Sentence examples for rather trite from inspiring English sources
Apart, of course, from the rather trite analogy of – in the case of my performances on the course, anyway – incompetence and ill-preparedness.
What makes Dave entertaining - and more amusing than the rather trite racist and homophobic jokes - is how quickly he accepts his children's choices as inevitable.
Yet I have always thought it rather trite when it is said that a person cannot understand something because they do not have direct experience of it or because their cultural background precludes the possibility.
Gordimer tackles the subject in a thorough, dispassionate prose that often feels inert and sometimes lapses into pompous, rather trite oppositions: "The purpose of a doctor's life is to defend the body against the violence of pain.
But Purcell's music serves as a background to these three rather trite stories: a low point is reached when Dido's lament is accompanied by the sound of the suicidal Helen squeezing pills out of their packet.
"A lot of the critics thought that song was rather trite, but I thought: 'I've got to have a song about this,' and what I write about in this song never changes.
In recent decades, our national self-scrutiny has spawned a library of its own — Joan Didion, Christopher Lasch, Mike Davis, Richard Sennett, Thomas Frank — and the time is long past when extracting profundities from the Mall of America seemed daring, rather than trite.
It's just so unashamedly melodic, but it's beautifully simplistic rather than trite.
It's a measure of Mr. Fogler's talent that he can make this achingly trite, rather inarticulate speech compelling.
But the conceit, coupled with signposting soundtrack and editing that serves to highlight the trite rather than give this talented ensemble some space, makes it just adequate.
Collectively the sector is losing talent the UK cannot afford to lose, often for bad and avoidable reasons rather than the trite "maybe women just don't want to do science" kind of explanation that some people crudely propose.
