Germany’s reliably insipid chancellor, Olaf Scholz, won’t discuss Kyiv’s membership until the war is over.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/jul/08/ukraine-nato-must-step-in-to-stop-russia

Most AI poetry is a series of insipid clichés arranged in rhyming quatrains.

Source: https://thewalrus.ca/one-day-chatgpt-will-move-you-to-tears/

Their British counterparts, meanwhile, are repressed right down to their bones, joyless and insipid.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/12/buccaneers-edith-wharton-apple-tv-review/676212/?utm_source=feed

The opening half turned out to be an insipid affair as opponents contained their offensive plans to see the action mostly hovering around midfield.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/durand-cup-2023-final-kolkata-derby-mohun-bagan-sg-vs-emami-east-bengal/article67267468.ece

These insipid musical theatre imitations are peppered throughout simply to give Fletcher alone (the original “Bad” Cinderella in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s doomed production) a chance to show off her undeniably strong voice.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/the-crown-jewels-review-play-al-murray-b2383603.html

Where they had been so aggressive and ebullient in narrow defeats to France and Ireland in the earlier rounds, Italy were instead insipid in a first half they would love to play again.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/11/italy-wales-six-nations-rugby-union-match-report