triteness

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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

If the plumes of smoke have a whiff of triteness, it’s dispelled by the show’s fable-like treatment of doubles, and in how it shapes its story to resonate against the imagination of this storyteller.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 28, 2018

But universality is a thin line that separates the obvious from the enlightening; things that everyone feels risk triteness when turned into art.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2018

The editorials are certainly not lacking in force, and seem well calculated to stir the average amateur from his torpor of triteness and inanity.

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