triteness

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“These stories avoid triteness by lingering on the daily, unassuming routines of their characters,” Claire Shaffer wrote in her review for The New York Times.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2021

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

The triteness of his moral climax is occasionally startling.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron by Morley, John