Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Weeping Women of those years, but out of kilter all the same, with staring eyes, figure-eight nostrils flared as though in suppressed fright, and strange asymmetries of form around the nose and brow. Compared with it, Impressionism began to look somewhat easy and even insipid to the fast-learning Wynn, and he started to buy more modern work--Picassos especially. He also began to cast a covetous eye on American art, scooping up (among other things) a great and gritty De Kooning, Police Gazette, 1955, along with several later De Koonings, a fine and rare early Flag painting...
When did you last make it through a day without wanting to choke one of the following: a cabbie, a telemarketer, the idiot driver in the next lane, the repairman who showed up three hours late, the people who control Internet access, all airline executives, a meter maid, some insipid bureaucrat, one of Larry King's guests or King himself...
Burne-Jones' girls have often been ridiculed for their insipid and standardized look, but they have a way of breaking out into an obsessional character--as La Belle Dame Sans Merci. One of his best friends was Algernon Charles Swinburne, the English poet who was a votary of sadomasochism; and time and again, Burne-Jones' haughty damsels with their downturned mouths and leonine manes suggest the imperious sex goddesses of Swinburne's imagination, such as Dolores, with her "cruel/ Red mouth like a venomous flower...
...admire his humility in confessing that America has done wrong, conservatives have leapt ignobly to attack Clinton's expression of error and shun blame for what was among the most heinous crimes this country has ever committed. And they have managed to come up with a bevy of insipid excuses for their petty outrage...
Harvard had a similarly uninspired performance last year against Dartmouth and were not so lucky, falling 14-13. They were fortunate to face a Yale team which was insipid offensively all day, firing a barrage of weak shots and never really threatening...