So the influence of soaps may be far more positive than critics of their vapidity claim .
所以肥皂剧的影响也许远比评论家们的平庸论调来得积极。
Europeans like to mock the vapidity of american politics , but they also acknowledge that it would be difficult to imagine a brown or black person leading france or germany .
欧洲喜欢嘲笑美国政治的枯燥乏味,但是他们也承认,很难想象一个棕色皮肤的人或黑人领导法国或德国。
Tim pawlenty , seen as one of the more serious candidates for the republican nomination meaning somebody capable of discussing policy set out an economic plan , as he called it , that was stunning in its vapidity .