Today, 191 years after its premiere, its plot is less trendy than trite.
It's important to note, however, that although other charter school models are less trendy, they do exist.
With a couple of notably lowbrow exceptions (looking at you, IOU), the tone of the clues and the quality of the entries was less trendy than we've seen of late, the cultural references (VERE, SOREN, LE CID) a bit more academic, and the jokes a bit upper crustier.
Perhaps in future issues your designers could be less concerned about being trendy and more concerned about being readable.
Religion is less than trendy, Celtic bands so passé and naked women a little gauche.
Social science is less about trendy topics like email networks and social media sites than it is about the grand problems of society – managing the impact of climate change, regulating financial markets, building more efficient organizations, designing more fair economies.
Some of the supervised learning that underpins work in the dialog space is less sexy than trendy reinforcement learning, but it's incredibly fundamental to the field of machine learning.
In the chemistry department at Rutgers University and other laboratories like it, the real action is in less trendy ingredients like oregano, crab shells and milk.
STUDENT labels don't necessarily reflect what's cool on campus; instead, their recordings reveal tastes that are far less trendy (and far more catholic) than what you would find on an average sophomore's iPod.
Microsoft's answer to the iPod is even less trendy, but geeks with prolific music collections will appreciate the massive 80-GB and 120-GB hardriveses available on the Zune.
