Sentences with phrase «by trite»

It's illustrated by a trite expression that + -10 % is good enough for government work.

Intentionally obscured by trite social commentary borrowed from various sources and, at times, interspersed with Pettibon's own words, the drawings ask, «Who is speaking in this work?»

Not exact matches

If you're worried about coming off as trite by name - dropping Wozniak or Zuckerberg, don't be.

He presented slides and a video for each value, headlined by phrases both trite and bro - y: «make magic,» «champion's mind set,» «superpumped,» «always be hustlin».»

Is it possible that the message of comfort for those devastated by the faltering world economy will be nothing more than trite and meaningless words if not accompanied by a biblical response where we, the church, become the Good News, the economic expression of God in flesh?

It grows trite to repeat that they were a new achievement of the ancient world; the stories from other oriental lands of the time were crude and commonplace by comparison.

But too often, focus on the God - triune gives way to the trite and sacred rites are replaced by the rote.

That might sound trite, but, shouldn't that be the obvious response by anyone who calls themselves Christian?

I am not saying anything so trite as that life is fuller when people have myths to live by.

By now it's sounds trite, but I couldn't believe the texture and creaminess.

On the plus side, it wasn't as cruel as comments made by «AA's self - appointed moral watchdog, who is never trite or boring because he has 1000's of creative ways of saying the same thing.

Though it feels trite to chide the former Everton man for his flailing physicality and lack of an all - round game, it is surely fair to consider his place in the squad as «under threat» by the new acquisitions.

It is therefore trite that the right to contest election by any citizen can only be abridged by a valid order of a court of record.

Anyone who says it doesn't is either a spin - doctor for a losing candidate or someone who can't see beyond the true but trite observation that by - elections are not general elections.

10.11 am: Conference titles are normally trite, but today's title is a good one: Fairness doesn't happen by chance.

While the efforts made by Honest By, Nike and Nudie Jeans each seem to be worthy of varying degrees of applause, surely, hard - nosed cynics would find such generosity hard to believe or at the very least sounding a little trite unless brands were frank about exactly how they define and where they draw the line with regard to trade secretby Honest By, Nike and Nudie Jeans each seem to be worthy of varying degrees of applause, surely, hard - nosed cynics would find such generosity hard to believe or at the very least sounding a little trite unless brands were frank about exactly how they define and where they draw the line with regard to trade secretBy, Nike and Nudie Jeans each seem to be worthy of varying degrees of applause, surely, hard - nosed cynics would find such generosity hard to believe or at the very least sounding a little trite unless brands were frank about exactly how they define and where they draw the line with regard to trade secrets.

At some stage in your life you've likely spotted one of those trite motivational posters, the kind that sports a generic landscape underscored by some nebulous phrase championing the merits of «success» (or something similar).

«Trite» really isn't doing justice to the degree to which [the film] has not a single thought, character, or line of dialogue that hadn't been run into the ground by the beginning of the»80s.

The film, co-directed and co-written by Bob Fisher and Rob Greenberg, is a trite and near absurd story that spells «formula film» all the way and, for

The script (by Matthew Perniciaro and Timm Sharp) is trite, and the direction so flat that every scene looks like it was shot in a broom closet, but the bright young cast makes things more bearable than they should be.

Gilmore Girls is a genuine gem in the making, a family - friendly hour burdened by neither trite cliche nor precocious pablum.

But the female characters in Anon fare worse, defined as they are by depressingly trite male - gaze fantasy.

There are certainly moments in the Bale - led period film that could be considered trite, but they are fully and wholeheartedly overpowered by memorable performances and stellar production values.

Grosbard mercifully avoids melodrama — the only real false notes are musical ones, from a score by Elmer Bernstein that turns familiar and trite when the film does not.

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but in this case, judging a movie by its poster and thinking it derivative and trite would be right on the money.

Similarly, while there were some new boundaries set by Logan and the Wolverine character, the villain arc and antagonists were painfully trite.

The other elements of the film come together splendidly as well, from the loving - but - not - trite shots of Manhattan, courtesy of cinematographer Ben Kutchins (the «Veronica Mars» movie), to a first - rate comic ensemble that also includes Jason Mantzoukas, Andrea Savage, Natasha Lyonne, Amanda Peet, and Marc Blucas (plus brief but memorable appearances by Adam Brody, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Billy Eichner and Michael Cyril Creighton).

Perhaps I wouldn't even have noticed such a thing if not for the fact that the story at hand is trite and boring, with little to be engaged by and no one to really root for.

