Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much has already been written about "David Copperfield," now being featured at the University Theatre, that there is little more which can be said about the film without being guilty of trite repetition. The general acclaim which has greeted this picture is evidence enough that time spent seeing it is time well spent...
...them in the balcony. The audience thus takes the cast by storm, its superb banalities so drowning speech on the stage as to make the play seem a pantomine. Too bad, for I recall in a previous performance that the lines of the play were pearls of wit, and trite not at all. This time I was able to rescue just a few from the crowd, particularly this throaty declamation, with gestures, "You a man? God made a blunder." The rough simplicity of the ballad, "She is more to be pitied than censured (for a man was the cause...
Certainly it is extremely desirable for Mr. Agee to use striking words rather than trite expressions, but it is very unfortunate that he has allowed this search for the unusual to interfere so greatly with the flow of thought in verse. It is largely the result of this fault that so many of his sonnets strike no note of response in the reader. It is sincerely to be hoped that Mr. Agee's future efforts will turn rather toward a development of the fine imagination and careful verse of "Ann Garner" than to this individualistic mania which threatens to injure...
...happiest time jor all people, they say, Is always the start of a brand new day. The end of the day may be pleasant, it's trite. Still our minds are fatigued and we're glad the day is through. But morning finds millions of minds fresh and clear, As bright as the sun in the sky, my dear. Tell 'em in the morning if you want them in at night. Let 'em see that morning paper, then you just sit tight...
...violent minority must by this time have become heartily sick of this goal post business. Excusable some eight years ago as the overt expression of collegiate rejoicing at a long awaited victory over a traditionally triumphant Harvard, the assault has at long sad last become a trite ritual. Last week the H.A.A. News dismissed the destruction of the posts as a manifestation of that old demon rum, and pointed with pride to the fact that very few of either student body engaged in the fray...