Word: banally
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...picture to a Hollywood producer, he would have been labeled a clown. An implausible rigmarole about old convicts, London swells, blacksmiths, eccentric old ladies, orphans with mysterious benefactors and gypsy servant girls, animated by coincidence and honeycombed with nonsense, its only similarity to a salable cinema narrative is a banal happy ending. Its main plot line, concerning the love of a young man, Pip, for an arrogant debutante, Estella, is confused by being intermittently subordinated to a mystery story...
...masterpiece of verbal tight-rope walking. Criticism of the New Deal from conservative newspapers has been, for the most part, stupid and banal, taking the line that "traditional American ideals" are in danger. The doctor professed to take this as a legitimate danger; he indicated that he abhorred it, too, only--the danger was the other way around. That is to say, the real American ideals antedate the ideals of those who find their ideals endangered by the New Deal. It is confusing, of course. It can be made more delightfully confusing by saying that the democracy that Roosevelt democracy...
Paramount and Fenway--"Beside". Warren William as a racketeering doctor gives a good performance until the drippy ending makes him descend to banal sentimentality...
...just as empty as his percussive ballet. The student singers did their parts creditably enough but most of the Erskine lines were lost in fuzzy orchestration. Helen's 20th Century ways were described by hippety-hoppety jazz. The love waltz might have served for a routine in a banal musical show...
...second volume of Vridar Hunter's tetralogy, from George Meredith, he and his book own little else to Meredith's writing. Where "The Egoist" suggests and flashes, Mr. Fisher has sworn enmity to the principle of artistic selection; everything is written down and written through, however irrelevant or banal, and it is written simply. The result cannot be meretricious, there can be no temperamental flourishes, but one of the deepest of Meredith's lessons is that literary abases have a rich value all their own. What many critics have called the Biblical simplicity of Fisher's style is a characteristic...