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...production process has been scrutinized, it's Boeing's own doing. Since production of the Dreamliner was announced in 2003, Boeing has made transparency imperative, especially as international partners assumed more of the heavy lifting and financial risk on the supply end. "We've had a trite little saying that says 'you can't manage a secret,'" said Bair. "So we've had everything out in the open and everything visible, because you never know where help is going to come from. It's been a struggle...
...their ancestral houses became a way for the strictly vegetarian Marwaris to show off a little. The ceiling of one such haveli, for example, shows the flute-playing Hindu god Krishna frolicking beside a billowing steam engine. A bit kitsch? Maybe, but even if the images can be trite, the hand-carved teak doors and almost accidental details of the havelis rarely disappoint. Before paints were mass produced, for example, Marwaris fermented their dyes from cow urine and plastered them onto walls while the mud was still wet. This deep mustard brown color, leached under the cauldron of the desert...
...their blustery bravura, these editorialists remain blindfolded by ideological fervor. The uninspiring rhetoric and trite phraseologies only testify to the difficulty of shaping party platitudes and talking points into coherent prose...
...song about trying to return to a past embodied by a highway, highlights the band’s mellower side. Its last words are delicate, and Turner understands that the words have to be handled carefully. Sung too sentimentally, too sadly, and they become trite; sung too angrily or sarcastically and they become meaningless. But the Arctic Monkeys get it just right with this song, as they do on the whole album. As their last few lines attest, “In my imagination you’re waiting lying on your side / With your hands between your thighs...
...incomprehensible.” Bush, always the ineffective orator, talks about the importance of keeping faith in “a loving God.” But in the face of such a pointless and cruel squandering of human life, his theodicy is unconvincing. The question seems trite until a tragedy like this strikes: “How could a benevolent God allow this to happen...