vapidity

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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

She is psychologically complex, straddling both beautiful sincerity and utter vapidity.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

"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

The imagery often came from lifestyle magazines, aerial photography, and also family albums, and their cold, distanced style held up a mirror to the new Federal Republic’s consumerist vapidity and Nazi inheritance.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2020

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