I was watching the most vapid show in the history of television—it had always been vapid and we, the viewers, had always been duped.
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But, holy fuck, on every level everything is as vapid as possible, and I don't know that the people making it know that they're being vapid.
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These vapid greetings are repeated for more than a minute.
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But Enjo's vapid, relentless positivity does occasionally connect with me.
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Basically, Kourtney is sick of the vapid world of KUWTK.
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I like my shoes — oh no, this sounds so vapid!
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The notification was a vapid quote about spreading my wings.
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White feminists have been vapid white supremacists, nationalists, and xenophobes.
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She embraced vapid superficiality as an aesthetic, and people loved it.
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It is a horribly racist joke in an already vapid musical.
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"It is really vapid," is the opinion of Slate's Michelle Goldberg.
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But the reality is relentlessly vapid, our critic Amanda Hess says.
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Yet the tenor of the whole race was just that vapid.
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Was Mike Pence his Nancy Reagan, with the same vapid, adoring looks?
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I Feel Pretty exposes the vapid emptiness of a looks-based existence.
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If you're single, Valentine's Day can seem like a vapid soul suck.
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If we give such morally vapid individuals an office, we are fools.
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Dating games are generally vapid, but The Proposal is at "Nosedive" levels.
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So their phoniness has made the process less authentic and more vapid.
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It is through caramelization that the vapid sweetness of sugar becomes interesting.
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It just tends to be noticed more often among purportedly vapid young women.
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I was basically working with these vapid Vine and YouTube artists through Atlantic.
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It's an $80 phone case that makes me look alternately clumsy and vapid.
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But Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 isn't just aiming at clearly vapid forms of media.
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Its structures multiply as the station mirrors itself and its identity turns vapid.
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Often this electronic pop is considered atmospheric and moody but a little vapid.
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Am I a more vapid person than I was when I woke up?
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But the "shiny" candidate with the never-fading smile comes across as vapid.
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Vapid heiresses aside, I'm just excited to see how the Raptors clap back.
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Deeply important American political debates have always played out through vapid culture wars.
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The new elite is worse than the old elite — and certainly more vapid.
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That becomes an important anchor in the work, but really it's very vapid.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen slammed their "vapid" visit in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE Wednesday.
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Now, the Kardashians are parachuting into the island to tape their vapid TV show.
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ZQ: Look how many celebrities are using that microphone for utterly vapid, meaningless purposes.
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The scene suggests any reason as equally possible, resisting tidy explanations or vapid paternalism.
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It was a celebration of masculine violence and vapid tradition, a pointless superficial contest.
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As a rule, I take issue with dismissing women's magazines as shallow, vapid junk.
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No one wakes up in the morning hoping to be as vapid as possible.
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He may have thought them "cringeworthy" (like mine), or "vapid" (like Andrea Bower's work).
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Art Review As a conceptual artist, Yoko Ono practices a vapid kind of spiritual therapy.
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It's hugely ambitious and successful in some areas and glaringly lacking and vapid in others.
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It was something vapid, shameful, and vain — or, at least, that's what I was taught.
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Trump is charming–and the most vapid and ill-informed and evasive of the lot.
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What the retarded reptiles and vapid humans are doing on the thin crust around it.
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This could be a really vapid place if you just focused on the celebrity culture.
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Equal parts vapid, vain, petty, and ambitious, her performance shines like a bunch of stolen diamonds.
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While each artist's work is strong individually, their juxtaposition imbues Frieze with a vapid commercial feminism.
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While some see fashion as vapid, she knows she can use Lapp to take a stand.
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" While another social media dissed her by saying, "Another vapid word salad from the whisper grifter.
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I don't mean that in the stereotypical sense — that its residents are vapid, self-interested snobs.
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The first thing you notice about working at HubSpot is how cheerful and vapid everyone is.
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So what can I — and all my fellow small talk haters — do to escape vapid chitchat?
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It's a vapid piece involving a tall table to slam and jump off and slide underneath.
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How do I deal with dozens and dozens of rich, vapid and condescending office workers daily?
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I'm not sure why exactly – the jokes are super trite and the stories are completely vapid.
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Sure, taking a selfie is kind of vapid and self-obsessive, but it's also no easy task.
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But the smile looks overdetermined and vapid, like the grin of a car salesman, not a Buddha.
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Reality TV shows can be many things: vapid, voyeuristic, highly bingeable, relaxing, fascinating, fake, cringey, occasionally informative.
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Being an influencer is a modern form of celebrity that's no more vapid than any other kind.
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Mr Silver delighted in savaging commentators who relied on vapid clichés like "momentum shifts" and "game-changers".
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More generally, this attitude—mocking vapid white people, questioning the constraints of filial duty—was eye-opening.
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Clinton in a general election and suggested that he was nothing more than a vapid celebrity candidate.
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Now that Trump is president of the United States, threats of criminal retaliation are no longer vapid.
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Economic View "Believe in yourself and in your future" may sound like a vapid self-help mantra.
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Andy Samberg is Nyles, who's attending the same wedding as the plus-one of his vapid girlfriend.
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It utterly exposes just how vapid and uninspiring the overwhelming majority of our political leaders really are.
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But in keeping with our current political moment, that utopian vision is used for vapid, divisive ends.
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We're a dime a dozen, generally represented in popular media as vapid bimbos with half a brain.
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It isn't some kind of revelation about how romantic love triumphs, of just a vapid showcase of wealth.
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Disclaimer #1: In a very real way, these "Cloud Blossoms" drawings are about as vapid as they look.
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Yet as vapid, incestuous and irresponsible as state politics sounds, Tamil Nadu has prospered under the pair's rule.
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I was terrified of what people would think of me and scared of being called shallow and vapid.
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Unlike Chavkin and Thorpe, ROKE approaches Rodger's twisted worldview with irony, contextualizing it within America's vapid consumer culture.
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Like many Instagram phenomena, the mania that verification badges inspire may seem a bit vapid, or, um, crazy.
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The acting subplot, meanwhile, relies on meta-talk about vapid network TV that comes across as self-congratulatory.
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Some works even conjure the vapid, cheery paintings you'd find in hotel rooms or at a local cafe.
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The song itself is lyrically a bit vapid, concerning itself with the stamina it requires to party with Charli.
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But it is in fact possible to both love frivolous shit and not be a completely vapid human being.
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It's becoming increasingly obvious, and disappointing, who will win the popularity contest in the end: rich, white, hot, vapid.
