How To Use Platitudinous In A Sentence
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Saying ‘there are no easy answers’ is platitudinous waffle.
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The tips are the same type of common sense platitudinous advice that columnists dispense on a regular basis.
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To keep the balance between platitudinous redundancy and utter incomprehensibility was the crucial problem of late baroque allegorism.
ICONOGRAPHY
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The whole speech was platitudinous nonsense.
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Ideas endlessly repeated and permutated become platitudinous, trite, meaningless.
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Based on news accounts and these excerpts, his speech seems to have been unexceptionable (albeit platitudinous).
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What troubles me most about this is not the workshop or platitudinous questionnaire the DNA bit.
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I'm sorry I do not yet have a video of this part of the show, for you to share with your children, as Landrieu blathers on and on platitudinously, about how carefully she constructed a brilliantly non-controversial position on the matter, by embracing all points of view and synthesizing it into a marm, that could not be removed from Plaquemines Parish if it washed on shore there.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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It was the old Time formula that I remembered from more than 50 years ago when I tired of and stopped reading its treacle that recorded every week the latest milestone in the inexorable march of mid-America toward its apotheosis of gelatinous, platitudinous, universal, and permanent embourgeoisement: a premonitory Pleasantville.
Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor
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She is good reading always, however much we may sometimes pish and pshaw at the untimely poppings-in of the platitudes and crotchets (for he was that most abominable of things, a platitudinous crotcheteer) of Richard her father.
The English Novel
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This now urgently requires leadership by personal example far beyond platitudinous inanities about 'free markets'.
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Yes, platitudinously but truly, politics make strange bedfellows.
Gone with the Wind
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The robin, revelling in detail, chirping platitudinously, is Polonius to the life.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative.
Chapter 29
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The panel did not investigate or report on actual availability, merely observing platitudinously:
NAS: Assuring the Integrity of Research Data « Climate Audit
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He is a master of platitudinous nonsensical mutterings meted out in a muttonheaded masterly display of the obvious.
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(Presumably everyone accepts them taken platitudinously.)
Warranted Christian Belief
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[98] Time out of mind it has been the habit of writers, both within the order and without, to treat Masonry as though it were a kind of agglomeration of archaic remains and platitudinous moralizings, made up of the heel-taps of Operative legend and the fag-ends of Occult lore.
The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry
