Sentence examples for trite on from inspiring English sources

Determinedly jolly, Susan Stroman's new ballet, "For the Love of Duke," is trite on purpose.

The same qualities that endear the show to us -- its easygoing, deliberate corniness and amateurishness -- suddenly seem merely cute, annoying and sometimes just plain trite on the page.

Hollywood rarely dreams so big.***** Thursday The Tree of Life 1.15pm & 7.30pm Sky Movies Indie (Terrence Malick, 2011) Terrence Malick's cogitation on creation sounds trite on paper, not least if you were to describe its climactic, bathetic vision of heaven.

Lollipop can sound trite on record, but it was harder to dislike when the man singing it had just leapt from the piano to merrily straddle his keyboard player.

Belgium's official entry for this year's Oscars, it sounds twee to trite on paper – a free-spirited hipster couple are brought to earth when their young daughter becomes terminally ill – but honestly pushes past any disease-of-the-week mechanisms to tap reserves of profound hurt and joy.

While Benny forsaking his bloodlust for love seemed a little trite on the surface, in the capable hands of Edlund and given Olsson's understated performance, it still felt believable, and Benny recognizing Andrea's monstrosity helped emphasize his own humanity.

He comes close to making good on the characters' often trite disquisitions on the human need for wonder and magic.

Consider what Drake doesn't do: He's the biggest pop star not named Beyoncé who doesn't traffic in the trite big-tent on-the-one dance music that's chart-dominant and soul-killing.

Fortunately for the cast, this achievement says more about their talents than it does about the formulaic and trite musicals going on around them.

Or is it just horrific, socially acceptable (and marketable) brutality with a trite message tacked on for the critics?

Employers have long done the absolute minimum to comply with the law, relying on trite videos focused on what you can and cannot say or do in the workplace ("don't give back rubs" or "don't offer promotions in exchange for sex") and sexual harassment policies designed primarily to protect them from lawsuits.