| Obscurity of expression is merely the cloak in which men seek to hide their poverty of thought and triteness of mind. |
| The descriptions have the triteness of screenplay boilerplate, as if the author expected a movie director to evoke the scenes he sets. |
| He grimaced at the triteness of the words, at the same time realizing that a basic truth lurked there. |
| He was disgusted with the triteness of this remark, but he could think of nothing else. |
| Filled with platitudes and triteness, the speech utterly failed to inject renewed hope at one of the most important stages of the year. |
| The show doesn't get much deeper than that, whether about grief or friendship, though its triteness is nothing if not sincere. |
