Word: trite
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...only this kind of writing, but any writing having to do with war, has become trite and hackneyed. It is one of the unfortunate consequences of the last decade. A dead and dangerous apathy is the result. If war is ever to be outlawed, if the ringing phrases of President Wilson are to become more than effective recruiting slogans, there can be no such thing as overemphasis of peace...
...racoons--and Eleanora Sears awalking. From Boston to Providence, from the Biltmore to Beacon Street and all the time with swinging arms and vigorous stride. Like hour exams Miss Sears' pedestrian expeditions have become traditional, if superfluous. She walks fastest who walks alone degenerates not only into a trite axiom but even into a prevarication when Miss Sears takes to the road; a tennis star and four--count 'em four--pacers accompany her, and behind trail two "massive automobiles". This is walking de luxe. But if Trudie merits a jazz band why not pacers and motors for Eleanora...
...President Gray's suggestion that there be a Boston Common in every city of the United States where every radical should be allowed to air his views, would surely lead to a more healthy condition of affairs than that fostered by the careful exclusion policy of Secretary Kellogg. The trite speeches of uninteresting radicals will surely do less to harm the great American public than the overthrow of a policy of widespread education...
...they invariably use, and without which no book review is complete. He cites examples 'poignant', 'moving', 'intriguing', 'admirable words which have been dulled with constant use until they have now lost any definite meaning they originally possessed, and are employed for connotation rather than denotation. Not only are they trite--they are vague. The eye passes over them, recognizing them as old friends and yet remains unconscious that they are anything besides a general background or scenery which is inevitable to a well-rounded review...
...sorts of homilies went the rounds, from the obvious one about "a little learning" to equally trite observations on the evils of Prohibition, of which, many recalled, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University has long been a loud opponent...