Maybe there's a parable here about the crass end to empire, or maybe the trite is just trite.
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My favorite villains are those vanquished at the end (if not earlier in the book) — trite no doubt, but no less true for being trite.
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But it only works for rather trite sentences so far.
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Sure, the lyrics are sometimes trite, but they work overall.
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Kurlansky's historical judgments are often trite and not seldom wrong.
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That is, of course, a trite, inaccurate version of reality.
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They go into space weighed down with the trite stuff.
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But these stories are sounding a little trite in 2018.
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He builds his scenes slowly, without trite dialogue or explosions.
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It is "trite, crass and insultingly moronic," our reviewer writes.
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Even in trite creations, the dancers of BalletX are full-bodied — they seize the moment, prove wonderfully engaged and textured — while even in classic choreography, the Pennsylvania Ballet dancers appear trite: lively but glossy.
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Your songs tap into that familiar vein without being trite rehash.
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They explictly reject, as too trite, the slogan "forgive and forget".
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Their talking points are trite, combative and often times factually incorrect.
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Any more at this point would probably come across as trite.
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My inspiration was trite and straightforward, but it did the trick.
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But forcing Carrie and Quinn together romantically seems a little trite.
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It's kind of about coupledom and/or trite polite encounters, stagnation.
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It's the sort of trite but bold claim that induces reflexive skepticism.
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The father's trite, self-indulgent prose jars with the son's laconic style.
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They can inspire brilliant leaps of faith, or retreats into the trite.
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It sounds kind of trite, but it's a different way of thinking.
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It's just so unashamedly melodic, but it's beautifully simplistic rather than trite.
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It's trite to say planning a wedding is stressful — but it is.
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As trite as it sounds, the numbers appear to be an afterthought.
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Its ambiguities of character take a back seat to a trite upshot.
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There is a trite cruelty in the logic of the perfectly certain.
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"People are prospering from being unapologetically offensive, trite and stupid," she writes.
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The familiar bromide, "If it bleeds, it leads," is trite but true.
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Political pundits dismissed his bid, many with trite "truisms" about political tradecraft.
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In a world of 24/7 celebrity, they sound trivial — even trite.
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Critics thought "The Good Dinosaur" (2015) was a cute, if trite, animated picture.
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It rests on a trite analogy between intellectual and physical barriers between people.
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Yet the result is bland, trite, harmless, and — oh, those dancing horses — foolish.
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In other words, these films come off as transparently inauthentic, trite, and manipulative.
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But despite this sure-footed narrative, the writing frequently feels hurried and trite.
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That last detail gave me pause, if only for how trite it is.
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The novel relies too heavily on dramatic irony, but it resists trite resolution.
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Trite as it may sound, all good things must come to an end.
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They've become ubiquitous, and largely trite, rarely showcasing the best of either participant.
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It is trite to cite examples of the darker chapters of Europe's history.
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That sounded a little more trite than I'd hoped, but you get my meaning.
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It feels trite to dispense a fictional strategy award for this real-life moment.
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It's almost trite to say: This is great for TV and bad for democracy.
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However, for Buffalo Hyde, the dichotomy between contemporary and traditional is trite and tired.
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The growing refrain condemning legal marijuana as the next Big Tobacco seems almost trite.
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For too long, people have tolerated [ARTIST] and their trite, reductive take on [GENRE].
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Were Lu's imagery not so frenetic, this swastika reference might come off as trite.
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The saying "not all superheroes wear capes" feels trite at the best of times.
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The Emoji Movie might be a trite and uninspired, but emojis themselves are not.
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It makes body positivity look trite when "curvy" women are actually tiny size twos.
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I know this sounds trite, and yet, right now globally we have competing narratives.
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And, though it may sound trite, I love my life just as it is.
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One that increasingly rings trite, and opens fashion up to legitimate charges of superficiality.
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Yet these complaints feel trite in the grand scheme of what the game offers.
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He laughed — it's a trite thing to say, and I barely knew the man.
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But "What Makes You Country" is a step backward, a fusillade of trite cliché.
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It's uplifting — literally, sometimes characters lift each other up — but not schmaltzy or trite.
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Which might be a trite phrase, but appropriate to describe what Browne is doing.
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Because nothing really powers cultural progression more than stuff becoming trite, powerless, hack, limp.
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Often it's a trite signaling device or it's used to paper over nasty rhetoric.
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It's a tricky endeavor to tie humor into art without making it trite or cheesy.
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Straightforward bleakness in television is increasingly trite, which makes Reverie's apparent optimism fresh and timely.
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It's such a trite ploy, and at this point it has become fodder for parody.
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My first pose was something trite and expected, featuring a rose from the prop pile.
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But what might sound trite in someone else's hands is engrossing when Antonoff sings it.
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Eric Whitacre's "Equus" is a trite orchestral affair, with too many crescendos and showy effects.
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No such trite excuse was offered, and instead we got a profile full of integrity.
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It may sound trite, but today's young children truly are the only future for America.
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In any case, the title was as trite as the initiatives that appeared beneath it.
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"It sounds trite, but you are only as good as your team," Mr. Gianopulos said.
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In interviews he answers questions, rather than trotting out trite formulae, and presents admirably nuanced arguments.
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The RGB keyboard backlight is trite extroversion for its own sake and not a meaningful advantage.
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She, like me, is not a fan of invoking trite metaphors about silver linings and journeys.
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Some of these images of a persecuted saintly genius feel trite, overlooking his obsession with fame.
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They discourage people from saying trite things like "forgive and forget" or "let bygones be bygones".
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He is, very clearly, the quest-giver, delivering a mix of exposition and trite one-liners.
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It's just an excuse on which to hang two trite overbearing fables and one amusing one.
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To be blunt, even at the cost of sounding trite (and morbid): It'll outlive you. Features
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With its focus on the examined life, In Transit runs the risk of becoming trite pablum.
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Whether it's too trite or just out of left field, some career advice is best discarded.
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The book works consciously to debunk the trite one-liners, such as that Prince "transcended" race.
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I'm not sure why exactly – the jokes are super trite and the stories are completely vapid.
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This said a lot more to me about courage than any of the trite dialogue did.
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The children at our schools deserve better than another round of trite political opportunism on guns.
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Covering the billowing activity across the miscellaneity of the five boroughs was never tiresome, never trite.
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The sentiment may seem trite, but it comes amid an election marked by unprecedented political ugliness.
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Instead, the love stories were shallow and trite at best, and uncomfortable and creepy at worst.
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The movie "is trite, crass and insultingly moronic," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The New York Times.
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While "Your tribe is your vibe" might sound trite, it rings especially true during the holidays.
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"I know it sounds like a trite answer, but there's no risk at all of cannibalization."
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It may sound trite or obvious, but the analogy is worn out because it's so perfect.
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Scenes showing illegal parties soundtracked by ~oriental house music~ fading into the call to prayer are trite.
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That may sound trite, but it's hard to argue with this statement when talking about software updates.
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She is sometimes tiresomely trite, urging women to "conceptualize all experiences in positive ways," but invariably sympathetic.
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The notion of baseball as a metaphor for life has become a little trite over the years.
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Unfortunately, popular almost always translates to trite or terrible, and the world of gifs is no exception.
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I know this is really trite but also secretly watched a ton of Sex and the City.
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Even when television seems silly and trite, the images and messages it sends to viewers are influential.
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At this point, there's so much music like that bombarding the airwaves, it all just seems trite.
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But regardless of holding up trite, hip-hop machismo, Jay presents a rare intimacy throughout the album.
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But as trite as it may sound, within this boredom, I tried to cultivate kindness and patience.
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At this point, the luxury sneaker has become almost trite, and that's partly because of Zanotti's success.
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If Wolf's debut felt trite and inadequately argued to anyone paying attention, then I decidedly hadn't been.
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The beginning and end are deliberately trite, with showbiz music; but the middle is separate, extended, odd.
