And it takes us to Vanity Fair, the spiritually vapid beau monde of Restoration Anglicanism. |
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Nowadays critics are vapid, passionless creatures who seem increasingly irrelevant. |
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The blonde beauty believes her image as a vapid party girl is completely unfair, as she's always been proud of her classroom achievements. |
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Can there be anything more futile than to combine the huge range of music we find under the vapid and vacuous heading Easy Listening? |
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After the strong beginning, Louret seems increasingly vapid and inexpressive. |
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The other characters are, without exception, vapid, obnoxious and self-centred. |
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I have been around them enough to know that your mother is a manipulative gossip, and your sisters are empty-headed and vapid. |
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For a truly vapid and incomprehensible waste of time, do read His Grace's fine paeons to the terminally passionless and intellectually banal. |
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She takes revenge for her crow feet and cellulite by bossing around the vapid bimbettes whom her husband hornily humps but can't talk to. |
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This is largely the failing of a vapid script that lacks both strong characterisations and poetry. |
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At a time when the theater is besieged by phony avant-gardists from the left and vapid epigones from the right, let us give thanks for him. |
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It is quite breathtaking to realise quite how rapacious the industry is and how conceited and vapid are its practitioners. |
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In a time of vapid politicians who only speak from pre-agreed scripts, a bit of colour, rank mischief and sharp politics cannot go amiss. |
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I get so angry with the vapid women who fill our airwaves with their cute, giggly soundbites. |
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The restaurant critic also noted the unbuttered frozen peas that were cold and the vapid vichyssoise that tasted commercially made. |
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This bland collection of vapid songs and empty sentiments sounds exactly as you would expect. |
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Somewhere through the course of their vapid conversation, she caught my eye and smirked knowingly. |
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It is not a trait that endears Allen to neoconservatives, who regard him as intellectually vapid and ideologically bland. |
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She seems nice if a bit vapid, staring at him, hanging on his every word, etc. |
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The story of Lucille is vapid and uninteresting in comparison, for it lacks any emotional or societal resonance. |
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The party gained seats, recovering from its winter crisis, but it did so on the back of a vapid campaign. |
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If wealthy people are willing to pay for vapid advice, new-age speak and tips on what not to wear, that is their outlook. |
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However, his vapid surface concealed a beast, one that roared in violent protest. |
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It is the same in all the broadcasting groups and in many newspapers, where hard news long ago lost the battle with celebrity gossip and vapid opinionising. |
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If you're a few years older, you'll resent the choking paternalistic atmosphere of vapid gee-whiz kiddie entertainment, euphemism, and fake-friendly bullying. |
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The only thing that remains annoying about the work is the vapid starchiness of so many of the highbrow texts. |
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She managed to transcend the vapid content and schlocky style, and project an image of innocence liberated by unguessed-at sensory discovery. |
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People criticise her as being a sort of vapid, attention seeking pseudo-feminist man-hater, failing, I think, to recognise the context within which she became important. |
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At the very least, the latter scenario will help to enliven what has been so far a lacklustre and vapid campaign. |
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But the problem is that Ms Merkel has been delivering similarly vapid speeches around the whole country. |
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The kind of architecture that you have created is not the vapid result of business deals carried to self-interested architectural conclusions. |
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Long winded statements full of vapid and vague language might look good on paper, but in reality they are useless to provide the needed focus. |
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I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage. |
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There's not an ounce of intelligence in her vapid dark eyes, the glossy lips, the soft words slipping off her tongue in a relentless, unceasing confession. |
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It's pretty vapid stuff from the man whom we were all told was the future. |
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The whole exercise is so intellectually vapid the result is meaningless. |
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These, Denny, are empty and vapid slogans because those who use them are destitute of any imagination or feeling of what such greed, racism or imperialism is like. |
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Diary posits her as a threat to the insularity of the Monteils and their vapid way of life, a threat Moreau coolly limns in one of her most nuanced, restrained performances. |
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I will hound that poor excuse of a human being until he yells uncle or stops posting vapid, unproven horse nonsense that all of you seem to believe. |
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By now, you would think that journalists should have tired of giving their vapid ideas yet another platform. |
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You pretty much can't get a better absurdist parody of politicians' vapid sure-is-nice-to-be-here patter than that. |
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The steak turned out to be a featureless sliced fillet, and my order of halibut wrapped in hoja santa leaves was steamed into a state of vapid mushiness. |
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All this does is reinforce my impression of the fashion industry as one filled with vapid, self-centered, bougie hipsters who think they're artists. |
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Wilson's interpretations of her work, however, are often vapid. |
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These vapid pseudo intellectuals are the problem with today's law schools. |
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She may be illiterate and vapid, but next to him, she's a regular idiot savant marketing genius who cashed in on her B-list celebrity the moment it was about to expire. |
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Hers was a metempsychosis of novelty, her mind a vapid thing until animated by the next absolute conviction. |
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This life is vapid, this world is dirty, and yet the bad go forward. |
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Suddenly a vapid, idiotic smile plays across our mouths. |
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Most children in their teens are mature enough to help in family planning, and when they are allowed to do so they are not likely to grow into infantile and vapid adults. |
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In fact, it is vapid in terms of what it is trying to do. |
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Rolling over to President Bush was a much too rapid and vapid turnaround. |
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She is too vapid and immature to pull off something really seductive. |
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The danger is that celebrity-backed projects can be as vapid as fame itself – and nowhere has the spectacle of political celebrity commingling with disaster become as overt as in Haiti. |
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The constitutional change, if enacted, will simply extend marriage equality to same-sex couples: adoption and surrogacy laws are completely unaffected and it is vapid in the extreme to invoke them. |
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Grand language wrapped around a thin message produces only vapid blather. |
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Today's worst programmes should be measured not against the best products of yesteryear but the worst: so slackly plotted, vapid and slow-moving that they are now almost unwatchable. |
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The US president has proved unwilling or unable to do so, with the result that the G7 leaders meet, issue a vapid communiqué, and hotfoot it back to the airport as fast they can. |
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Abstract theories, vapid simplifications, and political partisanship increasingly becloud its basic significations and hinder its full expression. |
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It's a vapid Terms Of Estrangement, played out to ukelele folk songs. |
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