Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening in London last week, On Borrowed Time was mercilessly damned. The London Times characterized it as "beyond the pale of criticism," the London News Chronicle as "trite, confused, unconvincing, callow, a barefaced, blue-eyed bore...
...fascism, prophet of democracy, who has come to its home to preach his holy belief in the latter. In deep, organic tones, he voices his faith in the inevitability of democracy. So long as man believes in his own dignity and in a sense of justice, democracy is necessary. Trite and hackneyed phrases these, but such things assume a new meaning by their very absence...
Statisticians Segel & Proffitt studied the college marks of students in 13 colleges and universities, compared them with the same students' earlier records-high-school marks, extracurricular activities, etc. Some of their findings were trite: that a student who has a good average in high school, or rates high in intelligence tests, is likely to get good marks in college; that a youth who works for part of his college expenses gets lower than average marks, but a determined 100% self-supporting student ranks above the average...
...next best-seller type appears, he aims at it ("I can learn much of style from David Grayson," he writes). In 1936, 30 years later, his aim is still waving around, but he hasn't fired a shot. He just goes on filling his journal with fatuous, trite, sentimental, philistine, ingenuous, graphic practice notes: about newspaper jobs in Cleveland, San Francisco, Denver, everything from news happenings to a synopsis of his novel (a stupendous family chronicle from Jeremiah I to Jeremiah IV), from election returns to querulous data on his wife's raising the baby on candy, from...
Moonlight Sonata (Pall Mall) has its soul in Parnassus, its feet in Grub Street. A trite British treatment of cinema's tritest theme, it makes the wobbly point that music hath charms to shoo the city slicker out of the country girl's heart. But what lofts it to the skies for two memorable reels is the piano-playing of 77-year-old Ignace Jan Paderewski, most notable pianist of his time, in cinema a tired old man in a tacky dress suit, a mismanaged...