Word: trite
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...their blustery bravura, these editorialists remain blindfolded by ideological fervor. The uninspiring rhetoric and trite phraseologies only testify to the difficulty of shaping party platitudes and talking points into coherent prose...
...song about trying to return to a past embodied by a highway, highlights the band’s mellower side. Its last words are delicate, and Turner understands that the words have to be handled carefully. Sung too sentimentally, too sadly, and they become trite; sung too angrily or sarcastically and they become meaningless. But the Arctic Monkeys get it just right with this song, as they do on the whole album. As their last few lines attest, “In my imagination you’re waiting lying on your side / With your hands between your thighs...
...incomprehensible.” Bush, always the ineffective orator, talks about the importance of keeping faith in “a loving God.” But in the face of such a pointless and cruel squandering of human life, his theodicy is unconvincing. The question seems trite until a tragedy like this strikes: “How could a benevolent God allow this to happen...
...that does Stone’s voice justice. The lyrics are sub-par (“Love ripped me up and tore me down / But baby that ain’t enough to break me”), but the apparent sincerity of the sentiment makes the ballad seem less trite than most of its type. The other ballads, though, are markedly worse. “What Were We Thinking” is just plain boring. Without a quirky beat or bouncy back-up vocals, Stone is left with just her voice and the lyrics to keep our attention...
...record, a companion Facebook.com group search for derogatory terms for men reveals hundreds of groups started by women with the same trite, profane, yet oddly resonant plea: “Chicks Before Dicks...