Sentences with phrase «like trite»

It may sound like a trite maxim but many visitors end up eating local food after having tried out Thai versions of Read More»

It can sound like a trite idea, and in lesser hands, it probably would be.

The Clothes: Lovely sounds like a trite word to describe a collection, but Lela Rose does pretty and lovely really, really well.

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While a concise instant message may seem to be an efficient way to touch base (without strains like rising from your swivel chair), the interaction can quickly turn trite or futile.

«Raising venture capital is like you're on a journey in a car, and you've got to stop at the gas station to fill the tank,» Parker says, calling upon a trite — his words — venture capital analogy.

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.

I'm feeling like a hoax when Dianah slightly moves her crutch that lays between her and mother and murmurs it like a prayer, the living and active words of the Old Book that keep her living, and the words sound the opposite of trite when she speaks them under the beat of the African sun:

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

Your ignorance, arrogance, and trite expressions like that make your argument so predictably bad.

I'll be throwing 80 feet, 85, maybe 90, and all those little glamour milers with their myth four - minute barrier will be like little puppies, trite little tykes, and the rest of the track and field world will be obsolete, and then people will notice shotputters — the real athletes, the real men.»

Yes Medicaid reform comes up from time to time, but to use this and other recent issues like «Gun Control» as the reason why Republicans are growing cold towards working with Governor Cuomo is trite rubbish.

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.

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.

All the trite talk of nerds and mean girls feels like it's from a forgettable teen soap.

Like Gleeson and Byrne, Gluck seems to recognize his film's inherent frivolousness, frequently calling attention to some of the screenplay's plot mechanics and hacky tropes — at one point even hanging a lampshade on Peter's famous blue jacket, in acknowledgement of the object's trite value as an emotional symbold.

I do realize that it's a little corny and trite, playing more like a 90 minute Mentos commercial than a motion picture, but the film is just plain fun, pleasant, gutsy and if you are on the right wavelength, will fill you with a sense of inspiration and magic as well.

Now like all Malick films, you can either find that a trite subject to make a film, but equally like all of the directors work, he is unabashedly earnest about it.

The Score takes this trite over-used convention, and runs with it, and runs with good performers like Robert DeNiro, Edward Norton, and Marlon Brando.

Like you mentioned, Spencer, the director's naturalism is crucial to the film, rendering potentially trite material as a story told with uncommon intimacy.

Yet, the way the film is presented, it's also hard to fault the creators for the bad elements, as it draws inspiration from many films and comic books of the 30s and 40s that are exactly like this — fantastic stories with trite heroics and corny dialogue to string it together.

WINCHESTER [BLU - RAY](2018): «Even with talent like Helen Mirren involved, Winchester stands as nothing more than a trite, predictable haunted house tale.

As great as it might seem for the writers to find the right places for lines like «I got a bad feeling about this,» it gets a bit trite.

Enter Little Fockers, the latest in the franchise and Paul Weitz's latest stinker (Roach no longer directs — one can only assume that he ran out of trite puns), following crap like Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, American Dreamz, and In Good Company, is a film so monstrously bad that describing it as the devil's spawn would be quite the understatement.

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.

But what exacerbated the annoyance of that was her constantly giving trite soundbites throughout awards season, like «this goes out to anyone who's ever had the door slammed in their faces» at the Golden Globes.

Love & Mercy, Bill Pohlad's biopic about musical genius Brian Wilson is an empathetic but trite examination of the Beach Boy's life, structured like a temporal see - saw occupying two specific periods.

Like all of the great works about the aristocracy, Gosford Park knows how fundamentally trite the system is and has fun at once mocking and observing it work, knowing change is long overdue.

As they effortlessly crank out trite and nonsensical lyrics and melodies, Rogers and Clarke believe they could be just as successful as the musicians whose images adorn their New York apartment walls, like their heroes Simon and Garfunkel.

I'm not talking about the trite, somewhat dangerous brand of expectation inherent in statements like: «I want to create the kind of schools that suburban kids go to.»

Trite phrase, but true here: The Levante is quite car - like, if car means a good, powerful (but not necessarily light) sedan or wagon.

The plot is a bit trite but it was an enjoyable story and I liked the character development.

You may think it sounds trite, or like some type of sales pitch to say we at Pelican and you, our valued readers, are partners; but it is the truth.

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

It may seem trite to say a book reads like a novel, but, well, this one does.

«It's easy to say something like, «I'll never allow somebody to buy the win of the game, I won't let them buy victory,» but that's kind of a trite answer,» he said.

It would be unprofessional and trite, then, for me to say that Proteus is like Minecraft on LSD.

Even via e-mail, the responses aren't just canned trite, but actualy feel like personalized responses to your specific question (s).

It could have been another inaccessible JRPG with a trite, ridiculously preachy story about a group of lovable misfits but it just doesn't make the same mistakes things like that have made.

Going back and looking at what people thought of it way back when, you'll find words like «trite» and «simplistic.»

Ophelia and the Valkyria are the only true standouts, as the motivations and personalities of all of the others — and there are 12 - 15 or so main characters — are silly and trite, even for an action JRPG - lite game like Valkyria Revolution.

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Her work is an experiment in transcending graphic representation to reveal trite but true archetypes of human desire and fantasy that in the end aren't just about her liking pizza or the people on them but rather humanity's obsession with food and man's desire to fly.

Maybe that's trite, but it mostly seems like Dean is a bit directionless and experiments, which I think is a nice counterpoint to how polished or devoid of vulnerability so much of the work that gets the spotlight at the Turner Prize often is.

I've got good at telling myself to like Anish Kapoor but his art looks trite, easy and unconsidered when placed near Rothko.

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), Love Lost, and the trite Hymn (1996) join other expensive and scandalous works by his contemporaries to form a yBa hall of fame in a vast Pantheon - like room.

Dismssing this data out - of - hand with trite arguments about how you don't like what it implies will not hold water in the long run.

She also opined that the «ocean is really huge and the cute little «toy» picture in the article, representing somewhat about 1 % of the earth's surface (guess, not calculation given that 70 - 90 NS, and 5 - 15NS are not at all like the picture), is a bit trite.»

It looks like a routine application of well - worn standards and in particular of what has been long - considered the trite principle that what has to be decided is whether the employer acted reasonably, not whether the court would have reached the same decision.

«It may seem trite to think of the design and craftsmanship of a device like this as a marquee feature, but smart home speakers are inevitably placed on shelves, tables, and countertops where they are seen by everyone in your home.

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.