Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure whether the play had been successful in its attempt to understand them, they wrote scornful words which the box-office at least could not fail to find intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity, by long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously fallen into the immature fallacy of trying to tell all about Life in a single paragraph, found partially concealed in its three spasmodic acts many specimens of acute and mordant understanding as well as a fair quantity...
...seems fairly safe to prophesy, become a classic of English literature, but it is a highly readable, plain novel. There is nothing complicated or enigmatic about the plot or its characters. There is nothing startlingly original, but on the other hand there is little that is annoyingly hackneyed or trite...
...been feared, before the document was presented, that such a subject discussed outside of the great ecclesiastical bodies would offend conservative opinion; or that to avoid this offense, the document would be framed in terms cautious, trite, and without value. That neither was the case was due to the prestige and adroitness of its two sponsors, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the U. S. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and the Rt. Rev. William Temple, Anglican Bishop of Manchester. Dr. Speer, since his graduation from Princeton in 1889, has attended many a missionary conference. He could doubtless remember those...
...proper sensitiveness to words. It can be asserted, with some justice, that, possessing these qualifications, no one could help writing a good book about King Christophe. Author John Vandercook, in a day when too many authors with abilities insufficient for their task attempt to decorate matters which are trite or trivial, deserves applause for choosing a superlative subject for human and highly spectacular biography...
Soul, by Muriel Haskell, is an entirely ludicrous pattern, attempting to present, in its melee of prongs and beams and curlycues, an allegory as trite, as uninteresting and as unconvincing as the metaphors in a schoolboy's sonnet...