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After all, its themes, centered on the emptiness of power — and the vapidity of those who seek to be close to it — are timeless, especially in this city.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Snook does everything but rend her garments in a performance that only emphasizes the busy vapidity of Hannah Kent’s script.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

Because the alternative is pallid mush, short on honesty and condemned to vapidity.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Images of diasporic Jews finding each other after lifetimes apart will always carry with it a certain bittersweet resonance, even when it comes after 80 minutes of regressive vapidity.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

But Bobby’s untenanted look owed itself not to vapidity but to a certain lack of interest in the world around him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady