Sentence examples for or trite from inspiring English sources

Only its closing words save it from being banal or trite: Take care and stay strong!

There are often uncomfortable or trite moments at the joins between speech and song.

There are rhapsodic passages aplenty about eating and cooking, and while such reveries can easily seem forced or trite, hers ring sweetly true.

Alas, what strikes us as witty, original and winning often comes across to the rest of the world as sloppily confessional, self-promotional or trite.

From players to journalists to fans, all have insisted this week that the link between team and city is real, not to be dismissed as cheesy or trite.

More important, he pulls off one of the most difficult songwriting stunts -- writing topical material that doesn't come off as pedantic or trite.

With a glorious censoring of all that might be bland, trite or commonplace about them, you transform one of millions into one in a million.

What if, like most 17-year-olds, a high school senior sounds wooden or pretentious or thunderously trite when trying to express himself in the first person?

You put in a nickel, but instead of getting a gumball every time, the machine spits out a poem or a delusion, a new idea, or a trite cliché, a great insight or a totally wrong conspiracy theory.

I can feel heard, and maybe support someone else by providing humor or a trite likeminded story or statement.

Like any first-class playwright, Gurira has an innate talent for externalizing her many selves, allowing them to speak without crowding one another or becoming trite.