Word: triteness
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Love in the Tropics, a steam-heated drama of love in the tropics, was trite torment...
...himself to a discussion of the decency of the affair. Enough has been said--perhaps too much--concerning Harvard's penchant for the quiet, the restrained, the indifferent. The CRIMSON firmly believes, however, that if any attitude is typical of the University it is this one. The chasm of trite collegiatism is too deep to warrant any precarious flirtations with its slopes...
...must remain for people a wild and impossible conjecture. Most people, with casual cowardice, do not contemplate death as they approach it. The result of the mind's bouncing, like a tennis ball, between the racquets of Life and Death, is usually expressed completely, inarticulately, paradoxically, in the trite phrase: "What does it all matter?" Having reached this point, normal people have breakfast; abnormal people kill themselves...
...plot is neither new nor many-sided. Only a writer of M. Maurois' taste and charm could have kept out of all danger of becoming trite or tiresome. Under his pen the story keeps up one's expectant interest although it never becomes absorbing. His chapters often glint with quiet humor as when "Daddy Leroy", and old mill-hand, is perched on a pile of cloth, holding a pistol to his head, and his superiors discuss the pros and cons of suicide with him, while his fellow hands sit by with their fingers in their ears...
...again encounter overt U. S. curiosity about his fancy waist and waistcoats, his night-club complexion, his affinities and affectations. He will not feel whole literary cocktail parties hanging on his lightest utterance, for it is well agreed now what he can and cannot say; what a pleasantly trite clam he is sometimes and how low he once brought bold Edna .Ferber in a single exchange of shots about looking feminine.** He will be permitted to enjoy himself and the U. S. this time and his real friends, of whom he made quite a number, will see something...