Word: triteness
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...program conformed to this concept of youthful intelligence. In trite partisan speeches, Democrats and Progressives were flayed, the Republican tariff extolled, the Depression minimized, the Hoover policies lauded. Prohibition was silenced as an issue. Little or no effort was made by the oldsters who ran the meetings to freshen up political thought for the youngsters...
...style of Missouri's citations seemed verbose and trite, it was no true measure of the calibre of the School of Journalism, to which Missourians point with just pride. Nor did it reflect upon the ability of the School's founder and administrator, Dean Walter Williams, president of the University, although it did recall the fact that he was once a "boy orator...
Rarely, if ever, has a U. S. statesman, in Death, evoked such widespread and sincere expressions of personal regret as Nicholas Longworth. Behind the trite formality of eulogies-for-the-Press was a ring of honest mourning. The nation had lost its Speaker but there would be others; a multitude of people, high and low, had lost a charming friend who could not be replaced. The range of his friendships was reflected in the long list of honorary pallbearers, including William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., Joseph Leiter and Efrem Zimbalist, Will Rogers and Clarence Mackay, Albert Lasker...
...trite saying that the only really satisfactory anthology is that which the individual reader composes for himself is perhaps quite true. Nevertheless there are anthologies and anthologies and their degree of excellency depends on the discrimination of the compiler and his sense of what selections should be juxtaposed. The modern fad of the amusingly incongruous is exemplified by such mixtures as the "Weekend Book" where selections are grouped in compartments such as Great Poems, Hate Poems, State Poems, and so on ad absurdum. In the "Winter Miscellany" however Humbert Wolfe restrains himself to selections on the subject of winter...
...detail and a depth of feeling which lends dramatic power to this prosaic gathering. At another time Albert is in his room, filling a shabby suitcase with little gifts for the girl he is to marry, but is interrupted by the arrival of the police. Here again is a trite situation, which becomes significant through deft and sympathetic handling. Nor is the movie without humor; a fight scene which might well have been heavy and conventional is a delightful parody. Most French, if not most effective, was the bed-room sequence, which the director handles with his tongue...