You'd think that being contracted to churn out songs like a musical sausage machine, would lead to a cacophony of trite pappy pop. |
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They say that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat trite sayings. |
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Yet much of what we call poetry consists of trite or false ideas in sublime language. |
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The answers range from the dismissive and the trite to the droll and unexpectedly sincere. |
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Television advertising is overpoweringly loud and often trite and tasteless, particularly those awful ads for motorcars. |
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It is trite law that nothing less than clear, express and unambiguous language is effective to levy a tax. |
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But what we get is a musically undistinguished, lyrically trite rock-show, tricked out with vampirism, incest and gore. |
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If the Nationalists had simply parroted their trite, intellectually vacuous opposition, then that would have been no more or less than expected. |
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It is trite to suggest that, on paper, Aberdeen's squad ought to be higher. |
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The final hour has long past on the horror spoof and, sadly, all that's left is hackneyed jokes and trite dialogue. |
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It seems trite to refer to this band as sassy or streetwise or sophisticated because that's what everybody says. |
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The sentiments may be trite, but the graphics are often novel, demonstrating originality and computer skills above the ordinary. |
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When advising readers on choosing titles carefully, you caution against titles that may be too silly or trite. |
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Yet we're struck dumb or rely on trite explanations when pushed to elaborate. |
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By comparison, the Cadillac's 16 overhead valves and pushrods sound trite at best. |
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Other times, the lyrics border on trite, over-sentimental garbage, merely word sounds that make his voice seem to be just another instrument. |
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I've started a post for this thread two or three times, and what I've written always looks trite, cheesy or embarrassing. |
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It's terribly trite, but I honestly think I have the best mother in the world. |
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It is trite law that, in general, foreign penal acts of a confiscatory nature are not recognised in England. |
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Ideas endlessly repeated and permutated become platitudinous, trite, meaningless. |
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There're a couple of cartoons and trite quotations on a noticeboard left over from the previous tenant but nothing reassuringly mine. |
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The seemingly forward question sounded very trite and commonplace in the blunt honest tone she used. |
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When you have context-dependence, ineffability can be trite and unmysterious. |
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I won't mention what this trite, simplistic, sloganeering piffle moves me to, but it has nothing to do with naming children. |
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It was paid pursuant to a compromise of legal proceedings and it is a trite law that that constitutes a completely new agreement. |
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It may sound trite, cliche, corny, even, but I would like to thank my parents. |
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He courteously includes any stray whim that floats through his mind, however original or trite, and lets it dart away without probing further. |
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Then again it was the age of the horribly trite, formulaic action movie, so it was largely a sign of the times. |
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Most obviously, the script is trite and formulaic, attempting to deal with one main hot internet issue within each episode. |
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The singer's formidable skills are frustratingly wasted on this trite, piano-backed piece. |
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I was expecting a trite plot and dialogue that would mimic Ebonics, not Southern dialect. |
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It seems trite now, but I hated the fact that everyone took the boys' stories as the gospel truth. |
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Musically, the group captures a pressing sense of urgency devoid of anything trite or gimmicky. |
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The combination of horrific makeup, abhorrent timing, and trite jokes has literally become painful. |
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The apologies and absolutions at the end of the movie were rather trite and underdone. |
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The relentlessness of the jokes grows wearisome, and the ending is perfunctory and trite. |
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How heartening it is in these cruel and trite times to know that real talent may still receive its just reward. |
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It is possible to think of all sorts of offbeat things or things that would sound trite. |
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Nobody appreciates a moral lashing from a pal, especially if it's over insignificant Hollywood rumors or other trite stuff. |
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As soloist, leader Alan Smale stuck the perfect sweet tone without verging on the trite. |
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But in the hands of the party's rhetoricians, such trite sentiments are intended to catch votes, not to express real policies. |
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It would be tactlessly trite and simplistic to say that because Camara has suffered personally then he could not be hurt professionally. |
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In context though, the trite lyrics never taint the record's abundant qualities. |
