Sentences with phrase «into trite»

That rather pretentious title at once makes me suspicious, and I didn't have to read far before slamming into a trite platitude.

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.

Ostensibly a story about the difficulties of fusing your life's path with another person's, it treads well the line between speaking about universal romantic entanglements and teetering into the trite or cliched.

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When salespeople use trite terms or begin a conversation unprepared, it destroys all of the hard work that the entire demand generation team invested into creating the opportunity.

Many readers of this magazine will have uncomfortable memories of earthly liturgies in which that foretaste has been hard to find: banal music, performed into a microphone situated in or near the sanctuary, trite Bidding Prayers read badly, an atmosphere lacking in reverence.

At the risk of sounding trite, the problem one quickly runs into, is where a sugar daddy says the exact same thing you do.

«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.

Then, when you least expect it, the script veers into soap opera and melodrama, invoking trite and mediocre sci - fi movies from years past.

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.

Mishandled, the subject matter could have very easily tipped over into something trite, but instead plays out as something a little more nuanced that resists the urge to tidy up after itself.

The movie's major theme seems rather trite compared to the undercurrents about prejudice and self - empowerment, because the lessons Ned learns from his own experience are our entryway into and exit point from this story.

While far from perfect and falling into the expected predictable and trite storyline we've seen before in dozens of other buddy cop movies, «Ride Along 2» certainly works as a broad comedy.

With forced jokes and performances that go for increased zaniness without adequate material to take things to the next level first, Funny Money sinks into the comedy abyss due to spending too much time spinning its wheels in plot mechanics and desperate injections of trite shenanigans for easy laughs.

Trite and tedious, Commuter falls into that «not so much» category.

Also, its writer / director Maren Ade refuses to buy into Winfried's trite belief that Ines needs a husband and kids to find happiness.

THE BAD: some horribly trite jokes liberally lifted from The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy and other older and oft - used sources, film - flubs galore (the girl who falls into bed under the covers, several darts hitting a car when only one flew out the window, the monster's position changing while on the table, etc.), the Inspector Kemp (Mars, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and Frau Blucher (Leachman, The Last Picture Show) characters, and Madeleine Kahn's (High Anxiety, History of the World Part I) singing.

The film turns what could have been a trite insight into a rousing spectacle in the sequence in which Strange travels into Dormammu's dark dimension, a void full of floating bulbous globes connected by knotted pathways.

It's hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi.

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.

Sometimes developers take a steaming pile of Great and Mighty Poo and turn it into gold; if not, these trite occurrences would never have become so prevalent.

It is actually quite a good game, and somehow a world of sentient bots that can transform into vehicles has more of a realistic feel than the trite world Epic has flowered with homoeroticism.

The artist recombines the letters into generic phrases whose meanings have become trite from overuse; yet the badly worn letters carry with them deeply emotive and nostalgic histories, transforming the initially simplistic phrases into works that are emblematic of isolation, loneliness, and the past.

Though he cut often trite vegetable shapes, he composed them into splendid harmonies that are a fitting climax to his career.

Binding the exhibition together are Gillick's flickering signage for the individual works (with their hideously trite interpretive descriptions) and Carsten Holler's 7.8 Hz which causes a change in the frequency of the electrical system that turns the exhibition lights on and off at set intervals, plunging works into darkness or rendering the film and video projections temporarily invisible.

Humbling, really, when you get into it beyond the factionalism and the trite retaliationalism and beyond the panic and alarmism.

It is trite law that in considering making orders for financial provision, the district judge is charged with an inquiry into the size of the parties» resources and to identify factors which might justify a departure from equality of division of them — described by Sir Mark Potter P in Charman v Charman [2007] EWCA Civ 503, [2007] All ER (D) 425 (May) as the «sharing principle»: «Property should be shared in equal proportions unless there is good reason to depart from such proportions; departure is not from the principle but takes place within the principle.»

Much of what follows in the note seems trite and trivial from the perspective someone who's been as involved with social media as I have been; but, as I say, the target appears to be lawyers who are only now considering putting a toe into the water, and for them this may have some value, if only as a formal recognition by the Society that media such as Twitter and Linkedin exist and may be useful for lawyers.

It was trite law that a prosecution could be stayed as an abuse of process if state agents had lured a person into committing a crime: R v Looseley, A-G's Reference (No 3 of 2000)[2001] 4 All ER 897.

Trained to extract the most pertinent information from you concerning your employment history and accomplishments, and to refine and translate this data into a custom - built resume, the professional will provide you with a document that reflects your unique background instead of trite phases gleaned from a sample resume.