Sentences with phrase «almost trite»

It is almost trite to say that you don't computerise a mess, it simply makes it happen faster.

It sounds so stereotypical it's almost trite, like a bad movie.

Israel's great achievement, so apparent that mention of it is almost trite, was monotheism.

As he spoke the doctrine of life, he seemed to think it not only familiar but almost trite.

Not exact matches

It's almost unbearably trite but it's also precisely true to say this is temporary.

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

There is some heavy - handed symbolism, and a letter written from one brother to another that's almost too clichéd and trite to accept in the otherwise articulate piece of filmmaking.

It's so sugary sweet as to be almost unpalatable, and Amanda Bynes attempts to be cute and rambunctious at all times does tend to grate on one's nerves, especially during the trite «let's try on different outfits and look adorable» montages, while prancing around maniacally to the commercial soundtrack.

Despite the fact that these comedies have been built almost entirely around boorish body fluid jokes and a very few bawdy gems («This one time, at band camp...»), in «American Wedding» director Jesse Dylan jumps so impetuously from dog - doo - mistaken - for - chocolate gags to trite tender - moment montage sequences to sex scenes involving invalid grandmothers that none of it — the jokes or the sentiment — comes across with any conviction.

There are several story threads that do work, particularly that featuring Bradley Cooper and Julia Roberts during a long - haul flight, and Topher Grace and Anne Hathaway (almost) manage to succeed despite fairly trite material.

Both Hoult and Lawrence have shown their acting abilities in other films, and to watch them bent to such trite and overt ends by Vaughn is almost painful.

When Martha confesses to her pregnant girlfriend Jinny (Emily Mortimer) that the three sons she's carrying frighten her — «They're almost a football team» — where the partners end up is at once trite and fraught, not to mention unconvincing.

He is a master of his characters and their fates, as well as that in putting together all of the breadth and scope of the Star Wars universe, but the sometimes wooden, trite dialogue gives his films a tinge of unintentional humor that almost makes us guilty for liking them so much.

Metaphors in photography's formal elements are almost always trite; paneling divides a black man and a white man in «Meeting of the worker - management Liaison Committee of the Colgate - Palmolive Company» (1980), and in «An officer of the Voortrekkers» (1980) a white woman on the frame's center line is isolated from a sense of humanity.

It seems almost too trite to argue that witnesses can lie....