Example sentences for: inanity

How can you use “inanity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Saint may be one of those rare cases in which the inanity is deliberate.

  • All these scenes have earned their place in the annals of inanity, but nothing in American Pie , Lake Placid , The Blair Witch Project , or Deep Blue Sea could rival an early scene in Eyes Wide Shut where a silver-haired Hungarian smoothie dancing with Nicole Kidman purrs into her ear, "I'm delighted to meet you, Alice.

  • He serves up in full the swiftly rotting texture of , , the way every observer is drawn into the general inanity and loses face in the act of . (Click on the underlined phrases for samples of Indiana's vicious analysis.)

  • Critics agree that this film is a sorry imitation of the original: "as generic in every aspect as Brian De Palma's original was inventive" (Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety ). The plot is the same (tortured telekinetic teen starts bloodbath when humiliated), but this time it's just "campy inanity" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ) with none of the original's terrifying flair.

  • --sufficiently broad that Leuchter can casually affirm his own inanity.


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