Sentence examples for trite of from inspiring English sources

Getting into the show, held in the most trite of venues, a damp warehouse, required that guests hand their bags over to security guards to be searched.

It's trite, of course, to argue that the song is about Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik, but its inclusion here suggested the makers of Mammon were trying to suggest there is something ancestrally rotten in Norway (and also in human life).

The quote is the trite of trite now, and at first glance an admonition to simply work hard.

In that most trite of observations, after 9/11 everything changed -- right behind that for a trite observation is the accepted wisdom that, when it comes to another act of terrorism, "it's not a matter of 'if,' but "when".

Their families struggled for the words to memorialize their sons, afraid of sounding trite, tired of trying to recall accomplishments and anecdotes for yet another reporter.

The real achievement of the Water Cube is less its technical wizardry than the transformation of the faintly trite idea of a bubble building into a piece of elegant, enigmatic architecture.

"It's a trite rehash of 45 years of recommendations," said Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College at Columbia University, who was not on the commission.

Apart, of course, from the rather trite analogy of – in the case of my performances on the course, anyway – incompetence and ill-preparedness.

"A lot of museum directors and gallery owners are still stuck in trite images of the past, of Indian fatigue or ennui," Ms. Harjo said.

Galbraith prevents the book from becoming a series of ripping yarns by regularly deflating our expectations of the more trite sorts of drama.

WHAT makes Rivera's farewell tour different from the "almost trite" tours of previous players of his caliber?