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  • It was inane to be standing there listing these details.†   (source)
  • Far from being flattered by Dodgson's silly scribblings, it was as if they had brought home to Alice, as nothing else had been able to, just how inane all her Wonderland talk had been.†   (source)
  • Logs that bleed, Tyrion thought inanely as the second man came for him.†   (source)
  • Cinder gaped, waiting for the doctor to continue, to move past his inane lie and start telling the prince all of her secrets.†   (source)
  • I was fading out myself—ears ringing, inane buzz and a metallic taste in my mouth like at the dentist's—and I might have drifted back into unconsciousness and stayed there had he not at some point shaken me, hard, so I awoke with a buck of panic.†   (source)
  • We Prices are altogether thought to be peculiarly well-intentioned, and inane.†   (source)
  • I could never make the long walk to the base at Asadabad, and anyhow that would seem inane since the village elder was either in there or very nearly.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, I felt dizzy and sat down and stared dumbly at the scarlet geyser until I started to giggle again, and then we all giggled inanely at each other.†   (source)
  • I agree that the world is a pretty crappy place most of the time,' he said, and then added inanely: 'Especially when it rains.†   (source)
  • It's good advice, as all of your seemingly inane advice turns out to be."†   (source)
  • In those early months, we kept him on speed dial and consulted him about the most inane concerns.†   (source)
  • Inanely.†   (source)
  • He knew it was an inane question, but it was all he could come up with.†   (source)
  • I rolled my eyes as if to say I am not answering such an inane question.†   (source)
  • "Blind faith," she said, inanely, "I've got it," and thought, God.†   (source)
  • And the words of a thousand inane love songs suddenly made sense.†   (source)
  • But my conscience doesn't have to spend the next two years making inane teatime chatter, bored to the point of catatonia.†   (source)
  • He also decided that schoolwork was inane and beneath him, but he did it anyway.†   (source)
  • I make it all the way through to fifth period before being faced with one of those inane get-to-know-you games in my suckfest of a music class—a class which I will soon be clawing my way out of by any means necessary.†   (source)
  • He would go to school in New Orleans and get such inane notions out of his head.†   (source)
  • "So," I say inanely.†   (source)
  • Young Ned Rutledge is a perfect Bob o' Lincoln, a swallow, a sparrow, a peacock, excessively vain, excessively weak, and excessively variable and unsteady—jejune, inane, and puerile.†   (source)
  • Lester, a dapper little man with a toothbrush moustache, had the radio on behind the counter and for once Robert felt grateful for the constant, inane babble of traffic news and jingles.†   (source)
  • He remembers the music lit course Beth was taking when they met; all those inane lyrics they put to the main themes to help her study for the exams.†   (source)
  • I mumbled something inane, and then he said — and these are his exact words — "How about you, professor?†   (source)
  • He expected her to leave, finished with his inane chatter, but she softened and sat back on her stool.†   (source)
  • He ordered coffee from the cabin crew and stared distractedly at the inane film that flickered on his private screen.†   (source)
  • The Glatun was a hit over a meter-and-a-half-tall biped with blue skin, red eyes, a vaguely piglike head and snout and a Inane of white fur running down his back.†   (source)
  • I really felt I ought to stay and try to work, try to set some words down on the yawning yellow page, even if they be inane and random jottings.†   (source)
  • I asked inanely.†   (source)
  • Then he tittered… weakly, inanely.†   (source)
  • He studied me, and an inane grin spread across his lips like a stain.   (source)
    inane = lacking substance
  • She feels like she always has to say something, even when it's completely inane.   (source)
    inane = stupid, silly, or lacking substance
  • Won't want to deal with inane questions, prime-time TV, or Barbie.   (source)
  • Topics, from the inane to slightly promising, flitted through my brain as we moved along the quiet, mostly deserted country roads.   (source)
  • My mother loved to complain about how little she got paid for her books—all academic, published by university presses—while what she termed "inane housewife stories" pulled in big bucks.   (source)
  • Scarlett, of course, just shook her head and smiled as she listened to me prattle on, detailing every word and gesture of our inane sock-and-volleyball conversations.   (source)
  • I babble inanely to distract myself from the freaking out!†   (source)
  • He's more a spotted knight than a white one, Tyrion thought inanely.†   (source)
