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Перевод: vapid

[прилагательное]
безвкусный; пресный; скучный; вялый; бессодержательный; плоский

Тезаурус:

1. Can't you see a reincarnated Grace lashing the Long Room with scorn and fury on hearing the vapid 68 words that purported to explain this summer's vilest scandal.
2. The sitter seems to have been one of the more vapid society cocottes who sat for Vigee-Lebrun.
3. Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable, others, however, assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party - the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped.
4. This last project is an embarrassingly inappropriate tribute to a man who could not identify any plants, trees or birds that he saw on his journeys except by such vapid statements as "big and little birds of all sorts", "trees very green", and "many trees very different from ours."
5. But in fact the whole fluffy, vapid confection is so resolutely unmemorable that it gives as much offence as a toothless poodle.
6. And in his definitive text the novelist voices social unsteadiness as empty groupings and vapid motions.
7. "You can't sell something on that basis because it's vacuous and vapid and would never sustain on a weekly basis.
8. Secondly, any training he had received would have been conventional or vapid, as a result of German supervision of art education.
9. By the middle and later 1960s, however, this "Cisalpine" theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one: modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd, but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich, Bishop Robinson's Honest to God and beyond.
10. An early (1909) pencil study of a woman's head, a coffer and apple brought 80,000 (44,400) (est. 60-;80,000) and a brilliant brush drawing of a female nude from 1920 85,000 (47,200) (est. 60-;80,000), both better buys, I thought, than a rather vapid pencil "Pierrot" (1918) that sold for 220,000 (122,200) (est. 100-;150,000).
11. The movie, however attracted such critique as "vapid mob voyeurism to which the movie pandered."
12. A newspaper campaign to prevent breeding by some of the substandard individuals with whom society is saddled would be much more to the point than vapid maunderings about the welfare of a child who has been endowed with an almost perfect inheritance, and is being given the best possible care!"
13. Leonard Bernstein's five-movement Serenade, inspired (if that is the word) by Plato's Symposium, is dreary in the extreme and dispiritingly derivative (sub-Stavinsky, sub-Copland, sub-Ives); and it is vapid to listen to.