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.
I even wrote a trite, self-congratulatory piece about it.
Mr. Morrison employed a conservative vocabulary without being trite, writing grateful lines tailored to Mr. Daniels's voice, and his tonality seemed to fit these early, rhyming, conventional poems.
"My privacy concerns are not trite," wrote the blogger, who uses the pseudonym Harriet Jacobs.
When Gerry Goffin first heard Bob Dylan, he was so affected that he binned all of his old tapes and acetates, considering everything he had ever written to be trite and worthless.
These sayings usually sound stiff, unnatural, or trite when used in writing.
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.
More important, he pulls off one of the most difficult songwriting stunts -- writing topical material that doesn't come off as pedantic or trite.
