Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Story material is trite and runs too much to cycles, e.g., the rash of psychological thrillers...
...Just call me Stuffy," the grey-haired man in the well-tailored double breasted told varsity candidates at the opening baseball meeting two weeks ago. Trite? Not the way Harvard's new baseball Coach John McInnis said it. Although Athletic Director Bill Bingham said he looked like a bank president when he first walked into the HAA office last September, McInnis is anything but an executive when he puts on a pair of spikes and a sweat-suit, tucks a baseball in his hip pocket, and walks into Briggs Cage...
...knowing moviegoers, that sods him down. He stays in the running, all the same, until the ingenious huntress invents a third swain (Eddie Albert), meant to be a home-town admirer who yearns to take her away from it all. For a while, this invention staves off a trite ending, but can't prevent it. The chase ends with the proper man properly bagged...
...seem trite to mention it after these years of austerity in Great Britain, but not until I read London's rationed four and six-page daily newspapers did I fully appreciate the great amount of information available to the U.S. public through the American press. In turn, one of the healthiest signs of Britain's recovery is the present criticism in Parliament and the press of the government policy of treating newsprint as a commodity without further significance to a democratic society. Under current newsprint allocations Britain's newspapers cannot provide adequate news services...
Husband & Wife Programs: "Cleverly blending commercials with gossip . . . the husband and wife mate the trite with the trivial and foal the drab...