Word: trite
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Politicians, of course, are in the same boat. It takes a powerful speaker with an able team of speechwriters to come up with something to say on Independence Day that's not trite and boring...
...trite as it sounds, I really wanted to make a difference," says former Undergraduate Council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond '00, who will be teaching in Baltimore, Md., for two years before entering Yale Law School...
...much-overlooked 1997 single "All I Want to Do is Rock") Travis' set contained mostly songs from their recent album, with the biggest response coming for the gorgeous current single "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" Lead singer Fran Healy has the unique ability to make something trite sound like a display of pure vulnerability, and his use of speeches in between songs never came across as pretentious...
...ideal solution might not be some brilliantly designed, singular project but a broad-based effort to heighten campus awareness and facilitate community dialogue. Organizing panel discussions might seem banal or trite, but it would probably be more effective than setting aside a lump sum of money for a yet-to-be determined project. Community outcries, such as the pledge signed by Mather House residents following homophobic vandalism on the door of a gay tutor, might lack tangible results but go a long way toward reminding us to be ever vigilant against bigotry in our community...
...racial conspiracy and points to the fact that while blacks make up 47 percent of the student body in Decatur, they account for 87 percent of the expulsions. This is an unequivocally troubling statistic. However, racism it does not necessarily imply. At this point the appropriate logic seems trite, but perhaps it still bears repeating. If Asians account for a disproportionate percentage of the honor roll, should we assume that they are the beneficiaries of school board favoritism? There may be complicating factors that land black students in trouble, but those factors do not necessarily include administrative racism. Rather than...