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• n  total lack of meaning or ideas

• He derided the school boards decision as breathtaking inanity and said the resulting legal maelstrom was an utter waste of monetary and personal resources.
• For example, French Kiss (co-produced by Ryan), which achieves a level of agreeable inanity only after a grating first hour or so.
• He derided the school boards decision as breathtaking inanity and said the resulting legal maelstrom was an utter waste of monetary and personal resources.

• senselessness
• mindlessness
• vacuity
• pointlessness

News & Articles

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• An Honest, Law-Abiding Patent Troll?
  Given the inanity that is our current patent system , it's not surprising that innocent patent holders can look like trolls. Such might well be the case with SightSound Technologies, a subsidiary of General Electric, which has spent years in patent lawsuits with Apple, CDNow, Bertelsmann, Napster and others. As SightSound's CEO Scott Sander argues in a letter to The Wall Street Journal editor ...
  June 19, 2013 - ReadWriteWeb

Quotes

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• Brent Bozell in Washington Post
  What struck me and continues to strike me is the inanity of ripping the heart and soul out of a successful product and not thinking that there will be consequences to it,said L. Brent Bozell, president of the Parents Television Council....
• Richard Dawkins in Times Online
  In July, Professor Dawkins wrote on his site: "I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content."
• Armond White in Chicago Sun-Times
  It enraged some readers when White wrote, "That cartoonish Mothership image suggests the high-concept inanity featured in 'Children of Men' and 'Cloverfield:' It's apocalyptic silliness. Not ominously beautiful like the civilization-in-peril tableau...