Word: trite
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Chaplain Jim's initial episode was tried & true. Between the sequences of a trite situation, it managed to get over the idea that the boys in the Army can't hear from home too often, worry if they don't. It also offered the reassuring information that the boys can always turn to their chaplain for comfort and guidance...
...undergraduate years of walking from his Somerville home to the Yard and back have endowed him with an insight into the problems of the commuter. The product is a truly sympathetic interviewer behind the desk in University M, rather than a mere affable smile. Frequent usage has made almost trite the comment that "When you tell Mr. Duhig" (emphasis on "Duhig") "that you need help, he knows what you're talking about...
...hatred and internal dissension --undoubtedly the best attempt in the last 75 years? No. Instead he shared platforms with many of Coughlin's stalwart fascist supporters. Did he ever come out with his promised exposure of a plot by Italian Fascists? Never, but he excused himself nobly with the trite phrase that it might "irritate the Italian government." What happened to all the evidence he had on a "huge organization to promote Nazi ideology?" Only fourteen months ago he claimed to have inside dope on Nazi money-raising campaigns in this country and a list of 220,000 names connected...
...first pictures, done in what he calls "Brown-gravy classical" style, were conventional, imitative, trite. In 1935 an exhibition of them brought a royal roasting from New Orleans critics. So Painter Souchon changed his style. Turning his back on all the art-school rules, Oldster Souchon picked up his brightest paint tubes, let himself go. Before he knew it, he got so involved in color that his son and assistant, Dr. Edmond Souchon, had to take over most of his practice...
...trade (some of them old, some of them new), has made it into a good, tense, psychological thriller. If there are moments when the movie drags, it is the fault of the plot not of Mr. Hitchcock; but if at times the directories touch becomes a little trite and a little too apparent, the blame rests entirely on Hitchcock's shoulders...