Word: trite
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...seem trite to mention it after these years of austerity in Great Britain, but not until I read London's rationed four and six-page daily newspapers did I fully appreciate the great amount of information available to the U.S. public through the American press. In turn, one of the healthiest signs of Britain's recovery is the present criticism in Parliament and the press of the government policy of treating newsprint as a commodity without further significance to a democratic society. Under current newsprint allocations Britain's newspapers cannot provide adequate news services...
Husband & Wife Programs: "Cleverly blending commercials with gossip . . . the husband and wife mate the trite with the trivial and foal the drab...
...love interest and very little else. His opposite, Shirley Temple, is now a Woman, let it be announced. Her acting is competent and mature, if a trifle too cute. Fonda plays the stiff-backed, knuckle-headed Colonel skillfully, but even so experienced an actor as he cannot carry this trite and sloppy picture...
...month. Since the reading covers almost everyone who has written a book in England since 800 A.D., and since the grades depend greatly on an ability to identify spot passages and supply a few facts about the authors, most men will never remember anything more than a few trite comments...
...huffiness and stuffiness; the furnishings and food. But anything in The Hallams that isn't made of velvet or mahogany seems made of cardboard. Whenever the play abandons the household for the heart, whenever it exchanges class or clan reactions for personal emotions, it becomes feeble, trite or depressingly empty...