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"Cole questioned whether Stark would be as successful with audiences if introduced today "with this very vapid, unintelligent president.
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All the vapid things that the wealthy did—the surgeries and the fashions and pretension—we understand them now.
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But the excitement wore off: "You kind of realize those people are vapid or only live in Beverly Hills."
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She sounds exasperated as she sings about vapid, hypersexualized women being an epidemic for which there is no cure.
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Someone should confront the rich, vapid and condescending every day as they ignore the homeless people all around them.
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The new sequel follows a vapid lead (Matilda Lutz) who finds a hidden tape within the original haunted tape.
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If you want vapid, soul-crushing, slapdash, utterly incomprehensible and ill-conceived entertainments, that's the place to find them.
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They embrace the notion that behaviors and interests often seen as femme (like fashion and shopping) are shallow and vapid.
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During these calls, I talk about successes, mistakes, dilemmas, conundrums, politics, the banal, the serious, the vapid, the deep—everything.
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In the book he refers to Ms. Lakshmi as his "Illusion," and he describes her as irrational, vapid and vain.
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They embrace the notion that behaviors and interests often seen as femme (like fashion and shopping) are shallow and vapid.
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If he did, he wouldn't draw you — his employee and the loving caretaker of his children — into his vapid treachery.
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We pump them full of vapid but haunting praise about how talented they are and how their future is limitless.
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I listened and I watched them listen, accepting and uncritical of one another no matter how relatively vapid their story.
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When Christie, an African-American friend of Barbie's, was introduced in 1968, she was criticized for her vapid prerecorded phrases.
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Instead, it ends up as a stylish but vapid exercise in superficial recreation that strips an indelible investigation of any purpose.
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One reason that pop culture obsessiveness has been maligned as vapid is because it's always been so closely associated with femininity.
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Specifically, I found myself wondering what happened to the second most chilling and vapid presence on the show: Modesto "Pete" Cunanan.
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Definitely not See, a vapid, glacially paced attempt to woo fantasy fans in search of a new world to invest in.
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It's a term that's extremely gendered, suggesting a vapid, conniving woman who pursues money and material wealth through any available opportunity.
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I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.
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She wasn't some vapid bimbo, and there is no reason to believe that either Kim K or Emily Ratajkowski are either.
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You might associate Orange County music with sun, ska, beaches, bros, and really bad MTV reality shows starring vapid rich kids.
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Just a bunch of vapid LA leeches with no other professional skills blabbing about absolutely nothing (not like us esteemed bloggers!).
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CHOW I'm disillusioned with how many of these complex, vulnerable souls flatten into vapid Instagram influencers once they leave the show.
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A vapid audition song ("I Won't Let You Down") transforms into a moving anthem when Dorothy uncovers new meaning in it.
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The new president says he is determined to make France a "start-up nation," borrowing the vapid parlance of Silicon Valley.
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While The Pastels know some people think of makeup as vapid, they want everyone to know what they're doing runs deep.
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Most of Terror Jr's songs are joyfully vapid, but in the middle of the album is "Terrible," which is joltingly raw.
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It's the purest form of vapid entertainment — the type that lets us talk about ourselves for hours while saying nothing at all.
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In Hamburg, despite all of the vapid diplomacy-speak, the outlines of an important new decision-making method came briefly into focus.
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Stars have always held vapid views on their appearances, but before Ryder's shoplifting case, actresses would never have worn Louboutins to court.
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In a time when hip hop is supersaturated with vapid pop hits and petty feuds, Lamar is socially resonant and musically gifted.
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Lizzy's vapid, flirtatious younger siblings, Kitty and Lydia, are an embarrassment to the family, while her older sister, Jane, is approaching spinsterhood.
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Her prior image as a vapid party girl has been replaced by one as a serious feminist unafraid to speak her mind.
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We "won't have the vapid 'We're close to a Big Deal!' tweets any longer to count on for cheap rallies," he writes.
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Ms Watson is wooden throughout, though she has stiff competition in Mr Chalamet, who is lovely to look at but entirely vapid.
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Her thesis is simple: at some point, feminism lost its political moorings; it became vapid and toothless in its quest for universality.
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Slow, sweeping, committed to aural serenity and aching feelgood beauty, this is quite the vapid album, but that's not necessarily a negative.
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After the pop star comes up with something vapid about penguins, Jack sits at the piano to play "The Long and Winding Road".
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The squabble between Donald Trump and Fox News over the latest Republican presidential "debate" may seem as completely vapid as the debates themselves.
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Avenatti's platform is, primarily, that he hates Donald Trump, which is only modestly less vapid than the platforms of numerous other Democrat hopefuls.
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But if rising recreational psychedelic use is an escapist response to our overworked, vapid, screen-locked culture, then what does the future hold?
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We thought rock and roll had been used up, and it was intellectually vapid, and there was no reason for it to continue.
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Not the vapid mass-market imitations that purport to be pilsners yet are really diluted and dull, but any number of craft expressions.
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When the artifice of sex industry branding is taken at face value, sex work advocates are broadly dismissed as vapid, frivolous rich girls.
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Gemini can prove to be a little bit vapid plot-wise, but the casting of Kirke and Kravitz makes the film addictively watchable.
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I always thought that vapid and seemingly surface entertainment actually had all this depth and interesting discussion points, so Britney's been my goddess.
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Trump rode to victory on a cloud of vapors and vapid promises, and now he is assembling a council of acolytes and opportunists.
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In Legally Blonde, for example, Elle Woods starts out as a vapid stereotype: a sorority girl aspiring to marry into wealth and status.
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He filled his time by rising to a level of vapid generality that was utterly detached from the choices in the actual legislation.
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It's as inspiring and vapid as anything else on social media — and somehow manages to invoke awe and envy at the same time.
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Performatively disliking Kardashian sends the message that you aren't vapid, that you reserve your cultural praise for figures and works that showcase artistic skill.
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People want to watch the Paul brothers get punched in the face because they're YouTubers who represent everything vapid and horrible about influencer culture.
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Here are some of the best responses of the batch: According to one Twitter user, Lescott shortly tweeted and deleted this fairly vapid tweet.
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And it's part of the reason she felt so provocative, yet also curiously vapid to her critics—a dog-whistle more than a revolution.
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" Social media reactions from audience members at the screening of Intermezzo described the film as "vapid" and called it out for "objectification and voyeurism.
