Word: triteness
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...context of this ingrained tradition with its uncompromising demands for subordination, Mao's calls to revolution emerge as more than trite exhortations. A Chinese worker must be urged to "Dare to question"--for 2500 years, Confucians have been telling workers just the opposite. In these times of disturbing stability, of alarming complacency, of unsettling bureaucracy, Confucius is once more being used as a teacher. He warns of mistakes like those in the past...
WHEN ALL IS said and done, very little is said and done in The Paper Chase. The dialogue is trite and the action sluggish; only those fascinated by the machinations of Harvard Law School might expect to enjoy the film...
...cannot afford to make heroes out of men who simply ski, golf, watch eagles and sing trite songs...
...shot up while eating spaghetti, are heavy-handed by comparison. The device of framing the film with shots of the cartoonist Michael at his favorite pinball machine is intended to serve as a metaphor for Bakshi's brand of East Village existentialism but since Tommy it's a pretty trite trick. The conventional film segments at the end only expose the paucity of the caricatures and if Bakshi is forced already in his second film to resort to autobiography--he sees himself as a kind of Dustin Hoffman character, and shamelessly tacks "Scarborough Fair" onto the sound track--then...
...touches. There is no reason the storied fancies of E.T.A. Hoffmann cannot work as ballet too-as long since proved by Coppelia and The Nutcracker. This Hoffmann has a recomposed score by John Lanchbery that draws also on other colorful Offenbach works. But its choreographic steps and gestures are trite, even humdrum at points, and devoid of the kind of grand line that grand ballet at its best demands. (Ah, those outstretched arms signaling the courtesan's entrance-as in a silent film starring Theda Bara...