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Still, she saw "trite" and obvious symbolism and "a whiff of hypocrisy" in artist Jennifer Rubell's project.
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We've all been victim to a terribly trite icebreaker with coworkers that made us roll our eyes.
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It's a sometimes rocky road cinematically, slipping from enchanting to trite, magical to indulgent with some regularity.
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Does something like Jonathan Meese's trite photography rise in price when situated next to a Moore work?
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It will become trite, or something will click with me and I'll get excited about a game again.
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The trite answer is by Donald Trump's Asia hands waking up each day and checking the president's tweets.
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Finck's illustrations are spare, jumpy, and often very funny, and the magical realism never feels forced or trite.
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Bay area traffic can be trite, but I use Waze every day to avoid sitting on the 101.
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In the particular instance of pardoning a turkey, the rite may seem so trite as to not apply.
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I think this is why I'm purposely open about things that might seem trite, like having natural hair.
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"It sounds trite but my style comes from being inspired by a variety of art styles," Ward explains.
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What's the trite axiom that you've heard trotted out so often that you've passively started to believe it?
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I know The Usual Suspects is a trite comparison, but it's the best one available in this case.
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When I first saw photos of this work online, it seemed almost trite, but the context is transformative.
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What happened to this theater is a landlord-tenant story so familiar to New Yorkers that it's trite.
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Writing about the 3-point revolution has become stale and trite, but Curry really did change the game.
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It's trite to say that, on Twitter, we see the worst of the other side, not the best.
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It's really simple and trite to say that it's cold in Chicago, but it's fucking cold in Chicago.
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Of the questions he did respond to, Jones gave a range of answers that spanned from trite to substantive.
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Though moving, the confrontation of spectators with their reflection is a conceptual choice that has grown a bit trite.
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It's trite and super-obvious, but it needs to be said: Disney probably has a bad feeling about this.
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At first, Pepsi tried to defend its commercial with a trite statement to the press, replete with avoidable misspelling.
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There is no making nice here, no trite and hopeful conclusions, no apologies for the persistently grim and grotesque.
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At an A.T.M. he is entranced by a trite monologue delivered by a performance artist named Velocity (Kiersey Clemons).
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The marvelous Sheila Hancock is wasted in this treacly, trite story of a widow who climbs a Scottish mountain.
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It's basically Faces in Things: The Movie, and that's more magical than anything the trite romance has to offer.
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After a decidedly underwhelming climax, Raising Dion teases its next season by setting up an even more trite cliffhanger.
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Saving our planet isn't a trite sentiment; it's an imperative that benefits businesses, employees, the economy, and the future.
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At the risk of being seen as the psychologist who says something trite and commonsensical, self-care is essential.
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Death makes all of our morals and values—great career, marriage, house, kids, accumulation of stuff—seem trite and pointless.
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It may sound trite, but they want to be able to enjoy the beach in peace, whatever they are wearing.
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Your camera flies and stuff looks pretty from the sky and the whole conceit is pretty trite at this point.
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He's the type of "winner" — in both the truest and most trite senses of the term — that some scouts love.
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Drink. Work hard, play hard, as the trite mantra goes, and don't let anyone know if you can't keep up.
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Running your cause through a filter may seem trite, but all signs point to power in tech, numbers, and visuals.
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And while trite may be preferable to embarrassing anecdotes from the bride and groom's childhood, that's an awfully low bar.
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"Mention Joyce Kilmer to the intelligentsia, and they'll say he was trite, corny and sentimental," Mr. Vinciguerra told the group.
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My past is really so trite, it could be the past of the whole creative class of a certain era.
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Every year, December's airwaves fill with terrible seasonal songs, from the trite, to the dirge-like, to the inexplicably horny.
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It sounds simple, simplistic, almost trite, but it's really ... Below that, to be the thought leader, what does that mean?
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I know this is trite, but the sayings "Love wins" and "We're stronger together" are fundamentally true in my heart.
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But here it feels pretty dicey and results in a handsomely realized but unsatisfying, and in one crucial respect, trite, narrative.
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To say the Temptations are the soundtrack to a generation is both trite and also not totally accurate — try multiple generations.
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The concert's final number was her solo rendition of Bob Dylan's "Forever Young," a trite song that mocks baby-boomer narcissism.
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Instead, it has Jaime reconciling with Cersei, leaving her history with Tyrion unresolved, and giving the siblings a fairly trite ending.
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The grand threat to our species, the Spartan virus, was spread through the most trite means — mandatory inoculations, like for smallpox.
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It's trite to say the battery minerals sector is attracting a lot of interest and we are obviously looking at that.
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What makes Shahidi's rendition work is the metallic blue patterning, which elevates the look without going to the trite punk cliché.
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First, verticality: In past Far Cry games, you climbed towers so often that height itself felt trite by the mid game.
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Product numbering may seem like a trite marketing consideration, however there's a rich history of companies paying close attention to it.
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Like Lekman, The Goon Sax have an innate talent for writing bald-faced love songs that don't feel trite or sappy.
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"Tharlo" instead opts for fleeting charm and shaggy humanism, until the narrative takes a grim turn that's both trite and sexist.
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AND THIS MIGHT SOUND LIKE A TRITE LINE, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT: WE SHOULD NOT BE IN THE BUSINESS OF BUILDING WALLS.
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And this might sound like a trite line, but it's important, we should not be in the business of building walls.
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In a world destructively obsessed with consumerism, we should challenge ourselves to look past trite capitalist models of art and creation.
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"I think people were looking for inspiration on social media that didn't seem like trite or cliché spirituality," Mx. Michael said.
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" It seems a trite and hazy memory in the Trump age, but the stupidity of the Bush years cannot be "misunderstimated.
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It may sound boring and trite, but it's a surefire way to keep sex on your minds and in your lives.
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Yet this version becomes trite as you watch — not because of the Chicago setting but because no individual character is fresh.
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I never saw work that depicted the beauty of disabled people, unless it was a trite and sappy form of beauty.
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The fill answers have to be a good complement to the rest of the puzzle and not be boring or trite.
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Is it trite to suggest that the answer to all the big questions might be to jam as loudly as possible?
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The one-dimensional black friend (or Latinx coworker, or LGBTQ+ sidekick) is finally recognized as trite and relegated to the garbage.
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This all feels a bit trite and clichéd — after all, isn't that the story of all current or would-be Southern expatriates?
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"It's a little trite to say it, but Trump needs to be Trump," said Lee Spieckerman, a conservative commentator and Trump surrogate.
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Whisper networks are imperfect because they operate in an imperfect world; this is about as trite of an observation as they come.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra's eponymous first release sent up the West's trite imitations of oriental music, replacing lilting percussion with synthesised electronic beats.
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The whole thing is a rather trite play on their reversed gender roles, where Arthur is afraid of Julie's outlandish sexual proclivities.
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This isn't just baseless fantasy or trite conjecture, the witterings of an addled mind that steadfastly refuses to accept reality as-is.
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" In remarks to reporters following the speech, Azar said Trump wants Medicare to negotiate more effectively, "rather than trite, gimmicky, political proposals.
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Avoid a trite touristy place with a legendary view, and instead opt for a cozy restaurant with nice decor and fresh flowers.
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She resisted the suggestion that her husband's death was senseless, calling it a "trite" way to characterize the scourge of gun violence.
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"It's a little bit trite to say, but things grow because they're fun," said Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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But while the tone is novel, at least by stateside art-house standards, dramatically "Moscow Never Sleeps" is resolutely familiar, even trite.
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"We've seen fake news, trite news, disinformation campaigns and charges of biased coverage," said John Darnton, the curator of the Polk Awards.
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Now the words that fall from Trump's pursed lips or, often misspelled, onto his Twitter feed are trite or false or meaningless.
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"Someone who appreciates the diversity of our city, but not in a trite or calculated way," said Lenora B. Fulani, the psychologist.
