Sentence examples for trite by from inspiring English sources

The program's other pieces feel all the more trite by being placed after it.

"I don't want to be trite by saying I've just begun to fight," Mr. Reid told reporters, "but I'm still not tired".

"I don't want to sound trite by comparison," Fish said, "but people said Latrell Sprewell should be banned for choking his coach.

It is as trite by now to say that Van Gogh was one of the sanest artists who ever lived, as it is to claim the late paintings as proof of this sanity.

We wanted to momentarily immerse ourselves in a worldview that glorified the external and the trite by way of contrasting that view to a love of the subtle and profound.

There's usually always a reason, often a good one, and even it if it seems silly or trite, by recognizing what's going on beneath the surface in such moments, we can often spare ourselves being clubbed over the head with the same message at some future point in time.

Even the most well informed can succumb to the trite pronouncements by radio and TV so-called pundits that he is all charisma and no substance.

Much of the adulation, though, had an unfortunate corniness bordering on the trite, not helped by lines spoken or sung by Jackson during his lifetime projected on to a screen behind the stage: "There is nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one", one read.

Agent Tritten came by her niche naturally.

Both of them to use a trite phrase seem burdened by the past.

But the filmmaking is clunky, and the actors are limited by trite dialogue or their own abilities (though J. D. Williams, Bodie on "The Wire," is one recognizable face, as Cole's kind roommate).