Word: triteness
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...Running: "I'm fully satisfied, but I hesitate to call it great, on grounds of immodesty." Actually almost all of it is as silly as its plot. The book is one vast notions counter of half-fashioned ideas on life, love and literature. Its central proposition is the trite one that no one can swim in the sea of life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality quirks that sometimes go with it. At its frequent worst, it is a mishmash...
...Amid the trite and untrue that shed a honky-tonk glare from the nation's TV sets come moments that pierce reality and live up to television's magic gift for thrusting millions of spectators at once into the lap of history in the making. As television moved this week into its second decade, chances were that some of the best of such moments in the new season would come from a dark, high-domed man with a hangdog look, an apocalyptic voice and a cachet as plain as his inevitable cigarette. His name: Edward R. (for Roscoe...
...even with its pungent peccadillos and devious imbroglios, Giraudoux's theme is light and trite, his scope limited. As we found "Marivaudage," we find "Giraudoux-age"; Giraudoux's verbal and analytical virtuosity approaches the precious. He dallies for three hours with the ephemeral, and the eternal sentiments received eternal dissertations. Above all, Giraudoux's result is not entirely coincidental with his aims. Intellectual comedy such as this should address itself to the imagination and intelligence more than to the emotions, and determination of the inherent nature of reality and truth should attempt to dissociate to some little extent love from...
...love Song. This week Tommy helps Kraft TV celebrate its tenth anniversary in a drama called Flesh and Blood, in which he sings My Love Song, a tired, trite, bronchial number far out of Sands's usual rock-'n'-roll line ("But I like all kinds of music"). He also opens a three-week, $30,000 engagement at Manhattan's Roxy before going back to Hollywood to make The Singin' Idol for 20th Century-Fox, with which he has a seven-year contract...
...Hitchcock calls them all chilling. Several are. But too many remain simply unpleasant, falling far short of anything original and bizarre; too many seem stale or trite rather than shocking or even pleasantly uncomfortable...