Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wistful ingenue for Micaela, but if there is no soprano hot-blooded enough to ape an untamed gypsy and sufficiently magnetic to project her titillating arias across the footlights and into the far reaches of the theatre, Merimée's story becomes cheap and long-drawn, Bizet's tunes trite and shop-worn...
...straight stretch are too weak not to determine to keep the sprint unimpeded. And so they make resolutions, and are the better for it; and break them and are the worse for it. It is wearying to be platitudinous on this subject but the only way not to be trite, and to beat the humorist is to make no resolutions, and then stick to them...
...emigrated to New Jersey, worked hard in a packing plant. Mariana grew up to marry a bartender who was also a bad character; when she left him, she got a job at $8 a week singing in sawdust floored saloons. From that point her story is merely the brief, trite, magnificent U. S. epic of success. Someone who watched her dancing detected a charm that had nothing in common with Pavlova's grace, or with the sweeping symmetry of Isadora Duncan, or with the stereotyped but enticing flections practised now on musical comedy stages by the Duncan Sisters. When...
Love in the Tropics, a steam-heated drama of love in the tropics, was trite torment...
...himself to a discussion of the decency of the affair. Enough has been said--perhaps too much--concerning Harvard's penchant for the quiet, the restrained, the indifferent. The CRIMSON firmly believes, however, that if any attitude is typical of the University it is this one. The chasm of trite collegiatism is too deep to warrant any precarious flirtations with its slopes...