Since declaring it the "most vapid pop song ever recorded" (lofty title if I ever heard one) it seems to be haunting me.

John Mahoney does a wicked satiric turn as the empty-headed, ever-smiling talk-show host, the most vapid television star since Ted Baxter.

A joint presentation with In Style magazine, the hour-long special is media synergy at its most vapid.

Even the most vapid American, or even Russi an, politician cannot resist a dig at a rival, or an in- crowd reference to some partisan bit of political-correctness--but this is a ritual of a different order.

Our serving-man will be a boon to them; he will always answer, and the most vapid conversation cannot bore him.

The most vapid sitcom on commercial television reinforces the social norms of middle America.

And he empties out his thesaurus on Paris Hilton, calling her "the most vapid, empty-headed, inane, hollow, vain, tasteless, self-centered, useless twerp in the entire country."

For that hackneyed phrase - by now the most vapid of compliments - the words "a universal man" are rightly substituted in John Harris's introductory essay in the catalogue.

At its most vapid, talk about contemporary art is marketing talk, hem-length talk, trend talk.

Reviewers deem most vapid the heavy-handed exchanges about the meaning of life between Jodie Foster's obsessed scientist and Matthew McConaughey's New Agey priest.