Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave no hint of a character that could erupt into uxoricide. Then, in his big scenes, he abandoned himself to steady roaring, without climaxes or the delicate shading that devides the complete amateur from the budding professional. As a result, Othello was without depth, a man of stock motions, trite passions and an unbelievable temper...
...show, and even slapstick has charm in his hands. Rene Clair's direction keeps the pace fast and light, never dragging behind Chevalier's cavorting. Essentially trite in plot, Le Silence Est D'Or is still great fun, and the reason is Chevalier...
...quite difficult to successfully film a scene where a man passionately in love with a woman he has never known walks out of her room as she stands waiting for him. To follow this by having his best friend seduce the woman a few minutes later might easily be trite and burlesque. But there is nothing jarring in Les Enfants de Paradis; the only awkwardness is in a few transitions, where part of the film has been...
...feel something about the person being hunted. You've got to want him to escape or be captured. In this story, though, you don't know enough to care one way or the other. And that ending--nature's quiet disturbed by man's destructiveness. . ." "That may have been trite," admitted the March Hare, "but what about 'the sun firing the puddles by the side of the bridge'?" "That was very good," said Alice. "There are some good touches." "Indeed there are," said the March Hare, "and they keep trying...
What saves The Fourposter from what might have been its expected fate--critical curses of "static" and "trite"--is author Jan de Hartog's plausibly witty dialogue and believably gradual development of character. He has made things easier for his audience by casting his male lead in the part of an author of best selling if not memorable novels. Thus Mr. Cronyn can be humorously sarcastic without imposing on the audience's credulity; his lines are what one might expect from a clever, superficial writer. As his wife, Miss Tandy progresses from a blushing but eager bride to a mature...