Sentence examples for felt trite from inspiring English sources
As I watched her and a very young Clark Gable (sans moustache) in love and in battle, but never in sync, I realized I'd seen this theme played out in movies dozens of times; so often, it felt trite.
Even the final scene in which Justine, Claire and Leo hold hands in a wooden teepee frame with no cover, delivering an image providing perhaps a literal, visual, damnation of a land stolen, felt trite, like a rock-star shaving his head in penance when something bad happens.
"They didn't feel staged, they didn't feel trite — they were all very believable, and that's what's going to make them resonate with people".
While this may sound like the typical hero's quest, the way that the story is told doesn't feel trite or predictable and the developers have done a great job in conveying emotional scenes in very simple terms.
The script is preposterous (a greedy daughter's comeuppance is portrayed in such broad strokes that the resolution feels trite and dishonest), but Bates and Woodard give lively performances that help it glide along, and Perry photographs everyone in a lovely amber light, which masks the thinly conceived characters in a sappy glow.
This well-worn manipulation is used in hundreds of sports films, from "Cool Runnings" to "Little Giants," but, as he does in all his films, Chow so fully commits himself to the genre that what would feel trite or manipulative in another context takes on an unexpected emotional resonance.
Like Lekman, The Goon Sax have an innate talent for writing bald-faced love songs that don't feel trite or sappy.
Stories in which characters end up learning valuable life lessons can often feel trite and cliché, but because of what these two go through, I felt like the game earned the right to show them growing a little.
The question feels trite to both the questioner and the respondent, but yet we continue to use this crutch day after day, year after year in a monotonous drone of polite monologue.
He's the perfect person to exalt this strange cult figure: In "The Disaster Artist," Tommy never becomes too much of a caricature, even if the film's final moments feel trite.
