Word: trite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is little dialogue, and what little there is is trite. "We may not get out of this alive," says Wulfgar, in what is meant to be a tender yet nonchalant tone, while he and Shakka hold 25 people hostage. "It does not matter!" snaps Shakka. Moving it ain't. Characterization is indicated mainly by silent stares--DaSilva--or wildly darting eyes--Wulfgar. In DaSilva's great moment of fraternal passion, he leans over Fox's bleeding body, shouting after Wulfgar. "I'm gonna fucking get you. You're fucking dead," Salinger would appreciate...
Then Heather woke up, angry with herself for having such a trite dream. She knew what it meant thought and why it bothered her. Steve, Angela, Frank Elaine and she were all writing theses...
Knowles ends the story with the trite implication that the Hitlers of tomorrow are the school boys of today. Watching Wexford calmly graduate from Devon after effectively disrupting the last remnants of its peace. Hallam muses, "He's an incipient monster, and I can't stop him. For the last dozen years we've seen in the world how monsters can come to the top and just what horrors they can achieve. And these monsters were once adolescents...
...result: "The idea of an immortal soul, the seat of individuality, which had long been cultivated in the world of clergymen, gradually spread, from the 11th to the 17th century, until eventually it gained almost universal acceptance. This new eschatology caused the word death to be replaced by trite circumlocutions such as 'he gave up the ghost' or 'God has his soul...
...series begins and ends in Paris. The Eiffel Tower (1889), that "static totem of the cult of dynamism," as Host Robert Hughes calls it, is a symbol of the ebullient optimism that ushered in the new age of machine worship. The Beaubourg Center (1977), which looks like a trite and showy illustration from a science fiction magazine, becomes a symbol of the decline of that exhausted era. In between is a terra incognita that we may think we know-the art of the 20th century...