Word: tritely
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...this is no trite tale of generational change in which yesterday's malcontents become today's mandarins. Many of those at the pinnacle of the World Bank share the demonstrators' concerns that globalization has brought few dividends to the world's poor, and that the burden of debt owed by developing countries to the G7 industrialized nations threatens to keep them permanently impoverished. But while the protesters are calling for the IMF and World Bank to be disbanded, representatives of the developing world who are forced to deal every day with the reality of a global financial system in which...
...recent Boston Globe articles reported the demise of Weld's marriage with his quiet, cerebral wife--a woman notoriously shy of government functions and engrossed in her studies of Chinese law. The Globe article reported that Bill was permanently living in the city, dating a celebrity columnist from the trite magazine In Style and considering a career in acting...
Politicians, of course, are in the same boat. It takes a powerful speaker with an able team of speechwriters to come up with something to say on Independence Day that's not trite and boring...
...trite as it sounds, I really wanted to make a difference," says former Undergraduate Council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond '00, who will be teaching in Baltimore, Md., for two years before entering Yale Law School...
...much-overlooked 1997 single "All I Want to Do is Rock") Travis' set contained mostly songs from their recent album, with the biggest response coming for the gorgeous current single "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" Lead singer Fran Healy has the unique ability to make something trite sound like a display of pure vulnerability, and his use of speeches in between songs never came across as pretentious...