So I've lived around survivors my whole life, but for one who lives with it in the present so much, 'moving' is such a trite word for what it was like to meet him.
In fact, "love" is a trite word to describe her affinity with the continent.
All this is played out in the pages of interviews, in trite little words that I cannot quote without the space to set the scene for each.
The new songs that push that subtext out front — which include the album's singles, the ballad "Brand New Me" (one of three self-actualizing, semi-autobiographical narratives written with the Scottish songwriter Emeli Sandé) and the preening title song, laid over a drum thwack based on Billy Squier's "The Big Beat" — quickly grow trite, in words and music.
A subplot about a suicidal gay friend of Biscuit's seems to come out of almost nowhere, as does a story about a dying woman who summons Biscuit to her bedside to make a clutch of trite pronouncements ("Our words and actions are a matter of choice, and they will always have consequences") and to advise him to always carry condoms.
The tunes were easy but not trite and the words rang true with us.
This is often perceived as the hardest part, as you don't want to be cliche or trite in your words.
How could this, all so — "trite" was the word — have given any of them either pain or joy?
The words – those trite lyrics, with whatever vague meaning they might have had in the first place worn away by umpteen appearances on TV show soundtracks – seemed incredibly soothing.
