Sentence examples for seemed trite from inspiring English sources

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Those concerns seemed trite last night, as details emerged about the gruesome killings.

The idea of following the Wagner with Figaro's overperformed aria "Largo al factotum," from Rossini's "Barber of Seville," seemed trite.

I confessed to them that I had never heard of the poem, but I withheld my judgment, which was that it seemed trite and silly.

Theresa May's statement at the Tory party conference – "If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere" – seemed trite and troubling.

There are always good things in the Liverpool Biennial but often not enough, and the themes have often seemed trite and irritating catch-alls.

Mr. McCullough said: "Rather naively I went into this thinking, 'O.K., I'm going to call this "Light in the Darkness" or some such.' But that seemed trite once I really got into it because while there are some readings in the cantata about music giving them hope, so many other songs are about nothing but despair".

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In some ways, it seems trite to ask.

This might seem trite and obvious, but it really isn't.

He is the great man exiting the world stage – this seems trite.

Explicitly anti-capitalist or protest art can seem trite; this doesn't.

Apologies if this seems trite, but in my industry it happens all the time.

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