Sentence examples for less trite from inspiring English sources
Ms. Sullivan's follow-up to her best-selling novel, "Commencement," is pickled in female emotions but less trite than its counterparts in the chick lit genre — and blessedly devoid of banter about Manolos.
Does this sound any less trite and melodramatic than Richard Marquand's wince-inducing Birth of the Beatles (1979) or Iain Softley's over-rated Stuart Sutcliffe homage, Backbeat (1994), let alone such execrable TV movies as John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985) and In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000)?
Olivia Goldsmith's "Bad Boy" is a much slighter book, and a no less trite or formulaic one, But it has the significant advantage of being funny, since Ms. Goldsmith (who wrote "The First Wives Club" and whose every sneeze has apparently been optioned as a possible movie) has a true flair for the bonbons-and-toenails thing.
(David Ives's concert adaptation conflates different versions of the libretto to fine effect, but I prefer the less trite final line of the original.) Ms. Baldwin feels like a discovery as Sharon, although she has a modest list of Broadway credits.
"This is the heartfelt behavior of a deeply poetic soul," continued the police chief, who has more urgent business he should be attending to, "which is reflected in his moving flash fiction that's about to get a six-figure contract with a publisher, and not of a staid older lawyer with a Lexus who can't come up with a less trite first date than dinner at La Maison Jacques".
After a couple of days spent chugging through the landscapes of the Old West, the well-worn travel adage about the journey being as important as the destination starts to sound a lot less trite.
So what I want parents to do is help their kids with college expenses by making short-term sacrifices -- i.e. driving a car an extra year, selling stuff on eBay, or perhaps eating out less, as trite as that has become.
Today, 191 years after its premiere, its plot is less trendy than trite.
Even though the American Academy of Pediatrics decrees That toddlers who watch the telly may get ADHD, At this extremely early hour of the morning I could not care less about this trite warning.
In fact they recently had an 'away-day' to work out how, under the title: 'Now that we've found love what are we going to do with it?' They decided the answer to how they can use their new-found access more fruitfully is to ask more open-ended questions that are less likely to elicit trite answers, and to focus on long-term business risk rather than being moralistic or crusading.
Granted, a few shrewd souls (like Katherine Dunn in her 1989 novel, "Geek Love") manage to sidestep the cheap pathos and obvious ironies, but too many others take the bait with the eagerness of a midway mark, giving us variations on certain trite and less-than-urgent truths -- that the dog-faced boy has feelings too, that sometimes clowns are sad.
