triteness

Example Sentences

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The triteness makes us uncertain how much of his impassioned purging is the truth.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

By probing so far into the tortuous difficulties of trying to live honestly, by embracing embarrassment and even, at times, triteness, they offer a strange reassurance.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022

But the conceit quickly gives way to redundancy and triteness, and we’re left trying to shake the image of Stephen Covey wearing a leather tunic with a feather in his cap.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2020

Cut to, “Family and friends!” or, “My successful polyp-removal surgery!” or some such triteness.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2019

The imagery is refined, and the polish of the whole amply justifies the inevitable triteness of the theme.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)