The antitrust and competition policies of many nations have become insipid.
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It punishes critics of Fey's most insipid characters with vicarious retribution.
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Further, an insipid culture of the Creamery, conferences, "passion," and Allbirds.
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While on an otherwise insipid red carpet at tonight's Emmy Awards, E!
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Minimal, maybe — but these works are by no means polite or insipid.
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream", once seen as insipid, is now the most performed.
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As it is, the season peaked with Kelley's indictment of our insipid bachelor.
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Historically, politician spouse Twitter is one of the most insipid parts of Twitter.
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Many factors were to blame for the Tories' failure, not least an insipid campaign.
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Without proof of purchase, these viral auctions reach a new level of insipid folly.
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But dragnetting my epistolary efforts to approximate my verbal style at its most insipid?
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The American people have the innate ability to see through stupid or insipid ideas.
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From the start, Jaffe avoids the gooey, milquetoast center of insipid contemporary political sentiment.
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A single type of grape, planted in one region, may yield insipid, uninteresting wines.
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Funny once upon a time, the nonsense about mysterious forces has become insipid beyond belief.
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Ideally Light Chaser would have adopted that stunning style, rather than its insipid Disney look.
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These insipid one-size-fits-all standards and procedures won't necessarily work well for everyone.
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By 2018, insipid corporate wokeness had become the order of the day, and Swift Inc.
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Why they gave the part of Corie to this pear-shaped, insipid hack defies reason.
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Back then, American beer culture was dominated by the insipid lagers of the big brewers.
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Even without a host, the 2019 Oscars managed to be simultaneously entertaining, infuriating, insipid, and bizarre.
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The manifesto launched this spring was insipid and backward-looking, dusting off tried and discarded ideas.
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Every awards show has their breakout GIF, but by and large, they're all insipid, tedious affairs.
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Insipid economic growth and moribund trade liberalisation play their part; so too do shifts in manufacturing.
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Tired of the traditional, insipid family-friendly banquet, they hired a more alternative form of entertainment.
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Regrettably sanctions have proven insipid, as China and rouge nations continue to pursue trade with Pyongyang.
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The experts were not meek, timid, insipid — they were bold, outspoken, and unanimous in their verdict.
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Just as with lawn-mower beers, straightforward wines can run the gamut from insipid to exhilarating.
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A hallmark of Andersson's novels is how spiritually and intellectually insipid the male love interests are.
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Then one day, a proudly pale watchmaker moved into town, and the two developed an insipid attraction.
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Even with that, premium publishers can't make the revenue math work, and premium uptake has been insipid.
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This is an issue with carignan, which, when young, produces very high yields resulting in insipid wines.
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Perhaps the insipid stuff I find off-putting in real people, I actually need on some emotional level?
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Animation buffs and parents of very young children who are looking for a gentle movie that isn't insipid.
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It was much better received but almost as insipid as Kendall Jenner's Pepsi-sponsored trip to the barricades.
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He also pulls off the amazing trick of composing full songs for a game that aren't insipid shit.
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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That insipid, pissed-off-with-politics sentiment came forth again for the release of their fourth album, 10,000 Days.
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It was palatable at best and insipid at worst and had no sense of complexity or mystery or authenticity.
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Whether or not the real Tolkien was as innocent as his screen self, he comes across as an insipid hero.
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Hillary Clinton sat coolly during (often insipid) questioning for a marathon 11 hours, stopping only to brush off her shoulder.
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But after blasting jocks in that song, the band launches into a raw version of the insipid Gilligan's Island theme.
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Widely planted, often in the wrong places, cynically overcropped and overpriced, much merlot, particularly from California, was insipid at best.
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When the film cuts to the present, the characters who seemed likeable a few scenes ago turn insipid and boring.
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The prickling irony of "The Decline of Book Reviewing" is that Hardwick's subject, insipid writing, is not worthy of her.
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So how do we get any of the real truth rather than insipid pablum lined by a patina of sincerity?
