Word: triteness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production entitled "Sweetheart Time" could hardly be a startlingly original offering. The title conjures up all that is trite and inconsequential in musical comedy and leads us to expect sickly sentimentality decked in shimmering summer dresses, roses, and orange blossoms--an unseasonable dish, certainly, for a long winter evening. And true enough, the sentimentality, the summer dresses, the roses, and the orange blossoms are all present. Even so "Sweetheart Time" makes easy escape from the anticipated slough of hum-drum mediocrity...
...need not discuss the question whether his 'Concerto in F' is good jazz or not; that seems to us relatively unimportant beside the question whether it is good music or not; and we think it is only fairish music-conventional, trite, at its worst a little dull...
NATURE--Is one of those words in which the eloquence of lovers shines with success. Nothing is more persuasively employed than the appeals made to it, against the rigid prescriptions of duty. Thus, when a lover makes use of this trite argument: "Either nature is imperfect in itself, by giving us inclinations that the laws condemn, or the laws are justly accusable or too great severity, in condemning inclinations given us by nature", this profound sophistry means: "Since you have scruples, my game is to remove them. Reasin may give itself what airs it pleases; but if you love...
Robert E. Sherwood has written a delightfully trite, for it is so true, "Standard Speech for Coaches on the Eve of the Big Event," Sandwiched between Sherwood and George S. Chappell on "Modern Developments in Collegiate, Rowing". John Dos Passos has been called in to prove that the program is not alone of athletes, by athletes, for athletes. In "What About the Theatre?" Dos Passos heralds the birth of an American Theatre, "as hopelessly lyrically American as cigarette ads or Coca-Cola...
...speech on the world court, especially when that speech is made by the fiery Senator Borah. But let the observer take heart at this apparent indication of depth and breadth of thinking in America, the cynic points out that the arguments advanced by the Senator are hopelessly trite and superficial...