Word: triteness
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...fine. The film's only major fault is the screenplay, written by Hamer from an adaptation by Gore Vidal. It's a pity Vidal wasn't allowed to do the whole job. Hamer's script leaves a number of loose ends and unclear motivations; and the denouement is both trite and inexcusably abrupt. But the picture is worth seeing for its performances...
...disbelief" that every playgoer is supposed to bring with him into a theatre. Shakespeare was never primarily concerned with story line, anyway; he was more interested in character than in plot. For All's Well he just snapped up a Boccaccio tale from a secondary source, complete with the trite gimmick of identification of rings. But he failed to expend the necessary effort on characteriaztion as well. Pascal once said, "Every author has a meaning in which all the contradictory passages agree, or he has no meaning at all." This play contains such passages. For example, the first two acts...
Your June 1 article "Of Rabbits & Races" was well reported. Those of us in the South who still have control of our faculties are not responsible for the opinions of Mr. Balch and State Senator Eddins. It is unfortunate that many of your readers will identify this trite nonsense as the philosophy of all those south of the Mason-Dixon Line...
...precisely this failure to take a stand, however, that turns Easy Living into a trite account of the nocturnal habits of a seedy set of people. In the absence of any moral clarity, either in defense of or opposition to this new life, we are left with a gutless congregation of men and women--shallow, mechanical, colorless--who do absurd things and utter ridculous statements but who never seem to be aware of their own humanity...
...University must first ask itself: is science worth teaching to the non-scientist? The answer seems definitely yes. On the one hand, Harvard graduates are socially critical people, and trite though it may sound, a rudimentary knowledge of science helps provide insight in dealing with political and social issues which scientific developments continually thrust upon us. Just as important, however, is that Harvard's claim to turn out graduates with a modicum of education seems only justified if students are introduced to the basic approaches of science...