Word: triteness
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Despite the script's trite monologues, pithy remarks on reaching adulthood redeem Raymond's believability. One such comment--"You've already been pulled in on one drunk driving charge and your girl-friend's pregnant and there's not much new on TV these days...
During the 1950s, the American Ad Reinhardt dissolved the problem by painting pictures so dark, so apparently monochrome, that they could not be mechanically reproduced -- images that come out on a glossy page as trite- looking black squares. Reinhardt's series of "black" paintings, completed between 1954 and his death in 1967, are among the few works produced by an American that make sense only in themselves and are utterly meaningless in their clones. Collectively they are a superb vindication of art's right to be experienced at first hand. And they have not been seen together...
...parallels between Evelyn's dilemmas about her future and her lover are heavy-handed and trite, and the authors make Evelyn seem shallow and foolish. Her realization that she does not need a man's guidance attempts to save the play from sexism, but this epiphany still comes much too late...
Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona proves that even the illustrious Bard wrote trite plays. Nevertheless, the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian Theater Workshop manages to redeem this textual mess, and director Artie Wu creates an enjoyable production...
...freshman Vukonich, who is now affectionately known as Vuke, reeked of his Duluth, Minn. upbringing, and his matriculation at Harvard was straight out of the trite tradition of "small-town kid comes to big city...