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Everything happens for a reason, he said, and it didn't sound trite in his voice coming from an email so many years ago.
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Stop vilifying people of color and produce positive, accurate and inclusive imagery rather than perpetuating trite stereotypes … the Time for change is now.
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Sure, you might associate Valentine's Day with pastel conversation hearts, enormous red boxes of candy and trite mass produced cards, but it's 2016.
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This would all feel trite, however, if Schumer didn't convey a true and messy emotion in reaction to these two seemingly perfect women.
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Dress for the job you want … Know everyone's name … Ask questions when you don't know something … There's plenty of trite advice floating around.
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It's a trite thing to say, but by the time the credits roll the biggest disappointment is that there isn't more to do.
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" It's a nice, albeit trite, sentiment, but it's hard to take that seriously in a show that says, repeatedly, that "skinny is magic.
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"We didn't want to go with Greek and Roman mythology because it's so familiar that it can come across as trite," Hastings said.
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It sounds so trite, but a lot of people will pick out something to complain about, rather than say, 'Hey, that was great!
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"It might sound trite, but right now, the key to opting out of face recognition is to be vigilant," wrote EFF's Jason Kelley.
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That's not intended to sound trite: Working as an individual, rather than in a unit, makes everything infinitely more time-consuming and difficult.
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And I'll admit it: at first I thought ABBA was trite bubblegum pop with a hint of exoticism because of their Swedish heritage.
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"The personal is political" can feel trite and be used as an excuse to substitute yoga for agitation, but it's an unavoidable truth.
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"Strict construction" and judges who won't "legislate from the bench": these are among the most trite and tired lines in the Republican playbook.
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Programmatic and groaningly trite, "What They Had," the debut feature from Elizabeth Chomko, would be impossible to swallow without its star-studded cast.
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The ambush — in which four Nigerien soldiers and an interpreter were also killed — and accusations that President Trump offered trite condolences to Sgt.
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The novel accumulates intensity by spurning trite expectations — about New York and about the Nigerian central character's life there as a medical student.
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Republicans have derided the Democratic message — personally developed by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the new Democratic leader — as trite and ineffective.
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Art doesn't need to serve up fixed meaning, but in combination with other more trite aspects of the work, the piece falls apart.
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But underlying those concerns there is a theme, a theme which is so trite and so old because the words are so familiar.
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Their eventual union in the first twenty minutes of the episode is inevitable and maybe a little trite, but it's delicious all the same.
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Yet aside from the bashing of an unlucky budgie, the film's violence — like its trite revelation of Anna's sleazy family history — leaves us unmoved.
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Along for this trite trip through Mulder's troubled mind is a right-wing talk show host, because that is a believable alliance these days.
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It would feel too neat and trite to conjure some poetic connection between the morbidity of John dying young and his devotion to Halloween.
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As cliche and trite as it may sound, the fact is there's so much diversity out there and that's what we should be celebrating.
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This ruin porn setting forms the backdrop for an exhibition on the physical and psychological essence of humanity, a subject both vague and trite.
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It is trite to say President Trump is in hot water concerning his most recent statements about the violence that has erupted in Charlottesville.
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He felt like all of his ideas had become trite and boring, his audial vision had deteriorated, and he began to despise the process.
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Holding up a facsimile of the president's severed head is gross and shocking, but it's also an empty gesture, a trite undergrad art project.
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The formula can feel overbearing and the dialogue sometimes trite, but the dancers are convincing in their performance as they become slaves to time.
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I was 21, and — I know it's trite because everyone starts here — when I read "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" I was hooked for life.
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Mr. Lanchbery died in 2003; it might be time for a new arrangement that makes Minkus's more formulaic numbers sound expressive, rather than trite.
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These are performances that dare to be as ordinary — "trite" is a much-used word — as the people they are portraying fear they are.
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I don't mean to be trite about this, but how you put your finger on the social scale here is a really tough question.
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Kevin James's characters in "King of Queens" and "Kevin Can Wait" embody the trite role of the American sitcom dad: predictable, sarcastic and uninspiring.
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Proving definitively that slapping Mr. Franco's scenery-eating grin on any old drivel doesn't guarantee entertainment, "Why Him?" is trite, crass and insultingly moronic.
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These trite phrases have an inordinate amount of truth to them, especially when they are applied to political life — now as much as ever.
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Maybe it's trite, but after all that suffering, it's nice to see the Crains find some peace (even though they still need years of therapy).
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If I don't control some element of my life—some small element, no matter how trite or frivolous, some element like Instagram—everything falls apart.
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Some observers will see the words "Uganda" and "Cryptocurrency" in the same sentence and no doubt come out with some kind of trite, dismissive, assessment.
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Perry quickly midwifed—as creator, writer, and director—the soapy The Haves and Have Nots and trite platitudinal working-class comedies like Love Thy Neighbor.
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If the comparison between F1 and flying fighter planes is an old and trite one, it is nevertheless the most appropriate one I can make.
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It's a little trite to describe the new phone as an "iPhone 24s in the body of an iPhone 25s," because that's not exactly true.
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While it almost seems trite these days to invoke President Reagan's policy of "peace through strength," strength remains a key element in dealing with Putin.
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The actual moral of the story is more trite and utopian, but still powerful: Democracy can't take root until the impulse for vengeance is gone.
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The absolute epitome of trite landfill indie music... JB: This song is basically the apex, death and afterlife of landfill indie all in one go.
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Written by Hogan and showrunner Carlton Cuse ("Lost"), the finale's closing narration about love conquering all, delivered by Fet (Kevin Durand), was a little trite.
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It was just sophomoric: a trite exercise in cynicism about how to win grants and ingratiate yourself with followers by performing predictable and unalarming work.
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It sounds trite, but Fatima has the kind of voice that, as soon as you hear it, makes clear that she was born to sing.
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In Ace Attorney, the character names (and the hundreds of plays on Phoenix Wright's name, like "Trite" and "Phoenix WRONG") are a masterpiece of translation.
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Most frustrating, it careens from high-intensity to low, from one aesthetic to another, with lyrics that begin at trite and move somewhere quite dimmer.
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"It's very cookie cutter, trite advice that is not based on any understanding of how you got to be the way you are," says Bobby.
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Since Ms. Lovette has some compositional skill and seems to express an attractively liberal worldview onstage, I wish her work did not also seem trite.
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Cultivate a sense of gratitude: As trite as it may sound, seeking out ways to feel grateful to our partner is linked to stronger relationships.
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"It's a sometimes rocky road cinematically, slipping from enchanting to trite, magical to indulgent with some regularity," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The New York Times.
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The stodgy and trite "Resumptio" (1974) suggests another announcement of the return from the dead of gooey, muscular paint application, albeit rather dull in hue.
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It may be trite to repeat the cliché that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but in this case it's warranted.
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Besides, not everything on sale is as glitteringly trite as golden ceremonial plates and christening gifts; the artworks for auction are practically aggressive in their gaudiness.
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It gets tons of attention, feels amazing to drive and is so free of substantive faults that a mortal passing judgment on it feels almost trite.
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At this point, it might seem trite to observe that we don't really live in a genuine democracy, but that doesn't make it any less true.
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But critics tore down the movie, calling it trite, and slamming the casting of American actor Matt Damon — instead of a Chinese actor — in the lead.
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And yet the resulting work had an amateurish feel, the music flat-textured, the libretto trite in its efforts to mimic the language of archaic myth.
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"And slowly but surely, I've been picking off that armor and I don't want to sound trite, but in a way, finding myself again," she explains.
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One of them said something really sweet and then a song that's really classic and 80s came on that may have otherwise seemed trite or hollow.
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The on-demand model has become a bit trite in recent years, but there is a biological basis to justify it in the case of Ollie.
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"Three Peaks" has a placid surface, but Zabeil uses abstraction — with edits that elide information or play tricks with spatial perception — to deepen a trite scenario.
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It may sound trite, but taking a few deep breaths really does work, said Klontz, a member of the CNBC Invest in You Financial Wellness Council.
