The trite saying, that the world judges of men by success or failure, was fully illustrated in his case.
One after another, these trite little sayings would come up in his thoughts, unbidden, as if to add to his mental disquietude.
As the twig is bent, the tree's inclined,' is a trite saying that aptly illustrates the subject about which we are now conversing.
Thus his language never became trite and hackneyed, and, as we read him, no medium of after-associations is interposed between his mind and our own.
What is true has a way of sounding trite; and what is trite has a way of sounding false.
The truth is trite enough, of course; it is in the single word Slavery, which is not the name of a crime like Simony, but rather of a scheme like Socialism.
Every commonplace or triteobservation is not a truism.
I do not advert to the trite instances of unfair and malignant reviewing, though that is not nothing--but to the mortifications they may expect from their friends and common acquaintance.
With the utterance of this trite and, possibly, admirable observation the man strolled off, with his hands in his pockets.
To say that at sight of me the colour of his countenance was that of a boiled beetroot is to use a trite and coarse comparison.
Can any experience be more trite than that feelings and hearts are also bad, evil, godless, mean, &c.
In a few years the way from the silly trite practical joke to Hamlet and Peer Gynt was covered with such thoroughness that the possibility of giving a photographic rendering of any thinkable theater performance was proven for all time.
In Edison's small box into which only one at a time could peep through the hole, nothing but a few trite scenes were exhibited.
Our Creator did not make love of country a trite virtue, but a passion, and set it in our bodies along with our other passions.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
But into the heroine, Fanny Millinger threw a grace, a sweetness, a simple, yet dignified spirit of trite love that at once charmed and astonished all present.
He was no servile and trite imitator; his very faults were solemn and commanding.
Under this lovely water color is the same picture reproduced in black and white, beneath which some crude hand has written in English the trite phrase, "Not lost, but gone before.
The plots of the pictures were as trite and as rancid as spoiled meat, but they suited the market.
And there is no sillier lie, as there is no commoner lie, than the trite old fallacy of the popular novels, sermons, editorials, and other works of fiction that women succeed by selling their bodies.
The highest praise which can be bestowed on an author of original thought, is to say, that his ideas were unknown to the authors who preceded, trite with those who followed him.
Francesco impatiently asks to be spared the old trite reflections of the philosophers.
In this way the trite idea of our mortality may become vivid and life-giving.
Four or five pages of somewhat trite reflections are here omitted, as they cast no real light upon the writer's attitude toward religion.
Line 18 as a whole gives us a vivid sense of the justice's readiness to speak sapiently, after the manner of justices, and to trot out his trite illustrations on the slightest provocation.
Reduce any dramatic masterpiece to simple statement of its plot and the story will seem so trite as hardly to be worth dramatization.
Palmer produced The Parisian Romance, a play so trite in subject and treatment that, as written, it might easily have failed.
Among the tritemaxims a dramatist should remember, however, is: "Truth is often stranger than fiction.
And it seemed to him that a flame passed through him, shriveling in its ardent wrath all trite reticences and decorums.
I trust you will not think me trite if I say, God bless you," murmured dad.
I won't think you trite at all," said Gwendoline Gerald, approaching nearer to dad.
If I read the latest book, There's the mossy situation; One may confidently look For the trite triangulation.
What deep delight from sources trite inventive humour coaxes, That pain and trouble brew For every one but you!
FOR I AM SAD No usual words can bear the woe I feel, No tralatitions trite give me relief!
The real regret in her tone made him quote a trite saying about beauty unadorned.
