Utiliser "insipid" dans une phrase

1. After years of enduring these sorts of formal necessities, and the insipid arrogance of some participants whom I've met along the way

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2. Like insipid meat, all these products were mankind's choices, not

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3. The walls were painted an insipid yellow, the small window covered by a set of floral patterned curtains that didn't quite meet in the middle

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4. And the woman tended to maunder on, vapid, insipid, banal and trite

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5. Both men agreed that felt that their protest was little more than insipid thinking

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6. Then he heard a sparkling voice and could almost see the insipid smile behind the words of the Patriarch without needing to turn:

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7. His pale, insipid, wishy-washy blue eyes stared into mine

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8. Combining elements of French brioche, German stollen, strudel and English fruit tart, it made them all insipid by comparison

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9. Their letters had been so insipid

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10. 6) Utilize figures when necessary and not just ordinary and insipid statements

11. In the end I decided to maraud for the ways of the superficiality and answer with the most insipid of the phrases:

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12. Bland and insipid were not qualities to tempt anyone to eat more than necessary

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13. showed just how insipid he was

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14. were bloodsuckers even for insipid kites, it was clear

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15. There would have been no problem in going back to Fernan-da’s insipid love, because her beauty had become solemn with age, but the rain had spared him from all emergen-cies of passion and had filled him with the spongy serenity of a lack of appetite

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16. I didn't mind the murmur of her insipid cartoons, I just enjoyed feeling someone against me

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17. thick insipid fuel and candles lit for horseman this way comes in harsh weather spit-

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18. political agenda, whether you thought his speech was inspiring or insipid, whether you

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19. Is this causative or just ironic? We do not live in the age of the absurd, but in the age of the insipid: processed food without nutritional value; processed news without informational value; processed meanings without transformational value

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20. The patenting of Life, the surveillance of Liberty and the pursuit of Hatred is the insipid preamble of those declaring their independence from empathy

21. He had pathetic, adoring fans wherever else he went, she definitely didn’t need to be part of the insipid crowd

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22. “It's your awakening distaste for this mindless feeding which has serendipitously trailed you to our sanctuary of insipid idealists

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23. She was insipid and lacked the conviction of her earlier actions

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24. and insipid interior was not as I had expected from a prosperous nation

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25. We were married in a morning ceremony of the Anglican Church, followed by a midday reception of champagne and caviar, of loud upper class accents, of my dear fellow's and ha-ha's, of top hats and tails for the gentlemen and extravagant, tasteless dresses with insipid morning hats for the ladies

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26. Wondering how Paul would fall for such an insipid person

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27. My father, a stern and tough old cookie who was exceptionally fond of his nephew, would not have tolerated Hassan"s insipid familiarities and jokes with the couple

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28. More than that, she is a very gifted artist, not the insipid amateur

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29. “Or having endured three hours of insipid Japanese moaning

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30. You see, I am becoming superstitious and poetic and unreasonable and maybe, to a brain like yours, even unsavory and insipid

31. borrowed Angela"s car and drove them to the seaside, took them to their granny, scoured the „Golden Opportunity" newspaper for work, watched insipid shows on television and began losing hope that I would ever be useful again to anyone other than the children

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32. He had written a mediocre specimen of an insipid class of romance, and some plays which manifestly did not comply with the primary condition of pleasing: were the playgoers to patronise plays that did not amuse them, because the author was to produce "Don Quixote" twenty years afterwards?

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33. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity! From pity and charity! He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! Let us settle it at once: will you stay here, and am I to fight my way to Catherine over Linton and his footman? Or will you be my friend, as you have been hitherto, and do what I request? Decide! because there is no reason for my lingering another minute, if you persist in your stubborn ill-nature!"

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34. upon us, resigned us up to the cool cares of insipid life

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35. insipid privy shifts of my self-viewing, self-touching self-enjoying, in

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36. there, than when under my own insipid handling! And now his waistcoat

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37. innocent and insipid trifler, for I never heard more of him after his first

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38. Alas! that these delights should be no longer-lived; for now the point of pleasure, unedged by enjoyment, and all the brisk sensations flattened upon us, resigned us up to the cool cares of insipid life

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39. the old insipid privy shifts of my self-viewing, self-touching selfenjoying, in fine, to all the means of self knowledge I could devise, in search of the pleasure that fled before me, and tantalized with that unknown something that was out of my reach; thus all only served to enflame myself, and to provoke violently my desires, whilst the one thing needful to their satisfaction was not at hand, and I could have bit my finger for representing it so ill

