But we breach our children's rights all the time: every time we burst into their room, grab them, say some inane parental thing and run out again we are breaching their right to privacy and bodily autonomy.
Not just because ranting on about referees is tedious and inane (although it is tedious and inane).
American football is relatively unpopular internationally because it is inane, and slowly but surely doggedly provincial Americans are coming around to the superior form of football enjoyed passionately by billions around the globe.
Perhaps more important, he has taken to describing Israel's decades-old attempt to impose itself upon the Palestinians as misguided and "inane", language previously the preserve of the hard-core peaceniks.His political supporters, their numbers now dangerously atrophied, call this courage.
With all due respect to Ms Hill, that is an inane and hypersensitive point.
They wilfully overlook the wonders of the economic development China has brought to the lofty plateau.Fortunately for the Chinese government, these inane sentimentalists neither make policy, nor, beyond the occasional tiresome protest, have much to do with China.
This requires slow and obscured movements.The Atlantic piece raises some valid questions, many of which have been unhelpfully ignored in America and abroad (or shunted aside in favour of inane economic nationalism).
I can access Mr Rubio's inane answer via the internet on my tablet because many science-believing innovators are interested in making money.
Overlook, for present purposes, the ubiquitous ghetto-blaster, the supposedly silent but impossible-to-ignore Walkman, the chirruping mobile phone and the inane conversation of those who take such delight in using it.
MOST tweets are inane, but a million may contain valuable information.
But if we look at America's military spending in relative terms, these arguments sound inane.
