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The “life lessons that our innocent hero learns may sound like the tritest of homilies,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2018

The tritest way is that we get to inhabit other lands, other customs, other personalities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2016

Maybe every writer is doomed to have their tritest sentence become their most-tweeted, but in Joan Didion’s case, it feels particularly unfair that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” has become so ubiquitous.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2015

The tritest of all exercises in voyeuristic celebrity worship, that flimsy fold-up guide to the homes of actors and actresses represents the ultimate divide between the “haves” and “have-nots.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 25, 2015

This is why the tritest utterance about the past, youth, early love, and the like, has always about it an indefinable flavour of poetry, which pleases and affects.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander