Word: trite
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Magic Position” is, however, a flamboyant bit of bubblegum, and it’s a weak leg for the album to stand on. With its major scale runs and predictable hooks, I wasn’t wowed. The record is also plagued by trite and uninspired lyrics, but the overall quality and diversity of the music makes this fact forgivable. Patrick Wolf is a competent musician, and there is some great songwriting and technical virtuosity happening here. One might view this album as the schizophrenic creation of a deeply sad man trying desperately to be happy, and there...
...instant when she sings the words “I love you” and the dancers’ silhouettes become that of a beating heart. It’s kind of cool, but that moment of creativity is fleeting. Perhaps it’s the mediocre singing, the trite lyrics, the excessive dancing, or the fact that she just seems to be having too much fun traipsing around in drag while singing about being burned by a lover. Whatever it is, “Like a Boy” doesn’t quite cut it. Ciara is more...
...house, and insecure Solly is unfulfilled by her family. See a trend?The themes of “Arlington Park”—dreams and ambitions stripped away by domesticity, spirits and personalities quailed by marriage, energy suppressed and freedom thwarted by maternity—are trite contemporary fodder. But to give her credit, Cusk redeems these stale themes with exquisite language and is on aesthetic high ground, safe from criticism of low-brow unoriginality.Cusk’s words are so lovely that they make the tongue itch; it’s hard to resist the temptation...
...literature” needed to satisfy the Literature and Arts A requirement. Likewise, tutorials, some of the hardest classes at Harvard, don’t count because they lack a final exam. And because only pedagogical technique matters in Core-world, the material covered has become increasingly specific and trite...
...completely trite but true advice you read in supermarket magazines: fame is fleeting and life is short. If you want a life of panic that starts before the sun rises, is filled with rushing from the committee hearing, to the green room to the power lunch, thrilling cocktail party and then ends with Ambien so you can sleep off all the coffee you drank during the day to get through all that... then great. If you don't, then you'll have to work twice as hard to keep that life from taking control...