Word: triteness
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...proper sensitiveness to words. It can be asserted, with some justice, that, possessing these qualifications, no one could help writing a good book about King Christophe. Author John Vandercook, in a day when too many authors with abilities insufficient for their task attempt to decorate matters which are trite or trivial, deserves applause for choosing a superlative subject for human and highly spectacular biography...
Soul, by Muriel Haskell, is an entirely ludicrous pattern, attempting to present, in its melee of prongs and beams and curlycues, an allegory as trite, as uninteresting and as unconvincing as the metaphors in a schoolboy's sonnet...
...reporter] quickly will find he can be truthful without being trite; accurate without being arrogant; unbiased without being unsophisticated; decent without being dull; and interesting without being inconsequential...
...trite to say that the world is so small that one can scarcely move in it without stepping on some one's toes; bat the statement becomes increasingly true in these days, and, after all, the truth is never trite. It appears that even so innocuous a phrase as "American legation" jars on the ears of much of the Western Hemisphere, and that the diplomats at Washington, anxious not to displease, have in recent time substituted for it such an expression as "the United States legation...
...which President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin writes articles. Eager intellects of the Wisconsin Student Forum heard that the wife of famed Philosopher Bertrand Russell of England was coming to the U. S. to lecture in connection with the publication of her "fearless," "astounding" and rather trite book, The Right to Be Happy. The Student Forum invited Mrs. Russell to lecture on "Companionate Marriages" and looked forward to hearing a "vital and significant message"-until it learned the kind of thing Mrs. Russell would probably say, as quoted above...