vapidity

Example Sentences

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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

Glamorous People are not always their own best diplomatic envoys, and some, such as their patron saint Andy Warhol, have raised studied vapidity to a kind of art form in itself.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2021

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

She’s particularly witty about the vapidity of our self-help culture.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2020

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