Sentence examples for trite sentiment from inspiring English sources
His doggerel is characterised by clanging rhymes, trite sentiment and misogynist bullying.
These poets, she wrote, "swept away Victorian excesses and weaknesses — all the overemphasis on trite sentiment with its repetitions and clichés, and on archaic formalities of diction and technique".
"The Undertaking," a memoir of his experiences at Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors, forms the basis of a "Frontline" documentary of the same name to be shown tonight on PBS, and if there is a single trite sentiment in it — about grief, dying, disease, resignation, faith, consolation — it eluded me.
Her sensuous descriptions of natural scenes advanced the art of Victorian poetry to incorporate greater accuracy without trite sentiment, foreshadowing the Imagist school and the work of Robert Frost.
They're trite sentiments set to generic music.
Hamish MacBain of NME gave "I Was Here" a mixed review stating the song sounds like an X-Factor winner's single, full of unbelievably trite sentiments.
It sounds trite, as the sentiments expressed about death often do.
Said so plainly, such a sentiment is trite and impotent, little more than lip service to a grand idea.
And I admire it, so much, for not succumbing to easy sentiment or trite conclusion, for being, essentially, a simulation of life's unfairness.
Those sentiments seem trite, but are actually what we crave the most, especially here in America.
While other Web-based poetry movements exploit appropriated text — cutting and pasting or scooping vast amounts of preëxisting data — Alt Lit tends to use emo-heavy, homespun language, bearing the urgency and candor of a status update; no sentiment is too trite to be repurposed as poetry.