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Cersei finds most men utterly insipid, but that may change when Euron Greyjoy arrives at King's Landing with a ventriloquist dummy.
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This leads to press releases so insipid and anodyne that many rounds are covered by precisely zero members of the media.
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It was a stultifying procession of patriotic songs ("Forge ahead, beautiful China"; "Iron and blood loyalty"), insipid skits and bald propaganda.
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She had a six-month-old girl and could find nothing in stores to feed her that wasn't insipid or sweet.
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What Happened suffers from stilted prose and insipid inspirational quotes, but that is par for the course for a political memoir.
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Its backdrop includes Occupy Wall Street, insipid pop singers and a reactionary, revolver-carrying Wyoming governor ready to run for president.
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An insipid question asked for decades about his drawings and his distinct hand — does his jaunty line somehow reveal his homosexuality?
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It doesn't seem to have: Old-school critics are complaining that criticism has gotten more insipid than it ever was before.
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A Few Thoughts While We Survey the Wreckage • Even in the most tense moments, the dialogue remains as insipid as ever.
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Physical premiums for bonded copper sagged and are still insipid at just $353-50 per tonne, according to LME broker Triland Metals.
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Bella wished that the telescope had brought into her sight that night Miss Chu and her lover, instead of the insipid couple.
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Similarly, the sommelier class' antipathy toward Prosecco is matched only by the cynicism of the producers who make this often-insipid wine.
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The French have cast aside the insipid and the showy, the sanguine and the sombre, old-timers on the left and the right.
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The NBI's Death Investigation Division was housed in a charmless room with tiled floors and the insipid fluorescent lighting that marks bureaucracies worldwide.
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Leave a slow cooker going for more than 8 or 9 hours, and your results will vary — most often from insipid to awful.
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The true swing voters are not so insipid as to think actions like this are right because they are waged against political opponents.
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With the sensibility of a very boring Downton Abbey and a political consciousness to match, The Young Karl Marx is an insipid disaster.
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"The Australian economy is entering this extremely difficult coronavirus period with insipid momentum and is therefore more vulnerable to the shock," Westpac said.
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"Additionally, Johnny Oleksinski did not hold back in his review for the New York Post when he described the movie as "insipid junk.
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In his travel memoir "The Gentleman in the Parlor," he reviled the city's "dense traffic," its "ceaseless din," its "insipid" cuisine and "sordid" houses.
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Thankfully, there are (mostly incredibly young) vloggers out there making largely inoffensive, not entirely insipid, and sometimes even — get ready for it — good content.
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But that only underscores that the client and the work are important differentiators and that not all foreign influence on our country is insipid.
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The rhetoric against immigrants is so baldfaced and insipid that it's hard not to be dragged down into a wrestling match in the mud.
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These 20 rosés, all under $20 a bottle, are far from the insipid ones that clothe a little fruit and sweetness in chic pink.
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Their successors adapted the formula by adding salt, garlic and herbs to the tomatoes, probably to compensate for the insipid tomatoes they found here.
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Instead, May released a somewhat insipid statement, saying she was "disappointed" with the decision, while stressing that the U.K. remained committed to the Paris Agreement.
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The volume of world merchandise trade grew by an insipid 2.7% in 2015, the fourth year in a row that it had been below 3%.
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However, we're also witnessing this increasingly insipid and suffocating emotional appeal through the co-option of our interests through big social media brands as well.
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Some critics liked it, but others called it "insipid" and "breathtakingly bad", lamenting that "it's getting harder and harder to call myself a Weezer fan".
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Some see in them vindication for pro-affirmative action arguments; others see proof positive that white students at elite schools are an unqualified, insipid lot.
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Ms. Hilty ("Smash") gives a lusciously silly performance, delivering her onstage lines with the thudding overemphasis of an eternal amateur, emphasizing each with insipid semaphoric gestures.
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The birds, at first, were a happy pair but over the weeks they began an insipid sort of cheeping associated with broken toys and bored children.
