Sentence examples for for trite from inspiring English sources

Give me a T, for trite.

But they cannot save Mr. Jafferis's script, which strains after far too many predictable rhymes (a sin in a hip-hop play) and too often settles for trite messages.

But Meyers showed a penchant for trite phraseology, like, "Pat Summitt is concerned when players aren't making plays" (as opposed to the coaches who could care less?) and "coming into this game, we really didn't know who would win".

A polite, nice man, he had little aptitude or appetite for trite talk at parties or events, even when he was up for a best actor Oscar, as he was then.

A unique, uncanny moment was framed by the most familiar and predictable kind of coverage and commentary: Anchors, compelled to say something, reached for trite metaphors and hyperbolic expressions of wonder ("Our secular version of a miracle," according to one CNN commentator) that didn't begin to match the reality unfolding live behind them.

That, and Lee's unfortunate weakness for trite bromides and pat plot resolutions.

And I'll grant you that Collins was responsible for the winner of the Stomach Turner prize for tritest, most mawkish ballad of all time, Being Homeless Looks Simply Dreadful.

The video, made by stock house Dissolve with verse originally written by Kendra Eash for McSweeney's, spares no disdain for the trite and true methods of ad hacks.

You correctly criticize his embrace of the inane "comparable worth" bill without making it a metaphor for his trite liberalism and innocence of how the real world operates.

He later apologised to Waissel and Big Brother for the "trite, ridiculous remark", which was not broadcast but which he discussed in an interview in the Sun.

WHEN "Bombay Dreams" opened on the West End in June 2002, The Times of London criticized the musical for its "trite lyrics," "cardboard characters," "dialogue that would test the patience of Mother Teresa" and "the lamest ending in West End history".