Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involvement in the kidnaping. And when a French magistrate finally played a tape recording reputed to carry the incriminating testimony of Paris Gangster Georges Figon (a participant in the plot who "committed suicide" just before French cops burst through his doorway), all that was heard was a trite cops-and-robbers script for a movie that Figon was working...
...lines"-that in time the wretched man is persuaded to consult a psychoanalyst, an experience almost as painful for the hero as it is for the reader, who may or may not be persuaded to hang on for more than 100 pages while Author Berto composes an intense but trite idvertisement for himself and incidentally reminds the critics yet once more that Freud may be good for people but he sure is bad for writing, though not half so bad as Berto's habit of composing marathon sentences that go on and on and on for five...
...EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. A young novelist has chosen her words with such delicacy and precision that even the trite theme of a holiday affair between an inhibited, not-so-young Englishwoman and a smooth, not-so-young Italian architect has become a haunting and poetic tale...
...mouth. Betrayed by one of the writers in Pasternak's parlor, Mandelstam was arrested on Stalin's personal order and banished to Siberia. His poetry was suppressed and is still almost entirely unknown in the Soviet Union, while in the West his reputation has been obscured by trite translations...
...make Malraux's prophecy come true. "From the very first sketch drawn, from the first stone laid," he says, "what came before all else was the spiritual climate to be created, not something dead where relics are kept, but a center of intellectual life away from the trite problems of daily living...