The man looked vapidly across the street, frowning a little.

She smiled vapidly at Adam, who suddenly narrowed his eyes at her last words.

She stopped again, blinking vapidly at the day.

For instance, at least three of the five continued to talk grandly, and vapidly, about industrial policy without being pressed to say what they meant.

"I see you've kested me," he said, smiling rather vapidly.

Kira was still before him, smiling vapidly.

Most of the time she clutches a pillow to her chest and chatters vapidly about topics like Velveeta.

"It's a living, I guess," Abaquaan agreed vapidly from the doorway.

He followed her docilely, grinning vapidly.

The nurse smiled vapidly.

The EMH continued to smile vapidly, but its eyes narrowed at her slightly.

Missing, however, was the liveliness and vivacity that could make Ginny's small face seem not merely vapidly pretty, but downright lovely at times.

'And now we are three,' beldaran said vapidly.

You said it so vapidly and sincerely and as if you were so sure that she would like your saying it.

Antryg helped him to his unsteady feet, the young man hanging on the wizard's shoulder, still giggling vapidly.

She saw that the old man was still winking and smiling vapidly at her, and she tried to keep her expression blank.

He is quite indifferent to the proceedings and has his back to his future wife, and is admiring himself vapidly in the mirror.

Nancy may be the most vapidly posh narrator since Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho."

Ms. Zimmerman's is cheerfully contemporary in its setting and dialogue, yet touchingly, even a little vapidly, faithful to Ovid.

Yet it's full of personality, not at all vapidly meditative; the trio can connote frustration and earthy humor as well as the stellar flux.

Mr. Jensen, apparently grasping for some sort of big-idea punch line, concludes vapidly, "We watch them to discover we are not alone."

The vapidly pretty Mr. Morales has all the spontaneity of an angelic Sunday school student carefully reciting biblical chapter and verse.

To Bucyrus's right, a swarthy, bearded Tabrizi minister beamed vapidly, seeing the other two bare their teeth.

I raid my dreams for tasty morsels to feed my jealous Field Marshal and his motley band of vapidly murderous ancillaries.

She glanced at Penelope, who looked a trifle sad, but resigned, then at Lord Buckminster, who was still smiling vapidly.