11 Verbs to Use for the Word inanities

But though the satirist might find ample scope for his wit in anatomizing the foible of the day, fashionable society continued none the less to encourage the exquisite inanity, and to be flattered by the elegant obscurity, of the allegorical pastoral.

It is the girls themselves who spoil them and endure their inanity, because of that assumed look of superiority which to the eyes of the outside world would be a little offensive were it not a little foolish.

I had learned the inanity of individual reason in a matter of experience.

Simoun ordered the carriage to stop and both alighted, just at the moment when Isagani and Paulita Gomez passed them murmuring sweet inanities.

There was no chance of quiet, reasonable talk; one pumped up a few inanities to person after person.

Does he realize the inanity of the hypothesis I try to pass off on him?

Out of nearly four hundred pictures, the great proportion are mere conventionalisms,many of them choice, but most of them in no wise to be compared with the pictures of the same class by French and German painters, since neither just drawing nor impressive color redeems their inanity of conception.

If he seek to relieve his inanity in books, his literature ascends no higher than the romances, the newspapers, or the scandal, of the day; and all the nobler pursuits of mind, as well as body, are utterly lost in regard to him.

The men, gathered around whist tables, proved even more shallow and insignificant than the dowagers; these descendants of ancient, courageous knights, these last branches of feudal races, appeared to Des Esseintes as catarrhal, crazy, old men repeating inanities and time-worn phrases.

He sat down in the dusk opposite me, and I thought his eyes glinted with malignant pleasure as he said, abruptly: "So, young man, you think you are a fit husband for my girl?" I stammered some inanity about making up in affection what I lacked in merit; about my expectations, family and the like.

Even when they are inspired or in love they talk inanities.

11 Verbs to Use for the Word  inanities