Word: tritely
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...Rice's libretto remains an uneven collection to of trite and witty lyrics. The better include a worried Person's lament. "Then again we might be foolish/Not to quit while we're ahead/ For distance leads enchantment and that is why/All exiles are distinguished/ More important they're not dead." And a phalanx of aristocrats admit. "No we wouldn't mind/ Seeing her in Harrod's/But behind the jewelry counter/ Not in front...
...have an appointment with her.'" The fragment is a throwaway, a trite meeting of Woman with Death. And the poem is only a description of two lovers meeting in the forest--the only energy is the contrast between the two kinds of meetings implied. Axinn has written a poem by gluing two vignettes together--and it is a small monument to confusion and disunity...
...experiences enough pain to deserve sympathy Yet this merely highlights the film's lack of focus. Obviously the hero, Ford, first gains our attention; he's suffering, then he's fighting, and then he falls in love. Midway through the film however, the definitions become fuzzy, and a rather trite morality lesson begins. The killer monsters become the oppressed...
...pass through the usual torments of childhood into sequences of adult problems-familial, professional, financial, emotional-that would not seem particularly exotic in most neighborhoods. While the stars' typical romantic lives are a matter of overheated legend, the actual events of their marital and extramarital flights are as trite as Everyperson's. Even Mae West managed to sound like an average lovesick adolescent when she attested to the uniqueness of the feeling between her and one of her numerous musclemen: "... a love so complete that it embraced not only our bodies but our minds and spirits-a perfect...
...trite and tragic. Another pop star found in a hotel room, dead of undetermined causes at an obscenely early age. In their blackest moods, the writers for NBC's original Saturday Night Live might have used these facts to make a satiric point about the self-destruction of performers who spoke most electrifyingly to their generation. And at the end of the skit, the victim-played by SNL 's reigning cutup, John Belushi-would have sprung back to life, bounced to his feet and bellowed: "But no-o-o-o!" But yes. Late last week, in a bungalow...