Indeed, Putinism now seems like a trite parody of all of them.

This point is almost trite, but it remains virtually unnoticed by last ditch defenders of the Bush administration s foreign policy.

I was informed by this kind of unoriginal and trite idea that new technologies were an opportunity for social transformation, which is what drove me then, and still, it's a delusion that drives me now.

I mean, it's kind of a trite thing to say, but it is real that they wanted to have a central place where the cafeteria would be, where the people would come and where the people working would interact.