Aubyn, and are supposed to be, because the chronicled cruelty of the previous four books cries out to expose their culpable inanities.

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Strathairn, as Dr. Sloper, moves through space as if he wanted to rid it of nonsense including the inanities of his widowed sister, Lavinia Penniman (Judith Ivey).

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Come on, mumble some sphinx-like inanities to reassure us.

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Thank you, Mr. Siedle, for speaking truth to inanities.

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But do I wish these Gilded Age inanities ill?

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Eavesdropping on their inanities at Ascot and Henley, shrinking at their brayings and cavortings at Queen Charlotte's Ball, suffering and yet somehow savouring his sense of exclusion, he is aghast at the fact of his humiliation.

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