Word: trite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devoid of any feeling. I would suggest Mr. Mechau make less trips to the garbage can. As to Kenneth Adams' Rural Free Delivery 'twould do for the Ladies' Home Journal; John Steuart Curry's panels might both be called "comedy" - so silly and trite they are; the Winold Reiss murals would pass as fair advertisement and Gerald Foster's Molly Pitcher as a thriller illustration. However Daniel Boza's The Emancipation of the American Negro is quite beautiful. If good pictures are not essential to Washington, why not give every poor devil a chance...
This is why driving is a community problem. Nine-tenths of the accidents on the road today could be avoided by observing a few simple rules. Unfortunately, drivers seldom realize the significance of these almost trite instructions until they crash...
...operas all came from a long-established repertoire dominated by Verdi, Puccini, Wagner. The staging was trite. The singing was sure but rarely exciting. Yet, for all that, the customers got more than their money's worth. Seats for San Carlo opera sell at $1.50 top. The people who patronize it are neither snobs nor sophisticates. In Manhattan and in Chicago the big opera companies have had to beg for their lives. The San Carlo Company, supported only by its box-office takings, toured 20,000 miles last season, made money...
...Scarlet Pimpernel" is a film which has already received too much praise to be spoiled by trite phrases here. The Playgoer recommends it strongly, even to those romantic souls who must have their Hollywood endings. Need we say, yes, we might as well, Merle Oberon is a young lady who makes Hollywood endings a real pleasure, indeed, a delight...
...both films, however, the plot is trivial, trite, and distinctly unlikely. In both the chief reason d'etre consists of "thrill scenes" such as plane crackups and mysterious murders and of the clowning provided by Beery and Joe Bags in one movie and by Miss Collier in the other...