Sentence examples for trite touch from inspiring English sources
The climactic fight between Hannah and Marnie is staged dully, acted with an ordinary petulance, and concludes with a painfully trite touch.
The book concludes on a fittingly ambiguous note — no trite happy ending but a touch of hope, in a gripping tale with important lessons for any young man.
If the Internet of 1995 was a postmodern playhouse, allowing individuals to engage in unbridled expression, Turkle describes it today as a corporate trap, a ball and chain that keeps us tethered to the tiny screens of our cellphones, tapping out trite messages to stay in touch.
It was true: the speech was trite and, but for a few personal touches, generic.
The fact that "Passengers" and "Collateral Beauty" open within a week of each other is coincidental, but imagine aliens touching down and seeing these trite dramas' titles emblazoned across theater marquees.
But Hannon and Edmundson's show is a rare thing: a musical that touches the heart without relying on trite formulas and proves substantial enough to have warranted such a swift revival.
But these surrealist touches cannot really disguise the fundamentally conventional — at times trite — nature of the play.
He also assaults the convention of poetic metaphor, as in the second example above — the gray salmon named Flint — revealing that a lot of allegedly "poetic" writing is a fraudulent and circular game: language that is supposed to evoke the natural world and put readers in touch with their inner being is in fact recycling its own trite conventions.