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It suggested an acceleration in French economic activity at the end of the year after two insipid quarters marred by strikes, bad harvests and diminishing tourism.
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"The old days of insipid, tasteless, technically correct but uninteresting dry white wines from Bordeaux have ended," the critic Robert M. Parker wrote in the 1990s.
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Anyone who has spent any time on Capitol Hill knows that it's entirely possible to be both insipid and an incumbent re-elected again and again.
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And so it is with Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian chess champion at the center of "Magnus," Benjamin Ree's insipid and uninformative portrait of singularity and obsession.
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In contrast, Cars 2 puts all of its energy into a bafflingly insipid mistaken-identity spy plot, entirely centered on Larry the Cable Guy, a.k.a. Mater.
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And so, in sum, the thrust of Disclaimer #1: My "Cloud Blossoms" are insipid drawings, and easy to like, hate or ignore (with or without 3D glasses).
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Finally, slip on your shades and sit back with a cool crystal goblet of this stuff, letting your worries about insipid coworkers and morning commutes melt away.
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Bannon was best known in the political world at the time not as a dark-arts master, but as impresario of the insipid, racist propaganda website Breitbart.
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Kars4Kids, for example, a New Jersey-based organization with an insipid yet highly successful advertising jingle, has received more than 450,000 car donations, according to its website.
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With the exception of the roasted beets, which were wizened and insipid, the interplay of textures and tastes — nutty crunch, sour yogurt, sweet and vinegary beets — was marvelous.
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Corbyn's critics have accused the Labour leader of conducting an insipid campaign for Britain to remain in the EU, especially given his euro-skeptic comments in the past.
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Ever since, I've been preoccupied with a mystery: how one of the world's most sophisticated and flavorful cuisines can be reduced to such a starchy and insipid mess.
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Many sports teams tend to retreat into a bubble when it comes to difficult topics and moments, to offer bland and insipid "one game at a time" pablum.
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This is what he said in the interview: It's a folded piece of paper with 100 boxes of insipid colors that look like they're left over from the fifties.
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It seems that TV genres created and consumed by women are often lumped into the "guilty pleasure" category, while even the most insipid male-targeted programs are simply pleasurable.
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The time signature speeds up and suddenly we're moved from an anesthetized bossanova to something more insipid—something that sounds a whole lot like the evil twin of disco.
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Alas, Sweden looked insipid in a 1-1 draw against Martin O'Neill's side and – though they didn't suffer heavy defeats – failed to get anything from the other two games.
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The new king is Bran: crippled, all-knowing, who wants nothing — with the evocation of the insipid wisdom that the best rulers are those who do not want power.
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Jar Jar Binks is an insipid scaly rabbit-frog who never needed to exist, and porgs are a mostly plot-irrelevant bit of filler designed to mask puffin infiltration.
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" Instead of thinking of the possibilities of "the boundless art," writers "were satisfied to keep the characters moving through a thin plot, insipid in conception, and pathetic in sentiment.
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Yet throughout "American Hookup," I was dogged by a low-level hum of uncertainty, never quite sure how oppressive the insipid parties are, or how widespread the writhing bacchanals.
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Lots of people (including Austen's mother) find the heroine Fanny "insipid," but as a shy person I identify with her and love how she learns to speak up for herself.
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The language of emoji, as insipid as it sometimes seems, is actually a mountain of context and very human metadata that makes it, like so much visual communication, richly expressive.
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It's not insipid "valuations are too high" whining (valuations are often higher when earnings are expanding), or "the economic upcycle is long in the tooth," it's a more substantial story.
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Anyway, with no further ado, in no particular order as numerical order is for the insipid day world, a comprehensive, objectively perfect list of 13 Saint Valentine's Day Goth Songs.
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Even without a hit such as the insipid "Hold on, We're Going Home", that was found on Nothing Was The Same, Drake landed 14 tracks in the Billboard Hot 100.
