Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Memorial volumes are usually disappointing; this is the exception. Here is a selection of prose and poetry of interest, and, in the case of the verse, of charm. Rarely do we find a young man whose technique was so finished, whose lyrical expression was so singularly free from the trite and the trivial. The consistency of the verse speaks of care in composition, but seldom are the marks of the task visible. The prose, including "Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and English Humanism" (the Potter Prize essay for 1928), and a number of stories, is adequate; the verses, however, make...
...Davis' speech was dignified, scholarly, slightly trite. His delivery was frequently impeded by a choking cough. He divided Republican rule into three eras ?"Dark Betrayal'' (1920-24), "Smug Self-Complacency" (1924-29), "Wild Dismay...
...third-rate travelling players and becomes their stage carpenter and jack-of-all-trades. But besides propping up scenery for the troupe, he sustains the whole show for the Boston audience. The troupe has been further augmented by Young Love, male and female. And when Young Love lapses into trite interludes that have had cousins, not to say twin sisters, in every theatrical season, Old Jess saunters on in his shirt-sleeves to put his own salt into the show...
Here the authors put in what the producers perhaps thought was a touch original enough to warrant a $300,000 investment. The husband is unable to solve the situation. He goes back to his ship, leaving Dorothy Mackaill to select her own alternative. Safe in Hell is crude, trite, sporadically exciting...
Possessed is calculated to have a more disastrous effect than most upon morally malleable persons who witness it. Joan Crawford, again a brunette, impersonates the mistress of a thriving politician (Clark Gable). Rich, wilful and ingratiating, he gives her the trite benefits of illicit love-an apartment with glass doors, a maid-of-all-work, fine clothes, European travel and an education in social politeness. These make an unsophisticated admirer, when they meet again, mistake her for a lady. After three years of pleasurable intimacy, Gable is threatened by a scandal. His mistress has been ennobled by experience...