Word: triteness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore with a feeling of optimism that a bit of advice which might sound trite and worthless if coming from an advisor may be offered to the incoming class by some of its more experienced undergraduate colleagues...
...Sophomore (Pathé). Here is one of those cinema colleges without buildings or curriculum, but this time composed strangely of youths who do not smoke or drink and who expel a fraternity brother as soon as they find a girl in his room. One Eddie Quillan uses trite situations for purposes of comedy. Between arid stretches, two sequences are fairly funny-the college play, when he has to let his worst enemy make love to him, and the football game which he wins by tackling a teammate who is running the wrong way. Sally O'Neil...
...Manhattan's dramatic critics, sneaking back to their kennels, scorched an unwholesome yellow by the country sun, this dull trifle was used as an excuse for bored and wintry sarcasms. It repeated, stupidly, the theatrical cliche of the wife who wanted her husband to love her and whose trite appetites were gratified through the complicating assistance of her husband's friend. Alan Mowbray, of Theatre Guild scrub casts, wrote it himself, a handicap which his histrionic ability was not sufficient to overcome...
This Is Heaven (United Artists). Anyone who likes the movies will like this trite, gentle little picture about an immigrant girl who falls in love with a rich man posing as a chauffeur. In the early episodes of their flirtation, and later, when love is frustrated temporarily by one of those misunderstandings based upon questioned chastity, you experience an atmosphere which has been for years the national atmosphere of the Cinema, but which is now being replaced by other, heartier, less elementary qualities of plot and treatment. Vilma Banky, who acts nicely, talks at times in a Hungarian accent...
...wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays was mainly brought about by Director Benjamin Christensen who gave a trite plot (heirs looking for money in a millionaire's mansion) better treatment than it deserved...