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"There were faults on both sides," she said at last, a little tritely after so much thought.

If these attributes are tritely executed, we end up with something like New Age music.

It is a small world, Scott thought tritely.

I remarked casually and tritely that it took a good deal of moral courage to give them up.

One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to "try," but to do.

For once, I thought before speaking, and so was able to refrain from remarking tritely that it took two to make a marriage.

The image of a lonely woman is shot down when she turns, tritely, into a harridan, her foot on a man's chest.

"As I told you before, there's more than one way to kill a cat," he asserted tritely but never the less impressively.

Ms. Chen tritely touches on ambivalence toward assimilation and the problem of identity.

What is referred to tritely as "the all-important loss column" indeed has become important for the Yankees.

"You'd better," he advised her tritely, "let sleeping dogs lie."

"I hope this finally quells your constant quest for what you so tritely call closure.

Some trite-but-true thing was being tritely but truthfully expressed.

'Fine,' Luce replied tritely and without a great deal of truth.

Without it, I might have tritely "thrown" a party, instead of correctly "given" it.

Not the tritely naturalistic, but the true heart."

If young girls marry young men, they never grow or learn except tritely, for both are equally green."

"I meant not to cause thee distress," Fleta said con- tritely.

Although the generalizations Jack draws about the prostitutes he meets may be correct, they have a tritely sentimental ring.

"To the observer," she murmured tritely, "life is a never-ending round of surprises.

I rarely offer pledges, because I would redeem one, tritely, with my life."

He answered them all politely, if mostly tritely, using the phrase "focusing on the cricket" as a default position.

The questions raised may have been interesting, but the answers given were tritely familiar; the authorial tone was relentlessly baleful.

"I neglect her shockingly," Lessa said, as if con- tritely.

All it proves here, tritely and sketchily, is that it doesn't mean a therapeutic thing when the family dances together.