Word: vapidly
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LOLDan: "She knows ... that I know ... that Scott is ... [extra pause for added emphasis] your brother." Cue horrible acting and vapid gape. I R UR BROTHER...
...Being assaulted by an idol may be far-fetched, but the surreal conflict presents the familiar challenge of balancing one’s personal loyalties. The rest of the characters serve primarily as sources of advice and criticism for Paul. His brother is an ambulance-chasing lawyer with a vapid trophy wife, his friend Sal only encourages his rabid fandom, and his mother has long since given up attempting to make him to do anything with his life. While these characters are realistic archetypes, each one performs a single function and never deviates from that purpose. (As Philadelphia Phil, Rapaport...
...School of the Arts, where she would have majored in theater. But at her parents’ urging, she remained at Harvard. “I think it actually would have killed me to go to a conservatory where everyone’s just being snotty and competitive and vapid,” she says. “The students here are really serious about theater, but they also have serious opinions on politics and all those other fields. It has made me a fuller person than I would have been. I guess the thing is, I don?...
...life danger” on the screen. In fact, while Thurber keeps the mob at a considerable distance (we don’t know, for example, why Cleveland is involved), he relies on its existence to compensate for the poorly developed elements of the flaccid plot. If Art is vapid, it is because he lives in the shadow of a gangster; a scene with a pistol juxtaposes cheerful bonding in the hope that cliché plus cliché might make some real life. Acting does not add complexity to the situation. Granted, the actors are not given much...
...existing regulatory environment. Plus, not all deregulation is created equal: The poor accounting standards that led to the Enron scandal have nothing to do with the lax supervision of securities that resulted in the current crisis. Still, revisionists continue to lump tax cuts in with lax oversight in their vapid judgments of Bush...