Word: trite
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Barbara swirls captivatingly through the fashion world, and behind her Dior dresses trails David. The love affairs between the two is trite, yet touching: she gives up everything, including the wealthy "patron" for whom she serves as a decoration rather than a mistress, to run away with her lover. They sing beautiful duets together, but she cannot make him write...
...quality of Alfred Whitney Griswold was that he gave vividness and authority to ideals that other men often make trite or fanatic. The cliche-cursed goal of "excellence" in education seemed credible and attainable when Yale's President Griswold spoke of it in brief and reasonable words. Academic freedom, made suspect by some of education's oddballs, was restored to its place as a university's inalienable right and duty after Griswold defined it. Last week at Yale, the bells of Harkness Tower tolled the news that the university had dreaded for months. At 56, Whitney Griswold...
...slope naturally, climb the hill in a convincing way? Does it grasp the mountain firmly, jump the valley decisively? Or does it, on the contrary, climb a ridge needlessly, descend into a valley thoughtlessly, violate a lake brutally, cut up the landscape violently? Or is it simply trite...
...analogy is trite, to say the least, but it is also valid. Welles often belabors the author's meaning, but nowhere betrays it, even though he tries too hard to keep the story hoppin' like Hellzapoppin, galloping like a nightmare. Like Kafka, Welles adapts the methods of nightmare to narrative. Time at times turns rubber in his hands, and images live a violent private life; even Welles has seldom matched the visual bravura of The Trial. Much of the film was shot on one of the most spectacular sets a camera ever saw: the abandoned Gare...