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.
" "I know you very well; you have so much animation, which is exactly what Miss Andrews wants, for I must confess there is something amazingly insipid about her.
Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust.
He had to eat with a knife and fork; he had to 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.
You even descended so far in your menial office as to take a suck at that warm, insipid stuff yourself, to see if it was right -- three parts water to one of milk, a touch of sugar to modify the colic, and a drop of peppermint to kill those immortal hiccoughs.
He decided she was insipid.
The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water.
The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water.
Initially the dead boars were repelled by the residents for they were uncomely and insipid, but Xi Nu Luo made them appetizing and attractive.
If the young people don't dare to fight, they waste their youth, all their lives are insipid, when they are old, they look back on their youth, just nothing leaves.
Canada waded into the debate yesterday, urging Europe to act to tackle its "insipid growth".
He's an insipid old bore.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983) At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
By most poets what he had said would be considered common-place, or as the Germans call it, "insipid.
