Word: trite
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...lend a ceremony any non-partisan flavor, especially when he arrives amid a welter of handouts, Taft buttons, and all the other sundries of campaigning. The Young Republicans did not help much by advertising the celebration as a Taft question-and-answer program either. Even the speeches, so trite and innocent on the surface, were hardly unblemished paeans on behalf of patriotism...
...music historian and former organist and choirmaster of the University, concluded that there is a vast repertoire of great sacred music. However, he says that lack of criticism has allowed a quantity of trite and inappropriate music to get into the service...
...many dollars of OUR money the bureaucrats, politicians, and pinks are spending each second of the day. Beyond these gimmicks, Senator Byrd has very little in the way of analysis, discussion, or interpretation. The lead article by former Saturday Evening Post editorial writer Garet Garrett is not so trite, but in the attempt to prove that American intrusion into European affairs is responsible for that continent's present impotency, the author is forced into the extraordinary argument that Russia's power is simply a product of American interference as well...
Despite this trite ending, Gable and Miss Gardner combine to make Lone Star entertaining even for those suffering from a surfeit of Westerns. Also at Loew's Louis Haywood staggers through a conventional horror-thriller, The Son of Dr. Jekyll...
Meet Danny Wilson is pleasant when it gives Frankie the stage or when it sticks closest to his own story, as in a documentary-like scene of a teen-age audience swooning and squealing at Manhattan's Paramount Theater. But the pleasure drains away in a trite love story involving a nightclub singer (Shelley Winters), and a silly plot leading to a gun battle between Frankie and a gangster in an empty baseball park at night...