Word: triteness
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...some point between then and now, the Russians learned to use the aesthetic genius of the early movies in a more natural way, without degenerating into the general conventionality of Soviet painting, or the sterility of most of socialist realism. A Summer to Remember includes its quota of trite sequences, but for the most part it uses inspired photographic imagery to express believably the feelings and imagination of a charming little...
Happily, operatic tradition and the difficulties of musical presentation excuse such a trite plot. At the same time they also obscured several of Mr. Smith's funny lines. Obfuscation failed to overcome the genuine slapstick in the organ scene of the first...
...interesting to compare these poems on a purely technical basis with one by Stephen Sandy a few pages later. In To H.B., Berman ends the first four lines with near-rhymes: said, bad; trite, it. Then, he finishes the section with two other rhyme schemes, each different. The result is confusion which pretends to complexity...
Working in a delicate, naturalistic key, Director Zurlini seems to be tossing an old-fashioned bouquet to the memory of pre-beat youth. The English titles are trite, the story thin, but Zurlini has meshed his moods nicely, cast his players lovingly, and photographed them with shimmering beauty. It is because they are simple and plausible people that this slight cinema is also oddly touching...
Once again this week, however, came the platitudes--and from both President Kennedy and Prime Minister Diefenbaker. Actually, re-statements of mutual inseparability can beneficially remind both sides of the other's existence and concern. The danger lies in stopping there, for any of these now-trite but often important Canadian complaints can cause substantial policy differences...