What you call inanity is yet another demonstration of a subject you have no clue about. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference
A stern, deep voice which utters an egotistical inanity is still stern and deep (deep sounding, anyway). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Remembering Justice Stevens as a Boss] Reference
But what makes these letters rise above inanity is the portrait they provide of a wartime capital cut adrift from moral bearings. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Reading] Reference
If putting up with your inanity is one of the conditions of eternal life, I think I’ll take my chances with mortality. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks ‘Are You Going To Kill Me?’] Reference
Then he recalled the inanity and exacting requests of the great lady, and guessed how her reader was able to so boldly play his annoying trick. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Doesn't the DNC even try to prevent this kind of inanity?. From Wordnik.com. [08/24/2006] Reference
It's very easy to laugh at this kind of inanity (and insanity) that Melanie describes. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Here, one would have thought, is a worthy alternative to what Sam Leith refers to the "inanity" of much contemporary tv. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
Pours self evenings second Drambuie and smiles as 'inanity' fits crossword slot perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [How Now Brownpau] Reference
I fall into the same trains of thinking; except that I am more restless, more inclined to melancholy, to inaction, to a kind of inanity, which no trifling efforts can shake off. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
But that is an inanity, Miss Bell, and unworthy of me. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
He hardly knew what he answered — some incoherent inanity. From Wordnik.com. [The English Witch]
"A miss is as good as a mile," Mike said with cheerful inanity. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
I laughed out of sheer inanity; every pulse in my body was throbbing. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
Yet the inanity of the Spice Girls 'music belies their financial savvy. From Wordnik.com. [It's A Spice World. Again.] Reference
But Lee's fidgety score fought against the daffy inanity of the action. From Wordnik.com. [Tête à Tête festival] Reference
She replied to the Templar with an inanity she was not later to remember. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
And his gallant answer was interrupted by some inanity from Herr von Mark. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
"What's 'dead'?" asked Tony, with interest, putting off his mask of inanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Vaughan's lips, and the usual calm inanity on Miss Nugent's handsome features. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
As for the talk of ball-rooms, its silliness and inanity are almost proverbial. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
"Warm, isn't it?" he commented; and at that inanity Blue Jeans raised his head. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
Bassett is Bigelow's trademark figure of female power rising above male inanity. From Wordnik.com. [Apocalypse Soon] Reference
I mean, they just humiliate themselves with their -- their rambunctious inanity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009] Reference
DiaryLand contact random entry other diaries: bard inanity kare2bme kaellynn chlemmy. From Wordnik.com. [Nope, none at all.] Reference
But today, a U.S. District Court judge dismissed that policy as "breathtaking inanity.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2005] Reference
A few more years of infirmity, inanity and pain must consign him to idiocy or the grave. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
He also says that the decision of the school board in Dover was one of breathtaking inanity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2005] Reference
Deign to let the matter rest there, and not pursue him into the inanity, the nothingness of Nirvana. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
A Republican-appointed judge described the school board's creationist effort as "breathtaking inanity.". From Wordnik.com. [God Bless Me, It's a Best-Seller!] Reference
"How could I divine an inanity in connection with you?" she answered, and her eyes underlined her words. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
Shakespeare amiably displays the inanity of it all, in recollection no doubt of his own school days in Stratford. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Even the music of Zarathustra, even the song of the sirens, was being drowned by the bellowing inanity of the present. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Ladder]
The pittites, affronted at the extreme puerility of some of the incidents, and the inanity of all the dialogue, hissed. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841] Reference
Will Americans respond or will we settle back, beer in hand, and enjoy the remainder of the NFL season or some other such inanity?. From Wordnik.com. [Cheney's Cheney Under Indictment] Reference
Thought is not power; success is power, and successful inanity is in power — there as here, but with arsenals of weapons to back it. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Ladder]
Frivolity so extreme as they were required to represent demands the utmost nicety of colouring to rescue it from silliness and inanity. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841] Reference
Rather like her first poem, "Any Porch," much of Mrs. Parker's story is overheard dialogue, made up of mingled inanity and condescension. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel in Evening Clothes] Reference
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