Sentences with word «vapidity»

But Ines's lexicon is clotted with vapidities of another kind, corporate - speak untranslated from English — the lingua franca of neoliberalism — in discussions otherwise conducted in German (or occasionally Romanian): performance, outsourcing, steering committee, comfort zone.

This article is so riddled with vapidity it makes me want to vomit.

These are pictures that generously invite your laughter with their Architectural Digest trappings, their soapy excesses and their all - too - keen awareness of their own vapidity.

Yet Percy spent much of his early manhood seeking to escape what was stultifying in the humanism of his Uncle Will — seeking not so much to repudiate it as to overcome its theological vapidity.

Even as a work of harmless vapidity, G.C.B. has a difficult time enlivening its oversimplified premise.

Jen is easy to root for despite the establishment of her perceived vapidity.

Flattering Bret Easton Ellis's stone - cold satire with a devilish Christian Bale performance and scalpel - sharp period detail, Mary Harron's thriller is close to peerless as a picture of»80s - era vapidity and entitlement.

They may believe in truth, decency and the sanctity of the National Health Service, but no opportunity is too small, it seems, for these people to expose their fundamental moral complacency, their intellectual vapidity and their surprising capacity for emotional and physical violence.

Vapidity loves company.

While he can certainly visualize vapidity, he wants so terribly to talk about it, too.

His latest directorial effort fails as a historical work of art, but succeeds in the extreme in showcasing A-list celeb vapidity.

hilarious cameos by Laura Linney as Susan's socialite mother (wearing a pearl necklace that would give Barbara Bush pause), Michael Sheen as a pretentious prig who seems here mainly to model a killer leprechaun - green coat, and the great Jena Malone as an L.A. museum board member whose vapidity is so pronounced it's practically endearing.

This still - prescient vivisection of modern culture's vapidity crackles with the nervous energy of midtown's hothouse broadcasters.

Pretty teens, fighting the mental vapidity that their surgery has caused, try to reclaim ownership of their minds and bodies by purposely cutting themselves.

There needs to be less celebrity fawning - leave that cliche exercise in gauche vapidity to the Academy Awards - and more in the way of familiarization tours for filmmakers and VIPs, screenings in nontraditional venues, wine - tastings ala Sideways (which my Omaha Creighton Prep compadre Alexander Payne set in the nearby Santa Ynez Valley), plus a smorgasbord of the best in organic meat, wine and produce that the bountiful Santa Barbara region has to offer.

«Cosseted vapidity» is one of the kinder accusations levelled by the critics at this year's selection.

The rank vapidity and ignorance are absolutely appalling, especially from a bunch of people who think of themselves as intellectually superior.

And Jesse is a female protagonist with surprising agency — she owns her own vapidity and limited talents, and asserts her right to be both expressly sexual and chaste.

Suffused with vapidity, the doc somehow finds its way to an unexpected sadness and maybe something deeper and cautionary.

Reflecting on these frequent gatherings in hindsight, Roiphe finally sees their vapidity:

On Tuesday the Mail decided that Jacqui Smith wasn't up to the job: How sad in these deeply worrying times that we are saddled instead with the vapidity of Home Secretary Smith.

It was an hour of vacuity and vapidity.

Meant to celebrate innovation and entrepreneurial can - do spirit, Quirky instead eerily reflects the vapidity of the American economy and employment picture, where ideas trump labor and success is measured by top - level paydays instead of actual toil.

Snappy dialogue and spiffy performances aside, Barry Sonnenfeld's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's «Get Shorty» almost buckles under the force of its own incomprehensible plotting and vapidity.

Limited by the vapidity of this material while he trims its excesses with the requisite machete, Mr. Eastwood locates a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self - congratulatory overkill.

«Zoolander» — Ben Stiller's funniest film, chomping at fashion's vanity and vapidity — concludes Nick Rogers» daily look back at the 365 best films of 2000 - 2009.

Live by Night is a lavish production, and yet its opulence unintentionally reveals its vapidity.

The plan is to use horror elements to illuminate the dark corners of a world where one's looks are everything, but Refn's idea of how to criticize vapidity is to adopt that vapidity voraciously, as if making a vapid movie about vapid people is some form of vapidly vamped verisimilitude.

For a thought - provoking and disturbingly real insight into the vapidity of modern politics, this wins my vote, hands down.

The vapidity of the exercise would be unremarkable if everyone clearly understood that these filings are the kind of pointless, paper exercise demanded by 21st century bureaucracy, and that the only thing that matters is what states and districts actually do after they've submitted their plans.

They are not especially good teaching tools, due to their vapidity; they are incapable of inspiring intellectual curiosity or awakening genuine interest.

And to double down on its vapidity, it quotes Joss Wheadon, probably one of the most untalented writers to pollute the public space.

None of that's in Escape, leaving us stuck with just another shallow zombie hack n» slash — one that's especially remarkable in its vapidity.

The late work stands accused of vapidity, senility, and assistants.

, at the innovative Mixografia studio, Analia Saban breathes new life into plastic grocery bags while highlighting their vapidity as...

To contemporary eyes, their pictorial strength is so self - evident, so enduringly fresh, you have to chuckle at those pundits who a half - century ago deemed Post Painterly Abstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» on the other.

A movie about an increasingly taboo subject in this vapidity - worshipping society of ours: Mastery.

Robinson the critic coined the very apt and funny phrase «Zombie Formalism,» while making salient points about the vapidity of art made for the speculative market.The Post-Pop imagery that established Robinson's reputation is both affectionate and funny.