inanity

It seems to me one of those critical inanities I have to live with.

Over the years, most foreign policy inanities have come cheaper.

We discussed inanities for a while, then they played some more.

All at once the inanity of his thoughts hit him like a blow.

I kept the conversation on inanities until he dropped us outside the city market a few minutes later.

How could she dare write anything but inanities to her brother?

Does this mean that they are turning into luxurious inanities?

What is this inanity about their not being for killing?"

He cursed himself silently for the inanity of his own words.

She almost added, Wait here, but closed her lips on that inanity just in time.

The results, more often than not, achieved a sublime level of inanity.

She has so far been spared the inanities of the auction room.

He could hear the tears in her voice and wondered at the inanity of their conversation.

A gifted director might have reached for ways to transcend inanity.

She was talking inanities in order to avoid talking about anything else.

They walked round the savannah together, talking inanities, almost as brother and sister.

But they can also waste their skills on inanities.

The Saint may be one of those rare cases in which the inanity is deliberate.

Perhaps brightly funny in 1823, these particular words now translate into inanity.

Even when they are inspired or in love they talk inanities.

Human speech would be fine if it did not run to such crass inanities.

Yes, yes, talk inanities until you can get your breath back.

I asked, despite the sheer inanity of the question.

With that last inanity, I got my house key ready and opened my door.

It succeeds fitfully, after the inanities of the first act.