Word: trite
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Memory of Us is unsparingly earnest, a quality that may excuse its foolishness without diminishing it. The movie also presents a fairly melancholy prospect with its heartfelt but trite treatise written by a woman, Ellen Geer, who also plays the lead. It is long past time now for movies made by and about women, but no one could have expected or wanted Memory of Us, which has less in common with heightened consciousness than with daytime soap opera. The movie is so thin and weepy that it inadvertently contradicts its intention and turns into what it was trying to avoid...
...commentary that is all the more awkward for being offered as revelation ("I perceive now that my unmarried teachers at Yale were probably less chaste than the rest of us.") And there are hints at what must be buried wells of real and sincere pain, but inevitably appear as trite, heart-on-sleeve banalities ("How many friends, drunk and sober, I must have failed in those days by being in the presence of their anguish and yet deaf and blind...
...tennis shoes, but since I was very nicely dressed, this reasoning would not seem to apply in my case. I object to being required to wear a tie, especially if the only reason offered is the fact that such a rule exists. The whole affair seems awfully trite. I think it is a sad comment on Harvard athletics that a student should be prevented from playing a sport that he enjoys on account of a personal objection to something as far removed from hockey as a necktie. Abraham Morgentaler
...Janowitz, through December 28. Porter's work is very exciting, Janowitz's much less so, although I'd prefer his stuff to any of the current contemporary painting at the MFA. Entitled "Trends in Contemporary Realist Painting", the exhibit is a large room full of the most static, lifeless, trite paintings I have ever seen. Lots of exciting things are happening at the MFA these days, but the Contemporary Gallery doesn't house them. Through March...
Surely no great intellect is required in order to understand that goalie baiting, which often reaches vicious extremes, displays an utter disregard for sportsmanship and common decency. Certainly the Golden Rule, however trite it may seem, is not beyond the intellectual grasp of even those morons who insist on detracting from good hockey by their gratuitous abuse of athletes who happen to play for an opposing team...