Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believes with Stanford's Elton Trueblood (The Invention of America) that "the invention of America was more .important than the discovery of America." His purpose is to reconstruct the thought of the Puritans, to show its embodiment in American institutions, American government, American democracy. If writing can be "insipid with veracity," he says, "I am willing to be as insipid as necessary in order to be as veracious as possible. ... It is part of my purpose to rebuke cynics and satirists, but in so doing I cannot hope to be equally entertaining...
Charming monster with insipid eyes that...
Last night, after much ado in the Boston papers, "Lassie Come Home" arrived at the Loew's State and Orpheum theatres. Surprising as it may seem after reading the rather insipid advertisements, the picture is one of the finest to come out of MGM in recent years. It ranks, as the ads have said, with "Random Harvest" and "Mrs. Miniver." But, instead of the case being "great books make great pictures," it is a situation where the acting of a collie has made an overly-sentimental book into a really touching picture...
...horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper ($10,000) prize novel, Journey in the Dark ($2.75), described the degrees by which social success disillusioned a social climber. William Saroyan's The Human Comedy ($2.75), lit with occasional passages of warm humor, became insipid with its determined intellectual baby talk...
...lexicon of Brillat-Savarin, world-renowned gourmet, there is no such word as grits,* But in the U.S. South, from plantation mansion to tenant shack, grits has been part of a way of life for generations. Many Southerners eat grits with every meal, few understand why Yankees find it insipid...