vapidity

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.

Snook does everything but rend her garments in a performance that only emphasizes the busy vapidity of Hannah Kent’s script.

As African American educators, we recognize the vapidity of this debate, which recalls the sometime description of Black people who are Christians as dupes of the “White man’s religion.”

Because the alternative is pallid mush, short on honesty and condemned to vapidity.

Images of diasporic Jews finding each other after lifetimes apart will always carry with it a certain bittersweet resonance, even when it comes after 80 minutes of regressive vapidity.