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To go along with the new races, the update also adds 13 new cars to the game, including the fabulously named Vapid Trophy Truck.
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Conflating something as vapid as an Instagram following with an appreciation for America's most iconic civil rights activist was a bold — and bad — move.
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Jonas is often vapid and self-indulgent, and players are tasked with enduring her dialogue while attempting to outrun paparazzi in a side mission.
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To the Editor: One measure of Cynthia Nixon's strength as a candidate is how consistently vapid and silly the arguments against her candidacy are.
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However I think this projects the message that designers think Millenials/Gen Z are dumb, materialistic, and vapid, because they only care about logos.
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I didn't want a vapid exchange, and in-depth conversation wouldn't have been appropriate either, and I had no intention of launching into either.
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Recode's Kirt Wagster alerted me to the new filter with this exquisite picture: Note the like from "my_mom" and the vapid emoji caption. Subtle!
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No. Kill Me Please plants its core foursome in a headspace and philosophical universe completely separate from their romantic interests, who are clueless and vapid.
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"The true lesson here is in the power of vapid cruelty — the [GOP's] profound commitment to needless cruelty with no rationale or reason," he said.
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" Sadly for them all, "Paris Is Out!" was so vapid and unoriginal that legendary critic Walter Kerr wrote, "I neither hated it nor liked it.
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The album's sound does appeal to appeal to a more commercial kind of consumption, yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's vapid or disposable.
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I return from his verité to tell you this truth: Lemoin turns out to be a vapid, hollow, despicable, sordid, corrupt, monumentally boneheaded self-admirer.
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His work tends to make light of society's mundane, often vapid habits, like using an IRL hand to erase away a cartoon's five o'clock shadow.
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But somehow in the last 10 years or so, feminism became another part of the culture; it became as vapid and selfish as everything else.
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He found "native" Californians smug and condescending, and he found their suggestion that their drought-prone home was better than everywhere else in the world vapid.
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The book by author Ernest Cline has been panned by some for exploiting geek sensibilities, wrapping overt references around an otherwise vapid and frequently problematic story.
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As Sugar Plum, Keira Knightley is as deliciously vapid as her purple and pink cotton candy hair, and it's hard not to love her for it.
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In the live performance and video, Fraser ventriloquizes vapid speeches by art world personalities before stripping naked and crying, thus implicating herself in an exhibitionist cycle.
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These kinds of scenes could make Portia simply seem vapid, but it's clear Richie is in on the joke, which gives the role a knowing quality.
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The entrepreneurs whose innovations and ideas have actually changed lives are too busy trying new things and dreaming big to spout vapid humblebrags on social media.
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Disturbingly, I found myself becoming a vapid, materialistic succubus; it was as if a lowly troll had snuck up on me and flipped a personality switch.
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Hikind responded to the Knight Institute-AOC flareup Thursday night with the sort of vapid message common in his corner of the internet: Debate me, coward.
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The British painter captured the elite zeitgeist of Los Angeles in his images of private swimming holes in all their pristine, luxurious, vapid, and lonesome glory.
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You could consider Point Blank like an anti-La La Land—the film offers a dour impression of 1960s California as a vapid and materialistic wasteland.
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It features a feminist heroine, a sinister Mother Ginger, a vapid Sugar Plum Fairy, and of course a ballerina, who "just happens to be brown," Copeland says.
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The only moment he's really inserted himself into the debate was to berate Bernie Sanders about "bringing back big government," which is vapid even as a catchphrase.
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Others dismiss it as a vapid meat market responsible for the rise in STDs that are a result of the so-called "hookup culture" it helped create.
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The ad plays on unfortunate stereotypes about women who pose nude or are open about their sexuality: that they're vapid, can't be trusted, and shouldn't be respected.
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Media focused on minors is easy to dismiss as vapid or immature, but as a genre it continues to do the heavy lifting of exploring contemporary issues.
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Suggest that her well-cut dress means she must be vapid, that she naïvely chooses aesthetics over "adored" young men and the real experiences they can offer.
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And the required Senate confirmation of a nominee may well be a "vapid and hollow charade, " in Justice Elena Kagan's words, since partisan support matters over merit.
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It's easy to write Paul off as another careless creator, the worst example of vapid modern celebrity culture, but his actions triggered a tidal wave of consequences.
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The fact that Kim was fully owning her public image—including the criticism that she was vapid, talentless, and self-obsessed—was seen as bold and revolutionary.
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But, as anyone who has spent a few minutes watching cable knows, these situations have a tendency to devolve into vapid cheap shots, rather than meaningful debate.
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The "Parsifal," directed by Pierre Audi and designed by the artist Georg Baselitz, was a vapid misfire, and made me appreciate Bayreuth's critical sensibility all the more.
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Image via YouTube Social media can be a vapid, self-serving circle of bullshit that makes us feel continuously dissatisfied with our own seemingly sub-par existence.
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Most of the work here feels vapid and generic, not questioning enough the soil and the ground we stand on, be it red, black, white or concrete.
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Bobby spends the episode fighting his ouster from the board of a charity with the beautifully vapid moniker World-Aid, concerned with his potential loss of prestige.
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At worst, it seems a vapid attempt to drum up business with false promises, paid for with the lives of more than 30 people, children among them.
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There was the vapid privilege (and outright cluelessness) of the Bluth family that Arrested Development's Michael (Jason Bateman, in full straight-man mode) could never quite rein in.
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Joy Nash stars as Plum, a journalist whose biggest gig so far is answering "Dear Kitty" letters in place of her vapid young woman's magazine editor (Julianna Margulies).
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Trigger happy. Evasive. LYING. Vacuous. Vapid. Vacant. Vacationing. Meaningless. Frivolous. Oblivious. Sloppy. Silly. Empty. Outvoted. Overruled. Overturned. Null. Void. Inane. Inept. Negligent. Negligible. Naïve. Juvenile. Trivial. Disappointing. Underwhelming.
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Bouguereau's work is a strangely vapid American cultural artifact that represents a new world hunger for the trappings of refinement, once it is sanitized of meaning or content.
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Dan: Anyone who said "At least we'll get better art in the age of Trump" should be required to slurp up this vapid gruel though their eye sockets.
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You could call these tips "life hacks" — but I hate that term too, because "life hacks" usually end up being vapid, dumb, or more work that they're worth.
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Take on advertising and you risk isolating your readership with the vapid product placement that made us all so pissed off with women's mags in the first place.
