Sentences with phrase «more trite»

What I am slamming the film for is because it has a terribly contrived premise, a lumbering execution, and doesn't really know where to go with any of it once the big joke of two reluctant straight men forced to be gay is introduced, except to pull more trite jokes out of their rear ends.

The enjoyable thing about Insurgent was that the action was urgent and inventive, but the set pieces here feel more trite and way less entertaining.

In addition to Boe, Brandon Flynn (as Justin Foley) and Miles Heizer (as Alex Standall) are season highlights who elevate material that would feel far more trite without their strong performances.

With such a talented writer on board, Parenthood deserves a few more episodes to iron out some of its more trite, movie - of - the - week storylines, allowing its multifaceted characters, and all their routine tribulations, to organically manifest as life consequently unravels.

Sad to say, they seem more trite than true in the hands of director Mimi Leder, making her big - screen debut after years of «ER» and other TV shows.

I can not think of a more trite, inappropriate response to that question than, «Tell me who you're sleeping with.»

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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.

And, as trite as it seems, we really do prefer quality over quantity — especially when you're asking us to commit our scarce time and — even more importantly — our attention to your offerings.

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?

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.

If you want to post your feelings on prayer or any other subject please feel free, I just feel that posting this trite redundant phrase every single day does much more harm than good.

We're all getting to an age around 30 or more, and the club life is so fleeting, trite... and pretty fun, but if that's your main course you won't be satisfied.»

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.

Avoid filling your CV with these trite words, says Lindsey Pollak, author of Getting from College to Career (HarperCollins, 2007), as they can make your CV «appear empty to a potential employer and may do more harm than good».

«A team environment — it almost sounds trite, because you hear it more and more in business,» says Pennock of Kelly Services, «but it's even more important in the science world as scientific disciplines are starting to cross.»

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.

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.

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

Not that I needed more talk in this movie, which lurches from one trite catchphrase to another: «I got this,» «This is what it's all about» and (this one's a double - decker) «We can go» round and» round on this all night long, but it's not gonna happen.»

Despite its dour atmospherics and some attempts at higher - caliber acting from Kevin Bacon and a large ensemble cast, The Following is a trite, gratuitously violent exercise in still more stylishly imagined American horror stories.

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.

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

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.

It does not matter if they are comedy or drama, the star - crossed lovers and cloying romanticism comes across more as trite than warm.

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.

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.

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

The notion of a more meaningful theme in the movie also falls apart in the end with The Crazies ultimately falling back on a trite finale and half - baked conclusion.

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 few moments with Trunkman's wife and kids are exhaustingly trite and, more than that, complete filler in an already overlong 90 - minute movie.

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

Cheesy enough to make even Chester Cheetah gag, The Last Legion takes historical novelist Valerio Massimo Manfredi's novel and crafts an even more juvenile adventure tale out of it, with about as much adherence to historical accuracy and realism as Stephen Sommers» The Mummy, except that this film lacks the wink - wink sense of humor required to accept such trite shenanigans.

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).

It's hard to watch this because we as an audience know that the actors involved are capable of so much more than this trite script.

So I hereby coin Carey's Law, which holds that trite observations are more likely to be regarded as sacred principles if someone happens to describe them as laws.

New technologies have allowed designers to get more creative with a car's styling, and no one wants to look boring and trite compared to rivals.

It is vastly banal and trivial, and yet all the more poignant for it; reading Knausgaard reminds me of seeing song lyrics on a page — they tend to seem terrifically underwhelming and trite, but some special magic happens when they are put to music.

It sounds trite, but I honestly feel that if even one woman present last Sunday was motivated to take on a new challenge, or overcome an old one, then I've done more than just stand up and talk.

This kind of stuff may feel trite to you, but it can be very exciting for readers to find out more about your humble origins.

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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.

I wish the campaign could've been better, as the first few episodes really showed promise in delivering an edgy, gripping tale of cops and drug dealers, but instead the story becomes nothing more than predictable and trite.

In the group show of gallery artists on view at Edward Thorp, Katherine Bradford's paintings prove that ships and the sea are not necessarily the trite, shopworn... read more... «Katherine Bradford at Edward Thorp»

Conversely, when water becomes more dense, it will descend until it stops — I know it sounds trite, but that's how it is.

Lindzen has published a couple of hundred papers in climatology, so I think we can assume he knows that the statement «there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995» means nothing more than «given the variability in the data, we need at least 15 observations to reject the null hypothesis at 95 per cent confidence», a fact so trite as not to be worth mentioning.

INTRODUCTION It is perhaps trite to state that the role of the drafting notary or solicitor is simply not to fill in the blanks and record the testator's instructions, including his or her choice of executor, but instead to actively advise and draw to... Read more

The cumulative effect of paying taxes over decades could be far more burdensome than a single day in prison; but is trite that when the government levies a tax, it does not «deprive» an individual of his or her liberty (even allowing for some flexibility in interpreting that term).

It is trite to say, but people who are pleasant to be around and have great personalities are more likely to receive help when they need it, they are more likely to develop strong relationships with co-workers, clients and fellow professionals, they are more likely to gain the trust from the business team and also the respect from the counsel on the other side of the file.

It is trite to say that the short timelines within the RDP make it more difficult for claimants to effectively respond and participate in the RDP and therefore more difficult for them to obtain a just result: OURAP, Troubling Signs at 62 to 64.

The need to prove every trite and accepted fact as evidence would make litigation even more unwieldy than it already is.