1948, William S. Lieberman, "Modern French Tapestries," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 6, no. 5, p. 142:As Jean Lurcat said, "The art had died, killed by consumption, insipidness, lymphatism, and inversion."
1977, K. C. Bennett, "Practical Criticism Revisited,' College English, vol. 38, no. 6, p. 575:This poem suffers from structural weakness, indeed insipidness.
1983, Kiyoshi Takeyama, "Tadao Andô: Heir to a Tradition," Perspecta, vol. 20, p. 180:His void spaces are a criticism of the insipidness of the overly materialistic modern way of life.