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40. But when his hand, and touches, naturally attracted to their center, made me feel all their wantonness and warmth in, and round it, oh! how immensely different a sense of things, did I perceive there, than when under my own insipid handling! And now his waistcoat was unbuttoned, and the confinement of the breeches burst through, when out started to view the amazing, pleasing object of all my wishes, all my dreams, all my love, the king member indeed! I gazed at, I devoured it, at length and breadth, with my

41. This lasted till a violent cough, seizing and laying him up, delivered me from this most innocent and insipid trifler, for I never heard more of him after his first retreat

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42. 'You mustn't blame Sebastian if at times he seems a little insipid

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43. In fact, brandy was good almost any time, so much better than insipid wine

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44. We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement

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45. An insipid reporter was giving the latest on the Chimera case, getting it all wrong, insulting the public, insulting him

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46. use napkin, cup, and plate; he had to learn his book, he had to go to church; he had to talk so properly that speech was become insipid in his mouth; whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot

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47. Slipping, crying insipid prayers, I groaned to the top, cried out with relief, and shouted myself out of the sarcophagus, onto the floor

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48. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid

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49. She thought him insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and extremely ugly

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50. Your third estate is insipid, colorless, odorless, and shapeless

51. the fiddler David must have been an insipid sort of fellow; I like black Bothwell better: to my mind a man is nothing without a spice of the devil in him; and history may say what it will of James Hepburn, but I have a notion, he was just the sort of wild, fierce, bandit hero whom I could have consented to gift with my hand

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52. The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish: their presence was pungent, but their absence would be felt as comparatively insipid

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53. Behind his scowling manner was a kindly old man, and if it hadn't been for the arrival of a rather insipid little boy, she might never have known, nor might anyone else for that matter

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54. After much thought he risked a white rose, which he liked less than the others because it was insipid and mute: it did not say anything

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55. If I must give my opinion, I have always thought it the most insipid play in the English language

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56. In the second place, and giving my own personal opinion, a child’s flesh is not a satisfying diet; it is too insipid, too sweet; and the criminal, in making these experiments, could have satisfied neither his conscience nor his appetite

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57. It would be difficult to imagine a more pitiful, vulgar, dull and insipid allegory than this "literary quadrille

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58. I had imagined, on the contrary, that on coming in he would at once break into his habitual thin, shrill laugh and fall to making his insipid jokes and witticisms

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59. And ask him whether it is laudable and worthy of a man, and proper for a Christian, to busy himself, again for money, with catching unfortunate, erring, frequently ignorant, drunken men for appropriating to themselves other people's possessions in much smaller quantities than we appropriate things to ourselves, and for killing men differently from what we are accustomed to kill men, and for this to put them in prisons, and torment, and kill them, and whether it is laudable and worthy of a man and a Christian, again for money, to preach to the masses, instead of Christianity, what is well known to be insipid and harmful superstitions; and whether it is laudable and worthy of a man to take from his neighbour, for the sake of his own lust, what his neighbour needs for the gratification of his prime necessities, as is done by the large landowners; or to compel him to perform labour above his strength, which ruins his life, in order to increase his own wealth, as is done by manufacturers, by owners of factories; or to exploit men's want for the purpose of increasing his wealth, as is done by merchants

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60. " All the accepted recruits senselessly repeat these wild words, and the so-called "father" drives away with the consciousness of having correctly and scrupulously done his duty, and all these deceived lads think that all those insipid, incomprehensible words, which they have just pronounced, have now, for the whole time of their military service, freed them from their human obligations and have bound them to new, more obligatory military obligations

61. Having arrived at such a solution, these people, if they are weak, unenergetic natures, make their peace with such a senseless life, are even proud of their condition, considering their lack of knowledge to be a desert, a sign of culture; but if they are energetic, truthful, and talented natures, such as was Maupassant, they cannot bear it and in one way or another go out of this insipid life

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62. Are you aware that the most artistic and gifted natures in our villages become horse-thieves and poachers? What would you have? Life is so meagre, so insipid, so intolerably dull to eager and high-spirited souls!

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63. Abstract from the consideration of a soldier, for which they are only rendered fit from their corporeal powers, everything with them is premature; if forced into existence, like the flower or fruit unseasonably raised in a hot-bed, wears the external qualities, but, in fragrance and taste, is unnatural and insipid

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