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Перевод: inanity

[существительное]
пустота ; бессодержательность ; бессмысленность ; глупость

Тезаурус:

1. She replies with suitable inanity.
2. Next time you come up with a hypothetical outer limit of inanity, better check with Washington before publishing; it may already be in effect.
3. The insanity or inanity of Trent's shouted enquiry snapped Mariana out of her trance.
4. It is still with a sense of amazement at the flights of human inanity that Ruth Michaelis relates the experience of her brother Martin, who found himself in serious trouble with his foster family:
5. In comparison to the way in which fraud, obfuscation and inanity have been able to hold out in other fields - from politics and religion to scholarship and law - it is an impressive record.
6. A passage from Eliot's 1923 "London Letter" in appreciation of Marie Lloyd, shows several of the ideas discussed above: fatal degeneration of the necessary participation in cultural actions, the inanity of modern life, and the uniting of city and savage.
7. The borders of inanity
8. Vic Brown in John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving (1962) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage, while Billy Liar in the same director's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London.
9. For a moment balanced against London's distracting inanity are the equally distracting primitive rituals now seen as inane because sundered from the Word:
10. To myopic Karen my world was a featureless, threatening blur, while for me hers was a chaos of microscopic inanity.
11. His exposing of the inanity and hideousness for his own time of the rites which underlay Sweeney Agonistes only helped confirm his choice of the only religion whose rituals seemed open and potent to him.
12. Probably the most important effect of his reading of Joyce was to make him all the more aware of the possibilities of his anthropological reading, especially when applied to modern city life in the context of inanity or death: city life was filled with fatal torpor and Eliot described London as shrivelling, like an aged little bookkeeper.
13. Hearing U2 interrupt the relentless flow of smoothly shaped pop bullets and the marble-in-throat inanity of the big hearted DJ, the true extent of their indigenous task becomes clearer.