How to Use inanity in a Sentence

inanity

noun

• In such a realm, the tenet that no one is above the law is a mere platitude, if not an inanity.
  — Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
• But this is not the kind of show that deserves acclaim for its inanity.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
• Consider yourselves warned—and feel free to laugh at the inanity of it all.
  — Wired, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• But that does not make this inanity of this song forgivable.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• Bloom, as ever, is quick to point out the inanity of the idea that everyone has to be in-person just because.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
• The over-all direction of Musk’s changes hasn’t been too surprising, but the magnitude of the shift—the sheer inanity of it—still shocks me.
  — Sheon Han, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• Zone Out's script, just like Sunspring's, teeters on the edge of inanity and emotion—which, honestly, puts it right up there with the best of the sci-fi canon.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 11 June 2018
• That’s saying a lot, since The Office was an ode to the crushing boredom and inanity of many white collar workplaces.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 12 May 2022
• My first book was designed to expose the inanity of those, and other, arguments.
  — Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2017
• The applause and the tears were part of a mutual liberation from an inanity.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Apr. 2022
• Class disparity was chasmic, inflation had reached a point of inanity and the country seemed to hang its head in shame.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• And Murphy restrains himself from abusing it with the kind of baroque inanity that makes so many of his recent shows so exhausting.
  — Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• The novel sustains this tone for so long that the reader must scramble to adjust when the lacquer of inanity cracks and all-consuming sorrow pours forth.
  — Jackie Thomas-Kennedy Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• Of course, what happens instead is a dazzling parade of moneyed inanity.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• Listen to the whole thing to fully appreciate its inanity.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2013
• As Benoist's newspaper reporter Sadie and her colleagues type up the scandalous scoops from their candidate's bus, I was struck by the inanity of the whole exercise.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• On the other hand, there's Utah: a bastion of inanity, where that ol timey sagebrush mentality never dies.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2010
• Forcing them to repeat themselves should prompt them to recognize their own inanity, if not their rudeness.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 5 June 2019
• For those who worry that the inconsistency and inanity of the roughing the passer calls will somehow damage the game, or cause people to stop watching, please.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
• Besides these inanities, the film also elides or ignores key questions about Pavarotti’s career.
  — Philip Kennicott, Twin Cities, 14 June 2019
• Snickers The candy bar, making its sixth appearance in the Super Bowl in the past decade, takes a tongue-in-cheek approach by showing the inanities of modern life through a musical number.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2020
• The only thing the White House seems liable to do with any regularity is to dilute its inanity with incompetence.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 2 Oct. 2017
• The Crew 2 doesn’t even have fun with the inanity inherent in chasing nonspecific social media presence points.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 10 July 2018
• His targets — the self-regarding follies of the uber-rich, the inanity of social media, beauty as currency — are so broad and shiny that the occasional dip feels almost inevitable.
  — Leah Greenblatt and Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2022
• The Dolphins escaped this particular inanity without giving up a point, but Waddle collected his punt muff, possessed the ball, tucked the ball and then had an elbow down before the ball came free again.
  — Steve Svekis, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2021
• Their Imelda is a victim of poverty and mistreatment, dim despite her cunning and innocent by reason of inanity.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• Despite the unending heaviness of world events, there is still room for inanity; delight doesn’t always need to feel indulgent, and art doesn’t need to be sombre or humorless.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Such moments of forthrightness land like information drops when layered between the ongoing inanity of Oakbeds.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
• For all the inanity, though, the prediction markets are generally quite accurate.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2022
• Conversely, Teixeira’s images nudge the viewer to consider the inanity of those projecting power, and the humanity of those subject to it.
  — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Sep 2024