insipidness

A trashy soap opera insipidness overwhelms what might have been an intriguing action series.

I saw beyond the timidity, saw through the practiced dullness and the mask of insipidness.

Insipidness just won't do.

She was more than bored, she was nigh on moronic with the insipidness of the ton.

A sentimentality and insipidness creep into the bouquets of perfect flowers, with now and then a dewdrop as an appeal perhaps to the common collector.

A casserole of peas, spring onions and bone marrow that accompanied a pro-forma steak also defied its ingredients to achieve insipidness.

If the critics recognized an insipidness in Esther's expression-one journalist complained "But why that elongated figure, those wild eyes, that savage look?

Mr. Leconte has boiled the hyperactive, florid insipidness of his film "Ridicule" and lovingly highlighted Manesquier with a few brush strokes of it.

This changed when he wrote a letter to The Argosy, a pulp magazine, complaining about the insipidness of the love stories of one of the publication's writers, Fred Jackson.

"Why, yes, Your Insipidness," Snarks stammered, "here to--urn--" "I thought as much, Plaugg replied proudly.

The symmetry is overly pat, and this production has its moments of anachronistic insipidness, but, in the Hallmark tradition, "April Morning" has been brought to television with reasonable care and intelligence.

The Sunday Times criticized the music's "insistent straining for a crossover, pop-coloured sheen", writing that it "mires much of the album in insipidness, coating stale braggadocio (without, mostly, any compensating humour)."

Kyle Reiter of Pitchfork Media said that the album "meanders from one song to the next with an overwhelming insipidness," and stated that it "[brings] them ever closer to homogenous bar-band territory."

The blight of '87 is not media cowardice, record companies asleep at the wheel, callous insipidness, the return of rock, incoherence, a lack of great songs, but rather, a surfeit of PASSION.

Goofy words (check out the great songs of the Beatles or the Rolling Stones) will often do fine as long as the chorus phrase is right and the other lyrics don't break the mood or cross over some line of insipidness or absurdity.

Even if there were anything new to reveal about things like the insipidness of Hollywood storytelling, the cynicism of studio executives and the exaltation of celebrity, I, for one, would be willing to forgo being exposed to this new knowledge if it meant that writers would be exploring other subjects and settings instead.