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The small talk, the insipid jokes, the banal daily existence in the same cubicle one day after the next — this seemed so far removed from the professional life I'd imagined.
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Aligoté is often described as thin, acidic and insipid, capable of nothing better than serving as the base for kir, in which white wine is flavored with crème de cassis.
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By the time Jay Rodriguez gave West Brom the lead in the second half against an insipid Manchester United, though, there was only one game Kompany and his teammates were watching.
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One of them was the narrator in a recent New Yorker "Shouts & Murmurs" column with a list of insipid demands for the administration of the Shower of Blessings Junior Bible College.
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They also know that his rap is abrasive and anti-social in an era of insipid displays of corporate treacle that many people simply don't believe and find insulting to boot.
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Kasper König, founding director of Skulptur Projekte Münster and one of the great curators of his generation, brushed the show aside as "UNESCO art"—pro forma internationalism driven by insipid politics.
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The sweeping existential puzzles it presents have ranged from totally valid (why do we need to see Batman's parents killed yet again?!) to scurrilous and insipid (does Zack Snyder hate Superman?).
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That's refreshing, so it's a pity that the remainder of "Aurum," right in tune with the insipid Muzak of the Ludovico Einaudi recordings Ms. Topp has chosen, increasingly sinks into sappiness.
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But the countryside proves just as bleak: free trade has devastated agriculture, farmers are resorting to violence, and insipid liberal notions of progress have stripped the world of eros and beauty.
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While insipid or pretentious merlot abounds, this one, from the consistently good Broadside, is fresh and plummy, well balanced and lip-smacking, with a pleasant bitterness to invite the next sip.
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Outside the chirping – endless, atonal, and urgent – continued as the spring sun dried the dew from an insipid little nest in our storm drain and clear skies pushed the rain far away.
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If it does not have a purpose, then it is merely another piece of plastic gathering in the center of the Pacific Ocean, yet another dollar in the insipid entertainment stock market.
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I think it's [about] Trump's way of speaking; there's something special about the way he expresses what he thinks—something that makes ordinary politicians, even the honest ones, sound insipid and disingenuous.
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But I didn't want to stop crying, anyway; I needed to get it all out between sips of my Coke, which, like me, had now turned into an insipid, watered-down mess.
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Representative government under the rule of law has proved to be insipid fare for an age that traffics in heady images of power and violence through solipsistic social media and online games.
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This sounds like insipid spiritual pablum, but in fact it's a difficult teaching, one that makes a mockery of our foolish national politics, and much of what we find in the media.
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When Kellogg began to sell cans of Protose, an insipid mixture of nuts and gluten, he claimed that it "resembles potted veal or chicken"—meat in general, rather than any specific one.
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Let's revisit the other glaring issue with this insipid movie: Casting can make or break a rom-com, but sometimes even just one puzzling character trait can leave audiences thinking but why?
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In May the mayor herself, Catherine Pugh, was forced to resign from office after a scandal involving bulk purchases of her insipid children's book by companies who did business with the city.
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But as in the previous match against Denmark – which Croatia also won on penalties after an insipid 1-1 draw - all too often his team mates failed to do anything with them.
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But "Thugs of Hindostan" turns out to be an insipid, meandering film that doesn't utilise two of Hindi cinema's biggest stars, and a CGI budget that could have been put to better use.
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Mr. Tisci expressed this, first of all, by casting his show with men of varied ethnicities and with the strong and occasionally unconventional features that underscore how generally insipid beauty conventions can be.
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He'd authored some terribly insipid ones in the past, though even worse were the inaccurate ones, like the piece about the song "Guardian Angels," the one Mario Lanza had belted out so beautifully.
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While the insipid proliferation of pulled pork sandwiches feels like it won't end until every rooftop in London has a shit party taking place on top of it, it hasn't completely ruined festivals yet.
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Feeding false hope and insipid positivity to people grappling with fatal disease is insulting and unhelpful, at least this is how it felt for the many months when my family was living through it.
