| 单词 | triteness |
| 例句 | The secret is poised somewhere between triteness and disarming simplicity. ‘In Front of Your Face’ Review: Clumsy Interactions, Pensive Revelations 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z 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. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Ms. O’Donnell avoids triteness in this story of lost innocence, favoring candor and dark humor in the aftermath of violence. ‘The Stories of Jane Gardam,’ and More 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Without Lee’s complicity in the triteness of his story — and Mr. Elliott’s ability to sell it as a melancholy burden — this low-key feature by Brett Haley wouldn’t be half as pleasurable. Review: For an Aging Actor, Another Chance to Be ‘The Hero’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z This horror film contains about five minutes’ worth of inspired discomfort on the one hand and a lot of workmanlike triteness on the other. Movie Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The movie’s human element ultimately serves up not much more than triteness. ‘Chasing Wonders’ Review: Divining Secrets of a Past Vintage 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Yet, against all odds and despite the dramatic triteness that afflicts “Christine,” Campos nonetheless provides one good reason, and it’s one that leaps out from the confines of his drama to leave an enduring mark. Why Dramatize an On-Air Suicide? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Calatrava, using the greeting card triteness that has infected many in this project, said his roof would be like a dove released from the hands of a child. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z Also, I was weary of what seemed like a triteness in van Gogh’s biography, the tortured-genius-who-never-sold-a-painting-in-his-life. Touring Europe in the Footsteps of van Gogh 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z In this day and age, under our current political conditions, you’d be forgiven for mistaking lightness for triteness, escape for escapism. Jeff Vandermeer on the delicious satire of 'Sourdough' by Robin Sloan 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z “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. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Simple as Water’ and the American Music Awards 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Her songs rely on the force of her personality, and on the style of her storytelling, for lack of a better word, which can be so plain-spoken as to verge on triteness. Gerald Albright and Karen Mantler Release Albums 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z But really its kind of triteness demeans any repertory; and it’s certainly no way to introduce unfamiliar dancers. Dance Review: A Danish Modern Twist Updates Classical Ballet 2011-06-15T22:03:19Z “The Way, Way Back” has the charm of timelessness but also more than a touch of triteness. Movie Review: ‘The Way, Way Back,’ From Nat Faxon and Jim Rash 2013-07-04T12:00:44Z It's a testament to the stars that they manage to sell the third act sentimentality after wading through so much screenplay triteness and unimaginative direction. 'Cas & Dylan' is terminal despite great practitioners of acting 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The treacle trap was especially hard to avoid considering that “Matilda” and “Groundhog Day” deal with children and redemption — subjects that have been known to trigger maudlin triteness. Tim Minchin Puts Emotion on Broadway. Just Don’t Call Him Sentimental. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z I will defend the escapism of “The Nutcracker,” but I cringe at the sensationalism, the triteness and the ham that characterize the majority of story ballets, works like “Don Quixote,” “Le Corsaire” and “La Bayadère.” Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z Though the show is structured according to such reality television triteness, my devotion to it is energized by how unexpectedly it can turn narratives about personal growth and artistic expression on their heads. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z They were part of Pavement's totally '90s ethos, where triteness is guarded against with artistic slop. Sasquatch! 2010 day two notables: Luke Burbank, The xx, Pavement 2010-05-31T19:31:00Z There are versions for neoliberals, YIMBYs, conservatives, conspiracists, fans of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and people irked by the triteness of the original sign. ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Or can a person sometimes just articulate their own triteness? How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti - review 2013-01-11T08:00:10Z With music that hints of Copland, Mr. Huang tries to rescue the trope of the affirming American anthem from triteness. A Soldier’s Racially Charged Suicide Becomes a Powerful Opera 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z More Japanese touches — origami birds, a paper parasol for the Madwoman — risk triteness but keep blossoming into beauty. Review: Mark Morris Shows the Gift of Intricate Simplicity 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Together, the vinegary Houdyshell and the earthy Williams are able to stave off some of the triteness surrounding their romantic linkup. Slight ‘Shoplifters’ alights at Arena Stage 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. The Best Part of “The Deuce” Is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Emerging Auteur 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Fused incongruously together, the figurines retain their essential triteness, yet are also a bit creepy. In the galleries: Four artists’ views of nature, at McLean Project for the Arts 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. Watching This Movie Taught Me It Was OK to Fail 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Cut to, “Family and friends!” or, “My successful polyp-removal surgery!” or some such triteness. Yay! You’re hosting Thanksgiving! What could go wrong? Other than EVERYTHING. 