Word: triteness
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...trying to imbue such a colossal subject with overproduced emotion, My Chemical Romance achieves the near-impossible: they make World War II seem trite...
...they had fun trying new things, and maybe, just maybe I would turn a few towards my world, where words are savored and not dismissed. With my aspirations a bit bruised, I finally figured out why those who work with children often speak in clichés. Because a trite phrase like “It’s the little things that count” is quite often true...
Hudson isn’t a bad actress—we’ll leave that to “Jill the Thrill”—but she does little to transcend the trite. In this film, acting deftness seems to increase with age. Rowlands as Violet Devereaux, the overbearing wife, is convincingly crazy and generally splendid. Hurt may not have many lines as the stroke-burdened husband, Ben Devereaux, but his haunting stare and stark showing of sickness are the scariest parts of the early minutes...
...puissant metaphor for shab-elegant show biz, where exhibitionism and humiliation dance in precise sync, where each passion must be displayed nakedly and clothed in artifice, where a dedicated pro's highest hope is to tap and smile invisibly behind the star. Each dancer's bio may have been trite: a child finding refuge and transcendence in dancing school (At the Ballet), a mouse whose charms are augmented by cosmetic surgery (Dance 10, Looks 3), a teenager whose parents find him dressed as a drag princess. But touched by the minimalist magic of Director Michael Bennett, they found life...
...listing of his shortcomings? He even includes a weak refashioning of Eminem’s “Stan” called “Loretta”—it too is about a crazy fan and the travails they undertake. Instead of Eminem’s trite sympathy, however, we have Smith’s blithe dismissal. He is real enough to call a spade a spade and a whack-job a whack...