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The kind of trite, feel-good sing-along videos that might have seemed like harmless silliness a month ago suddenly feel like adding insult to injury.
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The idea that a charlatan might offer more solace than a real priest is a trite concept, but it's one that "Corpus Christi" portrays with conviction.
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While its original motto always felt a bit trite, five years after its start, OnePlus' latest phone is closer to being a flagship killer than ever before.
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In the age of the ubiquitous smartphone, it's only a matter of time before every object — no matter how trivial or trite — gets connected to the internet.
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Run by a handful of charismatic former convicts, the channels offer a rare window into a myth-filled world defined by trite television tropes and Hollywood screenplays.
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The "Nintendo is doomed" meme might be trite and played out, but the company has finally had to accept reality that mobile gaming is actually a thing.
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It's trite and also untrue to say that music can solve all problems, but there are a lot of practical ways that music can help right now.
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While it may seem trite or overly simplistic to assert that the iPad Pro is great mostly for its screen, it makes sense in an accessibility context.
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I really wanted to do something that was nuanced that didn't come across as an afternoon special or anything that would make it seem sort of trite.
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That sounds kind of trite…" she pauses for a moment, as if thinking, "… but I used to feel really distant and almost disgusted with my teenage self.
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In terms of an ego boost, this might be accurate, but the formula is trite and elitist, and it obscures the true motivations for doing dangerous climbs.
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There is a lot of trite rambling about how the president isn't really reflecting American values when, in fact, he is reflecting the values of many Americans.
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I'm no poet, but that was perfect for my plan: I would pack my page with the most sickeningly trite, cliché and flowery words I could muster.
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What happens next will yank the film from observant coming-of-age drama to trite crime caper — a disappointing swerve into snitching, double-crossing and discordant violence.
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Though it feels trite to say so, we connect with these characters on a deeper level that's easy to forget once caught up in one's own life.
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And I'm reminded of the time my father and I were piteously rained upon at the climax of "Bohemian Rhapsody," underscoring just how trite that script was.
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At the risk of sounding trite, it is worth wondering if those clubs — Real Madrid being the latest of them — should be careful what they wish for.
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Gone are the series staple of individual commands for squad members and the team's specialized skills in favor of a trite story with an empty, repetitive world.
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His antics at the weigh-ins, including the presentation of bouquets of flowers for his opponent, are neither as trite nor contrived as Tom Lawlor's elaborate get ups.
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In less practiced hands, the topics of Prato's essays might come off as trite or lip service to the shower thoughts of vacationers who are benefiting from colonialism.
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Calling him a "unicorn" would be trite, but one of the sport's top shot blockers shouldn't look so comfortable running the floor to knock down a corner three.
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It sounds really trite and like a bad Lifetime movie, and then you go home and you're actually like, 'Wow, I feel lonely and this doesn't feel good.
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At a time when it seems trite or disingenuous to put a cause at the center of your brand, Maison Margiela's feels like a legitimate call to action.
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It sounds really trite and like a bad Lifetime movie, and then you go home and you're actually like, 'Wow, I feel lonely and this doesn't feel good.'
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Not that anything is theoretical: If most plays of liberation involve trite slogans and metaphorical pickets, it's bracing to see one that's a drama instead of a diorama.
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"I don't have the energy for nonsense but Kanye saying slavery was a choice reiterates my previous statements about how dangerous his trite, shallow ramblings are," Gay said.
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If there is the smallest chance of a payoff — for me, even a trite sighting of a robin with a worm — then every moment is filled with anticipation.
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The presence of an enemy lifebar that'll disappear if you dig deep and muscle through another set of painful squats is, however trite, actual motivation to keep going.
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Caulfield helped author those guidelines and, though he apologizes for how trite it sounds, believes scientists need to be a part of the broader conversation about their work.
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Unfortunately, not only do we rarely take time to ponder their needs, but most of the ways we've been told to go about it are trite and toothless.
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The North Korean delegation to the United Nations in Geneva issued a statement to Reuters in response to the report, "strongly rejecting" the allegations as "trite" and "fictitious".
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Rather, with few exceptions, such as a scene in which Jack tries to wheedle Valium out of a pharmacist, the play remains trite even as it approaches seriousness.
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One of the things I liked about it was that the answer ALI ET ALII seemed to take otherwise trite crossword glue and have some fun with it.
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Or did she find another way to be the only woman at the table, this time in Tinseltown, where she got to be as trite as the men?
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Or to come off on one hand disingenuous, or on the other hand just trite, or, you know, there's that fine line between platitude and just the truth.
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Highly influential on most of your favourite indie bands, Smith had a knack for storytelling that never seemed trite or twee, and a quiet wit all his own.
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On the one hand, the first half of the season is a bit trite, a winking mockery of cable reality shows about "real life" hauntings and the like.
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That rests on the shoulders of Troy's father Dean Fairbanks (Obba Babatundé)Dean Fairbanks wants Reggie to overcome his trauma, and his words are helpful, even if they're trite.
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But under the somewhat trite coating of an assistant, Datatron is making it easier for employees to gather insights from the complex web of historical and real-time data.
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"I just feel like aging has been an amazing process and I know maybe it sounds a little cheesy or trite but I've honestly never felt better," Walsh says.
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Look at that paragraph above and it's a trite Hallmark story, a Readers Digest heartwarming bit of pablum that feels way less important than what it meant to me.
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But the trite phrase that gets casually thrown around to deflect shame over indulging in a vice is not only a misnomer, it's a potentially harmful one at that.
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George Washington Williams, Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith are some of the great writers which should be exposed to African-American youth instead of trite pro-slavery math problems.
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Many of the passengers' realizations, though, are rife with trite, self-help clichés about "finding" oneself — sentiment that can turn off more cynical viewers with its navel-gazing impracticality.
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Learning the language of that desire is not a singular path, and, to play devil's advocate, French's images can rightfully populate some of them, be they trite or timeless.
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Ware deemed the character, named "Brick Brady," too self-referential, and emphasizes his early struggles to find a fresh way to write about his own life without becoming trite.
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In such trite spectacles — this one was titled "Fairytale" — the subject is always Ai. By contrast, some of the most humanistic works here were made with very limited resources.
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The comments you get range from trite ("sleep when the baby sleeps") to tactless (anything that pits breast milk against formula), creating a labyrinth of information to wade through.
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Great response from the young fella ... after all, the whole storyline seems a bit trite at this point when Kyler Murray's 9.5-inch hands did just fine last season.
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Here, Braverman uses photos of dogs — and real talk about what makes them all so beautifully different — to turn a trite aphorism into something genuinely moving and broadly relatable.
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"That may sound trite, but to me it's both a comfort and a blessing, and a constant reminder that I'm now in the place where I'm supposed to be."
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So the idea the US' massive military-industrial complex will be ground to a halt by the cost of paying for a few thousand soldiers' heath care is beyond trite.
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Johari Noelle "Show Me" Maybe it's trite, but the thing that drew me in on this track is that it sounds like you're listening to it on a record player.
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People don't hate the endless scourge of reboots and sequels and requels and seboots because they happen too fast; they hate them because they are uncreative and trite and lame.
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"It's the first movie / song / book about life in the Trump era" has become trite, so I'll say this instead: the movie is often quite literally a load of shit.
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I don't care if this is sappy or trite, and I don't want to say that I love him more than anything ever because I love Timmy and my family.
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"All of the anger and resentment from the bigger issue comes bubbling out over something trite and meaningless, and you're then stuck in this never-ending loop," Dr. Greer says.
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This piece, called #elevate, is an effective, if trite, exploration of the painful performance of small-talk, of the yearning for genuine human interaction, of bringing celebrity down to earth.
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I don't care if this is sappy or trite and I don't want to say that I love him more than anything ever because I love Timmy and my family.
