Word: trite
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...Mount," translated from the Syrian by Tawfig Sayish, is overbalanced with strained imagery ("the sleepless fish make weary passes at the blushing corn") but it also conveys a dignity and sense of wonder. There can be little praise, however, for Peter Junger's "Sea Change," in which a trite subject is locked in an erratic meter...
...even the most advanced Macfadden theories seemed trite compared to the revolutionary Macfadden inventions. Most sensible of these was the "physical culture watch"-a turnip-size timepiece whose dial showed what exercises should be performed and what food eaten at given hours (e.g., "8 a.m. No breakfast. Take glass cool water. Walk to work. Identify the birds . . ."). Others included an apparatus for sluicing "pure Macfadden air" over the skins of fully dressed businessmen while they sat working at their desks, and a narrow-gauge railroad with open flatcars for the use of customers in department stores. ("It will revolutionize Macy...
...gave no hint of a character that could erupt into uxoricide. Then, in his big scenes, he abandoned himself to steady roaring, without climaxes or the delicate shading that devides the complete amateur from the budding professional. As a result, Othello was without depth, a man of stock motions, trite passions and an unbelievable temper...
...show, and even slapstick has charm in his hands. Rene Clair's direction keeps the pace fast and light, never dragging behind Chevalier's cavorting. Essentially trite in plot, Le Silence Est D'Or is still great fun, and the reason is Chevalier...
...quite difficult to successfully film a scene where a man passionately in love with a woman he has never known walks out of her room as she stands waiting for him. To follow this by having his best friend seduce the woman a few minutes later might easily be trite and burlesque. But there is nothing jarring in Les Enfants de Paradis; the only awkwardness is in a few transitions, where part of the film has been...