nuke Test ‘Balances Out The Bad News’ From Foley Scandal
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She was also many of the things the writer believed must naturally follow from all the above: vapid, spoiled, rich, uninformed, rootless, and complacent.
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The most important insect pests of stored yam tubers are a pyralid moth (Euzopherodes vapidella) and a moth (Tineidae sp).
4 Yams
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Los Angeles has long been known as a vapid cultural wasteland.
Www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly
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The components of a good hate follow include narcissism, vapidity, arrogance, money and a surplus of leisure time.
Times, Sunday Times
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We write ponderously important books that no one really wants to read, or we write vapidly exciting books that expect nothing of their readers and less of their writers.
MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2)
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Can there be anything more futile than to combine the huge range of music we find under the vapid and vacuous heading Easy Listening?
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Sound-bites are often derided, and with good reason - many are dishonest or vapid.
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Obama insisting on the public option is as idealistically vapid as him standing at the podium and insisting terrorists stop bombing people.
Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll
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The whole exercise is so intellectually vapid the result is meaningless.
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Diary posits her as a threat to the insularity of the Monteils and their vapid way of life, a threat Moreau coolly limns in one of her most nuanced, restrained performances.
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Because they are vicious, willfully stupid (not ignorant, mind you) lying hypocrites as devoid of integrity as they are vapidly lacking in anything like intelligence.
Think Progress » Man ‘disenchanted with the federal government’ indicted for planting pipe bombs in mailboxes.
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(Yivo, which burlesqued the issue of Jews & Money by inviting the vapid Niall Ferguson to talk about it, should invite Ginsberg to make up for the lapse).
Walt and Mearsheimer as Scholars of Jewish History
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However, since she couldn't very well let Wesley know she spoke French, and therefore understood every bit of their conversation she merely smiled vapidly and played dumb.
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He has managed once again to produce something hideously compelling out of a collection of parts that are all horribly vapid.
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This is largely the failing of a vapid script that lacks both strong characterisations and poetry.
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They may, for example, want to place their commercials after something relatively more vapid.
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Obama is declaring his intention to turn these negative trends around - and without simply, vapidly asserting that America is powerful and capable of great feats, he is admitting that it will take tough work, prioritization, and creativity.
Steve Clemons: Obama's West Point Speech Shows Signs of Smart "National Security Strategy"
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Often at his desk there, his mind became strangely obtunded and he babbled vapidly; his big face pinched up till it seemed lean and grey, and he pitched forward, face down, upon the desk.
Sally of Missouri
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It just demonstrates the flakiness of educating a robot through nothing but vapid yoof-chat.
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And even after the obvious and irrefutable fact of the matter is pointed out to you in terms that that self-same 6th grader could understand, the only thing you can imagine doing is repeating the same meaningless analogy as though nothing more than repetition sufficed to grant cogency to vapid nonsense.
Think Progress » Rep. Tom Perriello Tells ‘Spineless’ Senate To Get ‘Its Head Out Of Its Rear End’ And Confront Climate Crisis
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While Carter's motives appear questionable (is he REALLY concerned for the status of women in the Church?) and his argumentation is certainly lacking, it would be more constructive to address, thoughtfully, a point that his vapid criticism nonetheless raises; why it is that women are not permitted to preach as men are in the Church (the question of ordination aside ...)?
Putting the Carter before the horse
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I vaguely recall a vapid amicus brief or two urging that the Supreme Court grant cert in a case because some lawprofs cared about it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » LawProfs for Sotomayor:
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A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ...
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vapid beer
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It never ceases to amaze me how this vapid, dimwit is always on the wrong side of every issue.
Palin gives 'stirring' gun rights speech at NRA dinner, says group
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In particular, the debate over health care and cap-and-trade now transpiring in Congress has been an all-out legislator-lobbyist orgy of disappointment, leaving each historic policy proposal vapidly deflated.
