vapid

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• The film paints most of these characters as vultures of the art world, often using the high-flown linguistic semantics of academia and artistic discourse to obfuscate the vapid nature of the work they’re doing.

• To risk a truly vapid cliché, California contains multitudes.

• Because instead of equality, health care, peace, safety and support, Mother’s Day had become an occasion for vapid expressions of “love and reverence,” increasingly characterized by flowers, brunch and store-bought cards.

• By now, you would think that journalists should have tired of giving their vapid ideas yet another platform.

• She is too vapid and immature (and untalented) to pull off something really seductive.

• Was it tough to make these inherently vapid, Valley Girl-ish characters be compelling onscreen?

• Grand language wrapped around a thin message produces only vapid blather.

• You pretty much can't get a better absurdist parody of politicians' vapid sure-is-nice-to-be-here patter than that.

• The water, too, had become very mawkish and vapid, and there was scarcely any tea left; what remained was used up that evening.

• He picked up his "Enquirer," but the political news was stale and vapid: the "Whig" was tried with no better success.

• There is no gilt, no mock modesty in his style; there is to sentimentalism in the ideas he expounds.