Sentences with phrase «with trite»

Though I'm surely just flogging a dead horse with this trite observation that social media is everywhere, «Twitter» as a keyword occurred 70 times between June 2007 and January 2014 in Quicklaw results, but in the last 13 months alone it occurred in 40 cases.

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.

Combining desolate landscapes with trite romantic phrases taken from popular movies, Roland Barthes» poetry, or other contemporary media made out of neon lights, Korean artist Jung Lee establishes herself as one of the prominent voices on contemporary scene.

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.

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.

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.

Curtis also has a knack of colliding the poignant with the trite.

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».

That view was simply swept aside with the trite «simply returning to the old local education authorities was not an option».

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.»

Not exact matches

But instead I get trite aphorisms («If you want to make the gold, you have to think golden») and unsupported generalizations passed off as business wisdom with the help of a few props (a hunting knife, a gerbil's exercise wheel) and the occasional bit of audience participation.

Just read those accounts and come back with the same trite disclaimers as you used here — IF you can.

He sits with me in my grief without offering either trite words or rebounding my pain with righteous anger.

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

I happen to agree with Maher that Christians have terrible answers to these sort of moral issues in Scripture, and it is past time we decide to have a better answer than the traditional trite explanations and pat answers of the past.

Amanda, with her constantly tear stained face, never tried to make her precious child a trite example of some bigger lesson.

Frankly, the argument over women versus men serving as priests is trite, silly and nothing to do with a belief in God.

It may seem somewhat trite to invoke the freedom of creation as part of the works and ends of divine love, or to argue that the highest good of the creature — divinizing union with God in love — requires a realm of «secondary causality» in which the rational wills of God's creatures are at liberty; nonetheless, whether the traditional explanations of how sin and death have been set loose in the world satisfy one or not, they certainly render the claim that an omnipotent and good God would never allow unjust suffering simply vacuous.

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.

Reading NT Wright will make my night seem quite alright if I do nt allow myself to get uptight with any of his liberal trite!

That sounds a bit trite but, on Sunday night, as I tried to grapple with the enormity of what happened in Libya, Bill Murray singing «The theme song from Jaws» helped, in a small way.

You even managed to throw in another one with the whole «religion causes all our wars, wah wah wahhhhh,» Do you know how trite and inaccurate that statement is?

As Novak wrestles with the complexity involved even in defining social justice, evangelical leaders think they can handle the big issues of the day in a way that helps the church in trite servings of 140 characters or less.

Trite phrases with nothing to support what you say, unlike my posts which always give reasons.

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.»

Is it trite to suggest that you open a new tab with the Benny Hill theme in the background?

It's trite in the face of personal tragedy, but Isaiah bonded with the city of Boston in a deep and meaningful way.

The incidences that unfolded are trite when picked apart, but the miracle of it all is the way life swells with hope, mystery and magic.

Is it not trite, argues the Presidency, that any law inconsistent with the Constitution is void, to the extent of that inconsistency?

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.

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

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.

And please avoid anything to do with eye - color, being «sweet» or any of the other trite and boring names or headlines you see over and over.

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.

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.

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

This film is desperately deep in its trite fluff, but with its hint of indie flavor, it does try a bit, at least in the technical department, with Alexander Gruszynski delivering on a few pretty points in cinematography, while Michael Penn hits some charmingly perky licks in his score.

«Back in the Day» is a raunchy, nostalgic, coming - of - middle - age, high school reunion romp, and while that trope is trite, Rosenbaum brings some smart surprises to the lewd / scatological genre: the rude - nude - dude bouncing along in the pick - up truck and the slo - mo close - up of his giblets; the hiding in the shower dual vomiting scene, and my favorite, the homage to Hitchcock's «Psycho» shower scene with the illusory flash cuts and colored water going down the drain.

I wanted this to be a better game I really did but was left feeling it can sit on the shelf with the other trite titles out there.

Lucas Till is both relatable, enjoyable and funny as the lead, his chemistry with George Eads is smart assed and funny and the rest of the supporting cast adds to the story without turning trite or flat.

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.

While elements seem trite and I worried about the «message» being lost in the realm of «I get it» with adults being the audience it doesn't detract from how well put together this movie is.

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.

While the «rich white kid with a narcissistic father who sees them as a nuisance» trope is dreadfully trite stuff (have we forgotten «Crazy / Beautiful ``?)

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.

The series delivers trite material with inexplicable confidence, as if the writers were the first ones to recognize Trump's love of Diet Coke and Fox & Friends.

In spite of the rather trite title and a hazy poster image that resembles a harlequin romance cover, In Secret imbues Zola's dark tale of love, lust, and murder in the lower echelons of Paris with modern - day appeal in large part thanks to its stellar principal cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Jessica Lange, and Oscar Isaac.

Even the outcome of the picture's release is bound to be trite: It'll make decent bank in a neck - and - neck race with Rango's second weekend, someone on TV TROPES will dedicate a few paragraphs to its numerous clichés, and then it will never be spoken of again.

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.

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.