Word: trite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penguin Pool Murder," on the same bill, is a moderately entertaining but trite mystery-comedy, with occasional good bits of performing by James Gleason and Edna May Oliver...
...path of which none can stand; yet to some it seemed far too soon. There is so much that is well begun remaining yet to be finished, and the hand that sketched the outline can best wield the brush for the finishing strokes. These are the practical and trite considerations with which the Vagabond rationalizes his wish that the great man might have remained at the helm just a little longer...
That afternoon an apathetic crowd was prepared.to be bored by the debut of an unknown in a trite, old-fashioned opera. Until she reached the mad scene only her youthful charm impressed. Then she swept the house out of itself. She sang her high F, managed chromatics and staccati with incredible ease. The audience made her take 16 curtain calls...
Smiling Faces has an elaborately trite plot about a film actress (Dorothy Stone) who marries her fiance's best friend (Roy Royston) to get in the social register so that she can wed the man she loves (Charles Collins) without costing him his, inheritance. It has one good tune ("Stumbled Over You") and another with a line beginning "And soon a baby face. . . ." Like most Fred Stone shows it has few sexy jokes and those it has deal exclusively with the intermediate sex. Sample: "Since this is A Midsummer Night's Dream, you don't mind...
...only alienate further a people who already feel cause for resentment toward the American attitude. The United States would go closer toward a real understanding with Japan by a frank examination of conscience in regard to its own actions, especially the stupid and unnecessary Exclusion Act, than by any trite and untenable pretense to superior virtue. And its daily newspapers ought to throw the weight of their influence toward that end, instead of fanning embers, with whatever good intentions...