vapidity

Example Sentences

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But no one before or since has fallen into paroxysms of indignant rage over the alleged vapidity of middlebrow cultural efforts quite like Macdonald.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

She is psychologically complex, straddling both beautiful sincerity and utter vapidity.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

The band — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John “Bonzo” Bonham — epitomized either the dreamy idealism of the ’60s or the bloated vapidity of the ’70s.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2021

Always gorgeous and elegantly dressed — her husband, Ralph, describes her face when in society as “like a theatre with all the lustres blazing” — Undine is nevertheless limited by her vapidity.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2021

There was a certain vapidity to her reassurance, an automatic way of expressing goodwill, which did not require any concrete efforts on her part to help him.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie