But often, Hashtag Mindfulness in this form exemplifies the most commercial aspects of social media vapidity.
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But "Skintight" stops well short of exploring, let alone indicting, its characters' vapidity and historical amnesia.
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Your shallowness and vapidity are an insult to kids who work hard and play by the rules.
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Why were his treacly ballads and mild toe-tappers picked out as the ultimate symbols of consumerist vapidity?
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In "Los Ageless," she's complaining about the vapidity of an American city and screeching at a lost love.
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In the early going, her character's extreme vapidity is distracting and annoying, no matter how deliberate it is.
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People cannot get enough of his portrayal of Trump, with its perfectly pitched vapidity laced with self-regard.
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It demonstrates the vapidity of how Kamala Harris talks about serious issues and consistently has throughout the campaign.
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Not to mention, Instagram has gained a reputation as the platform of choice for celebrities, selfies, and general vapidity.
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But to see such vapidity on display for so long lowers the bar for what we as voters should demand.
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She transitioned from a symbol of our culture's deep vapidity to the ultimate capitalist success, an empowered and powerful boss bitch.
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But once you surrender to its thrall, there are few shows like it that so deftly dissect the hollow vapidity of the mega-rich.
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As Rousseauian innocents of the Internet age, they aren't susceptible to the vapidity, solipsism and toxicity the rest of us have been sullied by.
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Mr. O'Hara also asks you to cackle about the vapidity of talk shows, the clichés of dystopian dialogue, bromosexuality, sexism, Trumpism and futurism itself.
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The vapidity of the first ARPANET message is a reminder of the fallacy of this kind of apolitical, monumental storytelling about technology's harms and benefits.
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Figuring out how to feel about Kardashian's masterful image control, and knowing that she's playing to an audience that gobbles up her vapidity, is more complicated.
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They achieved ubiquity by releasing "#Selfie," a viral novelty song with a grating vapidity that seemed to simultaneously mock social media culture and benefit from it.
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Were Ghost in the Shell the first film ever to dream up these cutting-edge concepts or raise these philosophical questions, its total vapidity might seem more forgivable.
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Fashion gets a lot of stick for its vapidity, which there certainly is a lot of, however, there are also the genuine connections you can make with people you work with.
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But Yorke's increasing reliance on familiar language—which may well be deliberate, to sap our common tongue of meaning and expose the vapidity of everyday discourse—contributes to a senseless mush.
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Bernie-ites and DSA partisans hail her unprivileged Bronx upbringing as a crucial set of experiential credentials that permit her to speak to many working-class Americans alienated by Third Way vapidity.
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The imagery often came from lifestyle magazines, aerial photography, and also family albums, and their cold, distanced style held up a mirror to the new Federal Republic's consumerist vapidity and Nazi inheritance.
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The movie seems to nod to the emptiness of society's obsession with beauty—which is apparently a news flash to Refn—but its own vapidity far exceeds anything it might ostensibly be satirizing.
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In almost any other film this would be the start of a condescending scene, one that's meant to expose the vapidity of the Kids These Days and poke fun, especially, at teenage girls.
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The leading candidates thus present voters with a ghastly choice between vapidity and vigilantism; neither shows any sign of being up to tackling the many serious issues facing an archipelago of some 100m people.
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If Instagram museums show that we're careening towards the end of civilization, perhaps suffusing generational vapidity with the techniques of mindfulness and messages of social justice is keeping us from falling off of the edge.
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" In another, a father intent on grooming his son to become "a bigwig" demands he cultivate the necessary vapidity: "I forbid you to arrive at any conclusions that have not already been reached by others.
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" Mr. Reich also let it be known what he thought of the speaker: "How can students understand the vapidity of Coulter's arguments without being allowed to hear her make them, and question her about them?
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The fashion industry was certainly ripe for satire when Zoolander came along in 2001, though opening two weeks after 9/11 was awkward timing for such a proudly frivolous voyage to the outer limits of pop-cultural vapidity.
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An early scene has Buffy and her popular friends flaunting their vapidity in the mall, speaking in nearly incomprehensible Valspeak as they complain about a local movie theater's "bogus corn" (as in "popcorn") and use "what a homeless" as an insult.