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Nevermind that she sat through eight solid hours of Congressional questioning during the Benghazi hearing, pointedly and lucidly answering every insipid question thrown at her in an impressive demonstration of mental and emotional endurance.
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Lest you be tempted to see this trainwreck for yourself, Kristy Puchko from Pajiba has a warning: It's so insipid and punishing and deplorable that I feel I'm owed hazard pay for enduring it.
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I've encountered something similar many times since, oftentimes from people with scant knowledge but strong convictions that Phish is atrocious, a laughingstock, a noodling Grateful Dead wannabe playing insipid music to weed-addled scenesters.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is all but certain to cut its benchmark interest rate--perhaps as early as Tuesday--amid a rapid decline in home prices, weak consumer inflation and insipid wage growth.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is all but certain to cut its benchmark interest rate—perhaps as early as Tuesday—amid a rapid decline in home prices, weak consumer inflation and insipid wage growth.
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Discursive Selves is a careful exploration of the bits and pieces that comprise our ideas of selfhood, and Lawton and Takahashi propose a refreshing take on what can feel like an overworked and insipid theme.
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Complicating matters more is the fact that Spayd, who took the job last July, has been roundly criticized for publishing work that's been called everything from "insipid" by The Outline to "disastrous" by New York magazine.
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The point is that there's hardly any media representation for Asians, Latinos, and other non-black minorities except in the form of these insipid comic tropes; it's hard to take jokes when we're never taken seriously.
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Perhaps that was a quirk of timing, with the game isolated on a Monday night, coming off the back of a typically insipid international break and with no matches of similar magnitude to dilute its importance.
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That insipid white meat is for Kardashian lunch orders and forgettable side salads, or—worse yet—your colleague who goes to the gym during their lunch break and plans meals based on protein-to-carbohydrate ratios.
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Back in May of 2014, in the main event of Bellator's first-ever pay-per-view, former UFC light heavyweight champ Quinton "Rampage" Jackson scored a contentious and fairly insipid decision defeat over Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal.
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If you eat it alone this dish is insipid, but if you serve it over cracklings with cheese, sour cream, and a few drops of Valentina sauce, it's one of the most beloved street snacks in Mexico.
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End of the Road is purposely the antithesis of the big corporate festival experience, where hand-picked food outlets and art installations overseen by the organisers themselves take the place of insipid lager and big branded arenas.
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Try not to think about the last time you saw a talking stick being used, which was at a insipid corporate retreat for mid-level managers you were forced to travel to on a bus in 2010.
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He delivers an entire monologue in which he talks about and gestures toward the "desk," and the scene feels insipid, I think partly because there is no touch, just the confection of language pointing toward something missing.
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" But those delicacies of knowledge are so rare, the tribulations of their collection so great, that it has proved almost impossible to separate the wheat of anthropology from the chaff of adventure: "insipid details, incidents of no significance.
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In recent years, falling commodities, meager wage rises and insipid economic growth kept prices low and pushed investors into assets such as long-dated bonds and high dividend paying stocks, that typically do better during periods of muted inflation.
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One reason we think this "backfire" effect occurred is that people were not exposed to the content of the other party's ideas, but rather a much heavier dose of the insipid political warfare that social media is known for.
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Filled with scenes of gloomy characters confronting their demons or wrestling with their insipid moral quandaries, it's not a superhero movie so much as it is an excruciating therapy session in which there are occasionally huge explosions and guys in capes.
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Old Trafford fans endured more than 90 minutes of insipid stalemate before Wayne Rooney's stoppage-time penalty gave 11-times winners Manchester United a 1-21 win against a third-tier side 21 places below them in the football pyramid.
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Over the course of the series, Margaret Schlegel — wise, brilliant, and bright-eyed Margaret — decides to marry sad, closed-minded, insipid Mr. Wilcox, and she doesn't even have the excuse of an overwhelming physical attraction to push her into it.
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In the same year, Berkeley directed the musical sequences for "In Caliente," an insipid comedy featuring the hit song "The Lady in Red," for which he crafted a ballroom dance on an oversized dance floor for Tony and Sally De Marco.
