That, to him, is insipidness posing as freedom.
It's not so much the wholesale banditry of personae that rankles and bores, it's the sheer insipidness of the imagination on display.
When an actor's charming, vulgar, and childish desire to be seen and felt by a large number of people becomes perverted by self-seriousness, the performer slips into insipidness, thus deadening the carnival spirit that should inform his theatricals.
And the finished text shows none of the PowerPoint insipidness we associate with committee-speak or with later group translations like the 1961 New English Bible, which T.S. Eliot said did not even rise to "dignified mediocrity".
This was incredibly frustrating because the sort of people who underline sentences in books tend to choose the frilliest, most faux-profound, dreamcatchery, Hallmark, Yankee Candle tracts of craw-clogging bumper sticker insipidness.
By Hilton Als August 12 , 2008When an actor's charming, vulgar, and childish desire to be seen and felt by a large number of people becomes perverted by self-seriousness, the performer slips into insipidness, thus deadening the carnival spirit that should inform his theatricals.
The Corvette, a rebel in a family of conformists, was billed as "America's only sports car" — a backhanded slap at the rival Ford Thunderbird, its sole domestic competitor and a "sports car" only in the sense of having two seats, as the car suffered from anemia and insipidness, among other deficiencies fatal to its credibility.
He is personality over planning, symbol over substance, insipidness over insightfulness.
Even if there were anything new to reveal about things like the insipidness of Hollywood storytelling, the cynicism of studio executives and the exaltation of celebrity, I, for one, would be willing to forgo being exposed to this new knowledge if it meant that writers would be exploring other subjects and settings instead.
