The girls are not to blame if they are as vapid and uninteresting as the ideal girls they have been associating with in the books they have read.
For some reason, (perhaps to surprise us the more when it does come,) the stern logic of truth is withheld; and we are served to empty assertion and vapid declamation in its stead.
After relishing the sweetness of this repose for a few instants he awoke, stretched his arms, yawned, rubbed his eyes, and looked about him for his pack of vapid flatterers].
In 1708 he published a vapid and stupid parody, suggested by John Philip's Splendid Shilling and Cider, entitled Wine.
It is surprising that Scott should include in Swift's works a vapid and pointless contribution attributed to a 'Person of Quality.
But all other paintings of the fear and anguish of hell are vapid and pale before the preternatural frightfulness of those given at unmerciful length and in sickening specialty in some of the Hindu and Persian sacred books.
It is a vapid consolation, in view of our own annihilation, to think that others will then live and also be annihilated in their turn.
Dolly, with all his vapid folly, had a will of his own, which, among his own family, was invincible.
Lord Alfred, in spite of his habitual idleness and vapid uselessness, had still left about him a dash of vigour, and sometimes thought that he would kick Melmotte and have done with it.
The contrast of the sensuous fire of this with Stanley's rather vapid and languid metaphysicalities is a notable one.
His tears increased their subject, the vapid vegetable substitute for Daphne's flesh and blood.
It is vain for us to bustle about, and run hither and thither in what we call service, or indulge in vapid words about Christian armor and Christian warfare.
There is no possible foundation here on which gnosticism or mysticism can base its vapid and worthless theories,--no warrant for the cold abstractions of the former, or the misty fancies of the latter.
They conjure up a world of charming, vapid faces, where there is little life apart from sentiment and rhetoric.
Cowper's "versification" of the incident is vapid compared to this.
What has driven patriotism, as commonly felt and conceived, so far from rational courses and has attached it to vapid objects has been the initial illegitimacy of all governments.
It would be an experience irrelevant to conduct, no part, therefore, of a Life of Reason, but a kind of lovely vapid music or parasitic dream.
Consequently French thought, which had been the most ardently speculative in Europe, speedily became vapid and mechanical.
How vapid also the rules of etiquette and precedence which starched the men and agitated the minds of their consorts!
He went twaddling on with his vapid discourse upon the state of the political atmosphere, placid as some babbling stream, until the dusky shadows began to gather in the corners of the low old-fashioned chamber.
She discovered, or rather he discovered, but too late, that the country had not only no charms for her, but that it was a scene of constant ennui andvapid dullness.
The vapid and the ignorant are like a bad play; they owe the little figure they make to the dress, the scenery, the music, and the company.
A pervading and substantial selfishness, the striking characteristic of our day, is no great improvement on the wildness of the old romance, or the vapid puling of the sentimental school.
It must be confessed," said Sir John, "that Miss Rattle is no servile imitator of the vapid tribe of the superficially accomplished.
Mr. Bridges' love-poetry is far indeed from the vapidnaturalness which Steele commended in The Guardian.
Blind Roman, how vapid was your motto, that life is warfare!
And if the poor thing had lived, what hope was there for anything but a vapid old age, haunted by visions of her decreasing notoriety?
A ceaseless round of every variety of money-consuming, vapid amusement occupies their days and nights from January to January, and for what purpose?
Their vapid visits I refuse; Their forced attachment I decline; I surely have the right to choose The friends, whose lives shall blend with mine; My bark shall gain the open sea With but the few I love and me.
In separation, competition and antagonism lie arid, poor, mean lives, conceited and egotistic, vapid and contemptible.
In antagonism, separation and competition lie arid, poor, mean lives, egotistic and conceited, vapid and fickle.
