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Word: trite (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girlfriend (Karen Allen). The driving disco and violent gyrations of the cruising scene contrast strikingly with Allen's soft-toned flesh and delicate moaning orgasm. When Allen goes down on him, Pacino's passion rises as the throbbing Village theme invades his senses. The sequence arouses, perhaps in a trite or superficial way, a heterosexual's most basic fear of homosexuality: are the physical aspects of this act really any different when performed by a man instead of a woman...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Nights in Black Leather | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

...Springsteen street music thrown into a Barry Manilow package of syrrupy cliches. Forbert has the formula, the solo instrumentals, the rough voice and the street subjects, but these components lack Springsteen's raw spontaneity and power. Where Springsteen bursts with energy and originality Forbert wallows in the listless and trite...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Jackrabbit Slick | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

...compounds the pain of the musical monotony with trite lyrics...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Jackrabbit Slick | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

...story--one you've probably heard before--but I never thought it would happen to me!" Navin is referring to his extremely brief career as an overnight business success--and his even speedier denouement--but the only verisimilitude the cliche holds in this epitome of trite movies seems to emanate from Martin's own soul...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Jerk-of-all-Trades | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

...member of the squash intelligentsia about Mike Desaulniers and you get responses like, "What can I say that wouldn't be trite?" His pure ability is beyond reproach; but he has more at stake now--this time, as captain, a team victory is everything...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Mike Desaulniers | 2/1/1980 | See Source »

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