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Fans willing to overlook the obvious vapidity of director Rob Reiner, a hostile Democrat-progressive zealot, prove that some conservatives are bamboozled by liberalism’s kindly pretense.
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Armond White, National Review, 21 Feb. 2024
After all, its themes, centered on the emptiness of power — and the vapidity of those who seek to be close to it — are timeless, especially in this city.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
The satirist Jonathan Swift, for example, took aim at the vapidity of upper-class banter in his 1738 treatise A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation.
—Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
Margot Robbie is great as an increasingly multidimensional Barbie, just as good at playing plastic vapidity as burgeoning intelligence and self-awareness.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2023
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Armond White, National Review, 21 Feb. 2024
After all, its themes, centered on the emptiness of power — and the vapidity of those who seek to be close to it — are timeless, especially in this city.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
The satirist Jonathan Swift, for example, took aim at the vapidity of upper-class banter in his 1738 treatise A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation.
—Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
Margot Robbie is great as an increasingly multidimensional Barbie, just as good at playing plastic vapidity as burgeoning intelligence and self-awareness.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2023
See all Example Sentences for vapidity
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“Vapidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vapidity. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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