Word: sophomoricism
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But such frequently sophomoric social satire is what's wrong with Flicker's cinematic prank. What's right with it is its irrepressible urge to let the plot go hang and take up more amusing matters, some of them crude, some of them nude, a few of...
Last season in Britain, the BBC presented a program called That Was the Week That Was, a sort of U.K. News & World Retort in which a group of bright and biting youths said what they pleased about Parliament, the Crown and current affairs. It was ragged and embarrassingly sophomoric, but...
Kennedy laughed and stayed with the show to the end. It was the first experimental half an hour of What's Going On Here?, a program of political and social satire syndicated by Metropolitan Broadcasting. What's Going On Here? has taken its inspiration from the BBC'...
Sophomoric Sycophants. Sir Frederick Ashton, slated to succeed Dame Ninette de Valois as the Royal Ballet's director, knew that everyone from Verdi to Garbo had taken a whack at Dumas' story since it first appeared in 1848. He redistilled it in his own mind into a prologue...
Marguerite shows up on the chaise again, surrounded by sophomoric sycophants, her elderly ducal paramour in the background. Enter Armand. With no gravity-defying leaps, but pedestrianly, and with a disconcerting knee jerk, he moves in on Marguerite. It is love at first sight.