Word: triteness
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...trite phrase "My country right or wrong" sounds very hollow in view of the American war atrocities at My Lai. The innocent, helpless civilians so brutally murdered there are another testimony to the fact that "liberty and justice for all" exist only if one happens to be American, wealthy and white. The "great silent majority" must work together morally for those values and ideals that were once held in such high esteem...
This chronicle is often retrieved from corniness by touching moments and memories that allow young Lahr to mold humanity around the trite-tragic skeleton that his father's life seems to have been. For instance, there is Lahr as a budding vaudevillian putting makeup on his collar even when unemployed so everyone will know he is in show biz. One is touched by the physical fact that his left wrist was permanently larger than the right from breaking repeated pratfalls. And a fine moment comes when a wino outside the theater holds out a dollar saying "Here, Bert...
Sports would seem to be an ideal subject for movies. They are fast, colorful, suspenseful and sometimes violent. Yet they generally come out looking forced and fake, because they are used as a background for some trite melodrama. Football players lose their power on the field because their wives are frigid (Number One); drivers louse up on the racing track because their women are fickle (Winning); fighters sell out under the influence of booze, dames and the mob (Golden...
...room. Betsy told me that he was William Stromm, executive director of PP. "He gets very worked up, but in a sense he's right. The attitude of the young in this country is different now from what it was even ten years ago. It's trite, but I think we tend to live dangerously, take more chances. Of course that behavior is going to include sex. It's just incredibly unfortunate that the laws are made for twenty years ago, and even then they were unfair...
...second act while realizing he shares the plight of the boy in the Belfast Jail, and when his girlfriend (Ann Sachs who is just lovely as a convent-bred girl with a heart of gold) closes the play with an angry indictment, The Hostage approaches a truth as trite as it is universal, one not to be easily dismissed...