tritely

His last pornographic novel, the tritely named Paris Sixty-Nine, evidently took inspiration from the capital and, with mutterings from within Labour of a withdrawal of the whip, Bell may well have even more time to bash out that sequel.60% of British 15-year-olds... ... read for pleasure.

Our pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet 2011

It has really only been going backwards, relying either on splashy effects or psychological conundrums handled so tritely that they barely seem related to 2001 at all.

2001: A Space Odyssey: No 1 Catherine Shoard 2010

Intriguing, but some of it borders on the tritely aphoristic.

August « 2009 « Squares of Wheat 2009

The question is tritely posed: if businessmen from the two countries can trade with each other – the volume of bilateral trade quadrupled over five years – then why can't their politicians?

Britain and Russia: Hotlines and cold words | Editorial 2011

Thus Joy Molineau spoke her mind to Jack Harrington, even as she had spoken it, but more tritely and in his own tongue, to Louis Savoy the previous night.

A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA 2010

To be more concise, if my sentiment was tritely condensed to a bumper sticker, it might look something like this:

An Illustrated Guide : The Lovecraft News Network 2010

Intriguing, but some of it borders on the tritely aphoristic.

Recent acquisitions: poetry « Squares of Wheat 2009

To be more concise, if my sentiment was tritely condensed to a bumper sticker, it might look something like this:

Archive 2010-03-01 2010

But the three sisters at the centre of the action are tritely characterised: one ice-maiden politician, one off-the-rails but right-minded student, and one hypersensitive and pregnant.

Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB 2010

Or, perhaps more accurately (if somewhat tritely), a journey.

…coming out again, and again, and again « Sven’s guide to… 2008