"My privacy concerns are not trite," wrote the blogger, who uses the pseudonym Harriet Jacobs.
"Like Turgenev and Chekhov... Berberova (who died in 1993) is uncannily shrewd about romance, about its bright promise, without making her characters' real satisfactions seem trite," Adam Phillips wrote here in 1999.
6. Give the impression that you know little about a college by writing trite, inaccurate or inconsequential things about it.
These sayings usually sound stiff, unnatural, or trite when used in writing.
"Cream candy?" I asked in a tone I hoped sounded neutral, instead of conveying the insecurity of, say, a person who was suddenly experiencing panic and nausea at realizing she was on the verge of broadcasting to the world the innermost and possibly trite thoughts she wrote during four years spent in a corner of the basement.
Rashod Ollisong writing for The Baltimore Sun gave a more mixed review for the song, writing "It is catchy, but the beat is trite, and the lyrical message is downright trifling" before adding that it glorifies a "warped" image of black masculinity which he heavily criticized.
Like Lekman, The Goon Sax have an innate talent for writing bald-faced love songs that don't feel trite or sappy.
I can only write in trite aphorisms.
The National Union of Students, for instance, banned the feminist campaigner Julie Bindel from speaking at British universities because she had written a trite and unpleasant article about transsexuals in 2004, for which she apologised.
