Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pace is occasionally revived by the music in such lively songs as the mock-eloquent "Jubilation T. Cornpone" and the snappy "What's Good for General Bullmoose." Few of the other songs, however, help. After an overture that is loud, fast, and trite the show includes several mediocre tunes and one or two ugly, sentimental mistakes...
...Phrasemaker Stevenson, the phrase was trite, but it was true. On that morning last March the political figure of Adlai Stevenson, hit hard in Minnesota by Estes Kefauver, was lying flat on the canvas, and the count was almost up to ten. Many a knowing politician and political reporter thought that Candidate Stevenson might never get up. But he did, and the fight that he began that day turned into a dramatic political comeback. Last week, with a decisive victory in California's Democratic presidential primary, won after a hard fight, Stevenson was once again the front-runner...
Typing Hyenas. Fadeyev was ordered aboard the great Communist peace bandwagon and sent off to Wroclaw to deliver a vodka-primed attack on the U.S. There he talked of the "disgusting filth" emanating from American culture and spoke of "trite films . . . reactionary waste paper such as TIME" and American swing, a "contemporary version of St. Vitus' dance ..." Said he, speaking of the work of Writers John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, André Malraux, Jean Paul Sartre: "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens, they would produce such works." Next year, attending...
...novelists in a jam, and Bates uses it. The tavern wench dies of an abortion, and unhappy Melford is let off his hook. Frankie runs out on Constance, but she is still hooked in the heart, and pitches herself from the church tower. What this trite tale of love and death is intended to light up hardly matters. But women may wonder what Novelist Bates means by letting the men off so easily: Melford ends up with a comfortable widower's life, Frankie comes back to town to cad about with not one, but several, fluttery innocents...
...similarly, there are tangible phenomena which may better explain the character of the House than trite, ineffable somethings like "congenial community...