"No," replied Paganel, "though we hunted all through the wood. It is vexing, for it would have been a splendid chase. A jaguar is a bloodthirsty, ferocious creature. He can twist the neck of a horse with a single stroke of his paw. When he has once tasted human flesh he scents it greedily. He likes to eat an Indian best, and next to him a negro, then a mulatto, and last of all a white man." "I am delighted to hear we come number four," said McNabbs. "That only proves you are insipid," retorted Paganel, with an air of disdain. "I am delighted to be insipid," was the Major's reply.英文原著 · 《In Search of the Castaways》
{71} Which authority certain barbarous and insipid writers would wrest into meaning that poets were to be thrust out of a state.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
[392] -- This tank or lake is described by Nuniz (see p. [393] -- HUU TIRO DE FALLCAO, a shot from a falcon, an old piece of artillery. [394] -- BREDOS, "blites," an insipid kitchen vegetable. But as the word is not common, and as Brahmans make use of most vegetables, I have preferred the more general term. [395] -- MACAAS, literally "apples."
[396] -- It was generally called Nagalapur, but Nuniz says that the lady's name was Chinnadevi (below, p. [397] -- CORUCHEES. See p. 200, note 3.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
"The soprano is insipid. And they are all imperfect--contentedly imperfect, How can people sing incorrectly? It is like lying."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"Well then, madam, I feel very grateful to anything that does you good: otherwise, I should say the music was--rather dreary; and the singing--very insipid."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
CLEOPATRA. Is that a word For Antony to use to Cleopatra? O that faint word, RESPECT! how I disdain it! Disdain myself, for loving after it! He should have kept that word for cold Octavia. Respect is for a wife: Am I that thing, That dull, insipid lump, without desires, And without power to give them?英文原著 · 《All For Love》
Their insipid self-confidence and beauty is a somnolent.美剧 · 《Billions》
Your insipid essay question asks me to tell you in 250 words about my most significant challenge in life.美剧 · 《Shameless》