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Word: tritely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown, captures the power of the novel without its heaviness, the insight without the inventories. The story still flows inexorably from the springs of character and environment. And though Stevens concentrates on its poignant love affairs, he neither overlooks Dreiser's implied social comment nor oversimplifies it with trite labels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 10, 1951 | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...latest issue, the editors of the Lampoon have descended to a new low in their seventy-five years of unmitigated dullness. Even the Life-Saver joke, usually the high point of each issue, if lifeless, trite, and unfunny. The Shaefer ad is unreadable, while the Coop ad, which is generally the only reason for buying the magazine in the first place, is totally tasteless and unprovocative...

Author: By Michael J. Edwards, | Title: On the Shelf | 6/7/1951 | See Source »

...interesting to read in your review of the last Lampoon that A Lay of Ancient Rome, by Thomas Ybarra '05, is "lifeless," "trite," and "unfunny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Lay of Rome | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

With all due respect to Thomas Ybarra, John Bartlett, Christopher Morley, Louella D. Everett, David McCord, and Mr. Train, the reviewer still considers the poem "lifeless," trite," and "unfunny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Lay of Rome | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...rest of the poems are lifeless treatments of relatively trite topics. Thomas Ybarra '05, for example, throws in Latin Words that can fit into context either by their meanings or sounds and comes up with an unfunny "Lay of Ancient Rome"; Porter Wilcox '43 makes some observations about televised hearings that everyone else has undoubtedly figured out for himself...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: On the Shelf | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

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