Word: vapid
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...relation to them, to give an intelligible and tolerable picture of a world in which such things could occur." Wilson demonstrates that the novels are powerful and bitter social criticism; that the Dickens character gallery contains ever more pitiless portraits of Victorian archetypes: the mealymouthed, blood-squeezing merchant, the vapid doll, the turncoat self-made man, and the soul-destroying shrew; that Dickens progressed from social to psychological, almost metaphysical analysis, and at his death was writing into the schizoid murderer Mr. Jasper (in Edwin Drood} not only the last and most symbolically charged of his Victorian hypocrites...
...Last Night in the Old Home: a mixture of genuine and forced heartbreak which contains this line, spoken by a vapid, bitchy daughter: "That's the difficulty . . . there's nothing much they can do. Oh, mother is trying to rub out the places where we all used to be measured against the door...
Monster Grunts. Soviet Russia, vapid monster in the East, emitted troubled grunts but nothing more. Four times her minister in Bucharest called at the Foreign Office to protest. First against the "atti tude, of the Rumanian press," then the "campaign labeling all Rumanian criminals as Communists," then the "general unfriendly Rumanian attitude." On his fourth visit he demanded that impotent Rumania explain the presence of the in creasing Nazi hordes and give an immediate answer to his other protests. Reports that 30 crack Soviet divisions had ar rived in Bessarabia to counter Hitler's Army, and that the region...
...union of a vapid play and a cast that, with one marked exception, runs the entire gamut from indifferent to very bad is an unfortunate one. If "Boyd's Shop," the Copley's first play this season, lasted only two nights on Broadway, "Return Engagement" had better prepare to go to bed right here in Beantown...
...countrymen, the Russians, have produced so much musical genius this century. It certainly is Toscanini's bad luck that his own countrymen, the Russians, have produced so much musical genius this century. It certainly is Toscanini's bad luck that twentieth-century Italian music has been the flat vapid stuff it has been, but that doesn't justify his perversity in cluttering up programs with it when there is really great modern music to be played. And John Barbirolli, who has no other axe to grind but the Enigma Variations and an occasional Delius prelude, persists in offering the dryest...