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You might look at the vapid South America shooter Ghost Recon: Wildlands and conclude that Ubisoft has little interest in respecting the complexity of any place, or period.
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It was great—a delicious dark comedy about just how stupid, vapid, and fake our friendships can be, no matter how pretty they look with Instagram filters on.
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Was he not, in his breezy, feckless way (or "vapid and shiftless" way, as his fearsome Aunt Agatha would have it), an equally effective bulwark of his nation?
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They do make me nostalgic, although I think I'm fooling myself in thinking there was ever an era in America where we truly scorned the wealthy and vapid.
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For four years I covered India, a country that relishes minor scandals and is alert, after 190 years of colonial rule, to vapid generalizations made by foreign correspondents.
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That it is intellectually vapid is not important, but the fact that it adds to an atmosphere of suspicion and credulity and conspiracy is not helpful at all.
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Ultimately, she may face the same dilemma as Trump, with anyone wanting a shot at the 2020 race staying away for fear of being tarnished by this vapid campaign.
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There are people who will be totally turned off by the show's lack of censorship, the vapid nature of their conversations, and the undeniably objectifying aspects of the premise.
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Either you're a mega-fan, impressed by their hustle and into their aesthetic, or you think that they're the worst of America's obsession with celebrity: vapid, narcissistic, and dumb.
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It all made Kirby so nuts he actually left Marvel for DC and, amid other craziness, created a villain based on Lee: the vapid, vain, cash-grubbing Funky Flashman.
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"I'm associated with the very thing I detest: vapid, vacuous, plastic, constructed, mindless celebrity," he said in the doc, which was reportedly filmed during the end of his marriage.
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But since boomers run the media and the job market, there seems to be no shortage of "trend piece" drivel about the vapid millennials and our shoddy work ethic.
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Although I understand the concept behind Bradley's empty gallery — presenting this institution as a vapid, empty structure in order to critique other institutions — I find this a lackluster point.
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Anyone who has spent a prolonged amount of time visiting the vapid human cesspool that is Los Angeles can understand the temptation, and ultimate surrender, to fall off the wagon.
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But after binge watching Netflix's Selling Sunset recently, made by The Hills' creator Adam Divello, I was reminded of how delicious and satisfying shows about vapid rich people can be.
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In his farewell, Fournier approaches "journalism" in the abstract, immaterial, vapid way he has approached politics for years—and yet, in many ways, this is his most revealing column yet.
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The antic Mr. Bart practically springs an oil leak as the corrupt Tony, and Ms. York's lush junior-varsity version of Cher is amusingly vapid, all bugle beads for brains.
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The protagonist of his first feature, "Perfect Blue," is a vapid girl-group singer named Mima, who angers her fans when she leaves a successful trio for an acting career.
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And that impression of the city as this vapid but very real place, where the people who succeed have learned to manipulate its superficiality, has stuck with me ever since.
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Featuring both Levys, the incomparable Catherine O'Hara as the Rose matriarch, and Annie Murphy as the vapid but well-meaning daughter, Schitt's Creek is as strange as it is hilarious.
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"Girl power" lives on, and as feminism is mainstreamed into our lives via Beyoncé, Shonda Rhimes, and even President Obama, the meaning of that once-vapid term grows ever more powerful.
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Dawn of the Dead is a startlingly gory movie, and it openly laughs at American news media as out-of-touch and inaccurate, and at capitalist culture as vapid and mindless.
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The thinking behind using a vapid social media star like Jenner to comment on such a hotly contested political issue, in the hopes of the commercial going viral, is truly disturbing.
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In the case of "social media influencers" or the wise and vapid teens who started vlogging three years ago, the realm of hearts and likes can open a door to riches.
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" It consists of many vapid subheads, like "Change the mentality"; "Change the programs, connect the dots"; "Think long term and have a multicycle plan"; "Think global"; and "Change the playing style.
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In a sort-of apology, Carlson said he regretted how he behaved, but he blamed Duca for being "mindless and nasty" on air, before calling her "vapid" and "not very impressive."
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With fragrance, DJ gigs, and even a hotel to her name, Hilton is shedding her image as a vapid reality star and showing the world that she's got an entrepreneurial spirit.
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He had assumed that the slightly vapid teenager he was settling for would at least be docile, but she turned out to be the biggest bully he had encountered since Gordonstoun.
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My parents even celebrated their 50th anniversary at the Ahwahnee, so I could be annoyed that the National Park Service recently renamed it the Majestic Yosemite Hotel, an exquisitely vapid choice.
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Vain and vapid, Brenda, whose striving parents were among the first Jews in exclusive Short Hills, was the sort who had her nose "fixed" to fit in with her Harvard classmates.
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"I felt like we were all being forced into vapid, materialistic, image-obsessed boxes, and the only way to break free of those boxes was through savage competition," Little told Business Insider.
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But as Facebook tries to get away from the sensationalized, fake, and vapid news that's plagued its platform, it's still taking a light, indirect approach that isn't likely to solve its problems.
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The truth is, I don't have a catch-all answer, although I am certainly a feminist, and would like to think that I can have vapid side interests without sacrificing my values.
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And for as vapid as Entourage was, it did manage to satirize nearly every aspect of Hollywood while still serving as a vicarious fantasy of life as a successful, famous, straight dude.
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The truth is, the idea that a majority of young women were turning into vapid damsels, their interests never venturing beyond who slept with whom on Gossip Girl, was a false one.
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I had been equipped through years of ex-gay ideological brainwashing to dismiss American gay male identity, with its vapid materialism, its promiscuity, and its idolization of youth, wealth, and sex appeal.
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You see so many movies that are impeccably shot but are vapid, and there's no audience for that, except for other cinematographers who just like to watch two-hour-long music videos.
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Unlike revelatory works in São Paulo last year, where wood was implicated in everything from ancient rituals and slavery to colonialism and globalization, Mr. Oliveira's work feels like a slightly vapid curiosity.
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Yet the enduring interest of 1922 lies in the brilliance, madness, beauty, comedy and devastation with which writers that year fused the fragments of the ages to a noisily vapid postwar present.
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The vote for Brexit was in fact the moment Britain turned its back on the world, succumbing to pettiness, anti-immigrant bigotry, lying politicians, self-delusion and vapid promises of restored glory.
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Seen this way, relatability is a crutch for those who lack the faculty or the patience to be challenged by art — it's a vapid, selfish lens through which to offer a critique.