  • Here, I couldn't watch movies, play games, or listen to music while I answered the endless stream of inane calls.†   (source)
  • From the back room: a weak female scream, inane and empty, followed by equally inane hoots of male laughter.†   (source)
  • What happened was, I got the idea in my head—and I could not get it out—that college was just one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything.†   (source)
  • How is that inane?'†   (source)
  • I bet Jeremy Paxman doesn't start grinning inanely every time someone asks him if he's appearing on University Challenge.†   (source)
  • The copies of my poems Rudy handed back had on them brief, inane remarks I read and reread for double meaning.†   (source)
  • But if a grownup American of indeterminable age asked her for directions, invariably speaking too quickly, she merely shrugged and smiled an inane smile.†   (source)
  • It takes hold of some music played where you please, without distinction, stupid and coarse, lamentably distorted, to boot, and chucks it into space to land where it has no business to be; and yet after all this it cannot destroy the original spirit of the music; it can only demonstrate its own senseless mechanism, its inane meddling and marring.†   (source)
  • The cheder itself, whispers in sudden gloom, knotted figures, cracked benches, the long table, the inane, perpetual drone, fantastic forms, perspectives.†   (source)
  • He sees in his mind a face which does not exist anymore, speaks a name—Spike, Bud, Snip, Red, Rusty, Jack, Dave—which belongs to that now nonexistent face but which by some inane and doddering confusion of the universe is for the moment attached to a not too happily met and boring stranger.†   (source)
  • "It may be an insane love-affair," she told her anxious mother, "but it's not inane."†   (source)
  • Men born and reared upon the Bridge found life unendurably dull and inane elsewhere.†   (source)
  • As he spoke it seemed to him that he had behaved inanely, and it made it still harder to tell.†   (source)
  • The mask of an inane fop had been a good one, and the part consummately well played.†   (source)
  • Blakeney, with his most inane laugh and pleasant good-nature, was solemnly patting him on the back.†   (source)
  • Then he again turned with an inane laugh to Chauvelin,— "Eh?†   (source)
  • A long, jovial, inane laugh broke the sudden silence which had fallen over everyone.†   (source)
  • They made inane and affected remarks to one another, entirely for her benefit.†   (source)
  • The Patriarch, meanwhile, came inanely beaming towards the counting-house in the wake of Pancks.†   (source)
  • They stood in inane suspense till Bresnahan led them out, rumbling, "How about planning a fishing-trip, Will?"†   (source)
  • I think your flippancy is quite inane.'†   (source)
  • Rocks like basalt, remnants of former realities, which the Spirit has left so far behind that it refuses even to associate the notion of reality with them, persist in their dogged way; their very lumpish, dead continuance unfortunately prevents them in their inanity from realizing how inane they are.†   (source)
  • The threadbare phrases, the inane expressions of sympathy, the cautious words of a reporter won over to conceal the details of a commonplace vulgar death attacked his stomach.†   (source)
  • A savorless people, gulping tasteless food, and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking-chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world.†   (source)
  • The laughter came in loud snorts, until in his dismay he thought better of it and suddenly recovered, coughed, and tried to gloss over his inane conduct by any means possible; but he was relieved to see—a relief that contained the seeds of renewed disquiet—that Hans Castorp had paid no attention at all to what had happened, although he could hardly not have noticed, but simply passed over it with a disregard that did not look like tact, consideration, or politeness, but instead like…†   (source)
  • And how inane was the life he led, lounging about bars and drinking in music halls, wandering from one light amour to another!†   (source)
  • He put his arm about her waist; it was a large, strong, sophisticated arm, and very agreeable; he grinned at her with a devastating knowingness, while Kennicott glowed inanely.†   (source)
  • It all seemed inane.†   (source)
  • But pity was inane.†   (source)
  • Loved that inane fop! whose thoughts seemed unable to soar beyond the tying of a cravat or the new cut of a coat.†   (source)
  • Marguerite, excited, as she was, could see that the eyes were no longer languid, the mouth no longer good-humoured and inane.†   (source)
  • "Here I am, friend," he said with his funny, inane laugh, "all alive! though I do look a begad scarecrow in these demmed things."†   (source)
