As the autumnal sky, though it appears bright and clear to the naked eye, has yet the flimsy clouds flying over it, so the picture drawn over the plane of the inane mind, presents the figures of our fancied objects in it.
Know the mind to be moreinane and rarefied than the empty air, and it is upon that basis the painter of the intellect, has drawn the picture of this immense universe.
It is this reflexion of the universe, but all as empty as this inane vacuity.
At last the elephant fell down into a hollow pit, which was as deep and dry as the dried bed of a gulf; as a man falls into the profound and inane ocean of this world, which is overcast by an impervious darkness around.
Thus the world appears as a city in dream before the intellectual soul, and this soul is only a form of the inane intellect, and this world is but a baseless fabric.
The unreal or negative idea of ignorance, has also a form, as inane as it is nothing; look at her and she becomes a nullity, touch her and she perishes and vanishes from sight.
Whence comes this unsubstantial egoism in the manner of an inane ghost, and takes possession of the inner body under the name of the mind, is what the learned are at a loss to explain.
There was nothing in the least inane or parrot-like about her conversation.
She was maundering over to herself the silly words of some inane song of the day.
In wild and inane ideas of the same strain, indulged these two youths!
Perhaps the most inane thing ever put forth in the name of literature is the so-called domestic novel, an indigestible, culinary sort of product, that might be named the doughnut of fiction.
The lower-grade books are commonly inane (I will not say childish, for that is a libel on the open minds of children) beyond description.
You are too intelligent to find pleasure in Society's inane pastimes.
What an infinite monotony of existence for the poor old creatures to endure for ever--being bored by their own inane personalities for a million aeons!
And Lady Hilda felt that that was a triumph which far outweighed any number of inane compliments from a whole regiment of simpering Algies, Monties, and Berties.
And I can do nothing to turn aside this fatality--stupid inane old man that I am!
He raised hisinane face, and fixed his dull eye on the lady superior; but he made no reply.
We took transient superficial Semblance for everlasting central Substance; we have departed far away from the Laws of this Universe, and behold now lawless Chaos and inane Chimera is ready to devour us!
Before that inane tumult of Hearsay filled men's heads, while the world lay yet silent, and the heart true and open, many things were Worship!
Even gossip, springing free and cheery from a human heart, this too is a kind of veracity and speech;--much preferable to pedantry and inane gray haze!
All was inanediscord in the Past; brute Force bore rule everywhere; Stupidity, savage Unreason, fitter for Bedlam than for a human World!
He is delivered from solitude, theinane of speculation, the vagueness of idealism, and made one with the band of his toiling fellows.
As my neighbour sat down, he turned to me with an inane smile which occupied all his face.
They stood in inane suspense till Bresnahan led them out, rumbling, "How about planning a fishing-trip, Will?
Wollaston said something, and Maria laughed an inane little giggle which was still musical, and trilled through the car.
Still there was something about the foolish young faces and the inanechatter and laughter which was sweet and even appealing.
Nor did it manage to accomplish any work whatever, even then; the most inane of Human Congresses; and memorable on that account, if on no other.
Titular King of Men; but much bewildered into mere indolent fatuity, inane solemnity, high sniffing pride grounded on nothing at all; a Kaiser much sunk in the sediments of his muddy Epoch.
More inane Congress never met in this world, nor will meet.
Dan uttered some inane platitude, but his eyes lighted with relief.
O'Neil entered the ladies' parlor with a feeling of extreme annoyance, expecting to meet an inquisitive, bold young woman bent upon exploiting his plans and his personality in the usual inane journalistic fashion.
No matter how inane a man may be, so inane that a thimble would hold his soul, nevertheless he has one hour of intoxication to give you, one hour in which all the bells chime and even the spheres make their heavenly music.
Vegetate among inane festivities, in a sort of doze, or walk the streets when driven by disgust and boredom?
