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From topical to trite is a short step but a fatal one.
The exact meanings may get lost in translation, but trite is a universal language apparently.
Writer includes some of Don Gabor's pet sayings and pointers, e.g. "Trite is right" and "Cliche is O.K.," and tries to apply these lessons to a conversation he attempts to have with his typewriter about Don Gabor.
And Garber's aim, to encourage a deep engagement with the plays by emphasizing their ubiquity in modern culture, is so exemplary that the book's occasional descent from the stimulating to the trite is forgivable.
That's right: they're trite, and being trite is anathema to an intellectual.
Seay is so direct in her declarations there's a danger of banality here; it's a measure of the poet's skill that what would in other hands seem simplistic or even trite is here both enthralling and instructive.
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How could this, all so — "trite" was the word — have given any of them either pain or joy?
Even her best work tends to be efficient pastiche, and when "For the Love of Duke," staggeringly trite, was new at City Ballet in January, it was a strong contender to be her worst.
"Dreadful," "boring," and "trite" are some of the adjectives that have been flying around in my little sphere.
The trite answer is yes and no.
Benn's insights can be agonisingly trite: "Divorce is never easy".
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