Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a tragic question to have to ask, and I don't know how to answer it so that it doesn't sound trite...
...Call it trite--that old "American Dream" of rags to riches, which (like most political ideals) was probably always more of a dream than a reality. Though the cliche may not accurately describe the workings of America's economy, it embodies certain democratic values--like the openness of the political system to all worthy individuals regardless of their class background--values which are so engrained in the American character that every candidate still feels obliged to pay lip service to them even when they are less of a reality than ever...
...valuable opportunity to preview their new long program, an intricate dance choreographed by Dean and set to music from West Side Story. A routine that relies on such familiar strains is unlikely to meet with the resistance Reflections did. But this time the Duchesnays risk the unthinkable: appearing trite. "With West Side Story, it's twice as hard to come up with something that will impress people," admits Isabelle. "We're trying to show people that even with the old stuff, you can turn it around and do something else...
Despite the script's trite monologues, pithy remarks on reaching adulthood redeem Raymond's believability. One such comment--"You've already been pulled in on one drunk driving charge and your girl-friend's pregnant and there's not much new on TV these days...
During the 1950s, the American Ad Reinhardt dissolved the problem by painting pictures so dark, so apparently monochrome, that they could not be mechanically reproduced -- images that come out on a glossy page as trite- looking black squares. Reinhardt's series of "black" paintings, completed between 1954 and his death in 1967, are among the few works produced by an American that make sense only in themselves and are utterly meaningless in their clones. Collectively they are a superb vindication of art's right to be experienced at first hand. And they have not been seen together...