Word: triteness
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...Jean-de-Luz trouble awaits the trio-and the play. Nazis make up the reception committee, and it requires a lot of trite, melodramatic hokum to get past the receiving line. After that, the colonel "reforms" and practically falls in love with Jacobowsky; and the two escape-across a sea of soupy sentiment-to England...
...rest of the cast was too hopelessly burdened with the almost unbelievably trite lines to display much in the way of acting ability. (One old gentleman on our right affirmed solemnly that the dialogue in several scenes was used, in pantomime, in "Birth of a Nation...
...personal letters. Do not mention the Crusade-it is not necessary to mention The Methodist Church; we are not organizing another 'pressure group' but expressing the convictions of Christian citizens. Above all, do not copy anything from the Crusade literature-do not use the Crusade phrases- avoid trite phrases and Biblical, 'pious,' poetic, figurative and similar expressions. . . . Stick to the simple propositions: we are against isolationism; we favor collaboration; we want a fair, just, righteous and lasting peace...
...free-for-all about the husband shortage, was likely to remain unchallenged as the worst show of the season. MANHATTAN NOCTURNE (by Roy Walling) told how a down-in-the-mouth writer (Eddie Dowling) and a poor little call girl gave each other the faith to begin afresh. A trite story tritely told, it had moments of theater, might possibly-in this most uncritical of seasons-squeak through...
...place was colorful. Mostly it was boring, but it was colorful sometimes. The sergeants, of course, come out on top in that category. Colorful? . . .! Sergeants have been written about by so many wistful draftees of World War II that they're as trite as KP, but the fact approach to ROTC was a little skeptical, usually distrustful, seldom fawning...