Word: insipid
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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...
...bands, but more notably, there are new vocalists. Before, G. Love recorded exclusively with the Special Sauce--drummer Jeff Clemens and bassist Jimmy Prescott but on this album, the All Fellas Band has a large presence as well. G. Love's collaborations with the latter band, marked by the insipid rapping of vocalists Katman and Smiles, are the least successful performances on the album. Irrelevant lyrics make things worse: the content of songs such as "Lay Down The Law" and "1-76" (which refer to a personal acquaintance and G. Love's hometown Philadelphia, respectively) will mean nothing to most...