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Somehow, after two wins against lowly Tunisia and Panama, an insipid loss to a Belgian second team, an unusually generous draw and Spain's unlikely exit, the Three Lions find themselves as the strongest team left in their half of the knockout bracket.
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The magic of lenses is how they erase the perception of the selfie as an act of narcissism — an insipid criticism that comes from a certain clump of people who feel the need to bash people for showing a fleck of confidence.
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Like so many of the best bands from that early 00s moment, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' tight rhythm section propelled the band beyond the insipid, mopey or chug-a-chug boring place in which so much guitar music had found itself at the time.
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"I didn't see the defeat coming," Hodgson said on Tuesday, before revealing that he had drawn great encouragement from his side's three group-stage fixtures: a careless draw with Russia, a last-gasp win over Wales, and an insipid 0-0 with Slovakia.
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Make it simple to last your whole life long ... The insipid song was so overplayed in the '19903s that your mind automatically harmonizes with the next lyric even before you remember the song's title, or the name of the group that sang it.
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They trade stupid power for strength, domination for mastery, inflation for flight, oppositional partisanship for community, and the difference is as easy to taste as the one between corn syrup and sugar; one is insipid and artificial, the other is just sweet.
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A trained actress, she is truly the Bernadette Peters of lip sync, always squeezing every bit of meaning and perspective out of every lyric, however insipid or inspiring — it is always a revelation of self, rather than a character or athletic feat.
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" (Parts of the poem had already been published.) Zeus and Achilles were "almost a religion" to him; how could the "insipid blackness of the Episcopalian Church"—the faith of fashionable Boston—compete with the "whoring of Zeus and the savagery of the heroes?
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"Most of the people in Suva are under the misapprehension that Suva doesn't get cyclones - that it's only the north and the west of the country that seems to get them and the ones that come past Suva are weak and insipid," he said.
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But to customers who have grown accustomed to lousy service, it was almost startling to learn that, beginning in February, passengers will enjoy a complimentary stroopwafel atop a cup of Illy coffee (an upgrade from the insipid brown liquid that's drawn no shortage of complaints).
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Perfectly exemplifying the dumb machismo and unwarranted confidence that was ubiquitous in the Bush era, the network spent the next few years courting the "boobs, sports, and barbecue" type of man who we'd today find too insipid to even put in a beer commercial.
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Mbappe, rather like France as a whole, had not really got going in the tournament until the game against Argentina, with French media saying he was so angry after his insipid display against Australia in their first game that he refused to speak to reporters.
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The program, which was in a pilot phase in three prisons, confined what inmates could receive to the inventory of six vendors who specialize in prison care-packages and offer relatively few books that deviate from the categories of religious text or insipid fiction.
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The story starts to veer off into tangents that are melodramatic (a fairly insipid Romeo and Juliet subplot involving Gigante's daughter), distractingly implausible (an episode built around attempts to fix a Cassius Clay fight) or both (a family member of Johnson's caught up in drugs and prostitution).
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Trump's reflexive, offensive, taunting, and unintelligent tweeting, bookends neatly with Obama's bowing to fellow heads of state and agreement to a sit-down interview with green-haired, insipid, Cheerios-and-milk-bathing Glozelle, who famously inquired of 44 whether the Castro brothers put the d*** in dictator.
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Christopher Wheeldon's "After the Rain Pas de Deux" came off as insipid — without the rest of the ballet, it loses whatever poignancy it might have; "Vespers," by Ulysses Dove, and "The Hunt," by the company's artistic director, Robert Battle, were calculated in their shallow presentation of force.
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Other than a couple standout pieces that that underscore the franchise's sense of scale, the bulk of the adventure follows a generic hero as he guns through hordes of enemies and tired action movie tropes, only to be interrupted by halfhearted cutscenes, insipid twists, and hawkish military lingo.
