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It's well worth watching for its extraordinary mix of insipidity and stupidity, which we channel in this sun-drenched episode of The Cartoon Lounge.
The films created a seismic disturbance when they were first shown, and nowhere more than in America, which embraced Bergman with an enthusiasm that Sweden never matched, perhaps in reaction to the insipidity of American entertainment in the postwar boom.
Editorial writers can seem the most insipid and helpless of the scribbling class: they sum up anonymously the ideas of their time, and truth and insipidity do a great deal of close dancing — the right thing to do is often hard but seldom surprising.
There are some lapses into gum-cracking, slang-filled dialogue, and the latter half of the book, which takes place in North Carolina, suffers from the relative insipidity of the setting.
And I believe that your style has suffered from the strain of constantly dramatizing social insipidity "), fights back, in accents almost of rudeness: "May I interrupt you?" Henry asked.
Otherwise, in the hands of weak local governments, powerful real-estate interests and untrained panels, it is indeed an impediment to the healthy modernization of our cities: a recipe for aesthetic insipidity and urban incoherence.
She can be waspish, sometimes overly so — her takedown of a foreign-sponsored Haitian sitcom for its irrelevance and insipidity comes across as heavy-handed (it's a sitcom, for God's sake) — but wading into the swamp of N.G.O.'s, politics and financial machinations, she finds material fit for all the venom she can muster.
He abominated western luxuries, and repeatedly raged against American apples, surely the epitome of harmless insipidity.
The realism of its painting was a bracing antidote to the insipidity of neoclassicism: "No other nation has borrowed less from antiquity".
It was a good night, as far as these sorts of things go.: a vague address that garnered a mixed reception; a Republican response of historically consistent insipidity that earned fawning praise; Fox News telling you that the black guy was going to get everyone killed; Ted Cruz smirking; Rand Paul convinced of the absolute necessity of hearing from Rand Paul.
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Naturalist fiction in the hands of its American masters — Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser — was left-wing fiction, and, whatever its intellectual failings, it rescued Sinclair from his youthful insipidities.
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The primary grammatical function of "insipidity" is as a noun . It denotes the state or quality of being insipid, meaning lacking flavor, zest, or interest. Ludwig provides numerous examples demonstrating this usage, such as describing the "insipidity" of entertainment or character writing.
Expression frequency: Common
