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
This dereliction of both duty and common sense is annoying at the best of times, but right now, the vapidity is morally indefensible.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2022
The band — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John “Bonzo” Bonham — epitomized either the dreamy idealism of the ’60s or the bloated vapidity of the ’70s.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021
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
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