Stuart Whatley: Obama's Agenda: Hope, Change and Lobby-Centricity
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Yet their lives were vapid monotonies, only long in months and years.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
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This bland collection of vapid songs and empty sentiments sounds exactly as you would expect.
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It explains,” he wrote, “not only why some women grew up vapid, but also why others grew us (if we may coin the word) viricidal i.e., wanting to kill men” (Lewis 2007, 676; Lewis’s emphasis).
What Do Boys and Girls Draw? » Sociological Images
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In that case, they have nobody but themselves to blame for such vapidity and unoriginality.
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If wealthy people are willing to pay for vapid advice, new-age speak and tips on what not to wear, that is their outlook.
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There's a wonderful texture and vibrancy to the music, and a sweetly melodic tone to her voice, but the lyrics are vapid and the production just a little too clean and bloodless.
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At a time when the theater is besieged by phony avant-gardists from the left and vapid epigones from the right, let us give thanks for him.
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The spirit of intrigue with women, as to which men will flatter themselves, is customarily so vile, so mean, so vapid a reflection of a feeling, so aimless, resultless, and utterly unworthy!
He Knew He Was Right
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It is quite breathtaking to realise quite how rapacious the industry is and how conceited and vapid are its practitioners.
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After all, for every genuine inherited talent like Duncan "Zowie Bowie" Jones, there seems to be a Peaches Geldof waiting vapidly in the wings.
This week's new comedy
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How is it that something that used to be a serious symbol of female emancipation has suddenly become a vapid fashion trend?
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It's pretty vapid stuff from the man whom we were all told was the future.
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'Brother Jonathan' as he had killed every journal in which he was permitted to pour out his vapid balderdash.
Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3
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Wilson's interpretations of her work, however, are often vapid.
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Yes, the vapidness bothers me, but it's the cold-blooded calculatedness that really bothers me, I guess.
The Truth About Cars
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Because this miasmic political alembic of dissimulation, leakage and 'shocking' revelation is meant to conceal who the financial and power beneficiaries who thrive on war are - all the leaks and vapid condemnation of leaks in the world can only hope to reveal the most superficial level inconstiencies and travesties, that is, what we already know are the horrific and tragic consequence of unlimited war.
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Its trio of heroines are cute, with an active, aggressive edge that sets them apart from their vapid moe counterparts, and the Witches 'Realm has a whimsical, fairy-tale design that recalls the idiosyncratic visions of animators like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton more than the standardized cotton-candy fluff of Petite Princess Yucie or
Anime News Network
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Nowadays critics are vapid, passionless creatures who seem increasingly irrelevant.
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There's a satire in here but it's hidden under layers of misogyny and vapid violence.
Times, Sunday Times
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His conversation was vapid in the extreme.
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I am not some vapid stick insect, prey to self-loathing and body fascism.
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The story of Lucille is vapid and uninteresting in comparison, for it lacks any emotional or societal resonance.
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The blonde beauty believes her image as a vapid party girl is completely unfair, as she's always been proud of her classroom achievements.
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Let the jargon slinger know that you know who they are: a vapid, message-clouding
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He is a smug political poseur, whose commentaries are factually vapid but filled with obtuse and flowery language, designed to obscure his insecurity about being known as a sportscaster who is pretending to know anything about history, politics, or policy.
Think Progress » President Bush is “ticked off big-time”
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Janice was in Martha's creative writing class and wrote short, bland poetry that resembled vapid Anglican hymns.
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The other characters are, without exception, vapid, obnoxious and self-centred.
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What a commentary on the crowd-pleasing vapidity of our civilisation - and what a comment on its prodigious riches, alertness to opportunity, and creative power.
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Carax' movie, about a sewer-dwelling madman, starts with a sort of anarch energy but rapidly becomes tiresome, smug, and vapid.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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Would the beautiful and vapid please stop getting robbed?
Times, Sunday Times
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How is it that something that used to be a serious symbol of female emancipation has suddenly become a vapid fashion trend?
Times, Sunday Times
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Nowadays critics are vapid, passionless creatures who seem increasingly irrelevant.