The issues they raised can seem trite now: how photographs create reality, how the media shape power and reinforce stereotypes.
(I find this achingly trite and not representative of the reality of a creative person's life, but maybe it's a thing that people want to hear said). And Chrisann Brennan, the mother of the daughter Jobs long sought to repudiate, was no more than a pretty wronged voice, sung with lovely tones by Jessica Jones.
These relations are in reality, not just as a trite phrase, a potential "win-win situation".
In an earlier chapter called "How to Tell a True War Story," O'Brien tells us that if it matters whether it really happened, then the story isn't "true": "Without the grounding reality, it's just a trite bit of puffery, pure Hollywood, untrue in the way all such stories are untrue.
A white rabbit leads her down an elevator to a dreamworld, where, instead of absurdist wordplay, we get jokes about reality TV and Starbucks and life lessons so trite they'd seem lame coming from a fortune cookie.
"All lives matter" is a trite rejoinder to "black lives matter" and diminishes the ugly reality of racism.
The reality of the crashing towers has been replaced with a trite water display.
Lots of skateboarders have such an obviously trite and calculated "I don't give a fart" persona when, in reality, they give nothing but farts.
This isn't just baseless fantasy or trite conjecture, the witterings of an addled mind that steadfastly refuses to accept reality as-is.
This is due probably to the reality of wars, violence and crime construed in the news and the trite fantasy of murder-solving shows.
It is stuffed to the brim with fake peril, that tedious legacy of reality TV that is supposed to keep an audience hooked but is so overused and trite that it invites cynicism at every turn.
