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...Hirsch: Of course people come to me with true tragedies and that's unfortunately a very difficult part of my job. But a huge amount of disappointments that people come to me with are the ones they're afraid to talk to their friends about, because it would sound trite. For example, "My boyfriend broke up with me and I thought we were going to get married." Or "I thought I would get pregnant easily and I can't." "I felt my husband would be different." "I thought my job would give me meaning, and it just gives me boredom...
...once resented. As far as coming-of-age tales go, “The God of War” is no “Catcher in the Rye.” Ares’ developmental transitions seem sudden and uninspired, and his experiences with puberty and teenage angst seem trite, almost cliché. After the story’s climax, when Ares covers for Malcolm’s fatal mistake, the novel’s narrative structure takes a dive. Years of Ares’ life are hastily, awkwardly summarized in a handful of pages, and Silver never fully explains...
Instead of making trite “yo mama” jokes, students are showing respect for Mother Earth when observing this year’s Earth Day, which took place yesterday. Around campus this week, student organizations are holding events geared to promoting environmental awareness and the efficient use of nature’s resources. In front of the Science Center yesterday morning, the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) and the Resource Efficiency Program (REP) held a “Bottled Water Taste Test” to see if there was a noticeable difference in taste between Cambridge tap water...
...sale next month for the first time. Resident Laine Vowell is asked, "You don't go nuts out here?" His answer: "Not at all. We visit a lot. Sunsets are beautiful. There are baby bobcats and other wildlife right in town. The deer trim my trees. It sounds trite, but we're like one big family...
...creates tension between the natural and the constructed: books casually line the shelves of Davey’s study in some photographs, while others feature books by Sartre and Rilke next to rolls of film or Chekhov and Cheever on a flowered quilt. This latter category of photographs seems trite: the objects are robbed of their aesthetic autonomy as Davey manipulates them for some “unambiguously productive” purpose. People are rarely the subject of Davey’s pieces, with the occasional exception of hands holding a steak bone or feet on a wooden floor...