triteness

Even the most obvious triteness is acceptable, provided it comes with a postmodern wink.

A Reader's Manifesto 2001

Even the most obvious triteness is acceptable, provided it comes with a postmodern wink.

A Reader's Manifesto 2001

One convention of the superhero movie I wholeheartedly approve, for all its triteness, is the dramatic confrontation between the hero and his nemesis, the former turning the tide just as it looks like he’s beat and all that.

They Can Be a Great People, Kal-El 2006

"Do you think," said she to Godolphin, who stood beside her, "that there lives any one who could behold these countless monuments of eternal glory, and not sigh to recall the triteness, or rather burn to rise from the level, of our ordinary life?"

Godolphin, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Do you think," said she to Godolphin, who stood beside her, that there lives any one who could behold these countless monuments of eternal glory, and not sigh to recall the triteness, or rather burn to rise from the level, of our ordinary life? "

Godolphin, Volume 4. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

That said, the triteness of the revelations does not make the outrage they've triggered any less real.

Corruption on Singh's Watch Sadanand Dhume 2011

There's one sex scene which possibly stumbles over the boundary between satire and triteness, but this is a small misstep in an otherwise admirable undertaking.

Give & Take L. Lee Lowe 2009

There's one sex scene which possibly stumbles over the boundary between satire and triteness, but this is a small misstep in an otherwise admirable undertaking.

Archive 2009-01-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009

*** Bill Rauch, Oregon Shakespeare's artistic director, is equally enamored of high-concept productions, and no less adept than Ms. Dehnert at charging his concepts with theatrical life—though on paper they sometimes seem obvious to the point of triteness.

The Glorious Tragedy of Julia Caesar Terry Teachout 2011

Even the prose, translated from the Danish into a sturdily plainspoken English by Charlotte Barslund and Emma Ryder, veers to triteness.

Going to Sea Once More Sam Sacks 2011