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Перевод: inane

[прилагательное]
глупый; пустой; бессмысленный; бессодержательный;
[существительное]
пустота ; пустое пространство
[существительное]

Тезаурус:

1. As dinner was being served, Chopin's nocturnes and polonaises were included as a tasteful background to incessant, and sometimes inane, chatter.
2. A subjective camera, filming through goggles, picks out the inane faces and soundless mouths of his elders as he descends to the bottom of the pool where he stands silently and alone, away from the pestering people above.
3. As with the living dead of The Waste Land's London and the inane savages of its "mudcracked houses", so in "East Coker" the primitive rituals of the countryside and the (essentially commercial) life of the city and City both point only towards death.
4. As it is used in the draft poem it seems to imply that not only are the decadent versions of primitive sexual rituals inane, the god dead and impotent, however passionate the rituals of his worship, but that even the ultimate act of martyrdom is a sexual indulgence.
5. Eliot's witty 1918 truncation of an Arnoldian phrase prefigures the Hollow Men's predicament; Clive Bell, "lingering between two worlds, one dead", has the vice of inane mediocrity, incapable of "icy inviolability, or violent fury".
6. For a moment balanced against London's distracting inanity are the equally distracting primitive rituals now seen as inane because sundered from the Word:
7. Certainly "death's other kingdom" (my italics) suggests that the speakers' inane life is only another form of death.
8. "The First Amendment guarantees that every citizen, organisation and news agency has the right to express an opinion about science, even if it is untenable or inane".
9. The machines find them, or anyway, enough of them, so that the computers can often win despite an intrinsic quality of play that is so inane as to be comic, as is readily apparent when two computers play each other.
10. The thunder ritual, which might offer salvation, is deeply suspect, potentially inane.
11. In the time following The Waste Land he saw the world despairingly, in terms of inane, savage horror.
12. In fact, there's no end to the things that irritate me about television news - the inane scripts, for one.
13. I can't draw in other people's styles, and I turned out particularly inane Mickey Mice.