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Throughout the book, Barry incorporates excerpts from Sand's own extensive autobiographic works and correspondence, without disrupting the flow of his own prose. Although the most memorable phrases in the book are Sand's, Barry too is highly readable. He deals with the potentially trite, unhappy childhood syndrome with just a dash of sentimental emotionalism, making the reader aware of the conflicts and complexes which shaped Sand without turning her life into a soapy saga...
Many critics have not taken well to Dayton's movies, calling them "desultory," "terribly trite" and "poorly acted." Dayton is unfazed. In his view, the critics that count are the audiences who flock to his flicks. The professional ones can go to . . . err . . . heck...
...housing for the elderly, underprivileged, young and swingy, middle-aged and any category. No more slums and quaint neighborhoods. Blacks hold important jobs. They are heads of agencies, live in exclusive neighborhoods, get elected to judgeships and the legislature. To say that maids and yardmen are vanishing would be trite. About the only thing that has not changed is the weather-still beastly hot in summer and mild in winter...
Herbert followed his blockbuster with trite, undistinguished science fiction hack work before turning to the second Dune book in 1969. Dune Messiah was a less entertaining book than Dune, but something more important than mere entertainment value was missing--it seemed an element of humaneness had gone out of Herbert's writing...
...morality," but the remark has an empty ring because Speer has no moral system, still less an allegiance to one. If he ever tried to confront the problems of moral philosophy or religious faith, it is not apparent in these diaries. He contents himself with lip service to the trite idea of the basic wickedness of Hitler and Nazism, but fails to consider why they are evil...