| The intense sense of meaning of this moment clashes violently with the triteness of the form into which I have packed it. |
| They have warded off the triteness of money making. |
| Burns' dialogue has a natural, unforced rhythm that contains a fair number of wry one-liners that compensate for occasional bouts of triteness and pretentiousness. |
| The show doesn't get much deeper than that, whether about grief or friendship, though its triteness is nothing if not sincere. |
| And somehow the triteness of the phrase from mother is ridiculously pleasing to me. |
| But the singers' interaction with one another introduced just enough playfulness to the proceedings to dispel the threat of triteness. |
