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
Snook does everything but rend her garments in a performance that only emphasizes the busy vapidity of Hannah Kent’s script.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 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
Critics hate selfie culture—and the broader social media landscape that enables it— in part because it rewards vapidity, inauthenticity, and self-absorption, because most selfies are self-serving advertisements for their participants’ purportedly wonderful lives.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2019
But Bobby’s untenanted look owed itself not to vapidity but to a certain lack of interest in the world around him.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