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While this may sound trite, it was actually a seismic innovation for people in the pre-industrial age who didn't see, hear or interact with those outside of their village.
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If anything, it seems to find the idea of such thoughtful and careful dialogue to be boring and trite, which is why the "reasons why not" scene falls so flat.
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That sounds trite, but there's a major difference between the negotiations that have been ongoing in earnest for more than a week and the point the negotiators reached on Thursday.
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The scenes with Patty and Matt don't yet justify the presence of this entire other subplot in a show that already sprawls so expansively, especially since they're so often trite.
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Instead I learned to cover my knees in synagogue, to be quiet and sit still through sermons that I found boring as a kid and in retrospect find embarrassingly trite.
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That character didn't need to exist, and adding queer representation to The Letter for the King simply to walk right into the genre's most trite and boring trope is weird.
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Though a tune about a three year rift with Taylor Swift could be construed as trite — but didn't Tchaikovsky state that "Brahms is just some chaotic and utterly empty wasteland"?
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In any other circumstance, we might likely write this off as the trite protestations of a man trapped in a toddler's temperament, full of meltdowns, magical thinking and make believe.
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One can't get specific without sounding trite, but let's say the sixth is when you've had a very rich life and you reflect on what life has been to you.
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Though the fights are formulaic and the crowd scenes trite, Juliet is a role with heart-catching variety that has released the dramatic potential of the greatest dance actresses. 5.
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But two months later, when it started screening in movie theaters across America, black writers saw it as another trite example of the country's insatiable appetite for white-savior narratives.
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But two months later, when it started screening in movie theaters across America, black writers saw it as another trite example of the country's insatiable appetite for white-savior narratives.
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Its use of the spoken word kept us clear about emotions and facts; its four men went through fairly conventional, occasionally trite, forms of mutual supportiveness, with little dance interest.
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Whereas the literal linking of photographic remains and actual remains risks being obvious and trite, Radtke avoids this nostalgic notion of the photograph by contrasting it with a more modern one.
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Some days writing feels impossible — I might spend most of the day with a phrase or sentence that feels right, but once I sit at the desk, it becomes vacuous, trite.
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It's trite to say we shouldn't use photography to tell big lies, but the reality is that we tell little ones to ourselves and the world around us all the time.
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JF: It is a huge thing, and — this is going to sound trite, maybe — but articles like yours where we can really get the true information out there will change it.
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If, at first glance, 32 seems trite, that's understandable–mental illness is regularly commodified as entertaining wackiness, and expressions of vulnerability are treated as an artistic ends rather than a mean.
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In that respect, the frequent use of musical montages -- as trite and heavy-handed as they are -- comes across as something of a relief, simply because during those stretches, nobody's talking.
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It may sound trite ("kindness of others"), but along with the increasing level of my disability has come a remarkable surge in the concern of random passers-by for my circumstances.
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"Bitch 2" has a more mature and existential feel to it than "Bitch 1," which makes it all the more jarring when a few of the essays come to trite conclusions.
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Some may feel, in this Trumpus Caesar summer, that such raillery, let alone the underlying idea of trying to understand why Americans have shot presidents, is an untoward or trite provocation.
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Though I was enthralled by Preston's frenetic depiction of man-on-serpent violence, I also feared it signaled that his latest book was about to take a turn for the trite.
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And the way I think about it, which will sound trite, but I'm always looking for some kind of competitive advantage, like some type of unfair ability to compete in the marketplace.
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A mere mustache twirl away from a trite-ward spiral, Lace manufactured drama throughout the evening with the finesse of a young woman raised on MTV, and must be the producers' dream.
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"&aposSenseless&apos has become a trite adjective to describe these tragedies, but what IS senseless is the misguided notion that any society with more guns is a safer society," Dr. Hsieh wrote.
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As a long time venture capitalist, I can tell you that hits of this magnitude don't come without a lot of misses however and that there is science behind the art. Trite?
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As the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq drag towards their third decade, and Syria's civil war ticks towards 28503,22020 dead, it may seem trite to observe that nobody really "wins" a war.
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In direct contrast with the trite stereotypes used to portray us, our opinions are nuanced and divided; Our political attitudes are multifaceted and critical, and our allegiance is to values, not labels.
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January 14, 2013: In a USA Today profile, which includes trite details of Schnatter's connections with Mitt Romney and Jim Nantz, he blames the media for misconstruing his anti-health care remarks.
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Man the fuck up and say something interesting These comments aren't indefensible, but they are as trite, as smug, and as self-congratulatory as the 'fake grief' Long is lashing out at.
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Many ads that push a similar message of unity do so in a generic way that seems trite, especially in the context of the gaping chasms splitting the American and UK electorate.
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Though it has a somewhat cartoony style and a seemingly trite premise, The Sands of Time quickly gets under your skin with both its frustrating / satisfying puzzles and its subtly building narrative.
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And the main guest story line is trite, involving a slimy "black hat" guest (Ben Barnes) goading his goody two-shoes future brother-in-law (Jimmi Simpson) to indulge his wild side.
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The increasingly trite observation made by current WWE heels that having once wrestled in bingo halls makes beloved babyfaces like Daniel Bryan suspect would've found some purchase in 1997, but not much.
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Though I found the eventual twist rather trite, it's exactly the sort of thing that clicks with Oscar voters, and Dizzia is so committed that you're inclined to just go with it.
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Consider what Drake doesn't do: He's the biggest pop star not named Beyoncé who doesn't traffic in the trite big-tent on-the-one dance music that's chart-dominant and soul-killing.
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We're Not Talking is a masterpiece of adrenal, emotional carnage; the trio display a keen sense of how to write about heartbreak and hardship in a way that's neither whiny nor trite.
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"Die göttliche Ordnung" is all the more stirring for some fortuitous timing (though Ms Volpe's ending—Hans and Nora reuniting cosily, followed by a slightly contrived bedroom scene—feels rushed and rather trite).
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And it's so fun to watch her salvage the more clichéd business—the physical comedy of a petite woman loading a minivan, or the trite sight of a mom wielding a wine glass.
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But to be trite and clichéd myself for a second, this is part of what makes us human — what allows us to be more than lonely bubbles of consciousness floating in the void.
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Even if his advice seems trite, Union and Return is the sort of record that'll make you want to be better at whatever it is that you do—or at least try harder.
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It would be so trite and cliché to mention the New York Times and Washington Post and their reverential Fourth Estate treatment of classified documents during the latter stages of the Vietnam War.
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In American politics, when disability is mentioned at all, it's too often in the context of trite inspiration porn or offensive and inaccurate myths about people faking problems to unfairly access public benefits.
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I think it's gotta be somebody who appeals to our better angels, to our best instincts and — I know all of this sounds kind of trite — to the unifying values of our country.
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While everyone else shares their take on the latest National [insert trite item here] Day hashtag, I stew behind my phone screen, glowering down on the Whoville that is the internet community at large.
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As marketing strategies go, it's not a bad one, although the conventions of the self-help genre do require Duckworth to boil down her provocative and original hypotheses to some rather trite-sounding formulas.
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The dialogue is trite in places and the writers try too hard to stuff the script with tongue-in-cheek references (including a weak pun about NASA and "sarvanasa", the Sansrkit word for disaster).
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Trite but true, audiences love a train wreck — and the promise of even more unhinged content, free from the constraints of broadcast and cable television, made The Circle and Love Is Blind particularly exciting.
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Although standing amid the sound and light between the walls that house Acts of Silence does allow for a somewhat immersive experience, the narration of trite, decontextualized words detracts from the work's overall impact.
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In a moment of visual irony, which becomes trite as soon as you realize Roof was probably aware of it, our subject is buttressed by pots of vulnerable small marigolds on either side of him.
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The ending is sad but satisfying: While there are some untied threads, and we're left feeling aching and uncertain about both characters' futures, a happy fairy-tale ending for the pair would have felt trite.