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" The article included other insipid gems like this one: "This is Cogdell-Unrein's third Olympic games, but Unrein, a defensive end in his second season with the Bears, was unable to get away from training camp to join her in Rio and see her in the Olympics for the first time.
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Or maybe you've had insipid sugar-free strawberry versions at your cousin Brandi's bachelorette party, surrounded by girls staggering around in high heels and trying to maintain a sense of feminine charm while slurping a combination of cheap vodka and powdered animal hooves out of a hastily ripped Dixie cup.
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The percentage of the region's grapes that went into nouveau was so high — as much as 60 percent of the basic Beaujolais appellation in 1988 — that when its popularity faded, growers were left with an oversupply, and the public was stuck with an image of Beaujolais as a place with insipid wine.
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Instead of making an insipid $18 cabernet sauvignon, doctored with flavorings, tannins, enzymes and wood chips to badly imitate a rich, expensive Napa Valley cabernet, Steve Matthiasson found an assortment of Italian grapes — montepulciano, barbera and aglianico — in the warm Dunnigan Hills region, which he rounded out with 15 percent mixed red grapes.
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The new Turkish Parliament is most likely to be dominated by Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party; the Republican People's Party, an insipid force that still won 130 out of 550 seats in the last election; and the hard-right MHP, which is allied with Mr. Erdogan and will contest in coalition with his AKP.
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In Dreams From My Father, Obama proudly relates his habit in Indonesia of eating "small green chili peppers raw with dinner," which to me serves as a metaphor for what it is like to be a foreigner in a developing country: There is a piquancy missing from the more insipid climes of the industrialized West.
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HBO's Chernobyl miniseries is already the highest-rated show ever and the insipid 90s sitcom Friends has somehow gained a new, rabid fanbase on Netflix, so it was only a matter of time before someone spliced the two together to create what is arguably the most unholy and cursed mash-up of all time.
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Using an insipid magazine ad depicting a woman sleeping in a bucolic scene (a sign for comfort and freshness) from the Springmaid bedding company, Conner puns on the company's name by adding seven young women, wearing colorful pajamas and dresses, who are dancing, jumping, and frolicking above the woman resting comfortably beneath a sheet.
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Her family's pretensions to gentility, exposed at a nightmare dinner party held to impress her beau, lead to disaster, and, at the end of the novel, Alice, facing reality, is seen mounting the steps to a dreaded secretarial school—a very different kind of heroine from the generally insipid or idealized Tarkington leading lady.
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While much can be said of the insipid straw ban — not least of which is that if people collectively choose to use 500 million of them every day, then straws surely provide some utility or at least joy — it is specifically the straw ban's willfully insidious methods of misinformation that must be called out and resisted.
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Yes, it's that special time of year when insipid brands, mean-spirited teens, and tech titans compete to be the first to trick you into thinking they released Skittle's... For Men, that it's a good idea to eat an entire pod of datura seeds, or that they're releasing a new app that's like Uber but with riding lawnmowers, respectively.
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But it was less an overview of the Democratic presidential front-runner's own policy agenda than it was a vicious dismantling of the insipid, incoherent nonsense masquerading as Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's foreign policy.
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While the song has managed to transcend time—it topped the charts of the Billboard Hot 100 in its heyday and has secured its rightful place in the heart of the internet—the video is nothing more than the insipid story of a researcher who travels through a library in search of a book entitled Africa, and which ends with a building smashed to pieces and a pile of burning books.
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The current format for primary debates hops from issue to issue, often focusing narrowly on the issues that are in the news of the day or on more insipid topics like what Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE is tweeting.
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In desperate pursuit of such affirmation, my mind has come to resemble one of those stamping-machine assembly lines you see in cartoons, but for shareable content: The raw, analog world in all its glory enters via conveyor belt on one end, and, after some raucous puffs of smoke, it gets flattened and packaged in my head into insipid quips meant to inspire you to tap a tiny heart on a screen.
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In his autobiography, he wrote: I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to: unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent… In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself, 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
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