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They're flocked by fans wherever they go, with high-profile Hollywood ties; it's hard not to see them as the face of Vine — pretty but vapid, and tied to homophobia, racism, and sexism.
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" Included in "Dumpty," which hit store shelves on Tuesday, are verses that take satirical aim at Vice President Pence — "Hentsy Pentsy sat on a fence, The most vapid and vacant of vice presidents.
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Spencer also called on President Donald Trump to denounce antifa, a group of anti-fascist protesters, as well as police in Virginia, calling Trump's statement Monday denouncing racism and white nationalists "vapid nonsense."
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Directed by Schaffer and Taccone, Popstar follows a predictable path as Conner's sophomore disc, CONNquest, gets ready to drop, quickly fading from the charts and leaving our vapid hero at an existential crossroads.
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" Film critic Joshua Rothkopf wrote that Intermezzo contained "endless vapid scenes of flirting and dancing in bars," and IndieWire critic David Ehrlich noted that "60% of the movie is close-ups of butts.
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" Winfrey said that signing all of those autographs felt "vapid" and "meaningless," even thinking to herself about her guests, "By the time you get home you won't even have that piece of paper.
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After all, it's clear that House of Cards is, at heart, a satire of disingenuous Western politics, while BoJack Horseman is a takedown of the vapid self-involvement of America's West Coast elite.
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Worse, because even vapid jukebox musicals apparently require a moral these days, this one forces Tully to give up his toxic bachelor ways in favor of his singing career, which instantly takes off.
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What makes him deserving of the first comprehensive retrospective of his work is that he was an earnest trickster; he meant to make the vapid emptiness of bourgeois standards palpable to the viewer.
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But the word also evokes a homogenized space, a Monocultural Cinematic Universe in which everything is bright, vapid, and family-friendly, and any whimpering of dissent is smoothed over into sameness: monotonous culture.
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In it, the singer belted out nearly half of her critically acclaimed album Lemonade, caused some jaws to drop with her choreography, and added a dollop of social commentary to an otherwise vapid night.
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The first ten episodes of the season before this taught us that while Kevin often means well, he's easily swayed by beauty and money and fame, a little too vapid for his own good.
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At the stadium, Billy quickly falls for a comely if vapid cheerleader named Faison (Makenzie Leigh), one of two female characters who are sorely underwritten, with the other being Billy's sister Kathryn (Kristen Stewart).
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Chiseled abs, toned arms, a weirdly vapid standard-issue stare: Even as they claim to push the boundaries of robosexuality, Realbotix hangs on to the old tropes of what heterosexual men think women want.
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This is vapid stuff, created not for real teenagers but for anyone who's ever spent time thinking about how to craft their personal brand to better attract #teenz on the Snapchat or the Myspace.
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In mimicking social media's drive for instant gratification, "Don't Be Evil" works hard to entertain, but the result is as vapid and as exhausting as the online muck Mr. Voges holds up to scrutiny.
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It's a vapid, empty, and meaningless campaign that confirms Pride is no longer a chance to unapologetically celebrate our culture, or to make vital demands of what our community needs to survive and thrive.
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A lot of what's being said on the stage of the Vineyard Theater these days is maddeningly ordinary — the kind of friendly, vapid conversation you might exchange with a stranger in a grocery store line.
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But movies about the experience of being in proximity to unfathomable evil are almost always more worthwhile than efforts to draw portraits of that evil that only indulge a human impulse for vapid, morbid voyeurism.
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It's suddenly clear: The drink itself never changed—it remains a flirty refresher—rather we changed, outgrowing the now-vapid and unrelatable days of Sex and City that previously shaped our perception of the drink.
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He's a mess, but even in his extreme messiness, he still sees Marnie for what she is - -a vapid, self-absorbed narcisssist who wouldn't recognize someone with a problem if she were married to him.
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But for thousands of people who retweeted and responded to Zupan's tweet, the subtext was clear: Look at these vapid influencers, fishing for likes when they should be respecting the tragic nature of the site.
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The End of History was both bold and stimulating; I remember my deep absorption in all the complexities of his argument, so refreshing in comparison to the vapid hypothesis-testing of the political science profession.
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And since the other girls in "Every Exquisite Thing" are vapid, undifferentiated, peach-schnapps-swilling sexpots, no wonder Nanette is a singular creation who'd rather hang with dudes who tell her to read dude authors.
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He is the most capable person of delivering the withering criticism that will be required to draw a sharp contrast between the values of the Democratic Party and the vapid extremists of the Trump administration.
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The fact of western intellectual freedom may sound like vapid nationalism, but it's actually crucial in AI research: AI is so fluid that no one knows what will move the field forward toward super-intelligence.
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What could possibly be gleaned from two-and-a-half minutes with the camera trained on the rising model and heir to the Kardashian fame throne, aside from a dose of vapid, viral internet content?
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Knowing any more about these characters would spoil the ending of their respective movies, and so these movies turn their characters into vapid pawns, moved from setup to red herring to twist to final reveal.
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Excuse me, I have an I.M. from a devoted fan: Joyce, you vapid, self-absorbed, car-loving, coyote-indifferent elitist; there are people who are unable to afford lifesaving medical care, and you do this.
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At the beach, Adelaide's eyes dart uncomfortably as she tries to maintain a dull conversation with the vapid Kitty (Elisabeth Moss), and she has an anxiety attack when she briefly loses track of her son.
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I expected vapid statements and foggy optimism from distant social media acquaintances but from someone who'd been to our wedding, who had known me for 20-plus years, who was present when our son was born?
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In the fine tradition of vapid Lamborghini, Ferrari, and Porsche Design phones made by tech companies that should know better, OnePlus has this morning announced a launch event for its collaboration with British supercar maker McLaren.
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It's natural, then, that Waters would comment on such a society with Heathers: Veronica (Winona Ryder), is a "good" person who gets sucked into the vapid, cruel crowd that is the Heathers, if mostly for survival.
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A country unable to distinguish itself in contrast to an enemy was, he believed, destined to devolve into a vapid and nihilistic culture where the individual would have no higher purpose beyond that of material wealth.
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He was brought up at Cliveden, a great house on the Thames: "a shallow, vapid, cotton-wool life", he once said, dominated by his obtrusive and overbearing American mother Nancy, Britain's first female member of parliament.
