Word: triteness
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...trite to describe a football game in the subjunctive. "If this" and "if that" are as common in football stories as they are unrealistic. But speculation as to what might have been is always comforting, especially if what might have been was a Harvard victory over Yale...
...talky and without dramatic zing, but they at least had the merit of trying to get away from the usual empty-headed TV plots and make a few comments about life and the pursuit of happiness. The depressing fact was that when the comment was not confused, it was trite...
...poem had to offer. But to me this was not a great deal. Junger's language is often musical and thrilling, but his images of fallen glory (grey Byzantium, the sleeping emperor, druids) and modern confusion (herds of taxis, flame-winged planes, departing stars) seemed little more than trite. At times it was difficult to escape the feeling that one was being served warmed-over Yeats. For me this use of commonplace imagery counteracted the strength which language alone might have given the piece...
...Yourself," Miss Scott was joined by Barbara Forester, Hugh Fortmiller, and Colgate Salsbury for another of the evening's best features. The hokum about Arabs and the Foreign Legion which preceded it, like much of the Stephen Charnas-Andre Gregory book, seemed diffuse and veering almost instinctively toward the trite. Their happiest moment was a parody of Little Red Riding Hood which held its own pretty well with Jack Webb's and the score of other lampoons. Their version of an opera rehearsal was good fun too, although the staging sometimes let affected confusion substitute for hilarity...
...speech last week (see below), Secretary of State Dulles, without naming the islands, clarified the U.S. position on Quemoy and Matsu. What he said was simple, almost trite: he warned the Communists again that if they persisted in regarding these islands as stepping stones to Formosa, and if they attacked them, the U.S., committed to defend Formosa, might accept the Communist definition of such an assault as the beginning of an attack on Formosa and retaliate accordingly...