On another level, the film is an overly glossy, ostensibly intellectual but deliberately trite mass - market romance (from the screenplay written by Pierce) about a reporter and a movie star falling in love while she shadows him on the set of yet another movie (in which he plays a cop along side Brad Pitt) for a magazine fluff piece profile she's writing.

When Ella's mother (Hayley Atwell) dies of an unnamed illness, leaving her with a trite final lesson — «Have courage and be kind» — that the film adopts as its central moral, Ella is doted on even more by her father (Ben Chaplin), even once he eventually remarries.

A rather trite, unnecessarily - complicated wartime romance in which the most cynical drunk in the world is persuaded, after getting a second chance with the love of his life, to sacrifice his happiness (and hers, but that's not really relevant) for the war effort, by tricking her into returning to her anti-Nazi activist husband and continuing her loveless sham of a marriage.

The sincerity of that structure could easily be rendered trite or sappy, but no such charges can be made against the debut screenplay by, fittingly enough, the director's Vanity Fair - editing sister Evgenia Peretz and her husband, documentarian David Schisgall.

Based on a novel by Cally Taylor, this British romantic comedy is so simplistic that it offers very little to anyone who doesn't buy into the trite movie formula.

There's an intriguing true story buried inside this overly structured drama, and by playing by simplistic screenwriting rules the filmmakers make everything trite and predictable.

If you are one who enjoys these uplifting stories about overcoming great obstacles in order to make the world a better place, even if the roads traveled by the filmmakers are predictable and somewhat trite, you'll most likely find great value in viewing Freedom Writers as informative, entertaining, and thought - provoking.

In fact, it may sound trite and overly vague, but in the hands of director John Crowley and as written by Nick Hornby (adapting the novel by Colm Tóibín), this story becomes one of honest, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant specifics.

Every other character receives a trite stock ending by the time the credits roll, which feels insulting to cast and audience.

Passably trite entertainment that will be eaten up mostly by women who enjoy looking at nice scenery, big houses full of the classic furniture, kids who do their homework and eat all their food, and lots of soul - bearing argumentative confrontations.

The result, U-Turn, is a derivative, trite noir that resembles better films and better stories, with Stone trying his best to distract you from that sameness by dangling lots of flashy things and big name actors in small cameos resulting in a melted banana split; very colorful with no substance whatsoever.

Except The Medallion is a mostly unfunny film, not only because it has quite a bit of dark overtones, but when it does go for laughs, which is more frequent than it should, it's so trite in its delivery that more groans are elicited than chuckles by a significant margin.

The human element to the film, the relationships Charlie has with his angry son and even his partner, Bailey, played by Evangeline Lilly, is so trite, so obvious, that the pain - by - numbers of it all doesn't even seem to get filled in.

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.

Based on a manga by Akimi Yoshida, the scenarios sometimes feel a bit trite in Kore - eda's adaptation.

I understand that he's trying to make The Terminal — inspired loosely by a true story — a post-modern fairy tale (Lost in Translation for the emotionally neutered), but monumentalizing all of its unionized labour, focused in a scene where whimsical and wise Indian fugitive Gupta (Kumar Pallana, better in the superior post-modern fairy tale The Royal Tenenbaums) tells the tale of Viktor to a rapt audience of food - service workers, is trite verging on Noble Savage Syndrome.

«The Mountain Between Us» Stars Separated by Miserable Lack of Chemistry Justin Long Deserves Much Better Than Trite «Literally, Right Before Aaron» Jeremy Kagan's «Shot» Is a Sobering Plea for Gun Control Grim «Last Rampage» Saved by Superb Acting You Won't Be Bored by «Battle of the Sexes»

Released: February 3 Director: Barak Goodman (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy) Why it's great: A perfect example of how a documentary can be conventional without being trite, Oklahoma City is as by - the - book as they come, talking heads and archival footage serving a riveting historical work.

Del Toro's uncharacteristically soap - opera acting style doesn't help the horribly trite dialogue and Anthony Hopkins, as Talbot's father, certainly doesn't help either by sounding bored beyond comprehension throughout the entire film.

This might be the nadir of the movie, and perhaps of cinema as a whole, as «men dressed as women» has been strip - mined by comedies to the point where it is laboriously trite and exceedingly unfunny.

By the end of the movie, no character has been developed beyond trite descriptions, and whatever emotional weight the movie has from its outset is buried within a formulaic underdog story.

Elliott's father and his alternate version of their past should have been meaty and moving but instead felt trite and by the numbers, even though Harris is a fine actor.