As a matter of fact, Zeke, while he drank, lamented the insipidity of the draught, and sighed for a swig of moonshine to rout the chill in his veins with its fluid flames.
And winsomeness of form and bearing was crowned by the beauty of her face, in which the insipidity of regular features was redeemed by exquisite coloring of rose and white, and by the dusk brilliance of the eyes.
The insipidity which affronted Boz has no effect in stopping the demand for "the fireside plate.
In A Pop Gun (1860) there is a pathetically feeble engraving, after a drawing by Cruikshank of Prince Albert and the late Queen, which almost brings tears to the eyes, its insipidity is so loyally unconscious.
It is this insipidity of society that forces so many of its members upon desperate adventures of gallantry, and upon deep play.
It is naturally an unqualified panegyric upon her husband, redeemed frominsipidity by the conjugal affection and devotion which inspire it, and the elegant simplicity of the style.
When applied to sermons, the Wolffian method led to the most extreme insipidity and absurdity.
Bible, especially of the Old Testament, was not slow to point out the insipidity of its ordinary treatment.
Owing to his peculiar mode of thought, his addresses were not understood by the multitude; but thoughtful hearers at least conceded to him the merit of originality, which contrasted favorably with the insipidity of the Temple preachers.
In his eyes the followers of Friedlaender were the embodiment of insipidity and narrowness.
Madeleine was listening with patient courtesy to the meaningless nothings of the one lady, and the stereotyped insipidity of the other.
Such was the genius whom Nature had destined to establish art on elements, to open the realms of light and shade, to inspire the subject with its tone, and to poise expression between insipidity and caricature.
Tameness lies on this side of expression, grimace overleaps it; insipidityis the relative of folly, eccentricity of madness.
It is insipidity of the feelings that gives rise to sentimentality, as, when the tongue is disordered, we are always trying it.
The cure of that insipidity is to direct upon it the energy of an objective earnestness, a current of positive faith and love.
The flow of thought, the entire freedom from restraint, were of a character so pure that no insipidity or bitterness ever ensued, no ill humor was ever provoked.
Some twenty years later, it occurred to me to ask him what it was that could then induce him to come and share the dulness and insipidity of our life at Rajova, while his own house was daily crowded with the best company at Moscow.
Oswald perceived that he was a Roman; yet, harmonious as were the sounds he uttered, the vehemence of his declamation served but to indicate more plainly the unmeaning insipidity of all he said.
To occupy the mind, and prevent us from regretting the insipidity of a uniform plain.
To occupy the mind, and prevent our regretting the insipidity of an uniform plain.
For the poor Lady Clare, she is a personage of still greater insipidityand insignificance.
The bluntedinsipidity of his conventional diction is worthy of Pope's followers.
And surely a good deal of cant is now uttered about the academic insipidityand coldness of Corneille and Racine, who influenced our later drama, and who powerfully moved the men of their own day.
As soon as she ceased to seem shocked or surprised at his disclosures of insipidity or conceit, it became comparatively easy work to make them.
She found that his exhibitions of conceit and insipidity did not affect her in the same way as before.
The clams themselves must be omitted, as they are always tough and indigestible for an invalid, but their liquor adds a pleasant relish to the insipidity of the veal.
Nevertheless, for those who like them, a few cloves will relieve the insipidity of halibut.
Rice and barley add to the insipidity of weak soups, having no taste of their own.
At any rate, to operate upon it is our only chance of approaching it; for never can we get a glimpse of it in the unimaginable insipidity of its virgin estate.