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z But universality is a thin line that separates the obvious from the enlightening; things that everyone feels risk triteness when turned into art. HBO drama 'Here and Now' 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The triteness of the setup — a conference, a hotel — made me reflexively defensive; I was sparing my husband what would have been a wholly needless pang of jealousy or discomfort. Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z One answer to this problem is simply to surrender to the triteness of the phrase. I love you, I love you, I love you … why we can’t stop using those three little words 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z In an environment still dominated by the past, an exhortation for the traditional personal aspect of leadership would probably have appeared as a centuries-old triteness. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z In the actual maxims which he lays down, in his apparent belief in the efficacy of addressing philosophical texts to the mind, he exemplifies the triteness and limitation of all Roman thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Death, that is always so bitter a commonplace, has here become a glaring triteness. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The idle triteness in those inevitable scenes of spring, was manifest to some of the poets themselves. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Apart from its triteness and emptiness, the paragraph above is weak because of the structure of its sentences, with their mechanical symmetry and sing-song. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z Stephens indicating that he was not quite satisfied, Keats thought again and came out with the amended line, now familiar and proverbial even to triteness, ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z To retrace these stages is easy; some of them are only too familiar; yet the very triteness of the subject may blind us to the grandeur and audacity of the intellectual feat involved. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Never before had she felt his triteness so plainly as in this moment when her agony tore down, with its tyrannical ruthlessness, all her carefully piled-up deceptions. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z The will to be clear often forces the poet to a triteness of wording; the terseness necessitates frequent repetition; the impulse to build up an organic ecstasy often leads to excessive length. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Don Luis Perenna had begun to read in emphatic tones, bringing out the imbecility of the words and the triteness of the rhythm. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z The triteness of the idea was not elevated by his “actors’ ” execution. Welcome to the 142nd Belmont Stakes 2010-06-05T21:53:00Z But the wording, and, in the two latter cases, the treatment, is different, and the general similarity is less than might he expected from the triteness of the theme. Erthe Upon Erthe Still, some of them are so imaginative and quaint that they should be rescued from triteness and made classic. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Instead of indulging in these trite reflections—to be excused only by the equal triteness of death, which tends to evoke them—I should have done well to consider my own position. The Great Miss Driver He objects only to the triteness of such a tale as this.—Bowles. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition It is that intuition in a star man which forbids his beginning the same kind of story day after day with a fixed, hackneyed type of sentence, which makes him avoid triteness of expression. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The imagery is refined, and the polish of the whole amply justifies the inevitable triteness of the theme. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 He grimaced at the triteness of the words, at the same time realizing that a basic truth lurked there. Deathworld Stories of towns rising overnight wherever gold is found, or diamonds discovered, or oil struck, have become common to the point of triteness. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan After contending that the triteness of the Pastorals was inevitable, Roscoe puts forth a second defence to save the precocity of their author. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Mrs. Weaver made this latter announcement with an air of triumph in its triteness. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories "A Story", by David H. Whittier, possesses a tragical plot whose interest is slightly marred by triteness and improbable situations. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The western sky gave prophecy of a cloudless sunset, and Friedrich wished that his own path towards oblivion were as free and clear, and smiled faintly at the triteness of his comparison. A Tar-Heel Baron His phrases were French, but they had all the weary triteness of these; while Marguerite rejoiced that he did not suspect the real ailment, and Zoséphine saw that he divined it perfectly. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana But it must never be forgotten, that art should be complex only to avoid the greater evils of inadequacy and triteness. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions "She is as good as she is beautiful," he said; then, as the triteness and significance of the words struck him, he laughed slightly. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden The editorials are certainly not lacking in force, and seem well calculated to stir the average amateur from his torpor of triteness and inanity. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 "Open it, dear, and you will see," replies Letitia, who is merely curious, and would not be accused of triteness for the world. Molly Bawn The triteness of his moral climax is occasionally startling. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron You don't come it over me with the triteness of these round numbers. Fantasia of the Unconscious And somehow the triteness of the phrase from mother is ridiculously pleasing to me. The Fifth Wheel A Novel There is a trifling suspicion of triteness and banality in plot and dialogue; which is, however, compensated for in the artistic passages so frequently encountered. