Word: vapidly
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...cocktail party is an unlikely place to look for spirituality. Yet Eliot's Cock tall Party was a veritable Communion of Saints. His apparently vapid men and flighty women all proved to be in quest of a kind of ideal love. Those with a low spiritual potential learned resignation to their far-from-ideal human loves, while Celia, who was more gifted, saved her life by losing it. In finding saints at cocktail parties Eliot is perfectly in line with primitive Christianity which teaches that the truly good man will not be recognized by any visible piety. Christ...
Here's a ready and vapid cure...
Clash by Night (Wald-Krasna; RKO Radio) is a vapid variation on the old triangle. Based on Clifford Odets' 1941 play about a Staten Island husband who kills his wife's lover, the picture adds a sunshiny ending, a Pacific-coast fishing-town setting, and some fishy dramatics...
Thomas refused to go through the ordeal of answering audience questions. Why? Because, he said, they always follow the same vapid pattern: "Are the young English poets really psychological?", or "I always carry Kierkegaard in my pocket. What do you carry...
...finds it almost impossible to paint a dull picture, contributed an old one instead. His Night Conference, like Hirsch's Nine Men, was a standout at last year's Carnegie exhibition and also at the Met. Andrew Wyeth, generally the realest of the young realists, sent a vapid study of a curiously costumed boy on a bicycle adorned with a red, white & blue racoon tail. He called it Young America. Philip Evergood, who is as much concerned with social propaganda as he is with exercising his prodigious talent, showed a grim glance at Harlem entitled Sunny Side...