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Thanks to sponcon controversies, beauty YouTuber drama, and photoshop scandals, the general public and mainstream media have become (reluctantly) fascinated with the behind-the-scenes goings-on of the world of influencers, if mostly to focus on the absurdity of their dumb gaffes and vapidity.
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When I moved there in 2012, the city's reputation was still overwhelmingly based on lazy clichés: that its supposed cultural vapidity carried over into its restaurants; that its Hollywood artifice bled into the lives and onto the plates of its millions of non-movie-star residents.
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Hemsworth excels in the very silly role, providing the film with another comedic release valve — one who can be just unbelievable enough in his utter vapidity to allow the movie to wink at its audience every so often about how crazy the universe it takes place in is.
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Where to stream it: Amazon, Netflix Before a generation of youngsters actually began trying to keep up with the Kardashians, movie audiences were laughing at the vapidity of Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone), a shallow-but-well-meaning Beverly Hills teen who frequently puts the happiness of others before her own.
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Where to stream it: Amazon, Hulu Before a generation of youngsters actually began trying to keep up with the Kardashians, movie audiences were laughing at the vapidity of Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone), a shallow-but-well-meaning Beverly Hills teen who frequently puts the happiness of others before her own.
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But even as Dunst's role in that film became shorthand for the vapidity of how Hollywood treats twentysomething women, she had a leading role in Coppola's underrated 2006 movie Marie Antoinette, a lush evocation of the out-of-touch bubble of Versailles, rendered in soft pastels to a post-punk soundtrack.
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Refn had his Neon Demon stars watch Russ Meyer's infamous rock-star psychodrama Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls for inspiration, and that's no particular surprise: Neon Demon is lurid, lush, and overripe in the same sort of way, with a vulgar vapidity that's baffling and hypnotic at the same time.
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It no longer manages to combine the trashiness of a Poison song, the pointless vapidity of an episode of Entourage, and the quiet desperation of the quiet and desperate who move here with hopes and dreams of stardom, only to have those hopes and dreams dashed upon the harsh rocks of reality.
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For a lot of us, though, going deep into the weeds of seigneurial law (technically, the Queen owns all porpoises, whales, sturgeon, and dolphins that pass within three miles of Britain's shores); precedence (Kate must curtsy to Beatrice and Eugenie if she encounters them alone, but they must curtsy to her if she's with William); and etiquette (little-boy royals wear shorts, not pants) is a highly relaxing leisure activity, whose value is in direct correlation with its vapidity.
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The drama for many critics of Rothko's work is the uneasy position of the paintings between, as Chase notes, "nothingness or vapidity" and "dignified 'mute icons' offering 'the only kind of beauty we find acceptable today'".
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The two principal songwriters were Podmore and Peter Daulby, who met at a local art college. Their first single, released in 1978, was "T.V. Movie" with the B-side of "American HeartBeat"; both songs a swipe at the vapidity of American culture. Both sides were also marked by an idiosyncratic off-the-wall guitar style and melodic facility, that placed them above the usual three chord thrash of the time.
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Maslin asserts that June Nealon is "a wet hankie of a character, full of grief and anger, but otherwise lacking any distinguishing characteristics." She felt that Picoult missed her own chance at redemption, "had Change of Heart culminated in revelations that were truly plausible or unexpected, its vapidity might have been transcended. But there is no substance to the story's last surprises." In terms of public reception, Change of Heart debuted as number one on The New York Times Fiction bestseller list.
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Chicago Tribune 24 Oct 1988: 5. The Los Angeles Times said: "The vapidity of both [lead] performances is magnified by come-hither camera shots that linger too long on their empty faces... Down has a little more flounce to the ounce, but the best she can do as a woman deceived is to fly into a deep snit. Production values evoke the silky-bland noblesse oblige that has been canonized for TV by "Dynasty" and "Knots Landing"."Television Reviews Sans Ingrid and Cary, `Indiscreet' Is Inept: [Home Edition] Christon, Lawrence.
