Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author has taken verbal photographs of the professors of law in their unguarded moments. Legal rigamarole and trite phrases of the classroom have been woven into a lifelike depiction of the Law School in grotesque...
Such whining sophistry and censure trite...
...thesis of "Mammonart" is interesting and the classifications, to say the least, are original, but Mr. Sinclair's outlook on life has always been too suspiciously blased to permit his making accurate generalizations. Art for art's sake, after all, was true long before it was trite...
...only fireworks in the inaugural ceremonies at Washington, carefully planned to achieve economy and sedateness, were the speech and actions of Vice President Dawes. Instead of accepting the office with all the customary trite mouthings of the nation's highest-paid figurehead, he wound up carefully and clipped the corner of the senatorial plate with a simply fiendish accuracy...
...then does. In the last act, her husband turns out to be unfaithful. She leaves for England-a great actress but a failure in the home. All this is told very seriously, and with a singular tedium. Gilbert W. Gabriel-"Doused in trite, puff-cheeked sentiments, only now and then cured by humor." Alexander Woollcott - "A gaudy chromo, evidently selected because it provided so many emotional crises in which to exhibit the sundry talents of Miss Florence Reed." Heywood Broun-"I am not at all sure that the ashman would accept it. He would be much more likely to leave...