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Omitting other ethnographic facts relative to the Eskimo, which might be treated in a systematic way except for their triteness, we pass from the means of the renewal of the animal economy to its reproduction. The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants Her pertness, which had seemed fairly clever the previous night, would probably descend to triteness in the morning; he could even see her endeavouring to keep up the same exchange of short sentences. The Parts Men Play The meagerness and triteness of the music and piece astonished me. Records of a Girlhood And to both observations Jack would agree without any scorn of the triteness. The Lookout Man "Like Milton's Satan, isn't it?" was his comment as they walked on, "with apologies for the triteness of the quotation." The Brimming Cup The very triteness of their theme gives them their interest. Frank Reynolds, R.I. For he has accomplished the difficult and perilous feat of writing frankly without obviousness, simply without triteness. Edward MacDowell This is a truism almost to triteness, and yet how few fully realize it. Quit Your Worrying! I have been thinking sometimes, likewise, of a paper on Napoleon, a man whom, though handled to the extreme of triteness, it will be long years before we understand. Studies in Literature There was a certain triteness in these reflections: they were those habitual to young men on the approach of their wedding day. The Age of Innocence But Juvenal makes us forget the triteness of the theme by his extraordinary gift of style. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Dr. Johnson's pungent remark to the effect that Dryden has never been equalled in the hyperbole of flattery except by Aphara Behn in her address to Nell Gwynne is quoted to triteness. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II In an evil moment he said, without being conscious of the triteness of his remark: "Do you not think, sir, that Milton was a great genius?" Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. And, when he is driven back on one of the regular, guaranteed rhymes, he is taunted with triteness of phrase. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories The faults of Thomson are triteness of thought when he becomes argumentative and a prevalent pomposity and pedantry of diction; though his later work, "The Castle of Indolence," is surprisingly free from these blemishes. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities After all, youthful triteness and enthusiasm were preferable to indifference. A Fountain Sealed You complain of the triteness of such appeals as this sermon. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV This one might, were such triteness permissible, have been most succinctly characterized by a well-known description of war. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond If there be a cavil it is that the topics of religious consolation, however beautiful, are repeated till a sort of triteness attends them. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 Its mention has already passed into triteness in verse, so inevitably have poets felt the sacred charm of the hour. Bits about Home Matters If there was sometimes a triteness in her pronouncements, a lack of humor, of spontaneity, in her enthusiasms, surely no one who loved her could recognize them with any but the tenderest of smiles. A Fountain Sealed What I say here being merely truism, triteness and commonplace. Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others His only reference to either example or allegory is in a passage where he recommends methods of avoiding triteness in the praise of his mistress. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism If there be a cavil, it is that the topics of religious consolation, however beautiful, are repeated till a sort of triteness attends them. The Best Letters of Charles Lamb To enumerate instances would be to inflict good folks with triteness and truism. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Such triteness was beautiful when it expressed such reality. A Fountain Sealed With sundry other such remarks, so uttered that their triteness seemed to become the maturity of wisdom, Leander brought the colloquy to an end. Veranilda It is not thought by which that excels, but the convincing force of imagination which sublimates its very triteness. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays It was written on greenish tinted fancy note-paper, and with all and more than Nettie's usual triteness and inadequacy of expression. In the Days of the Comet These had the colourless triteness of a story retold a hundred times. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments In the numberless odes, sonnets, and acrostics addressed to her by a hundred Pandits and poets her charms were sung with prodigious triteness. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance Every trick of expression, from the mysterious conciseness of an oracle to the flippancy of a Parisian coxcomb, is employed to disguise the fallacy of some positions, and the triteness of others. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 This is a thought common to the degree of triteness among moralists and theologians; but as they present it, it fails to move us. An Iceland Fisherman The sculptor could not but smile at the triteness of the remark, which, nevertheless, had a kind of originality as coming from Donatello. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni Its language is made up of hyperbolical commonplaces,—offensive from their triteness,—still more offensive from their extravagance. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 His style of paying compliments, charming to superficial people, seemed insulting to others of more delicacy, by its triteness and the cool assurance of its cut-and-dried flattery. Modeste Mignon "People that like the same things always get along best together," she answered, with a triteness that concealed the joy that was hers at being so spontaneously in touch with him. The Valley of the Moon |
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