Another thing to avoid is triteness.

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If there be a cavil, it is that the topics of religious consolation, however beautiful, are repeated till a sort of triteness attends them.

His only reference to either example or allegory is in a passage where he recommends methods of avoiding triteness in the praise of his mistress.

What I say here being merely truism, triteness and commonplace.

Its mention has already passed into triteness in verse, so inevitably have poets felt the sacred charm of the hour.

He was disgusted with the triteness of this remark, but he could think of nothing else.

If there be a cavil it is that the topics of religious consolation, however beautiful, are repeated till a sort of triteness attends them.

With but one affection not poisoned by a sense of obligation and condescension, and that a sentiment in which her intellect had little share, a gentle, protective, household love, which quickened no daring fancy, inspired no dream of freedom or power, Zelma's mind was driven in upon itself, and out of the seclusion and triteness of her life fashioned a fairy world of romance and beauty.

We must say, that there is very considerable pathos in the telling of this simple story; and that they who can get over the repugnance excited by the triteness of its incidents, and the lowness of its objects, will not fail to be struck with the author's knowledge of the human heart, and the power he possesses of stirring up its deepest and gentlest sympathies.

No reader will need to be told who among Mr. Napier's correspondents is the writer of the following: "I have been thinking sometimes, likewise, of a paper on Napoleon, a man whom, though handled to the extreme of triteness, it will be long years before we understand.

Triteness and Truth appear to be sisters!

Europe has reached an exceeding pass of civilization, it may not be denied; but before society inflicts so severe censure on the acts of individuals, notwithstanding the triteness of the opinion, I must say it is bound to look more closely to the example it sets, in its collective character.