vapidity

Example Sentences

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While “Johanne Sacreblu” is undeniably a targeted rebuttal against “Emilia Pérez,” I also see it as a layered criticism of Hollywood’s exoticization of Latin America, and the vapidity of its representation of Latinos.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2025

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

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