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trite adjective banal, boring, bromidic, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, familiar, hackneyed, known, much used, oft repeated, old, ordinary, overused, platitudinous, prosaic, proverbial, routine, run of the mill, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stock, tedious, threadbare, too familiar, uncreative, unexciting, unimaginative, unoriginal, used, wearisome, well-known, widely known, worn, worn out See also: inexpressive, lifeless, mediocre, mundane, nondescript, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, stale How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| So much theological writing has been intent upon regaining intellectual respectability by rejecting rhetoric in order to be rigorous--or by lapsing into persuasion's tritest forms to reassure itself that it could still move people to tears. No longer trapped in a false world devised by an evil intelligence, our heroes are now trapped in an anthology of war movie cliches; no longer skeptical and alienated, they repeatedly proclaim the tritest sort of faith. |
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