Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showing too many commercials ("Only a stone sphinx could stick to one of these performances to the very end"). But they gave readers of Pravda, Izvestia and other leading Soviet journals the friendliest, most appreciative view of the U.S. since the wartime alliance. Russians, long accustomed to trite fictions about hungry armies of U.S. unemployed, read such items...
...three Mexican painters who for 25 years led Mexico in its great painting renaissance, Diego Rivera, 68, is now in Moscow to check up on suspected cancer, and unctuously expressing his hope of painting like the trite Soviet real ists. Firebrand David Siqueiros, 56, just back himself from a Moscow pilgrimage with a com mission to do the "world's largest mural" (4,500 sq. ft.) for the new Warsaw sports stadium, de lights in ridiculing contemporary Mexican art ists, including fellow Party Member Rivera. With the passage of time it seems that the least political and most impassioned...
When we say that we have lost incalculably in intelligence, humor, and human kindness, we can see Bob's face, brooding for a moment before he can find and utter his implacable, unanswerable comment on these trite phrases...
...trite to describe a football game in the subjunctive. "If this" and "if that" are as common in football stories as they are unrealistic. But speculation as to what might have been is always comforting, especially if what might have been was a Harvard victory over Yale...
...talky and without dramatic zing, but they at least had the merit of trying to get away from the usual empty-headed TV plots and make a few comments about life and the pursuit of happiness. The depressing fact was that when the comment was not confused, it was trite...