Word: trite
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...song about Dolores' well-loved grandfather). While songs like "When You're Gone" and "I'm Still Remembering" may cover old ground in terms of song lyrics, the Cranberries manage to present these well-worn ideas in such a way as to make the listener happily enjoy every little trite and banal moment...
Diversity has become such a trite phrase in the congenially liberal environment of academia that I believe President Neil L. Rudenstine's surprise was genuine when some members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last week harshly criticized him for entering Harvard into the national debate...
Lamont is very useful to the student who is writing a paper and needs material. It is also convenient for those who prefer to read in quiet places. There are apparently very few diversions besides etching a trite Confucian saying or perverse message into the wooden tables...
...trite grotesqueness, though, Alice cannot be tossed off as another American Psycho, the famously godawful Bret Easton Ellis novel to which it has been likened. Ellis' treatment of sadism has a dopey campiness that Homes is incapable of. She takes her crazed protagonist very seriously, describing his every abhorrent desire in mind-boggling detail that amounts to a twisted, writerly artfulness all its own. And as in her last book, In a Country of Mothers, the story of a psychoanalyst's debilitating obsession with a young patient, Homes shows a knack for intertwining two characters' pathologies. In Alice...
Thank heaven no one has let McCauley's publisher in on this nearly accurate bit of cynicism. There aren't any filthy facts here, no trite wrap-ups--just funny, sustaining fiction. The only resemblance between McCauley's writing and rehab is that you can just check in. Such are the author's fluency and humor ("Nothing is more intimate than the right kind of insult") that the reader can ramble along, smelling the roses...