(In a particularly trite moment, she created a circle in front of her body with her arms and stepped through it).
A couple of visits to his childhood and youth, designed to establish his relationship as a son to Mary, are particularly trite.
Shannon does his best to portray a man torn between a genuine desire to save people and an increasingly militarized police force, but a particularly trite "Bad day at work, honey?" moment at home in Waco's first episode literally following the Ruby Ridge catastrophe all but ensured that he's just along for the ride.
There are so many books in the world that as literary editor I sometimes feel like Coleridge's ancient mariner, muttering through parched lips: "Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink". This is particularly true at Christmas, when every mailsack seems to bulge with more trite, unnourishing fare.
This description has become hackneyed and trite (nor was it ever particularly accurate as a metaphor).
In the TV version, we are asked to follow the stories of the parents in tandem with the stories of their children: Lillian van der Woodsen and Rufus Humphrey, for one particularly unfortunate example, are thrust into a trite romance.
It quickly becomes clear that we are in for some conventional, if not trite, character development in which everyone, particularly the couples, finds out hard truths about themselves in the traditional manner.
Martha Shearer, a film professor of King's College London, thinks Netflix is attempting to draw on the continued success of made-for-TV movies, particularly in the case of A Christmas Prince and the similarly trite Christmas Inheritance.
Maybe every writer is doomed to have their tritest sentence become their most-tweeted, but in Joan Didion's case, it feels particularly unfair that "we tell ourselves stories in order to live" has become so ubiquitous.
It supported, among acceptable if trite theses, the dubious one that poetry is necessarily best when it mingles the useful (particularly moral) with the pleasing.
Her evaluation of the Boss' music is particularly accurate and amusing, and I'm amazed at some writers' simpering and fawning adoration of such obvious and trite blue-collar hype from the Boss-machine.
