Word: triteness
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...leading that lesson, for having more faith in us than we had in ourselves, for being brave when required and rude where appropriate and tender without being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shrinking from the pain all around him, Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of the World, is TIME's 2001 Person of the Year...
Least of all does the new album convey anything beyond the dreariness of the typical teen life. Rather than depicting a lush vision of beautiful people in beautiful places, Spears sings about one predominant theme: her repression and desire to break free. Not only is the motif a trite one, but it also is repeated with such monotony on her album—eight of the twelve tracks are about her restrictions—that it loses all significance. The other four songs are overt sexual invitations, neither particularly interesting nor titillating...
...from rock-iconhood, he dusts off his acoustic for the enigmatic solo “True Love Waits” to close the album. “Fake Plastic Trees” it ain’t, but the song is appealing for its plaintive simplicity. It would sound trite coming from many others, but it is carried off by Yorke with aplomb, not least because it is a respite from the dense bells-and-whistles approach of the rest of the album. You almost feel like you’re overhearing Yorke singing himself to sleep in his hotel...
...grandmother’s refrigerator door is covered in yellowing clippings of particularly trite cartoons. I tease her about the prominent display place these somewhat witty drawings have next to the photographs of six-year-old me. I am never tempted toward newspaper clipping myself. There is one cartoon I tore out of the New Yorker and then promptly threw away because I hated it. I remember it anyway. There is a woman standing by the fridge with a carton of ice cream open in her hand. Her husband (or whoever is the balding man in her life) sticks...
...reclaims custody by personally kidnapping the child in the middle of the night. Eisner means for the story to have an archetypal, fairy tale aspect, hammered home by the written-out "fairy tale" version of the story at the end. But fairy tales are not novels. The morals become trite and the characters lack nuance...