Word: trite
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...detective because their train leaves late. Tony wants two things: to see the little man who betrayed him dying at his feet; then to drop dead himself. He gets both wishes. One or two of Small Miracle's side excursions are gratuitous and one or two are trite, but the tangled threads never slip out of the capable hands of Director George Abbott. The net effect is as pungent and authentic as the gunpowder smoke that clouds the stage...
...general Chinese detective, Charlie Chan, transfers the scene of his activities to London in the current features at the R.K.O. Boston, entitled "Charlie Chan in London." In murder mysteries the important feature is the story and this time it is only a fair one, suffering from a superabundance of trite tricks of the trade such as too-obvious attempts to make everybody seem to be the criminal. Having just finished the famous (?) Barstow case the philosophic Mr. Chan is preparing to return to China and the numerous little Chans when he receives an impassioned plea from Pamela Gray to come...
...department cannot conceive of the possibility of combining more lavish expenditure of money, larger numbers of peroxide chorus girls singing mildly suggestive syncopated noises than the producers have done in the case of "Dames". Despite the brave efforts of Ruby Kneeland and Dick Powell the result is a dreadfully trite and boring picture which differs only from its predecessors in that it has the misfortune to be the most recent of a long line of such efforts. If we were not convinced of the vainness of so doing we would raise our voices unto Hollywood and pray for mercy...
Whatever may happen, however, there is a great deal of food for thought. To feel that persons close to the government are filled with revolutionary ideas is to say the least disturbing. While it may be trite to repeat that in this country the citizens determine what form of government they shall embrace, this platitude still has a very deep significance. Every man has a right to say what he pleases. If members of the Brain Trust believe in a revolutionary program, they are perfectly justified in holding this conception. But those who are opposed to it certainly have...
...this necessitates a series of grim, not certainly successful, attempts at the control of this structure. In this process of experimentation, more failures than victories would not be surprising, and it is sure that the consumer as such is in for a time of hard sledding. These facts are trite, but they are facts, nonetheless, and known for that by those who, in Washington and elsewhere feel the pressure of events more strongly than the weight of precedent. That six Harvard instructors recognized it as well, and spoke their minds in a public letter to the president, is a hopeful...