Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts could take some comfort in the closely contested popular vote. For Artist Cox's painting, though conservative and wholly understandable, is done in a subtly stylized manner that is no trite affirmation of standard calendar charms. (At least it was not so realistic as the seascapes by the late Frederick J. Waugh, which the Carnegie public picked for five years running...
...Parkington" is full of the trite situations and type characters that have distinguished all of the joint efforts of Miss Garson and Mr. Pidgeon. Concerned estensibly with the recollections of the wife of one of America's great business brain, the picture fails miserably in any attempt to sketch the characters of Major (Pidgeon) and Mrs. (Garson) Parkington more than skin deep. It penetrates no farther than to show at the start of the film a big blustering oil man and his innocent gal of the far west, and at its conclusion a cynical, rather heartless old woman. The only...
Preston Sturges has the ability, all too rare among Hollywood's directors, to understand and to portray sympathetically honest human emotion. He succeeds where others fall, in avoiding the maudlin and trite by weaving just the right amount of humor into a situation. He succeeds so well that it is often a question whether the humorous frame rather than the theme is the dominant note in the motion picture...
Although by now this seems to be getting trite, we Seniors welcome the newwest addition to the Mid.-Off. unit...
When a movie is based on an unoriginal idea and an overabundance of emotion, it takes a truly professional touch to keep matters from getting trite. Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Hilton, the young wife of the Navy officer reported missing in action, repeats her dramatic success in "So Proudly We Hall" with plenty to spare. Joseph Cotton scores his own triumph, and Monty Wooley adds the inimitable Wooley flavor in his rivalry with the family bulldog. Shirley Temple in her stock role of the tomboyish teen-ager injects a warm appeal...