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She sprinkled her remarks with the usual political platitudes that are guaranteed to be popular with both parties.platitudes = things so commonly repeated that they are no longer interesting
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How many times, when I presided over a funeral, had mourners delivered the usual well-meaning platitudes: "Well, she's in a better place," or "We know he's looking down on us, smiling," or "You'll see him again." (source)platitudes = commonly repeated remarks made as though they are insightful or instructive
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I'd be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simple-minded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were sending me off to fight a war they didn't understand and didn't want to understand. (source)platitudes = things so commonly repeated that they are no longer interesting
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Instead of easy platitudes like Let them eat when they want to eat and You can't hold a baby too much, she should have been telling them... (source)
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My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. (source)
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So you see, when I say that I understand what it is to have your home become an unbearable place I am not just spouting platitudes. (source)platitudes = commonly repeated or obvious remarks
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Or did they want platitudes? (source)platitudes = things so commonly repeated that they are no longer interesting
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Because—isn't it drilled into us constantly, from childhood on, an unquestioned platitude in the culture —?† (source)
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The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had—and sin, not against some new fancy-dress law produced as a novelty by a "great man", but against the old, platitudinous, universal moral law which they had been taught by their nurses and mothers.† (source)platitudinous = commonly repeated or obvious, yet stated as insightful or instructive
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Yes, platitudinously but truly, politics make strange bedfellows.† (source)platitudinously = in the manner of something that is commonly repeated or obvious, yet treated as though insightful or instructive
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When I try to put it into words, it comes out one of those ... platitudes at which Bishops are expected to excel. (source)platitudes = things so commonly repeated that they are no longer interesting
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He had a sincere way with a platitude which he made resonate like hard-won wisdom in his tight-buttoned chest: it never rained but it poured, the devil made work for idle hands, one rotten apple spoiled the barrel.† (source)
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and I made sure that the Weasel caught a glimpse of me in this absurd rig, just as I'm certain I contrived that same afternoon that he would catch me out in my final gesture of defection ... One of the few tolerable features of life at McGraw-Hill had been my view from the twentieth floor—a majestic prospect of Manhattan, of monolith and minaret and spire, that never failed to revive my drugged senses with all those platitudinous yet genuine spasms of exhilaration and sweet promise that have traditionally overcome provincial American youths.† (source)platitudinous = commonly repeated or obvious, yet stated as insightful or instructive
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Werner writes four lines, a smattering of platitudes—/ am fine; I am so busy—and hands it to the bunk master.† (source)platitudes = things so commonly repeated that they are no longer interesting
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The fact that mass slaughters hadn't been prevented in places all over the world — and weren't being prevented now — didn't argue against these attempts to preserve the memories of former massacres and the hope they represented, that someday "Never Again" might seem like more than a pious, self-enhancing platitude.† (source)
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I've heard this speech, or one like it, often enough before: the same platitudes, the same slogans, the same phrases: the torch of thefuture, the cradle of the race, the task before us.† (source)
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