Word: trite
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...park buddy Harry Siegel, 19, elaborates on this point. "The ability to howl at the moon has been lost," he laments. "The counterculture has been absorbed by the culture. The blue hair and pierced nipples are trite, and no one pays them any mind. Nothing is outside the fold...
...true--if you're good, teaching is fun, and the children are, too. The teaching life is a good one, and only after you've been in it for a while can you understand how "fulfilling," to use a trite old word, it really...
...public cynicism for politics, criticizing the political establishment for being hypocritical is almost trite. In the case of the Clinton administration's contradictory trade policies with Cuba and China, however, the charge of hypocrisy is warranted. While both countries are guilty of flagrant human rights violations, the prized "Most Favored Nation" (MFN) trade status has been bestowed upon the far more culpable Chinese...
...behind the Clone Wars, or the scope of the Empire. He also assimilates mythology, pulp science fiction, and popular dramatic conventions into his story and makes them his own. Good and evil are starkly contrasted in a satisfying, traditional fashion. The love triangle between Han, Leia, and Luke, though trite, is boldly left unresolved and becomes more interesting in light of what we learn in the later films. Even the idea behind the Force--the product of an ancient religion that has power over modern technology--taps into the debate between modernity and technophobia that is even more relevant today...
...movie version of the musical Chicago (in the role Bebe Neuwirth currently plays in the hit Broadway revival). "While I'm still very interested in making music and writing music, I want to concentrate on film more. I'm very interested in directing. I know that sounds very trite and boring, but I'm going to. I just have to do it when the time is right...