Word: tritely
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...problem. Alas, final clubs in general have been operating more or less under the same system from the eighteenth century right up until the twenty-first, with female final clubs folding right in to the tradition as they’re formed. People have been making the same trite observations about them for just as long: “They’re too exclusive,” or “the selection process is too arbitrary,” or “they monopolize too much of campus social life, social space?...
...picture of cosmopolitan castaways going to prizefights, bars bedrooms, bullrings in France and Spain is excessively accurate but not as trite as it might be. The ironic witticisms are amusing, for a few chapters. There is considerable emotion, consciously restrained quite subtle. Experts may pronounce the book a masterpiece of sex-frustration psychology. But the reader is very much inclined to echo a remark that is one of Jake's favorites and, presumably Author Hemingway's too, "Oh, what the hell...
...grandsons would attend Harvard, he would not have known whether to laugh or to cry. While seemingly clichéd, the story of my grandfather has a large bearing on how I ended up here at Harvard. My family’s story is just another of those seemingly trite American success stories, à la Horatio Alger—a genre with which we are all probably too familiar. Merely because my family’s story is familiar, however, does not make it any less meaningful, or, more importantly, any less true. Why do I bring this...
...trying to imbue such a colossal subject with overproduced emotion, My Chemical Romance achieves the near-impossible: they make World War II seem trite...
Hudson isn’t a bad actress—we’ll leave that to “Jill the Thrill”—but she does little to transcend the trite. In this film, acting deftness seems to increase with age. Rowlands as Violet Devereaux, the overbearing wife, is convincingly crazy and generally splendid. Hurt may not have many lines as the stroke-burdened husband, Ben Devereaux, but his haunting stare and stark showing of sickness are the scariest parts of the early minutes...