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During downturns, many businesses have to pull back on operations or payroll, but since Washington has the power of taxation and printing dollars, there is no incentive for tightening its belt beyond vapid election year promises.
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The Atlantic was something Londoners had not yet seen: a night spot that not only was a class apart from stuffy hotel bars and vapid discos but also kept hours far beyond those of most pubs.
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Instead of putting their billions towards improving a public safety technology that has been proven to save lives, they stall for time and focus instead on vapid "upgrades" like personalized message bubbles and pop-up menus.
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So maybe scrutinizing first ladies' fashion is not so much sexist or vapid as the thing we feel most qualified to judge given we all wear clothes and likely fancy we have some sense of taste.
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Instead, she identifies as a transhuman cyborg when she attaches a GoPro to her head and uses it to film her friends — who are no longer speaking to her — and the vapid popular girls at school.
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The latest explanation was similarly vapid: a clutch of admirable but vague aspirations, such as improving the competitiveness of the economy and promoting equality of opportunity, flecked with trendy phrases such as "green economy" and "human capital".
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The images may actually be a critique of beauty standards imposed by the entertainment industry, as indicated by their subjects' robotically stiff poses and the series' titular reference to this vapid, pill-popping hell of a reality.
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Famously, neither Mr Jordan or Wilt Chamberlain managed to do any better early in their careers, and both faced the same vapid questions Mr James did about whether they had what it takes to win a title.
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In the 2016 primary campaign, no one took Trump seriously at the outset, yet he was able to abuse and publicly bully the establishment candidates relentlessly, making once-promising figures like Marco Rubio look vapid and foolish.
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It is a stark contrast from his role in "'Daddy,'" in which he plays Max, a vapid young Hollywood actor who can barely conceal his jealousy when a friend finds a sugar daddy, played by Alan Cumming.
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He worked on Mr. Peanutbutter's abortive campaign for California governor, got railroaded into a sham engagement to the vapid actress Courtney Portnoy (Sharon Horgan), embraced his asexual identity and launched an ill-advised business venture: clown dentists.
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In the two or three years since their inception, releases on the PC Music label have been branded as soulless, vapid and empty – inasmuch as they depict a generational emotional void or that they are lacking in substance.
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Was it a slogan that awakened millions of young girls to basic ideas of gender equality, or a vapid catchphrase used by marketing men to sap their money, turning the political gains made by feminism into cheap consumerism.
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The naming of genres, and creation of a hierarchy where "vapid and commercial" pop sits near "gritty and real" rock, while the minor players duke it out below, doesn't have much of a place in our society now.
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But far too often, both musicians and critics can fall into the trap of confusing good taste with depth, which can lead to people getting really excited about a thing that won't age well because it's ultimately vapid.
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Awards shows can be pretty meaningless but Sunday night actually wasn't so vapid, as Mr. Glover took home an award for directing for "Atlanta," making him the first black person to win an award for directing TV comedy.
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The 15-year-old kid in rural Arkansas who doesn't have any gauge to let him know that he doesn't have to repeat this pattern of growing into an adult in ways that are both toxic and vapid.
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In addition to the hyper-teenage vernacular and vapid plot line, Stacey Dash, who was an integral part of the cast, has morphed into a right-wing conservative whose presence in the film would distract from its lovability. 2.
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But here, the vapid contraction of ancient and modern, and the gross lunges for sex appeal through the striated marble, feel more suitable for a money launderer's powder room than for Lagerfeld's own Memphis-soaked, frequently photographed Monaco apartment.
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Days later, both bored with their regular routines — Karl with his vapid girlfriend, and Danny with stale home life — Danny-as-Lance and Karl-as-Roxette get back into the game, and once again eschew fighting for hooking up.
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It might be a fad, but it highlights a huge issue in online dating culture: It's become so vapid that we're confusing the normal-ass desire for a serious, long-lasting connection with someone for a new sexual orientation.
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For one thing, all the nominees look the part -- a vapid and meaningless qualification that has, according to early transition team officials and Trump associates, proven to be a central driver in Donald Trump's decision-making on key appointments.
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I want to focus on one of these gaffes in particular, the one about coal, both because it says something about coal and because it illustrates just how vapid and onanistic the rituals of presidential campaign coverage have become.
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Coal-black gallows humor and a rising body-count punctuate the silliness inherent to the fish-out-of-water story, especially since that "fish" is a man capable of extreme violence and the "water" is LA's vapid acting scene.
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We have to write something, so then you end up ... Like I write that we had stories counting Hillary's head nods during policy round tables, and in turn, she and her campaign think we're vapid morons, and it's this cycle.
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Although the film has been predicted to win Best Picture since its debut at the Venice film festival, its romanticism has alienated some critics who find the musical vapid in the era of Trump, a time of serious political danger.
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Although the film has been predicted to win Best Picture since its debut at the Venice film festival, its romanticism has alienated some critics who find the musical vapid in the era of Trump, a time of serious political danger.
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But its resilience will be tested by an election that has given two out-with-the-bums parties 50 percent of the vote, pulverized the mainstream, prized vapid inexperience and seen Steve Bannon emerge as a purported expert on Tuscany.
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The "corporate-athletics complex," as he calls it, corrupts universities, skirts federal tax laws, bullies the IRS, relies heavily on private donors, and sets players up to fail after their sports careers are over by pushing them into academically vapid curriculums.
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The confluence of those stories, laid bare in a new Washington Post investigation into Russia's interference in the election, shows how manufactured events and a vapid media cycle buried the biggest story of all, possibly altering the course of American politics.
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Written by a different author, they wouldn't be: Penny, especially, is the kind of self-obsessed faux-bohemian who responds to a shockingly personal family letter with a casual request for money; she could easily come across as vapid with less careful treatment.
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Certain brands, like FabFitFun subscription boxes, HiSmile teeth whiteners, SugarBearHair gummies, or any "skinny" (read: laxative) teas, have been so associated with vapid Instagram marketing that many influencers explicitly avoid them (former Bachelorette Hannah Brown said as much in a recent interview).
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I think a lot of this scrutiny is based in this judgment around selfie culture, and I've seen how that narrative has built and how people are really quick to jump onto it and make it about the vapid nature of millennials.
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You can imagine a straightforward Hollywood approach to this material, which would lean into stereotypes, hinge on an odd-couple friendship between Molly and Katherine, and end with some kind of rousing, vapid feminism-lite sloganeering about following your dreams and being empowered.
