Word: trite
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...courtroom, Kearns’ metaphors are somewhat heavy-handed, and he beats to death the film’s theme of the individuality of human invention. Without the overemphasized morality of Kearns’s struggle, “Flash of Genius” might have been a trite but heart-warming tale of one man’s success against all odds. However, because of the film’s botched attempt at gravity and intellectual debate, it fails at achieving even that level of mediocrity. —Staff writer Rachel A. Burns can be reached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...
...national interest, a civic philosophy that had been cultivated while a young Jack Kennedy was at Harvard. Today, it is unfortunate that more Americans have not heeded Kennedy’s important call, but even more discouraging that the call itself has been dismissed not only as trite but as too ideal and na?...
...geography professor striving to get students to think globally, and I found your list to be disappointing and deceptive. TIME has blurred the distinction between important and much less important. Tim Russert, Suze Orman, Miley Cyrus, etc., among the most influential people in the world? Really? The trite small-mindedness behind some of your selections is really astounding. The world is home to about 6.6 billion people, and Americans account for less than 5% of that total. Are your picks really apt for a global community? Readers can only imagine how much less fluffy and myopic a more meaningful list...
...Hirsch: Of course people come to me with true tragedies and that's unfortunately a very difficult part of my job. But a huge amount of disappointments that people come to me with are the ones they're afraid to talk to their friends about, because it would sound trite. For example, "My boyfriend broke up with me and I thought we were going to get married." Or "I thought I would get pregnant easily and I can't." "I felt my husband would be different." "I thought my job would give me meaning, and it just gives me boredom...
...once resented. As far as coming-of-age tales go, “The God of War” is no “Catcher in the Rye.” Ares’ developmental transitions seem sudden and uninspired, and his experiences with puberty and teenage angst seem trite, almost cliché. After the story’s climax, when Ares covers for Malcolm’s fatal mistake, the novel’s narrative structure takes a dive. Years of Ares’ life are hastily, awkwardly summarized in a handful of pages, and Silver never fully explains...