This was not the obvious one of his resignation on June 2nd, for all the vapidity and vacillation of the less-than-nine months he was in office.
Despite having complained in 1995 about the "vapidity" of the confirmation process, she chose vapidity over valour once she was in the hot seat herself, evading hard questions about her judicial philosophy, and abortion and gun rights, on the ground that it would not be "appropriate" to "grade" past cases in case they came up to the court again.
Then there are those killjoys who worry that all beauty pageants worsen the shallowness, vacuity, vapidity and narcissism of today's youth.
The grey fuzz caused by the vapidity of modern life is beginning to clear.
Opponents, on the other hand, cited parallels between the critical treatment in Being and Time of notions such as "publicness," "everydayness," "idle talk," and "curiosity" and fascist-oriented critiques of the vapidity and dissoluteness of bourgeois liberalism.
That such a thing could happen, that Rubio's very human need for water in a time of stress could become the defining moment of a fourteen-minute policy speech, will be cited by many contrarians as further evidence of the shallowness and vapidity of the media class and of the public at large.
In this way the site could be read as offering a meta commentary on the vapidity of celebrity journalism, without ever explicitly holding itself above it.
Of Goya's possible limitations — the milky vapidity of his allegorical and religious figures, a button-eyed cartoonishness that thins the human presence of some portraits, an insecurity with anatomy very noticeable in "The Naked Maja" — Hughes says little.
("Goon Squad" is a better book than another of DeLillo's novels, "Great Jones Street," but its themes and moods are similar — exploring the black holes of fame, commodification, brilliance, and vapidity in rock 'n' roll.
And the cool kids, called out for their own vapidity and cowardice, can smell that kind of healthy self-doubt from about a mile off.
"She doesn't have the vapidity, the pallor, or the evanescence of court ladies; she has the force de frappe, the violence, the enthusiasm and passion of the knight..
