Word: tritely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cope with her husband’s decision to sell his organs in order to support his family, while she carries on an affair with his brother. However, “Gone Too Soon” by Sameera Haque ‘06 was nothing more than a trite rendition of the story in which a child discovers that her mother has cancer. While the story’s basic foundation is potent enough to have made a good performance through a strong delivery, the monologue was unoriginal and a little bland. It should have brought tears to the eyes...
...much out of the day as possible.”DOING IT FOR THEMSELVESTo respond to the struggles of training, pressure, and breaking boundaries in a sport dominated by men, the Olympic women of the Harvard hockey team draw strength from a variety of sources. After apologizing for being trite, Cahow attributes her own determination and inspiration to her mom, a doctor who was one of just eight women in her Harvard Medical School class. “I think she’s a pretty incredible woman,” says Cahow. “She really...
...Poor catchphrase attribution is one of several fumbles made by directors Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech in their efforts to create an animated film that caters to all demographics. They also sacrifice the charm of traditional children’s movies for aggressive characters, trite cartoon gags, and curious casting decisions; Xzibit, for example, sheds a little more of his dignity by providing the voice of an irritable grizzly bear/police chief. But “Hoodwinked” isn’t a laugh-free affair: when the characters aren’t talking, the writers manage...
...course no stereotype necessarily applies. Not every Jew is a pessimist, and only 75 percent of American Jews receive a college diploma according to the 2004 National Jewish Population Survey. Popular culture has found a representation of its changing self in trite Jewish stereotypes, and it has again pigeonholed Jews into those characteristics...
...circuit and play our heroes in the finals…which, of course, goes down to the final point. I won’t “spoil” the ending by giving it away. These highlights are not enough to interest the audience in the characters. The trite construction of “self-centered man has mid-life crisis/man hits road with slightly less narcissistic buddy/man gets life back on track after epiphany” has been fully explored, most recently by “Sideways,” and “Tennis” adds...