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Adam White of The Telegraph gave the episode three out of five stars. Calling the plot "needlessly fragmented" but "thematically prescient", he observed the script relied on "vaguely banal statements on the vapidity of pop and the lack of care afforded to some of its most profitable stars". However, he praised the last third of the episode for its tonal shift and for Cyrus' "enjoyably potty-mouthed performance". David Sims of The Atlantic praised the episode as a "bizarre and intermittently fascinating bit of pop-music melodrama", although he believed it required "tighter editing".
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Nicholas Pell of LA Weekly noted how there were other parts of the song that serve as subtle insults to the city. He noted the Santa Ana winds in reality are very unpleasant, as the strong winds blow palm leaves and furniture around, and often bring hot dry weather. Pell believes the four streets listed at the end of the song were the four "must avoid" streets of 1983, due to gang violence and urban neglect. Pell ultimately described "I Love L.A." as a "paean to the moral weakness and intellectual vapidity" of Los Angeles.
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"C'n'C–S Mithering" was seen by AllMusic reviewer Ned Raggett as "a brilliant vivisection of California and its record business, and the attendant perception of the Fall themselves", and by Stereogum's Robert Ham as "his sprawling screed at the vapidity of the music industry".Ham, Robert (2015) "Grotesque (After the Gramme) (1980)", stereogum.com, 12 February 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2018 The song makes reference to the band's meeting with A&M; Records co-founder Herb Alpert ("big A&M; Herb was there") while seeking an American record deal.
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" Kate Erbland of IndieWire wrote, "Brief moments of brilliance, including a riveting performance by Riseborough and a number of gorgeous frames, only shine with momentary appeal before the whole thing slips back into vapidity and convention." The New York Times Ben Kenigsberg said, "The remake remains cursed by a fatally hokey concept." Richard Whittaker of The Austin Chronicle wrote, "An upper-tier addition to a long running horror franchise that arguably deserves better than a January release." Noel Murray of The Los Angeles Times wrote, "This is not a 'fun' horror picture.
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Marie Claire magazine praised Wei Hui for being an 'intelligent and passionate spokeswoman for the women of modern China'. Other reviewers criticized the novel's lack of coherence, its shallow content, the lack of growth of its narrator, and its cliches. In The Adelaide Review, Gillian Dooley criticized the book for its 'cringefully tacky' moments, and wrote that: > It’s a little difficult to know how to approach this book. Presumably it has > been translated into English from the original Chinese, though no translator > is acknowledged, and this might account for some passages which read > strangely. However, there’s no disguising the vapidity and self-indulgence > of Marrying Buddha.
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Limited by the vapidity of this material while he trims its excesses with the requisite machete, Mr. Eastwood locates a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill. The movie has leanness and surprising decency, and Meryl Streep has her best role in years. Looking sturdy and voluptuous in her plain housedress (the year is 1965), Ms. Streep rises straight out of 'Christina's World' to embody all the loneliness and fierce yearning Andrew Wyeth captured on canvas. And yet, despite the Iowa setting and the emphasis on down-home Americana, Mr. Eastwood's Bridges of Madison County has a European flavor.
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" Billboard hailed it as justification of the critical hype behind Withers' first album and live performances, while observing "plenty of sunshine" in the music, highlighting "Lean on Me", "Who is He (And What Is He to You)", "Kissing My Love", and "Lonely Town, Lonely Street". In Creem, Robert Christgau gave the record a B-plus and said, "Withers has created the most credible persona of any of the new middle-class male soul singers, avoiding Marvin Gaye's occasional vapidity, Donny Hathaway's overkill, and Curtis Mayfield's blackness-mongering. He sounds straight, strong, compassionate. This album moves out rhythmically, too, yet in the end he's still missing some essential excitement.
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Mendelson added, "I was deathly afraid [it] would come back as a climactic refrain should the story end badly." Sputnikmusic said "the songs complement the gorgeous visuals well, especially in the first extended cut "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" and its tear- pleading climax and conclusion", and argues "it’s one of the few vocal tracks far removed from the crushing vapidity of the other material". The Rochester City Newspaper described the song as "character-establishing", and noted that along with "Frozen Heart", it "deeply resemble[s] Disney's song output under Alan Menken...and that helps them feel instantly familiar". The soundtrack review adds, "While "Snowman" works better in the film (the visuals fill in some of the song's gaps) the twee-cute vocals and gorgeous melody help its memorability".
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