Word: trite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were learning to study and others were learning to be independent, I was learning to be happy--happy with things a lot more important than the highest grade. Friends and having a wide variety of experiences have been much more fulfilling than 97 percents in Chemistry 5. It seems trite to say that the people here are really terrific. But I sincerely believe they're the nicest group of people I've ever gone to school with and the best group of friends I've ever...
LOVE. I'm at the end of my patience with this interview. I want to run down the hallway and finish writing a song. I won't sing it, but I'll tell you the hook. "Love makes the world go round." It's really trite, but that's what it is. Love makes the world go round and straight and square and squiggly...
...Call is an incredibly complex book. In most contexts this claim would be merely trite; but John Hersey's crowning achievement spans such a wide, indeed almost terrifying, scope of history and large-scale disaster that no one pat conclusion may be drawn from it. The overall metaphor of "West meets East" helps the reader grasp the book, but many, many more ideas lie couched is every nook and cranny. China's cataclysmic passage into modernity deserves no less
...spent time watching vets at the memorial. Hart now grants that "no modernist monument of its kind has been as succcessful as that wall. The sculpture and the wall interact beautifully. Everybody won." Nor does Lin, his erstwhile artistic antagonist, still feel that Hart's statue is so awfully trite. "It captures the mood," says Lin. "Their faces have a lost look." Out at the memorial last week, one veteran looked at the new addition and nodded: "That...
...would be trite to belabor the virtues of Shakespeare's text. The Theater Works production is a remarkably unelaborated and essentially solid enactment of that classic...