triteness

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Batman and Robin literally becomes a feeble imitation to inspire age-sprawling consumption -- and the triteness is almost impossible to bear.

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  1. The character of being trite; commonness; staleness; the state of being hackneyed or commonplace. Sermons which … disgust not the fastidious ear of modern elegance by triteness or vulgarity. Wrangham, Sermons, Pref.

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  • The Pursuit of Happyness, also starring Will Smith (TM); and the mixing-it-up-ness of a screenplay that mixes the triteness up in much the same way that a small child hides the fact that it hasn't eaten its peas by shoving them around the plate and then under the mashed potatoes. —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • The dialogue proves to be the biggest offender in terms of triteness, and ends up drowning the film in cliches. —  TheDartmouth.com | America's Oldest College Newspaper. Founded 1799.
  • Batman and Robin literally becomes a feeble imitation to inspire age-sprawling consumption -- and the triteness is almost impossible to bear. —  DVD Talk
  • Come on lame triteness is not evidence to support a stance. nanlichi Says: oooooooooooooh, such anger from the right wing freak. —  Think Progress
  • In a perverse homage to triteness, each shot hitting the post is a "palo clamoroso," and it is always described as a case of bad luck, rather than lack of precision. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
 

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