| It can rightly, if tritely, be called a hinge-event in human history. |
| The text-books tell us tritely that the goose lives to be a hundred years. |
| Coldly, tritely, he sets down the bald, bare facts of the tragedies that wrecked the Hyndses. |
| Studying of Nigeria by tritely fast steps since time of joining of the country to England in 1899 and arrivals here in 1900 of the Supreme commissioner of Northern Nigeria of F. Lugarda. |
| At every step he had instructed her, not tritely as a Mr. Barlow, but he had been Barlowish, and that was bad. |
| In the opening scene Jacques's maxims started the play tritely, but the final one has the ring of protest poetry once his decision is made. |
