Sentence examples for have been trite from inspiring English sources
The characters surrounding him could have been trite: the crazy cat lady, the effeminate hotel clerk, the Croatian prostitute, the Los Angeles psychiatrist with angst of his own.
The statement, he said, "would have been trite if it came from Solzhenitsyn, but it was pure gold coming from Stalin".
Had she arranged them in the form of a cenotaph it might have been trite; flat on the floor they might have resembled gravestones, it's true.
The title they devised for the society's program on Sunday evening at Alice Tully Hall might have been trite — "Pianos/Pianists: A Celebration of the Keyboard" — but the concept was imaginative.
Bret Fetzer of Amazon.com also gave a positive review, noting that the movie "could have been trite schmaltz, but the script has some grit and the direction is fresh and relaxed--and, most significantly, Spears is far more sympathetic and engaging than you might expect".
The 70s tale of former draughtsman Tom Good Richard Brierss) and his adorable wife Barbara Felicity Kendalll), opting out of the rat race to become self-supporting smallholders could have been horribly trite in the wrong hands.
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.
The older tracks stole the show – Smile, The Fear and Everyone's At It went down a treat – but Hard Out Here held up nicely, and what could have been a trite rolling out of Somewhere Only We Know seemed to unite the weather-beaten crowd in neighbour-hugging emotion.
Secret reports have been filed containing trite and irrelevant information such as -- "Observed a female named Rasha working in the travel agency -- she recommended the Royal Jordanian Airline".
The Motion Picture Herald concluded: "One will be sorry that such art and talents have been used for such a trite and sordid story, which includes not a decent or healthy character".
"Dreadful," "boring," and "trite" are some of the adjectives that have been flying around in my little sphere.
