Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said at the risk of being trite, that the audience truly compensated in appreciation for what it jacked in numbers...
Ashes of Vengeance. Bad though it is, the title of this picture?Norma Talmadge's latest?has one redeeming feature. It seems to have attracted all of the bad taste and cheap sensationalism scattered around the Schenck studios and vented them in one trite expression. The rest of the production is consistently tasteful and enormously worth while...
...stern chase was long and bitter and the struggle to overcome this lead, with the series dependent upon it, was a magnificent example of fighting spirit. The roar which broke forth after Owen's hit will long echo within the shades of the University. However trite congratulations may seem, we must join our voice with the voice of graduates and undergraduates in congratulating Captain Owen and his team and also in wishing them all success on Saturday at Braves Field...
Many people blame the faculty and trustees for the intellectual lethargy in our colleges. But how about the students themselves? Why is that the majority of college papers, which are entirely in the students' own hands, have pages filled with accounts of athletics, poor comic columns, and trite editorials that try so hard to be clever? Why is there so little mention of education, and intellectual discussions, why no word on things that go on outside the college walls...
...married another man. Flavia Desmond, the heroine, has field from the society of London and comes to Rhodesia disguised as a man. She falls in love with Druro and throughout the book tries to save him from self destruction. The story offers nothing new: In fact it is rather trite. Moreover the improbability of a young and beautiful girl, living as a man, and with men over an extended period of time and still keeping her disguise, rather spoils what might otherwise have been a very powerful novel. The description of Rhodesian life and people is so well done however...