triteness

In Beethoven's Op.11 the adagio is less soul-searching than salon-friendly but the trio's sensitive playing avoided triteness.

He provides another perspective on the triteness of trauma as the breaking part of the narrative in film.

The scenes often move seamlessly between real happenings and Hayden's hyperbolic imagination to create a multidimensional tale that is bursting with symbolism, metaphor and life, but which is also totally lacking any of the predictability or triteness that can sometimes be found in "inspirational" cancer survivor stories.

At a time when almost every aspect of life seems to be audited by contemporary artists before being transformed--with varying degrees of success--into art, few recent artworks have been able to engage with sport without succumbing to triteness. One exception is Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2005-06), the film by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno in which 17 cameras stalk the footballer Zinedine Zidane for the full 90 minutes of a game; this is a work of great sympathy for the intensity of professional sport, which recognises and relays both the extreme physical demands on an elite sportsman's body and the pressure on performing under continuous scrutiny.

(61) On the "triteness" of these comparisons, see Bywaters, "Gulliver's Travels," 719.

I am struck by the triteness of my observation, by how often one reads or hears some version of the importance of communication, by the need I feel to make that observation at all.

A more cynical view of the text will not be able to ignore the triteness to a lot of what the nineteen-year-old has to say, but it is well-meaning and harmless advice that reflects McAllister's every-girl brand.

Literary critic Sarah Pogell has pointed out that Saunders' reverent treatment of human conflict and emotion could easily garner him accusations of maudlin triteness (2011: 475).

Does the fact that it was stolen reverse its triteness?

Interweaving two love stories set in Prague, one in the '40s and one in the present, "Somewhere Only We Know" drowns in the unbearable triteness of cinematic tourism, while indulging the latest fad for boy bands and foreign dates among mainland Chinese women.

This novel has many of the aspects of banality, but it is anything but triteness. In fact, it bristles with originality.

Observe that whenever he ventures to speak of spiritual (i.e., intellectual) values--of the things he personally loves or admires--one is shocked by the triteness, the vulgarity, the borrowed trashiness of what comes out of him....

"The road to realism--that rock on which a million British poets have perished," he writes in his marvellous Douglas Dunn essay, "is paved with triteness, tedium, bathos and banality." His facility for the well-turned phrase, the epigrammatic and wittily incisive, has always enlivened his prose.