  • Even last night when Chauvelin went to Lord Grenville's dining-room to seek that daring Scarlet Pimpernel, he only saw that inane Sir Percy Blakeney fast asleep in a corner of the sofa.†   (source)
  • It was Sir Percy Blakeney, tall, sleepy, good-humoured, and wearing that half-shy, half-inane smile, which just now seemed to irritate her every nerve.†   (source)
  • She marvelled at herself for having ever looked upon him as an inane fool; of course, THAT was a mask worn to hide the bitter wound she had dealt to his faith and to his love.†   (source)
  • He laughed his own pleasant and inane laugh, and burying his slender, long hands into the capacious pockets of his overcoat, he said leisurely—"a bloodthirsty young ruffian, Do you want to make a hole in a law-abiding man?†   (source)
  • So she lingered on under the pretty porch, while through the gaily-lighted dormer-window of the coffee-room sounds of laughter, of calls for "Sally" and for beer, of tapping of mugs, and clinking of dice, mingled with Sir Percy Blakeney's inane and mirthless laugh.†   (source)
  • "Yet, 'tis simple enough, m'dear," he said with that funny, half-shy, half-inane laugh of his, "you see! when I found that that brute Chauvelin meant to stick to me like a leech, I thought the best thing I could do, as I could not shake him off, was to take him along with me.†   (source)
  • But before he could utter a preliminary word of protest, a pleasant though distinctly inane laugh, was heard from outside, and the next moment an unusually tall and very richly dressed figure appeared in the doorway.†   (source)
  • His back was turned to Chauvelin and he was still prattling along in his own affected and inane way, but from his pocket he had taken his snuff-box, and quickly and suddenly he emptied the contents of the pepper-pot into it.†   (source)
  • Tall, above the average, even for an Englishman, broad-shouldered and massively built, he would have been called unusually good-looking, but for a certain lazy expression in his deep-set blue eyes, and that perpetual inane laugh which seemed to disfigure his strong, clearly-cut mouth.†   (source)
  • …his fine shoulders, his hands looked almost femininely white, as they emerged through billowy frills of finest Mechline lace: the extravagantly short-waisted satin coat, wide-lapelled waistcoat, and tight-fitting striped breeches, set off his massive figure to perfection, and in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laugh, brought one's admiration of Sir Percy Blakeney to an abrupt close.†   (source)
  • Only Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, whose every thought since he had met Suzanne de Tournay seemed keener, more gentle, more innately sympathetic, noted the curious look of intense longing, of deep and hopeless passion, with which the inane and flippant Sir Percy followed the retreating figure of his brilliant wife.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were moist when Chauvelin had finished speaking, the lace at her bosom rose and fell with her quick, excited breathing; she no longer heard the noise of drinking from the inn, she did not heed her husband's voice or his inane laugh, her thoughts had gone wandering in search of the mysterious hero!†   (source)
  • One had had from an early time, for that matter, the instinct of the right estimate of such values and of its reducing to the inane the dull dispute over the "immoral" subject and the moral.†   (source)
  • Some would even descend from their vehicles and feel the horses' legs; asking inane questions, or, through sheer ignorance of the vernacular, grossly insulting the imperturbable trader.†   (source)
  • Pancks steamed out of his little dock at a quarter before six, and bore straight down for the Patriarch, who happened to be then driving, in an inane manner, through a stagnant account of Bleeding Heart Yard.†   (source)
  • She made up her mind that their lives were, though luxurious, inane, and incurred some disfavour by expressing this view on bright Sunday afternoons, when the American absentees were engaged in calling on each other.†   (source)
  • They who have been accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers, if they persist in reading this book to its conclusion, will, no doubt, frequently have to struggle with feelings of strangeness and aukwardness: they will look round for poetry, and will be induced to inquire by what species of courtesy these attempts can be permitted to assume that title.†   (source)
  • Student Has Series of Inane Conversations†   (source)
  • That was another inane thing that I said.†   (source)
  • This was so astonishing that I said, "Word," completing a personal trifecta of Consecutive Inane Utterances That Will Prevent Sex from Ever Happening.†   (source)
  • If nothing else, it should prove that actually not anyone can write a book, unless we're talking about a record-settingly inane book, so at least it's useful for that.†   (source)
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