Sentences with phrase «for trite»

Fans of modern shooters will have no use for this trite, monotonous junk, and fans of the original Space Invaders will simply be appalled at how Taito has butchered its classic gameplay into this one - dimensional mess.

While this could be the summary for a trite monster of the week mystery series, what Marillier delivers is a richly imagined world where fairy stories are old rumors and magic is a dangerous, unknowable property.

Step Up movies are known for their trite, formulaic plots and eye - catching dance set - pieces, and this instalment in the series certainly won't disappoint the fans.

Critics Consensus: Though it presents the war in shockingly gritty, realistic terms, Harrison's Flowers uses such scenes as background for a trite love story.

Critic Consensus: Though it presents the war in shockingly gritty, realistic terms, Harrison's Flowers uses such scenes as background for a trite love story.

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It's a reframed version of the old «What is your weakness» question, but it steers candidates away from trite responses and opens the door for more dynamic conversations, says Boettcher — ones that help him distinguish the real problem - solvers and self - starters from the rest.

Signal vs. Noise has an entertaining breakdown of that trite way of saying sorry — «We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.»

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».»

Deven Nunez is not going to get an Oscar for that performance, as it would have been camp and trite even in a grammar school class play.

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?

Trite junk you find on the shelves of grocery stores, Walmarts, etc. as for faith... it makes sense... one has to have a vivid imagination to believe in a magic bearded man in the sky and buddy Christ.

As for @Publius — I think it is you who is spouting trite messages without understanding.

It might sound like the start of a trite joke, but it's actually the entourage for one of the most highly anticipated papal trips in recent history.

These patriarchs had lived, and fulfilled their vocation, had done that which God purposed for them to do; now they were unforgettable, not only in the trite and obvious sense that they were great men with great achievements to their credit, but in the much more serious sense that they had altered for ever «how things were to go» between God and the world and between the world and God.

It doesn't matter if you think my comment is trite, if you don't have any feelings for Jesus it wouldn't make sense to you.

Trite but true: «The church not a haven for saints, but a hospital for sinners.»

This probably sounds trite, but I think hot soup is pretty good medicine for spiritual aches and pains.

It may be trite to point out the different conditions at Manchester City's Eastlands from Droylsden, a mere couple of miles away but they are no less real for that.

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.

Blogging in Boston has been a lonely gig for a long time and I have always been a trite (understatement of the year) jealous of my New York buddies.

It is trite knowledge that I am an ardent devotee of former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayawaso North and former Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr. Mustapha Ahmed.»

After a superficially worthy iteration of that now trite sentiment of British politicians, public intellectuals and commentators that national pride needs to be «reclaimed» from the «small - minded» and the «racist», the following 21 pages provided a tour de force in national chest - thumping that could barely do more to put its small - mindedness and contempt for the rest of the world front and centre.

It is trite knowledge that the law has no tolerance for fraud.

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.

«While it is true that the said Alhaji Yahaya Bello participated in our party primaries, it's trite that party primaries are conducted to produce a candidate and once a candidate is produced, the congress, being an ad - hoc tool for that purpose, should automatically extinguish.

This metaphor works for him, but to the managers it sounds unbearably trite.

«The sermon, is both trite and hollow, coming from a party with intolerance for dissent as its hallmark.

«It is trite law that when the word «shall» is employed in a statute, the primary meaning that the court will assign to it is that such provision is mandatory and leaves no room for discretionary or arbitrary exercise of power except a congruence reading if the statute intends otherwise.

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights has called for the restructuring of Nigeria, describing it as a trite demand which «requires all the will...

As trite as it sounds, Carter says, for any partnership to work, it has to be a «win - win» scenario.

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That's a world I'd like to live in, but the skeptic in me says, «nah»; rather, costs are being cut and companies are looking for ways to charge more for the same trite $ 10 - $ 20 box.

«Pretty» is probably the most trite descriptor to use in reference for a Valentino show, but the 68 romantic, feminine and, at times, quite modest looks that hit the runway were just that.

It's a slightly trite bit of viewer hand - holding, as are most of the recollections that punctuate Louie's harrowing wartime horrors, but it sets the tone for a film less interested in blame than in illuminating commonalities.

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

You sit there dreading the formula you know is coming, and feeling sorry for McCarthy, who co-wrote the script and is better than what this trite material calls for.

There are a few moments of the old Farrelly brothers in the film, but for the most part its trite and without anywhere near enough humor to cover up its flaws.

(Poor Pike is even forced to hack off chunks of that wig in a trite visual metaphor for Brigitte cutting ties.)

The trimmings are sumptuous but the story is trite and except for old pros Claudette Colbert, who looks great and is beautifully gowned, and Dean Jagger the acting is strictly dinner theatre quality.

The film, wanting to be seen as more than a comedy, sets up trite little character arcs for the two protagonists.

If that sounds trite and patronizing, credit Curtis for developing it at a leisurely enough pace and with sound enough acting that it does not feel that way.

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.

As an actress, Hough unexpectedly nails a trite scene that requires a big emotional outburst, but she otherwise isn't asked to do much, short of keeping those nimble limbs moving and maintaining a hot - girl elitism until it's time for third - act purification.

In the premise of a grouch who can't ditch the local holy rollers, there's an opportunity here for a very funny farce or a comedy - drama in the vein of Capra or Sturges, but director Mark Pellington leans toward the maudlin, trite and sentimental when Henry meets his other neighbors: six - year - old mute Millie (adorable Morgan Lily) and her divorcée mother Dawn (radiant Radha Mitchell).

The story is worth considering and if the approach (period authenticity meets CGI - fueled filmmaking techniques) isn't the wisest, the film can't be faulted for being entirely trite and utterly boring.

In Welcome to The Rileys (2010), a trite indie drama about a grieving father (James Gandolfini) trying to help care for a teenage prostitute in New Orleans, Stewart first divorced herself from Bella Swan.

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.

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.

However, what he hadn't quite done is go the distance into shamefully trite family comedies for all ages, especially one so lame, so the snickers turned into guffaws at Arnold's expense, to the detriment to his once vaunted status as the world's biggest action box office attraction.

The screenwriter, Peter Morgan (The Queen), surely could have come up with something better than this trite device to get George to London for the denouement.