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This is a valid, if trite, argument. But again, Rushdie cannot leave well-enough alone. Speaking with Violetta Chamorro, matriarch of the La Prensa "family," he stops believing her the moment he notices that she is wearing jewelry. She is rich and therefore cannot be trusted. His objectivity, as much as hers, is brought into question by such prejudgement. Rushdie claims he went to Nicaragua looking for answers. But he seems to have known all along what he wanted to find...
...mine convinced me to pray with him to God, so I sort of did. I prayed 'Hi God, I don't believe in you really, but if you're there, let me know'--and He did. When God lets you know it's really overwhelming. That sounds sentimental and trite, but it's true," says the 27-year-old native of Newton, Mass...
Would Harvard's Jewish community stand by if a swastika were being displayed in someone's window? This is not a trite parallel. Both symbols stand for a hatred and violence that has not died...
...When you get to be my age, you want to do things you thoroughly enjoy, and I feel--I know this sounds trite, but in my case it's true--that I owe Harvard and Exeter a great deal...
...PROBLEM WITH Passion is not that anything about the Leverett House production is especially bad--many of the performances and parts of the direction are really very good--but rather that the play itself has neither the insight nor the levity to overcome its trite subject matter...