Sentence examples for trite you from inspiring English sources

Painting now seems small, a little trite, you know?

Without the trippy grit you're left in a happy hippy wonderland, conscious that the melodies are thin, the lyrics trite ("You've got to live your life today, tomorrow is a world away") and the composite elements dully familiar.

But I spend an inordinate amount of time traveling and watching how consumers in developing economies around the world behave, and while it may sound trite, you'd be amazed how similarly we all act as consumers.

And if you embrace and reflect on the words you once considered trite, you will be amazed at the guidance and hope they can offer.

It's a privilege to do a PhD: it's nothing to do with money, and it sounds trite, but you're doing it because you want to give something back.

Any assessment of Gore Vidal's life and work is bound to seem trite when you stand it next to the master builder of the writer as public enemy.

"It can sound trite, but you're in this extreme state of consciousness," she said — living at a monastery in the mountains, sitting in silence for many hours a day — "where boundaries fall away".

By Hilton Als August 2, 2012 Any assessment of Gore Vidal's life and work is bound to seem trite when you stand it next to the master builder of the writer as public enemy.

Here, though, she comes across as one of those tiresome people with trite theories you find yourself trapped talking to at a party — the one whose advice about men, dispensed with great confidence ten minutes after you meet her, you must remind yourself to ignore.

It's a bit trite but you can see what Canonical is trying to do — i.e. generate utility with limited source material at its disposal.

"A team environment it almost sounds trite, because you hear it more and more in business," says Pennock of Kelly Services, "but it's even more important in the science world as scientific disciplines are starting to cross".