trite

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

It__ hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi. __he same procedure as every year, James!_ ("Things needing to be changed")

All things die,' she told him. Such a truism, it was the trite utterance of any street-corner philosopher, but coming from Inaspe Raimm it sounded different. 'All things reach the end of their journey, be they trees, insects, people or even principalities. All things die so that others may take their place. To die is no tragedy. The tragedy is dying with a purpose unfulfilled.

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.