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.
