That is a slightly trite way of phrasing it, but it is true.
The Theater Ballet program notes about Tudor encourage the audience to regard him as a psychological choreographer, which is the wrong way to prepare for "Soirée Musicale" and a relatively trite way to follow "Jardin aux Lilas".
"I wasn't having a go at multiculturalism itself, I was having a go at the rather trite way, frankly, it was represented in the opening ceremony".
Yet despite such portents, there are no horrors here, just unsettling musings upon the strange (and, it must be said, occasionally trite) ways in which everybody hurts.
It followed Death of a Scientist, by John Harris and Zinnie Harris, which dramatised the last moments of the life of David Kelly in a trite, unforgivably cavalier way.
Soccer as a manifestation of a native spirit is not too trite a way to describe it.
It's a bit of a trite saying, attributed to coaches, motivational speakers and fortune cookie authors (by the way, whose idea was it for fortune cookies to replace predictions with treacly aphorisms from the "Successories" reject pile?).
In less capable hands, this could have been a trite storyline, of the tedious "can women have it all?" variety, but here, it just feels like an honest way of portraying a difficult family situation.
This isn't a trite point.
It's a trite and predictable lesson from what is arguably this talented author's tritest and most predictable novel.