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Along with a billboard, vinyl-wrapped school bus, pop-up shop, and set of MetroCards, the skatepark installation pushes Kruger's tried-and-true (but verging on trite) work into the urban spaces she's influenced most.
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The fundamental thesis of the work, that standup comedy is an inadequate tool to reflect the complexity of human life, that it turns people into trite objects instead of telling their whole story, is inaccurate.
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In film, they've been used a few too many times as trite vehicles for romance and comedy, but Table 19 reminds us that, hey, there's still a lot to be said for a wedding movie.
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Attributing success to "team spirit" might sound trite, but in the world of sevens consistent selection is a rarity: Britain's Olympic squad had only trained together for a handful of weeks before arriving in Rio.
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It's almost trite now to point a tired finger at Democrats and urge them to see the obvious way ahead, but there's value in the exercise now that Republicans have debunked their own deficit concerns.
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I also knew the music that same guy made, and it sounded like Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven: a faux deep, lazily composed, shittily produced, and lyrically trite collection of dreck about being sad and whatever.
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It's admittedly trite to say that thanks in part to "Star Trek," Nimoy fulfilled the Vulcan greeting and hand gesture -- "Live long and prosper" -- that, we're told, he actually dreamt up, drawing upon his Jewish roots.
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In 2017, Carlin's insistence on "ass rape" as a metaphor for any kind of exploitation, as well as his usage of "cocksucker" for anybody he doesn't like, seem not only homophobic but also trite and uninspired.
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That description might make Broad City sound a little too trite, but the beauty of the series is in how it puts a new spin on a bunch of things you've seen over and over again.
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By now, it might be trite to say that premium smartphone features keep trickling down to lower price tiers, but they really are, and it's companies like Xiaomi that are pushing that trend hardest and fastest.
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These contrasts might seem like trite figures, until one considers, based on a projection from the Institute for Women's Policy Research, that Hispanic women may not achieve equal pay with white men until the year 2233.
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While the method of Tyene's murder sounds trite, or too direct of a translation for the likes of Queen Cersei—who is a textbook definition of a one-upper—it was actually true to her character.
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Many artists today are exploring artificial intelligence, but imagistic expressions of AI in the gallery have been largely trite, relying far too much on received appearances from the video game developers of Silicon Valley or Shenzhen.
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Dr. Amsellem explains that ignoring a partner's request, even if it's something as seemingly trite as dishes in the sink, conveys a sense of disrespect to the other person who may feel they're not being heard.
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I couldn't hold on to anything from those long indulgent reading sprees except for a trite epigram about how good things can come from bad actions and a long description of someone's extremely boring drug trip.
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Though it may sound trite at first, makeup with a message has proven to be hugely effective, with Lipslut recently announcing that it raised more than $100,000 for families affected by President Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy.
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"The Tenth Man," a modest charmer from Argentina, breathes considerable life into the rather trite scenario of a man discovering his religious roots, in part because it seems genuinely curious about the community in which it's set.
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Hope and faith in America are linked to a picture of an American way of life as it once existed, and as it still exists in Bosnia, in connection with certain trite, everyday images, emblems and icons.
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"It's trite to say (the accused) won't be the last person to be upset by the breakup of a relationship of infidelity and many will have access to the internet and applications such as Facebook," she said.
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To pull the Band-Aid off fast: The staging and physical production of "Tootsie" are so trite and vanilla they could pass for the work of Ron Carlisle on "Juliet's Curse" — or perhaps George Abbott in 1965.
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Some of the other connections made in "Lifestyle Wars" feel trite: in particular, the ant farm as nature's equivalent of the data-processing center, a connection reinforced by stacks of server cases and tangles of Ethernet cables.
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And some episodes stand out for such thoughtful handling of delicate cultural issues — without being cloying or trite — that they look right at home among today's offerings (as long as you take the 1970s setting into account).
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"The US would be sadly mistaken if it thinks that it can browbeat someone through trite 'gunboat diplomacy' which it used to employ as an almighty weapon in the past and attain its sinister intention," it added.
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AUSTIN DOVE, CRIMINAL AND CIVIL ATTORNEY: Well, other than the fact that it&aposs kind of trite to say just because their ethnicity is similar in terms of being biracial, they are obviously both from the Democratic Party.
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It's difficult to describe briefly without making it sound trite or tacky, or like it's trying really hard to win a book award (which it did), but if I can't dissuade you from thinking that, Lish's writing will.
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It sounds trite, but if you're in bed and can only focus on the heat and humidity, it may be helpful to try doing a breathing exercise to take your mind off the temperature and calm you down.
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While most any kind of narrative, cinematic or otherwise, can very easily veer away from the inherent intrigue of such a mise-en-abyme introduction to become, say, generic or trite, this captivating film very surely does not.
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She is fascinated by moments in which "there is some action of cutting through surfaces" not because of a trite conviction that equates the superficial with the flimsy or false, but because underneath dwells something unexpected, potentially untranslatable.
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As we debate how to switch course, our popular understanding of the rise of "get tough" laws should not layer selective memory atop selective hearing of the past by justifying black incarceration with trite references to black voices.
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"Everything we do is clumsy and trite and human and everything we do is the best that we can," Carlile says, recounting to me a story of an awakening she had shortly after Trump was inaugurated as president.
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"Different On Levels the Lord Allows" sounds like an abstinence slogan, and most of his tracks are hold-your-head affirmations and trite struggle bars delivered in a Public Speaking Course flow that only heightens their dorky earnestness.
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Her ideas about beauty and strangeness feel trite here; she does not add much to the reams that have already been written on those subjects by noting that Frida Kahlo had a mustache, and yet she was beautiful.
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"French girl style" has become such a trite marketing conceit that it's easy to forget that brands like A.P.C. helped to pioneer it: French clothes by and for French women, and those who wanted to look like them.
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In both cases, a same-sex duet is made to look trite — too foolishly gushy in "Not Our Fate," too tweely cute in "dance odyssey" (which elsewhere carries on as if same-sex meetings were a private aberration).
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Possibly, even, the great fashion or art photographers who originally inspired you to become a photo editor in the first place have lost their magic, their images becoming trite and flat or limited in scope over the years.
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" The association said that Mr. Tajani's original comments defending Mussolini's legacy were "trite, superficial and typical of those who want to justify a regime like fascism" that propelled Italy into World War II "and caused millions of deaths.
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It was a breath of fresh air when it first came out, gleefully utilizing its sci-fi twist to maximum effect, with Tree never once becoming the trite stereotype that she might have been in any other horror film.
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Dating Around is commendable for attempting to subvert the genre's more trite tropes as well as delivering a noticeably more diverse contestant pool — the six-part series features older couples as well as a gay bachelor and lesbian bachelorette.
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When he tried to recapture the magic for the State of Rhode Island this year with the slogan "Warmer and Cooler," people complained that the design was trite and overreaching, ultimately forcing the state's chief marketing officer to resign.
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I ran into a snag in the W and NW. After several attempts, I couldn't come up with a grid that didn't have either trite short fill or longer answers that were inappropriate for a Monday puzzle, or both.
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Though it is about a marginalized group, it does not become a savior narrative that "gives voice to the voiceless," nor a trite "imagine yourself in their shoes" moralistic spiel, or a "touch them, they're just like us" embarrassment.
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With Miles in the picture, the violence in the film becomes an active danger rather than something to revel in (most of the time, anyway), and though the surrogate son storyline may at times feel trite, it's much needed.
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Like Reitman, Vigalondo has no interest in the trite "struggling city person finds healing in the slow pace of a small town" tropes, and no interest in softening his lead character into rote likability when he could make her distinctive instead.
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"It sound a bit trite, because to the average person it seems quite obvious what the distress is," said Marcie Moriarty, the chief prevention and enforcement officer for the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).
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It feels trite to say that the North Carolina stalwarts are "what we need right now" but it's certainly true that band have a knack for expressing disillusionment of all kinds, through their medium of blistering, 3-minute-long pop songs.
