Sentence examples for as a trite from inspiring English sources
This is not meant as a trite argument or a chuckled aside.
These relations are in reality, not just as a trite phrase, a potential "win-win situation".
The Song of Songs (1933), Mamoulian's last film for Paramount as a producer-director, offered a strong performance by Marlene Dietrich but was dismissed by a number of critics as a trite melodrama.
Reviewing the show in The New York Times four decades ago, Clive Barnes described it as "a trite and uninteresting story with aspirations to a seriousness that it never for one moment fulfills".
The big prenuptial party in a Manhattan hotel is spoiled by the trio's bad behavior (drugs are involved); when, unbeknownst to the bride, they tear the wedding dress on the eve of the ceremony, their odyssey through town in search of a remedy gives their cheerful riot and pat sourness still freer rein, even as a trite bit of soul-searching pulls them effortlessly out of their ten-year funk.
He never used a phrase as trite as "the good war", but in his very first speech as prime minister in May 1940 he defined his policy simply: "To wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime".
Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday" is as trite a fashion reference as there is, but it acquired a bizarre new life in the context of a show created by a designer-rapper who had to face a gun possession charge last year.
I am an entertainer, and as trite as it may sound, acting chose me.
A Derridean reading would suggest that Murphy's mythopoetic reality is a more appropriate gesture to assume.Thor HallandPattaya, ThailandSIR – One is not sure whether something as trite as death matters a jot in an advanced consumerist civilisation.
The Los Angeles Times called Walter Bishop one of the best characters of 2008, noting, "the role of the modern-day mad scientist could so easily have been a disaster, but the 'Fringe' writers and the masterful John Noble have conspired to create a character that seems, as trite as it sounds, more Shakespearean than sci-fi".
This is not as trite as it sounds because a vast majority of the literature on American diplomacy focuses on specific regions and countries.
