Word: trite
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...trite to look at Commencement as a beginning, and dishonest too. For while the word itself implies the inauguration of something new, Commencement is, to speak plainly, the end of an education...
...seamstresses, and Harvard should follow their example. Changing the ethos of this place--changing the climate that leads to psychic instability--would not be easy, as it can't be a matter of committees and afternoon talk sessions. It would rather be an extended exploration of ideas considered too trite or irrelevant for our learned discourse: that the honors for which we sell our souls are Faustian purchases, that the study carrels in which we spend January and May are lonelier than coffins, that the competitiveness here is a posture whose graceless stiffness no conversation with a tutor could soften...
...song about Dolores' well-loved grandfather). While songs like "When You're Gone" and "I'm Still Remembering" may cover old ground in terms of song lyrics, the Cranberries manage to present these well-worn ideas in such a way as to make the listener happily enjoy every little trite and banal moment...
Diversity has become such a trite phrase in the congenially liberal environment of academia that I believe President Neil L. Rudenstine's surprise was genuine when some members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last week harshly criticized him for entering Harvard into the national debate...
Lamont is very useful to the student who is writing a paper and needs material. It is also convenient for those who prefer to read in quiet places. There are apparently very few diversions besides etching a trite Confucian saying or perverse message into the wooden tables...