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Example sentences for: trite

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The actors are unable to compensate for one-dimensional characters, trite dialogue, and an overabundance of explosions.
The book's plot (about a man's anonymous love letters to his girlfriend) is said to be trite, and the ending is called a cop out.
In the New Republic , James Wood calls Toni Morrison's Paradise trite and sentimental: "It forces magic and pure rhapsodies on its characters like a demented anesthetist bullying patients with laughing gas."
Genuine immigration abuses are the backdrop for the schlocky murder mystery, Border Line (Monday, NBC, 9 p.m.), which marks the return to television of Sherry Stringfield (formerly of ER ). But the single-mom-in-peril subplot is so trite it's a wonder she can stay awake, never mind the viewer.
His opponent, on the third hand, might speak disparagingly of proposed reforms that he regards as trite yet dangerous: old worms in new cans .