Word: trite
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...Carter's, and in those few seconds Weld touches some of Maria's torment and vulnerability. Perkins has a little more success in the role of the producer, which is less complex and demanding. Both he and Weld struggle to bring some depth of feeling to the trite and turgid proceedings...
Rafelson and Scenarist Brackman understand their two played-out heroes without ever condescending to them, although both writer and director are often guilty of using the same kind of tin-ear dialogue and trite image that David himself might employ in one of his tortuous monologues. One of Rafelson's most certain talents is a nearly preternatural instinct for working with actors, and Nicholson and Dern give consummate performances. In such diverse parts as the bemused attorney in Easy Rider, the laborer and fugitive musician in Five Easy Pieces, the tomcat of Carnal Knowledge, Nicholson has already displayed remarkable...
...back to the Penn game. Scene: Schoellkoph Field, the Big Red set up for a 25-yard field goal attempt, Murray trots confidently onto the Polyturf. There's the snap, the place-down, Murray approaches and "boom." The projectile rockets forward. Unfortunately, the ballistics are a trite faulty and the ball fails to rise above a line from a point one inch off the ground (on a tee) to a point three inches deep into the posterior of center Paul Hanly. Hanly lifted slightly forward and off the ground before falling dazed and bruised. The crowd and Murray were mildly...
...short: Pretty trite stuff, with some good descriptive writing...
Hannah moves through her marriage and her life with the scornful arrogance of an unpublished poet who has not gone to the trouble of actually writing a poem. Her habitual comment on her husband's remarks is, "That's trite." She takes no pleasure in his success, feels remote from her young son and declares herself as bored with her own hard-working contemporaries as she is with the older generation's memories...