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Unfortunately, the inevitable feel-good message takes forever to roll around, while the movie -- directed by Kenny Ortega, a musical veteran whose credits include the first "Descendants" and "High School Musical" -- gets tied up in trite romantic subplots involving various characters.
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While it may seem to be a trite analogy, in the movies Rambo uses his anger and rage because he has PTSD and it has often been said this was Hollywood's way of bringing attention to this particularly important diagnosis.
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To say something trite but still essential, fondness for a familiar life is no license to ignore, and may be entirely corrupted by, the ways that life was built on the backs of others whose descendants still carry inherited disadvantage.
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Ahead by three Martinis, I heard a snigger-quote-unquote About my disguise, admittedly an eyeful— That frosted mophead Andy Warhol, deprived Of pallor or purpose, so trite I am at once Singled out in my turtleneck as a fool.
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Watching her take what was deep and real and painful and ruin it by expressing it with such trite precision gave me reason to think Reva was an idiot, and therefore I could discount her pain, and with it, mine.
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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, poet from California who published her first book, There Should Be Flowers, in 2016 The rhyme scheme is a little trite and unimaginative, the title is unoriginal, and the rhythm comes across as awkward in many sections.
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While most of us can agree that great breakdancing is thrilling to watch (at least for a few minutes), its current influence currently extends little further than super niche communities and as a trite gag employed by unimaginative comedy writers.
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Anomalies all, but their success seems to have inspired some fresh thinking in the minds of Broadway producers, who, sensibly enough, given the long odds against success, are often tempted to stick to the tried and true, if not the trite and tired.
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Chazelle's film is a song-and-dance extravaganza with actors who can't really sing or dance; it's a movie about artistic dedication that would rather loft trite sight gags — Ryan Gosling glumly bopping the '80s karaoke classic "Take On Me" on a keytar!
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Erg is acutely aware of how daunting and trite the process of writing pop punk songs is when it's all been done before, but on his debut solo album, Tentative Decisions, he puts it all aside, and says: I can do it better.
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Having spent her childhood perusing the store's aisles, Lakshmi isn't excited like the trite "kid in a candy store"; instead, she's at home, addressing the workers there like family and reaching for specific spices without having to think twice about their location.
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Even then it felt a little trite to me, but I had enough twists in my head, I knew what we were going to do with it, I knew what the twist was, and I still don't want to give that away….
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Chock full of sage and sometimes trite self-help tidbits—"You can learn more from a critique than from a compliment!" and "Never complain without offering a solution"—it's a reminder that we should take West's tweets with a grain of salt.
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This aesthetic often falters or fails, whether by becoming too monotonous or pretentious or by slipping into trite depravity, like a red-light-district level that culminates in some erotic encounters between beast-women and televisions and a vaudeville act involving public hanging.
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The two executives say this is part of a larger trend about companies becoming more data-driven, a phrase that seems trite by now, but as a recent Harvard Business School study found, it's still a big challenge for companies to achieve.
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The director Asif Kapadia threads these dichotomies throughout the film, and also repeatedly returns to another, somewhat more trite idea: that there was an apparent split between "Diego," the private individual, and "Maradona," the personality the player cultivated for the news media.
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With American Gods, Gaiman takes what can be a trite commentary on the impact of belief, and layers on top of it a unique and compelling adventure, populated by unforgettable characters, that will stick with readers (and viewers) long after the story is done.
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Bishop Michael Curry's got proof his powerful words at Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Royal Wedding were more than just trite sayings ... and, in fact, his "love is the way" sermon is kinda what Kanye West was talking about when he visited our offices.
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It's also a trite narrative: The two women in the commercial couldn't have just been queer, dated other women, eventually gotten together, broken up, gotten together, broken up, and bought land upstate to communally raise three kids with nine of their closest gal pals. No!
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But this claim coming whence it did was really comical: The Brexiteers are on the right, and yet they were espousing what was once called "vulgar-Marxism," the trite and reductive—and wholly false—belief that people are driven primarily by material economic motives.
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The same forces couldn't rescue the trite "WTC 9/11," a 2010 work in which string players ape the rhythms and pitches of the voices of air traffic controllers responding to the emergency, and volunteers who sat vigil with the bodies of the Jewish dead.
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Focusing on how there are few effective differences between the plethora of battery types, besides functioning as additional products to goad users into buying, the duplicity at play is perfectly at synch with Blosum's intentionally trite Pop, undoubtedly marking Essex Street as another Nova highlight.
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But Bryan didn't write the song himself, and there's something vaguely disheartening about his linking these very real calamities of life to such a trite premise: Faced with the loss of a loved one, a man shrugs it off and cracks open a cold one.
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It's very difficult to strip a song of instrumentation and create a great big empty space for your emotions to swell and marinate, to sing alongside gentle guitar plucks about cigarettes and death and sex and self-preservation, without sounding incredibly trite or try-hard.
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Having met with, and been inspired by, countless artists from the Middle East and North Africa, the duo decided to work towards creating a space in which Arab culture met contemporary dance music without reverting to Orientalist cliche or trite—and ultimately damaging—dabbling.
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Initially, part of me wanted to reject the comparison as trite and absurd, along with the very notion that something that happened in a comparatively small industry could be held up alongside an event that will impact the lives of every American, and many around the globe.
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"What if events in one episode had consequences in another?" seems like a trite question for a TV show to ask in 2017, but aside from occasional arcs in later seasons of Deep Space Nine and Enterprise, past Star Trek shows have barely considered the question.
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If the endings are occasionally a bit trite — in "Fountain of Youth," a man living in a senior facility under the witness protection program asks a friend, in the story's predictable final moment, to call him by his real name — those neat conclusions are not entirely unearned.
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It sounds trite, yet it's this possibility of humility, of the singer onstage being no more than a vessel for everyone down below, that draws me to Remy's music: a collection of individual voices that sing side by side, rarely finding harmony, but trying anyway. ♦
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As such, the book takes us far from the clichéd, trite, conventional (ab)use that some successful postmodern appropriation artists have made of Duchamp by merely aping the enigmatic genius by which art objects were created entirely through the singular whim and arbitrariness of his psyche.
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To have a president who apparently does not have time for daily intelligence briefings, but who can make time for the most trite anti-intellectual stunts, like staging a photo-op with a troubled rapper and twilight-tweeting insults like a manic insomniac, is not normal.
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Books of The Times The dainty slippers pictured on the cover of "Women's Work" may have been a marketing ploy on the part of the publisher, but the image is so precious, so trite and so likely to backfire that it deserves extra points for sheer perversity.
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Her forays into the psychology of stalkers feel more mechanical — in part because what was unheard-of in the '90s is now trite fodder for reality shows — and her dutiful interviews of her fellow "Gary's Girls" might have been condensed rather than reported moment by moment.
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Teacher Stuart ultimately reveals he doesn't want a full, female, human body; he wants her sign of blackness, so he repeats its verbal cue ("nigger lover") until he orgasms, while she stands not five feet away, aghast that love so ardently declared can be so trite.
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Not surprisingly, the media coverage around Marnell's memoir narrows her tempestuous journey down to a trite before-and-after story (think "notorious downtown party girl goes good"—or, as the New York Post delicately put it: "NYC's hottest mess survives to tell her tale of hard-core addiction").
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But it would not be trite to say that another festering row with Greece is the last thing the euro zone needs when faced with a protectionist U.S. president, Britain leaving the European Union, and anti-euro politicians vying for power or presence in French, Dutch and German elections.
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" Trite says that, for many women of her generation, "Margaret was the first person who presented us with the idea that it was a good thing to menstruate because it is a mark of maturity and the potential to have children, not some sort of curse or taboo.
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Engaging in legislative battles on Capitol Hill or fighting for his political life every two years seems trite given what Hurd saw during his time in the CIA and growing up in South Texas, the son of a black father and white mother in the late 1970s/1980s.