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I had left off in a very relevant place: the "Hopes and Prayers" episode wherein Bojack's razor-sharp writing team has a field day with the vapid, empty response that has become so common when yet another mass shooting occurs in our country.
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Throughout the early goings of the film, it's a vapid but beautiful movie about sexism and the fashion industry, set in the 1950s in the dress house of one Reynolds Woodcock, a total asshole who makes gorgeous designs for rich white ladies.
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Putting your vapid Miami Vice fantasies of the Magic City to rest has been the mission of a generation of millennials and settled-down Gen-Xers who chose to stay in this sunny town instead of fleeing to New York or Los Angeles.
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This band was the soundtrack to our vapid youth, and being confronted by the ghost of our regular ass gas station parking lot loitering ass seedy shake smoking ass pasts is bound to leave a lot of us a lot of upheaved.
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The big question after last night however, will be even more pointed this morning: Will the GOP finally put country before party and call out Trump for the unstable, morally vapid, dangerous, unfit, lying president he proves to be time and again?
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The whole presentation is sensorially rich but risks being vapid — high on effect and low on pretty much everything else — until you learn that the voice accompanying the video belongs to the artist's mother, Patricia Satterwhite, who was schizophrenic and died in 2016.
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The vapid mean girl villain was a staple of the '90s teen movie, but the best iterations of the genre subverted expectations by giving her a heart and a soul: Bring It On managed to pull that off, and so did Legally Blonde.
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In September, Ivanka Trump said in an interview that she only wanted people to judge her a very small number of incredibly specific policy initiatives, despite the fact that the efforts she's unveiled are relatively vapid compared to the regressive nature of this White House.
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Mrs May's vapid sloganeering—"Brexit means Brexit" and the rest of it—grated on European ears as much as British ones, but her point of departure was clear enough: a "hard" Brexit in which Britain will leave the EU's single market and its customs union.
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The show might feel vapid, the conversations might be scripted, and the whole genesis of "Speidi" might be unfortunate enough to dismiss the entire series — but I always feel a bit of a rage when people pooh-pooh The Hills and its legion of fans.
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But if we get used to generic, shallow, vapid, derivative storytelling and flat-looking images, and simply show up at the movies to be made to feel as if we're in the middle of an explosion, then that's eventually what the industry will turn out.
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The skits are an R-rated fusillade of blanks: a vapid dance between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump; a biblical spoof ("The Can Commandments"); giggly glancing at male genitalia at urinals; a wearisome ode to décolletage; a trucker who wrestles with gay impulses.
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It is this moment in hip-hop's history that Famuyiwa was dedicated to highlighting in Brown Sugar—a time when the rabid and vapid consumption of hip-hop was on the horizon but still far away enough for it to be a cautionary tale.
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It is a high moment for gestural feminism, from the vapid Sheryl Sandberg-isms of Ivanka Trump ("Never settle," she says — who has to with a staff?) to the proliferation of pink hats from the West Side of Manhattan to the Los Angeles Westside.
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In other words, it's super-obvious this is yet more vapid bullshit the president and/or the various underlings that tweet from his account—it's not always clear which—either lack the capacity to think critically about or are just throwing out as some kind of distraction.
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Should May continue to run a cautious and vapid campaign (likely), and the Liberal Democrats galvanize the anti-Brexit vote (plausible, but does not appear to be happening), and Corbyn can convince most of the irate Labour voters to come home (unlikely), things could actually get interesting.
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In the piece, Smith refers to Willow and Jaden as the following:— "überentitled, brainless, self-adoring, twaddle-spewing little munchkins" — "nuclear narcissists"— "terrifying ego monsters"— "pretentious, vapid and humorless" — "the black Boy George, minus the talent" (Jaden) Lobbing a laundry list of insults at minors — really, dude?
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And instead of apologizing for misleading voters, Mr. Johnson and the other Brexiteers have doubled down, taking refuge in optimistic slogans and vapid promises, refusing to believe the increasingly agitated evidence from hospitals, airlines, farmers, supermarkets and factories that a hard Brexit will damage them all.
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Ness, who wrote each episode, doesn't help here: Again and again, he takes great but tropey ideas — Buffy-esque family drama, hokey Star Trek-ian puzzle episodes — and fills them with vapid, generic writing that does little but mark time, without any major plot or characterization development.
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I mean, dancing around in your op-shop leather was always a marketing slogan of sorts—there you were, a DIY style icon for the night, refusing the vapid consumerism of fast fashion while posing for snaps that you hoped might end up in the street press.
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And that is why when an esteemed art institution like MoMA PS290 invokes vapid Buddhist tropes to unify the career of a Chinese artist whose trajectory is inseparable from the politics and economics of contemporary Chinese society, it's a sign that something has gone very predictably wrong.
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One of it is they've, Jonah has established a strong brand that ... I don't know what the age is, I won't put an age on it, but from high school up, people go to it tons of times and love the vapid to the serious and everything in between.
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And at the start of the fourth floor, the exhibition suddenly narrows to two marquee names: a conversation about fragmentary brushwork between multiple paintings by Cézanne and Picasso under the gaze of Luc Tuymans's enormous but vapid oil-on-canvas riff on one of Cézanne's watercolor still lifes.
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Dorsey says the "health" of conversations on his platform is now the company's "number one priority" — more than a decade after he typed that vapid first tweet, "just setting up my twttr", when he presumably had zero idea of all the horrible things humans would end up using his technology for.
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This vapid existence made me miserable, and it was this misery which turned into rage, and this rage which fueled my workouts, and these workouts that created my six-pack, and my six-pack that served as the foundation for the existence that made me miserable in the first place.
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According to Bankston, these are the first lawsuits he is aware of in which a parent of a mass shooting victim has sued Jones, a notorious purveyor of vapid conspiracies whose main source of revenue is using InfoWars as a vehicle to sell the gullible on snake-oil diet supplements.
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Breezing by the weakest pieces in the show — the slim and scarcely perceptible "Others" (83), "Mini-Me" (1999), and the vapid "Sans tire" (2007) work of two stuffed Labrador Retriever dogs and a stuffed chick — the astonishing, self-referential "Sans titre" (2001) floor piece dominates a red room of its own.
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You all can have fun with your gargantuan budget music video with a vapid and listless narrative, but your man literally made the PG-13 version of "Ebony Eyes" (the best music video of all time) or a soft core porn parody of "Cast Away" starring a gender fluid russian prisoner.
