Again, the film is anti-capitalist in tone and trite in style.
At the antiquities auctions held in New York at Sotheby's on June 8, and at Christie's on June 9, an extraordinary premium was put on works demonstrably tied to Western cultural history, no matter how trite the style or unsatisfactory the condition.
Otherwise the film didn't have anything new to say about intergenerational friendships – the women's friendship was far more interesting and largely ignored – and in general the film was happy to stick to trite New York Times style section banalities.
Maybe it's because there are no local government elections looming, or that the severity of the cuts have made any "big society" style overtures appear trite and inadequate.
Judy Liebert Nottingham Congratulations to Jonathan Jones for his robust defence of his earlier critique (The Tower of London poppies are fake, trite and inward-looking – a Ukip-style memorial, theguardian.com, 28 October) of the poppy memorial.
Top scientists take turns speculating about Kate Middleton's dress, bypassing trite discussion of its potential colour and style in favour of determining its approximate atomic weight, by feeding a schoolgirl's crayon sketch of what it might look like into an onyx supercomputer studded with flashing lights.
"Reportage on fashion has become so trite.
Some praised her characterization of the couple, applauding their emotional depth; others criticized her writing style as melodramatic and the plot as emotionally trite.
In "Bruce Almighty," for instance, the laughs come from Bruce playing God in the Old Testament style, cruel and vengeful, but the film dutifully backpedals into a trite sermon about the responsibility that comes with power.
His writing style feels just as cliched: the first two naturalistic stories offer trite lessons about childish capacity for cruelty; the fanciful stories that follow trade in wan, hallucinatory black humor.
