Word: vapidly
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...could be an oddly clumsy one in some details of the human body--though he excelled in virtuoso rendering of inanimate objects, catching the moony sheen of pearls or the precise tautness of a viol's catgut strings. As an analyst of human character, he was quite vapid compared with Rembrandt or Frans Hals...
Motel Blues is a series of episodes in the lives of photographer Jarred (Jay Heath) and his vapid girlfriend Flee (Angelina Zappia), who have travelled to a remote rat-trap hotel in the desert so that Jarred can complete a project. It quickly becomes clear, however, that their relationship is strained and distrustful; the ugly monotony of their surroundings matches the emptiness of their bizarre conversations The strain is increased by Jarred's evident contempt for Flee's favorite activities, reading fashion magazines and eating junk food...
...applaud you for your insightful report on how trader Nicholas Leeson single-handedly brought down Barings, the venerable London-based investment bank [Cover Story, March 13]. You captured the vapid and temporal nature of expatriate high life in Singapore, of which Leeson was a part. Managers of companies dealing in the most sophisticated and arcane financial instruments have to master Basic Management 101. Unless they rein in their employees, another debacle of Barings' magnitude could occur in the near future. Financial regulators should be even stricter in the wake of the disasters associated with derivatives. However, responsibility for the misguided...
...Wuthering Heights? It's the same twentysomething age group, but these actresses had more than faces. They were riper, more mature, more compelling and light-years ahead in performance power. Jean Harlow in any of her 1930s flicks on video is a greater presence than all of today's vapid players put together. There's a reason it's called the Golden...
...rhetoric of Parliament and of private life is extremely successful in "The Madness of King George." Bennett's script far surpasses in quality and density most other attempts at filmic eloquence. In comparison, Hollywood looks doubly vapid, and Kieslowski-type efforts seem anemic...