Word: vapid
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...loathe you firstly, Core Curriculum, because you know not who you are. Once you were a Christian education, then a liberal and general education, and now you are assorted “modes of inquiry”—a term that would be vapid even if it delivered on its promised goods. Is it not baneful that you, Core, are telling lies, that your “approaches to knowledge” exist in name only, that your pedagogy is a ruse which keeps asunder the rigor of departmental courses and the silliness of your look-alikes...
...hardly needs graphic sex to be entertained—Jane Austen remains wildly popular, after all. A good writer’s illuminating prose and tense plot set-ups would be more than adequate substitutes for detailed bedroom scenes. But Krinsky’s vapid characters are so irritating that halfway through, the reader might begin praying for them to start randomly coupling. The most provocative parts of “Chloe” are its slightly altered chapter-ending reprints of Krinsky’s actual “Sex and the (Elm) City” columns (now bylined...
...This is campaigning, not governing. Labour hired the hall and plastered its windows with its vapid campaign slogan, forward not back. Blair gets friendly applause as he enters but soon faces tough questions. "On Iraq, I think the whole thing was wrong. I've never been convinced of your motivation," says the first man he meets. Blair deploys his usual answers: "Look at the hope Iraqis now have for their own country. The effect on peace and security throughout the Middle East could be very, very big." But he fails to make a convert. "I hope you're right...
Dartboard is reminded of Robert Reich’s criticism of President Clinton’s second term reelection strategy, which was equally vapid and mandate-free. Rather than asking the electorate to consider a course of action on anything of importance, he chose to make light of tiny “focus group”-tested issues like v-chips and the Internet. Once elected with no real second-term agenda, he had nothing with which to lobby congress...
...users—had claimed that they lacked the imagination to amuse themselves, had sighed pointedly whenever I heard the “William Tell Overture” echo through a lecture hall, had felt terribly deep and morally superior whenever, out walking, I had heard half of a vapid conversation punctuated by demands to talk louder. And now I find myself listening for “Silver Bells...