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As the books of musicals have lurched forward in sophistication, the story of a town that awakens in the mists of Scotland only one day out of every century has come to seem both weird and trite, an impression only enhanced by revisiting the turgid 1954 Vincente Minnelli film.
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A friend who writes for television says her writers' room has an expression for any trite, overly familiar idea — basically, anything that feels too much like TV. She calls ideas like that "tied with a chive," after those inane bundles of green beans that caterers used to serve.
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They dismissed Bloomberg's bid with several trite "truisms" about political tradecraft: Money can't buy the presidency; his late entry would be fatal; he'd fall hopelessly behind by skipping the first four contests; his policy stands are all over the map, so he has no natural following or base.
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But the rapid efficiency of the formulations, the trite existential analogy ("Perhaps, he thought, that was the tragedy of life"), the boxing of potentially complex thinking into a discrete unit of speedy novelistic performance—all this has the effect of closing down the S.R.S.G. rather than opening him up.
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Also: Calamitous. Irresponsible. Inexperienced. Unprepared. Undisciplined. Uninformed. Unimproved. Unpopular. Bumbling. Embarrassing. Flimsy. Flailing. Failing. Harmful. Hurtful. Hateful. Shortsighted. Half-baked. Irrelevant. Puny. Piddling. Paltry. Petty. Immature. Infantile. Impulsive. Trite. Tiresome. Stale. Superficial. Small. Meager. Impotent. Limp. Obstructive. Destructive. Damaging. Distracted. Despised. Backwards. Reckless. Bumbling. Bungling. Blind. Arrogant. Rude. Mean. Tacky.
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But rather than traditional vows ("We both find vows kind of trite," Mr. Papper said), he serenaded his bride, and the crowd, with a sea shanty, "This Is the Girl That Done Me in," that he had written for her when she was out of town and he was lonely.
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The "NOW" evening also featured premieres by Lauren Lovette ("Papillons," an exercise in tiresome cuteness), Claudia Schreier ("Contra," a slickly athletic sub-Balanchine duet), and Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener ("3body," with Ms. Lovette joining the two men for a trite ménage à trois with mere glimpses of these dancers' abilities).
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The work — by the likes of Guerilla Girls (it's their first Miami appearance), Yoko Ono, Juana Valdes, Ruby Rumié, Jillian Mayer, Reed van Brunschot, Nathalie Alfonso, and too many others to list here — addresses and dismantles the rampant gender inequality of the art market and the trite, problematic stereotypes associated with women.
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The analogy she gives feels trite and the whole thing reminds me of going to go get a medical marijuana card—you tell them you have some ailment, real or pretend, the doctor asks you a few questions, you give them the right answers because you're not a moron, and out you are.
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Leather corsets, harnesses, fishnets and thigh-high boots, each part of a sex worker's arsenal, may seem familiar, even trite, to anyone who has watched a strip show or, for that matter, viewed similar items parading along a fashion runway, where they have asserted their status as part of a kinky perma-trend.
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If there's hope in this world—and I think there is, if the final scene is any indication—it comes not from trite notions about heroes jumping around the city at night, but from people willing to do the very hard work of building trust with one another and making good on their promises.
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Shannon does his best to portray a man torn between a genuine desire to save people and an increasingly militarized police force, but a particularly trite "Bad day at work, honey?" moment at home in Waco's first episode—literally following the Ruby Ridge catastrophe—all but ensured that he's just along for the ride.
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At this point, a redemptive death would be too clean and trite, but he won't be welcomed by either his adoptive Stark family nor his kin at Pyke, making his arc the potentially fascinating journey of someone who has burnt every bridge that might have received him and finds himself with nowhere to run.
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That's sort of the thing: The trend for open-your-eyes-sheeple graffiti is so often placed at the intersection between "extremely trite, first week of a politics AS Level" and "D in GCSE art," and it's sort of annoying we have to look at it because it's on that sandwich shop right by work.
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Such subject matter might sound trite and sitcommy, and many of the plot complications Ms. Straub tosses in her characters' paths verge on the clichéd, too: a missing cat named Iggy Pop; Ruby and Harry's — or rather, their parents' — worries about the SATs; and the "Big Chill"-like resurfacing of ancient college insecurities and rivalries.
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It was something of a shock to learn that the supposedly dignified independent counsel — who was once on a shortlist for the Supreme Court — had delivered a 445-page bodice ripper, a trite story of an office affair in all its seamy particulars, told with such sanctimony that it was redolent of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Part of me honestly thinks fantasy got so huge over the past decade because we all got so incredibly tired of Terry Bradshaw and Chris Berman and Bart Scott doing the same inane, trite, uninformed jibber-jabber for years and years, and we were just looking for something else to occupy our Sunday mornings.
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Most of the works in the show, as with the waggish paintings of Alex Morrison (that evoked the dancing mushrooms in Walt Disney's 83 trip-friendly film Fantasia), Sylvie Fleury's trite fiberglass sculptures, Ghislaine Leung's night lamp "Shrooms" (2016) and Carsten Holler's "Untitled" (2015) perforated digital print, enjoyably depict the impish phallic/hat form that defines a mushroom.
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I know, I know, there's a massive argument to be made that going, "Hey, everything's fucked so let's try and forget about it any way we can," is the kind of trite nonsense spouted by know-nothings with their heads firmly buried in the nearest sandpit, but when the world feels this fucked, escapism is more necessary than ever.
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Khar's voice can take on a certain glibness, prone to simplifying complex situations into a few trite words ("I had struggled with the urge to kill myself — to cut myself out of my own skin — for many years"; her mom's boyfriend is "the father figure I needed, the kind my dad was just not capable of being").
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It seems trite and twee to paint it as the difference between artisanal makers and mass-market producers (Essential is still hoping to make at least a million of these in its first year, after all), but there's a dynamism and vitality, along with a sense of personal investment on the part of Essential's employees, that also make it an apt comparison.
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All of this could be trite or confusing if it were badly executed, but it's testament to Russian Doll's (all-woman!) writer's room that the show pulls this all off via humor and expert pacing—we're drip-fed the mysterious central plot, but the rapid dialogue and punchy editing means it never feels slow—with Lyonne's electric vigor at its center.
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"If I'm going to be talking to somebody, it would have to be somebody that I can trust," he says about 20 minutes into our phone conversation--a trite comment were it not for the fact that Keenan's fame and notoriety as an artist has always seemed juxtaposed to the fiercely private individual he is once the lights are down.
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It is a rather simple (perhaps trite) command, but while walking through the artist's current retrospective, Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis, on view in the Fisher Brooks Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, this statement about curiosity struck me as an apt description of Lewis's personality and how it manifests itself in his ever-changing oeuvre.
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Ultimately, perhaps that was the most lasting story of the shows: Not the continued embrace of the 1980s and '90s (yawn), or yet another return of boho deluxe in patchwork and fringe (easy), or the growing fascination with gender (sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes trite), but rather the re-emergence of design as a core value; the clawing back up the slippery slope of casual.
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Her choice to eschew such colors, or even the Armani taupe she wore when she and Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, delivered their televised rebuttal to Mr. Trump's border wall address the same month, for a shade that — even beyond the obvious (and admittedly trite) associations like peace, purity and new beginnings — has become so entwined with the optics of current competing political narratives is worth considering.
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According to experts, climate change is set to turn global wine production upside down, and while it might seem trite to worry about wine lists in the face of potentially catastrophic weather phenomena, one of the few silver linings to come out of impending flooding and drought is that countries such as the UK—historically lauded for its ability to produce drinkable vinegar—will finally get a look-in on the viticultural landscape.
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I wasn't good at it because I was writing the ... In the '28s I was taught to write these trite ... I mean, I think Con Air is a great movie, but I was taught to do this thing where there's a brooding hero and he has six problems and he has to get them solved and page 210, he would meet his girlfriend and she would be redemptive and if he wasn't likable enough, you could give him clubfoot and if you wanted people to hate him, he would kick a dog.
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