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If only they had used biblical language at least it would have sounded less trite, hackneyed and cliched. |
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Her questions were trite and her lack of contact with literature all too apparent. |
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Quibbling about definitions of freedom is a trite response to a serious issue. |
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This is more than the trite truism that there is a thin line between love and hate. |
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It manages to be about several things at once, without seeming confusing or trite. |
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Children need to be aware of the real world, not force-fed trite fairytales. |
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This may sound trite, but you cannot afford not to experience this four-day workshop. |
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It seems almost trite to say it is a major disaster but it is difficult to find words to express the significance of this second attack. |
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You're saying that every idea expressed in the movie is utterly trite and pedestrian. |
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It makes me shiver to think that you could put such trite, sad lyrics to such an upbeat rhythm. |
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It may sound trite but we all must accept the cards that Providence deals to us. |
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To bend the rather trite phrase, you can't judge a schmo by his cover. |
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A gentleman and a scholar throughout and, though it might sound trite, he's won a lot of people over in this World Cup for his British bulldog spirit. |
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The movie is occasionally trite, often formulaic, and frequently familiar. |
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I'm not saying the characters aren't trite, I'm just saying the film goes out of its way to portray the whalers as uninformed rather than demonizing them. |
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You might say that this is a trite example, but that's a value judgement. |
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In a word, it was rather trite and pale by comparison to past years. |
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Again, not particularly caring to answer to the trite political content per se, but looking at this as a song lyric, it is unfocused and scattered. |
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The lyrics are trite and valuable ink has been wasted in printing them. |
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Did something so trite really belong on the letters page of the world's most important newspaper? |
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Sadly the rest of the second half was trite to the point of boredom. |
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What really happens once the episode concludes with its trite little ending is that the Klingons replace the flintlocks with Uzis, and the Federation ups the ante. |
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I always assumed these books were filled with trite palliatives. |
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The show may be trite, but Disney wisely had theater favorite Harvey Fierstein write the book. |
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When Tchaikovsky played his First Piano Concerto for Nikolay Rubinstein, director of the Moscow Conservatoire, Rubinstein attacked it as worthless, trite and unplayable. |
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Can it really be true that he himself pens this trite piffle? |
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In contrast, his essay on coffee offered no more than a rambling and trite presentation of the arguments against anticoffee legislation. |
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It's aimed at people who want.... it's aimed at silly, trite, shallow doofoids with more money than either brains or taste. |
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Coursen agrees that, in this version, the battle and Richard's end are trite and underwhelming. |
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The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends. |
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It is a trite saying in a young country that anyone starting out in life with the determination to become wealthy will have his wish gratified. |
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The things Lindsay shows Lohan doing should be trite and calming. |
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Many are reluctant to embrace creative innovation, preferring trite, formulaic approaches. |
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Great for teenagers who want a little more meat than Potter can provide, or who are tired of those trite, torturedteen vampire romance thingies. |
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Were Mel Bochner's pieces superficial, trite, and sloppy when they were painted in the height of the minimalist and conceptualist movements? |
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The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary. |
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A chilling thriller from Brit director Julian Gilbey, who is stepping up from his trite crime flicks Rollin' With The Nines and Rise Of The Footsoldier. |
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It is trite law that His Majesty's subjects are free if they can make their own arrangements so that their cases may fall outside the scope of the taxing Acts. |
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If there's something that is generally a trite soundbitey kind of thing, I generally don't use it. I'm looking for the people to tell the story and not me. |
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If this tetric virginity Cannot remove its psalms from the heart then there prevails no peace at all for she who unstitches, night and day, trite things from the lips. |
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How to represent evil and torture bearably, enhance or put into perspective a lasting and frequently trite and polemical literary topic, without the culture of complaint? |
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Rosemary. A sweet dark name, though finally a shrill trite woman. |
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What can one really say about that which is not platitudeness and trite? |
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