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The last five years have seen a new era of female and queer-led publishing being ushered in, with my own publication Polyester just one of the many, many new zines blending high production value with feminist ideologies, with an aim to fill the vapid void women's publishing had become.
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As Mr. Nygard compared himself to Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin while dancing with a bevy of models — or as a voice-over explained, "living a life most can only dream of" — nine minutes of YouTube expanded into a vapid eternity, where time melted into a vortex of solipsism.
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The problem is that "Insatiable" doesn't seem to view Patty and Bob's eating disorder as a disorder, or something that needs to be addressed directly with the aid of trained a professional; instead, it imagines it as a character flaw that leads them to act out as vapid, terrible human beings.
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In 2009, fresh off her Oscar win for Juno's screenplay, Cody was considered a gimmicky one-hit wonder who was way too precious with her made-up slang, and Fox was considered a vapid Maxim cover girl best qualified to wash a car in a bikini in the Transformers movies.
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It doesn't matter how vapid or void of quality the writing of the article is (and whoo boy can it get bad), a share or a retweet from the band will send their rabid fans flooding by the thousands to a site, boosting its monthly traffic numbers, which looks appealing to advertisers.
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"Our president is under constant barrage from all quarters by the vapid but still venomous Dems on Capitol Hill, the left-wing national media, the toxic GOP elites and much of the orthodoxy who hate also as much as the left and the deep state denizens," said Dobbs, a staunch Trump supporter.
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Mr. Colbert has something more personal on the line: his reputation as a comedic actor who used his longtime perch at Comedy Central to show how integrity, grace and wicked intelligence could inject something politically powerful — and powerfully funny — into the late-night lineup of stupid pet tricks and vapid celebrity interviews.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Since the right-wing foot-soldiers of today's culture wars tend to be annoying, vapid YouTubers, it made sense that, sooner or later, one of them would pull a stupid prank that went way too far, and be forced to shamefacedly distance themselves from it.
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Like most conservatives, I favor a more limited role for our robed archons, I admired Scalia's originalism precisely because it establishes plausible (if, of course, debatable) limits on judicial activism, and I regard Kennedy's Casey ruling as a vapid Emersonian effusion, whose paean to individualism was really a license to kill inconvenient innocents.
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There Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump's second pick for the high court, will endure what Justice Elena Kagan once described as "a vapid and hollow charade" — days of tedious, predigested speeches by senators followed by carefully scripted questions, either softballs the nominee can hit out of the park or changeups he won't bother to swing at.
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They were in character as social media-obsessed fameballs; while I understand it was intended to be a commentary on the vapid nature of internet discourse—and their catchphrase, "that's the tweet!" is something I've whispered too many times when composing fire tweets—the schtick was tired by the second time Key and Peele appeared onscreen.
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The suspect is among the boat's guests, a rogue's gallery that feels like an expansion set of the game "Clue": a vapid starlet (Gemma Arterton), a funky maharajah (Adeel Akhtar), a hunky Formula 1 champion (Luis Gerardo Mendéz), a one-eyed colonel (John Kani), a hulking bodyguard (Olafur Darri Olafsson) and the dead man's much younger fiancée (Shioli Kutsuna).
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Then there's the jaw-cracking, mouth-slicing kettle chips that are marketed as a more "authentic" potato chip experience; the "healthy" oven-baked potato chips that gained popularity in the '90s, along with bagel and taro chips; and the popular Popchip, made by subjecting potato starches to high pressure to create the distinctive (and culinarily vapid) puff.
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First off, the casting: a fresh-faced 17-year-old Knightley, truly magnetic in every single second of this film; a deliciously vapid pre-The Good Wife Panjabi, who almost murders her bridesmaid for buying the blue contacts she was planning on wearing to her engagement party; a devastatingly handsome Rhys-Meyers making hearts swoon with his lilting Irish brogue!
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She writes: Instead, the curatorial team overseen by James Rondeau, formerly the museum's curator of modern and contemporary art and now its new director, has grouped artworks into exasperatingly vapid mini-galleries deserving of nicknames like The Muddy Canvas Room, The Monochrome Room, The Bad Work by Good Artists Room, The Room of Amazing Production Values and The Leftover Objects Room.
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There is high-decibel shouting from the campaign trail, stories of internecine Republican civil wars and endless vapid coverage of 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 tweets and who's up, who's down in the polls.
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And now that things previously viewed as vapid or throwaway are being approached with ever-increasing consideration by the media—GQ presenting Kim Kardashian as the business behemoth that she is, Harry Styles being given the same profile treatment as a traditional rock star in Rolling Stone—there's also less resistance to pop's place among the ranks of more historically acclaimed types of music.
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It makes sense that it hasn't been easy for the Academy to find someone for the job—it only pays a paltry six-figure sum (likely a drop in the bucket for those who host), and the host is bound to come under fire for their own personal failures, as well as the failures of the broadcast, which in itself is an inherently vapid and self-congratulatory event.
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" There's even a letter from multiple Republican representatives that is almost doglike in its vapid admiration ("The record is exhaustive, every viewpoint is well represented, and the time has come for the Commission to act") and parrot-like in its repetition of talking points ("We write today in support of the [FCC's] plan to restore Internet freedom by reversing… a statutory scheme created for the monopoly telephone carriers of a bygone era.
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Although there is definitely a vapid element to competitive cheerleading – appearance is something that can count towards your overall competition score and if you're a female cheerleader it's standard to be wearing a big, garish bow on the top of your head, a "toothy grin", and, in many cases, a lot of makeup and fake tan – I would argue that cheer has become a weird haven in the UK for people who don't quite fit the mould.
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Jane Prescott, a smart and sensible lady's maid in service to the nouveau riche Benchley family, has a front-row seat for the mischief that ensues when pretty, vapid Charlotte Benchley rises above her station and becomes romantically entwined with a rich nitwit ne'er-do-well, Robert Norris Newsome Jr. When Norrie is murdered on the night their engagement is to be announced, Charlotte becomes a suspect and only Jane seems inclined to clear the silly girl's good name.
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Like the "basic" girls of the mid to early 2010s, the VSCO girl label slaps any teenager with an oversized T-shirt and a scrunchie with a dozen other signifiers that may or may not apply to her: That she's vapid and boring, that she's too concerned with how her pictures look even though they look just like everybody else's, and that in trying so hard to not look like she's trying, she becomes the biggest try-hard of all.
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