If he closely imitates the narratives which he has before rendered successful, he is doomed to ``wonder that they please no more.'' If he struggles to take a different view of the same class of subjects, he speedily discovers that what is obvious, graceful, and natural, has been exhausted; and, in order to obtain the indispensable charm of novelty, he is forced upon caricature, and, to avoid being
trite, must become extravagant.
You open a book and try to read, but you find Shakespeare
trite and commonplace, Dickens is dull and prosy, Thackeray a bore, and Carlyle too sentimental.
For it is an observation, as true as it is
trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money.
To a people of this nature the Homeric epos would be inacceptable, and the post-Homeric epic, with its conventional atmosphere, its
trite and hackneyed diction, and its insincere sentiment, would be anathema.
'Tis a maxim tremendous, but
trite: And you'd best be unpacking the things that you need To rig yourselves out for the fight."
"I found her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, is rather a
trite one.
Pickwick's objection to walking to the magistrate's, by the
trite expedient of carrying him thither, it was recollected that there stood in the inn yard, an old sedan-chair, which, having been originally built for a gouty gentleman with funded property, would hold Mr.
Also, if he thinks it incumbent upon him to be fanciful, original, and out of the way, his fancy always assumes a foolish, unnatural vein, for the reason that it is compounded of
trite, hackneyed forms.
The 'Birmingham Family' statue is
trite by comparison.
It may sound
trite, but he died doing the thing he loved.
'It is
trite law that land reclamation does not extend a state's base points and/or baselines,' he said, after chairing the inaugural meeting of National Aviation Council here today.
Haroon Sharif must steer BOI away from
trite and banal presentations made by BOI staff that, more often than not, fall flat.
? Incidentally In regard to Ed Balls' decision to do Strictly, I hereby announce that when commenting on this series, I shall not resort to ludicrous wordplays and
trite innuendo by referring to him as glitter Balls, shiny Balls or jiggly Balls.
Biggins said had apologised to Katie personally for his "
trite, ridiculous remark".
JUST AS Eat Bulaga's AlDub phenomenon was getting to feel like a
trite, tired and excessively stretched-out tale, last Nov.
