Hints and tips:
...Talk of the “Carney effect” has become almost trite in the City of London in recent months....
...Jan Swafford’s vast biography sketches in the social and political background but gives most space to the music in descriptions that are sometimes trite but always vivid and readable....
...At the beginning of the 21st century, there is nothing sharper in the cultural firmament than American television writing....
...- Chris Bowers at Open Left notes that Americans are supposed to hate “big government,” not applaud it. Yet nationaising the housing market is very big government indeed....
...Taki’s views on Spitzer closely resemble his views on Hillary Clinton, but on reading yet another of his rather subjective swipes at her I realised I was just as guilty of trite comments with little foundation...
...The Wire will have none of the trite improbabilities that carefully pilot most movie and television dramas towards their wholesome dénouements....
...But here he is in Bar Americain, a busy American-style brasserie in midtown Manhattan....
...The non-Americans on the jury get a chance to seek out, via mobile and BlackBerry, the latest score from the decisive England-Australia cricket match, while the Americans look on perplexed....
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