vapidity
Example Sentences
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But no one before or since has fallen into paroxysms of indignant rage over the alleged vapidity of middlebrow cultural efforts quite like Macdonald.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
After all, its themes, centered on the emptiness of power — and the vapidity of those who seek to be close to it — are timeless, especially in this city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
"Enraged at my vapidity, I forced myself to sit down and read several articles in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books before I fixed my nighttime drink."
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2022
Always gorgeous and elegantly dressed — her husband, Ralph, describes her face when in society as “like a theatre with all the lustres blazing” — Undine is nevertheless limited by her vapidity.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2021
There was a certain vapidity to her reassurance, an automatic way of expressing goodwill, which did not require any concrete efforts on her part to help him.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
