Voorbeelden van trite

• At the risk of sounding overly trite-no method is a panacea; each comes with its own set of advantages and disadvantages.

• It is trite to point out that the processes underlying culture are adaptations and that socially learned information and cultural inheritance may increase reproductive success.

• A second imperative is the avoidance of the cliche, the tired, the trite, the hackneyed.

• But the formulation of principles that capture the workings of this mechanism is anything but trite.

• The task was ducked, with only a couple of trite pages (pp. 164-5) on temptation, fear, contradictions, and cultural assumptions.

• While superficially appearing to be trite formulas, the detail of individual models and their internal dialectic produce endless variety within broadly understood patterns.

• It is little attended to, and yet still so obvious as to seem trite.

• His own beliefs are never spelt out, but he does not disguise his contempt for the trite rationalism of most academic discourse.

• In this respect, the notion of intrinsic value of a simple continuity between inside and outside seems to me trite.

• In doing so, his narrative turns double voiced, contesting its own authority, rendering its own deficient and trite vocabulary on race suspect.

• The act of imagining, however, follows such staid and predictable lines that one is forced to ask where the trite ideas are coming from and what is informing them.

• It's not really worth taking the philosophy too seriously, but if you wanted to accord it the honour, it reveals a trite, reactionary politics of seamless global unity.

• This can be made to sound trite: the way the world looks, feels, sounds, and tastes to us depends on how the world is and how we are.

• I hope that sounds right, even trite.

• This somewhat trite observation nevertheless not only led to a profitable approach to some aspects of seed dormancy, but also to a better insight to viability problems (see later).