Sentences with phrase «little trite»

The scandal at the center of the story may seem a little trite (and as an interview with Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov reveals, it's probably the biggest difference between the film version and the Beau Williamson stage play that it's based on), but you can hardly fault «The Ides of March» for relying on such a tried and trusted premise when real - life politics are just as dirty.

The final battle scene was a little anti-climactic for me (and have to agree with Yahaha, destroying the flock to a rock song seemed a little trite)

The stellar combination of Cable, Tracey and Loy is irrestistible, even if the plot is a little trite.

[Hamer's] new film is both appealing and more than a little trite, finding pleasantly glib solutions to the terrors of mortality and loss.

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 secrets.

At the end of the day, and at the risk of sounding a little trite, each of us is either part of the problem or part of the solution.

Not exact matches

A Saint is a person who — in the trite and often repeated remark of the little girl, thinking, I suppose, of the stained glass window — «lets the light shine through.»

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.»

Heather, this post is from September, you parachute in in MARCH, leave your trite little comments, hoping to drive traffic to your blog.

Though this might sound a bit trite (after all, metabolism is always a buzz word that is frequently misused), Jeff delves a little deeper to explain that «fast metabolism» basically means «overactive sympathetic nervous system»... which means the adrenal, thyroid and pituitary glands (which control metabolism and energy production) are more active.

Unfortunately it's handled with little subtlety, originality, and nuance, so the end result is really trite, predictable, and cringe worthy.

It's ugly, it's got broken controls, it's got an incredibly trite story (what little there is is

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

It's already trite to compare her albums to Jagged Little Pill, so I will just compare this to her previous «happy» album, So - Called Chaos.

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.

Familiar elements such as a dark family secret, a ghost and a Ouija board start to seem trite after a while, and the third act is a little ridiculous, but debut writer - director Nicholas McCarthy does a lot with a little and seems fully prepared to handle a big - studio horror project.

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.

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.

Before this, we're treated to trite scenes of them training and bonding, but we're offered little in terms of character development to actually care about any of them.

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.

Gender arguments veer between pro-feminist heroic rhetoric and misogynist - in - disguise movie - talk as, excluding Furiosa, the «breeders» are still the sexy little ladies you'd see in most Hollywood trite («The camera caresses acts of violence in the same way it caresses the brides» bodies.»

It «s trite, clichéd, and more than a little smarmy with «50s attitudes toward women in uniform and in general.

However, it you are a little twisted in your sense of humor, you might find yourself laughing out loud despite the trite and often ridiculously sophomoric antics.

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.

The plot, however, of a 17th century subaltern, transgressing the impenetrable demarcations of privileged masculine courtier positions at the French royal court and French society overall, has been abandoned in favour of a trite and predictable love story, alas making A Little Chaos quite a regrettable affair through missed opportunity and Winslet's decision to undertake the unsatisfying role, simply baffling.

Anyone familiar with Malick's filmography knows to expect little more of Knight of Cups than Christian Bale wandering the corridors of celebrity mansions, beautiful beach fronts and abandoned, dilapidated buildings while whispered trite reveries titter on in the background, theoretically contributing to a greater sense of purpose (that is just not there).

There is a not so fine line between a little sarcastic mockery and trite and commonplace insults.

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.»

Picking a single, trite idiom, the Nexus Player's biggest problem is «too little, too late.»