inanity
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All this inanity takes place over the course of a handful of days, during which no one ever seems to change clothes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
Setting aside the inanity of accusing a Jewish senator—who lost family members in the Holocaust—of antisemitism, Vietor volunteered an analysis that would’ve been unimaginable on previous iterations of the podcast.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025
But this film is not special, and like its shallow characters, it is persistently unaware of its own inanity.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
What makes me grumpy these days is less the market than the hokum and inanity that would-be experts are using to calm investors right now.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
Although neophyte writers may repeat a simple sentence structure to the point of inanity, most writers go to the opposite extreme and vary their syntax capriciously.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
The saga that has ensued is a window into the inanities that today govern the $19 billion industry known as college sports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
They misquoted him to his face, misrepresented his work, and spouted cocksure inanities showing with every word that, scientifically speaking, they have no idea what they’re talking about.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
Comedian Megan Stalter plays the office manager Isobel, and Lambert weaponizes Stalter’s preternatural ability to spew a steady stream of absurd workplace inanities.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
He narrates his reporting, mumbling inanities like “A Sabbath silence brooded over the mire.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
But she was miserably nervous too, incapable of stepping around the inanities.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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