Hoyle calls this story "trite" and "cliched", however. At the other end is William Kinderman's contempt ("banal", "trite", "a beer hall waltz"). Other kinds of trite expressions are "platitude" and "bromide". Ken Rudolph recognized that the actors were splendid, but the film seemed trite, and pretentious. Gamasutra's Christopher Buecheler, the "Resident Cynic", found Kreia's comments "a bit trite and condescending". Mukhram Sharma's screenplay is old-fashioned, trite and incoherent. Trite lyrics are made even more limp by droning vocal work. Nandini Ramath of Scroll.in labelled "Thugs of Hindostan" a "trite, uninvolving" film. And "Love Jones"'s dialogue is rarely trite. Coursen agrees that, in this version, the battle and Richard's end are trite and underwhelming. That's kind of trite; I don't mean it quite like that. Mariyadhai is full of stock situations and trite dialogues but can satisfy Vijayakanth's fans. Moreover, you know what is so often said and passes for a trite expression. Facebook posts sharing trite motivational messages. Medieval scholars judged Gibbs' hypothesis to be trite.