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1. ‘No … it just sounds so trite …’ he said, his eyes on our hands firmly clasped on the table top
2. sounded trite when spoken out loud and – as was nearly
3. “Well, that’s trite
4. And the woman tended to maunder on, vapid, insipid, banal and trite
5. ” He realized after he had said the words that they were about as trite a combination as he could have thought of
6. Trite, but true
7. Some things on that list may seem trite, but they are all things I
8. To the uninitiated it must appear trite and cliché, but if you have got this
9. Trite as it may seem, the
10. What’s that you say? You find the moral a little trite? A
11. It wasn't just a trite question to start the conversation
12. It sounds so trite
13. My enemies are the best friends I’ve had on the spiritual path; and this is not just one of those trite spiritual homilies – I really mean it
14. While this may feel trite, many customers
15. or he could agree with McCoy’s observations, or he could give some trite saying about you’re as old as you feel…
16. To Tam it was just a generic scene, almost trite with the usual avoidance of pitfalls, set in motion by the hero setting off alarms after cracking a safe
17. That the long term is made up of a series of short term decisions is almost trite to say and obvious in the extreme, but without an eye on the long term maybe the short term can create a blindness to the potential problems our instinctive reactions to situations can create
18. you comfort your grieving friends and family members without sounding trite or overly
19. without that trite analogy creeping in again
20. “What do you mean?” Reho said bewildered and slightly irritated for having his fantasy interrupted with trite zenisms
21. Are we likewise rendering music less effectual by jingling every moment? For music is how we communicate heart to heart and if the language of the heart is rendered trite and obnoxious, then where the inspiration for our 521
22. “You can turn any damaging truth into a trite truism by flooding the market with examples of 817
23. What would the man, her smug husband there, say if he were made to help in the soul-killing work a woman is expected to do as a matter of course? Yet why shouldn't he help her bear her burdens? Why shouldn't he take them on his stronger shoulders? Don't give me the trite answer that it is because he has his own work to do--we know his work, the man's work, at its hardest full of satisfactions and pleasures, and hopes and ambitions, besides coming to an end every day at a certain hour, while she grows old in hopeless, hideous, never-ending drudgery
24. It is a trite saying that the hours pass swiftly with the happy, while they lag with the sad and sorrowful
25. It seems trite to say I don’t deserve her
26. As the game, to her, becomes less trite!
27. However, D’ata’s question was not of trite dallyings
28. Science does not want to admit or notice this trite truth
29. When society"s conventional Judeo-Christian-Islamic inhibitions seem so trite and hypocritical
30. “I know the historical romances I read are trite escapist fare, dear,” I said, “but I enjoy them
31. Worldly compromise, the things of this world are shallow and trite
32. All this will sound very trite to students of any mettle, but there are large numbers who waste no end of time working in a purely mechanical, lifeless way, and with their minds anywhere but concentrated upon the work before them
33. So childish and trite
34. But they sounded trite and patronizing
35. 'An hour ago,' I thought, 'under the sunset, she sat turning her ring in the water and counting the days of happiness; now under the first stars and the last grey whisper of day, all this mysterious tumult of sorrow! What had happened to us in the Painted Parlour? What shadow had fallen in the candlelight? Two rough sentences and a trite phrase
36. I was waiting my turn to play when a lad with a vaguely dangerous demeanor called Terry, like in the song by Twinkle, got up and proceeded to play three startling songs in open tunings that put my trite little ditties to shame
37. Playing some song that had just scraped into the UK Top 30 two years earlier or performing a hit from 1979 might have raised a cheer of recognition but would have felt trite or even seemed needy
38. That’s trite, but nevertheless true
39. that—not to attribute to me any such bad eminence; but, owing, I verily believe, rather to circumstances than to my natural bent, I am a trite commonplace sinner, hackneyed in all the poor petty dissipations with which the rich and worthless try to put on life
40. “These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my wife, even when I found her nature wholly alien to mine, her tastes obnoxious to me, her cast of mind common, low, narrow, and singularly incapable of being led to anything higher, expanded to anything larger—when I found that I could not pass a single evening, nor even a single hour of the day with her in comfort; that kindly conversation could not be sustained between us, because whatever topic I started, immediately received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile—when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her
41. For the rest, whether trite or novel, it is short
42. forbear to waste them on trite transient objects
43. “I found her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, is rather a trite one
44. No matter how trite it may appear to state it, nor how we may hypocritically deceive ourselves, nothing can destroy the certainty of the simple and obvious truth that external conditions can never render safe this life of ours, so fraught with unavoidable suffering, and ended infallibly by death, that human life can have no other meaning than the constant fulfilment of that for which the Almighty Power has sent us here, and for which He has given us one sure guide in this life, namely, our conscious reason
45. New Haven had furnished us something of a field day, and strong desire, stimulated by encouragement, was shooting out into confidence; but that “one swallow does not make a summer”—a trite old adage we are in danger of forgetting just when we should remember it, was forcefully brought to our minds as we went to New Milford