trite remark
Example Sentences
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This must be my excuse for beginning with the trite remark that the world we live in is not one which was made for us, but one in which we happened and grew.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
Even the value of this trite remark was spoiled.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
Lees had been no great favorite of late, and it had been the trite remark for a year that he was looking like death; but at this juncture the tidings came ominously enough.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred
It is a trite remark, that even devout men of the present generation prefer temples not made with hands to churches, and worship God in the fields more contentedly than in their pews.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
It is but repeating a trite remark to say that happiness depends more upon organization than upon circumstances, more upon what we are than upon what we have.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
