Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love interest and very little else. His opposite, Shirley Temple, is now a Woman, let it be announced. Her acting is competent and mature, if a trifle too cute. Fonda plays the stiff-backed, knuckle-headed Colonel skillfully, but even so experienced an actor as he cannot carry this trite and sloppy picture...
...month. Since the reading covers almost everyone who has written a book in England since 800 A.D., and since the grades depend greatly on an ability to identify spot passages and supply a few facts about the authors, most men will never remember anything more than a few trite comments...
...huffiness and stuffiness; the furnishings and food. But anything in The Hallams that isn't made of velvet or mahogany seems made of cardboard. Whenever the play abandons the household for the heart, whenever it exchanges class or clan reactions for personal emotions, it becomes feeble, trite or depressingly empty...
Although the content of the show strikes frequent depths of trite polemic, the zealousness of the 300-odd performers, many traveling over the globe for MRA, more than lends an excitement sufficient in itself to justify the expenditure of an evening and to pose the pressing question of what MRA will mean given real momentum. The idealistic drive of this movement finds rare equal at the present moment. In utter seriousness the show's participants call themselves a "task force." They feel themselves engaged in a crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents...
...plays lack, any sort of individualism or vigor and, contrary to Signature's editorial, show no trends at all. One is an uninspired adaptation of a part of Kafka's "The Trial," while the other, in spite of some interesting devices, has no characters worth reading about and a trite situation without any real resolution. The one story is almost completely offensive in its adolescence and pretentiousness; its title is "The Uprooted," all the characters are writers, and the scene is a cocktail party. Figure the rest out for yourself...