Word: insipidness
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...When his mother died, her place in the gloomy Beyle home at Grenoble was filled by insipid maiden aunts and didactic priests and governesses. Young Henri's life was soon charged with the ideas and feelings that persisted until the day he died-a horror of the established order in family, church and state, and an insatiable appetite for romantic passion...
...despite brave attempts at a Yale game and a pre-war atmosphere, Harvard College was almost as insipid and hollow a place during the fall term as it had been from 1943 on. The turning point came on the warm autumn day of Friday, February 1, when 1200 veterans, new Harvardmen and old, marched through Memorial Hall, bought their combined SERVICE NEWS-CRIMSON subscriptions, and added new flavor to a stale Cantab brew...
...often the movie makers fail to leave well enough alone. One of their favorite tricks is to buy up a good novel-at a fancy price-and with the aid of bad acting, poor casting, and insipid directing, turn out a sixth rate flop. Happily, "The Song of Bernadette" seems to be a sign of better times...
...music, humor, and color. Leonard Levinson's flimsy book was rescued to some extent by the lively and semi-original three-quarter time music of Robert Stolz, who conducted a well-trained and inspired orchestra. It was, however, the superb coloratura soprano of Virginia MacWatters which turned the otherwise insipid show into what might well...
...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...