| 单词 | platitude |
| 例句 | He’s not sure how else to respond, reaching into his mental store of political platitudes and finding them all clinical and intolerable. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I should offer her some soothing words, but I am a knot of rage and violence, and I ain't got anything like her platitudes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But if I’ve learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Pearl waited for a parental platitude to follow: Life isn’t fair, or Fair doesn’t always mean right. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, spare me your platitudes, mouse,” Julian replied in a world-weary voice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z My platitudes don’t hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The appeal of standing in an open gym or high school auditorium to hear lofty promises and platitudes never made much sense to me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I’ve heard this speech, or one like it, often enough before: the same platitudes, the same slogans, the same phrases: the torch of the future, the cradle of the race, the task before us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z To Forward, this owes to their abilities to have confronted the truth, expressed it, become genuine—in a way that isn’t possible through platitude or mere positive affirmation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z This is not a mere platitude; it is a prescription for liberation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From the start, I saw that Oliver’s intelligence was diamond-edged; he was a keen debater and did not accept the platitudes that so many of us automatically subscribed to. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Werner writes four lines, a smattering of platitudes—I am fine; I am so busy—and hands it to the bunk master. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He waited for her anger to come in fusillades of outraged motherhood, smothering southern platitudes, and Catholic theology. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z More Suli platitudes, but somehow even the memory of her voice helped. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was one of Gregory Powell’s favorite platitudes that nothing was to be gained from excitement, so when Mike Donovan came leaping down the stairs toward him, red hair matted with perspiration, Powell frowned. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I open my mouth to offer some paltry platitude, when I’m interrupted by Katherine saying, “Maybe we could help. Were going there for dinner.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z To Rowan it sounded like more empty platitudes—but Volta wasn’t like Goddard that way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The practical, pragmatic part of our upbringing wouldn’t allow me to put much stock in the gentle, well-intentioned platitudes people would heap on us a few days later at the funeral. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She keeps offering platitudes that he sees as encouragement. Love is not light and fluffy for singer Richard Thompson 2013-02-19T17:00:08Z They change our perspectives so thoroughly that their innovations become platitudes.” Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Those qualifications do exist—we expect our president to be a lawyer, to be educated at an Ivy League school, to be married, to speak in reassuring platitudes. Donald Trump, human dog-whistle: The 2016 election, the left and the place where language ends 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z “He’s going to be so proud that all his platitudes on atheism are being given a world stage.” From 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' to 'Burnpile' at the Kirk Douglas: Lucy Alibar finds her voice 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s a platitude that has already been tested for Yuko, whose life has become suddenly very complicated. ‘A Balance’ Review: Critical Distance 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z That’s why you find so many of us delivering such awful platitudes — and that’s why I decided to talk to some single women about just that. “Your Prince Charming will come!” and other dumb advice that married people give their single friends 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Mat is a “literal Adonis” — a wildly handsome and charismatic sort who speaks in self-help platitudes. Review | ‘The Very Nice Box’ is a very funny office satire 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z And I think you see it in the scenes that were most interesting to me, which were not a platitude stump speech in Iowa. “Mayor Pete” director on capturing authenticity: "The process of campaigning is dehumanizing" 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z While government regulators worldwide struggle with what to do, and while Facebook cloaks its promises in platitudes, its users would be wise to turn elsewhere for protection: Perspective | Mark Zuckerberg claims that, at Facebook, ‘the future is private.’ Don’t believe him. 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Does the cab driver speak in slogans and platitudes, with flip assumptions and aggressive cheer? The Condescending Compassion of Charlie Kaufman’s “Anomalisa” 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The era of the 90s grungy try-hard male is long gone; it's almost a platitude to talk of men's love for their children, men's emotional needs. Russell Kane on The Expendables 2 and post-masculinist cinema 2012-08-03T23:06:00Z Elsewhere on the spectrum, Joel Olsteen plays down theology, instead offering comforting platitudes and promises of prosperity to those who pray and give. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Without it, she said, “literature is nothing but an echo chamber of the fleeting platitudes and truisms that afflict every culture.” Writers Gather to Read Salman Rushdie and Support Free Speech 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z His wall drawing “468 · Don’t rain on other people’s parades.” is a platitude taken from the self-help title “Life’s Little Instruction Book.” At LAXArt, boundary-blurring drawing as a form of sculpture 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Adherents trumpet the Cambridge man’s innocence, quoting his Twitter platitudes, tweeting #FreeJahar and one even planned to tattoo his words on her arm. Inside the Wild and Addictive World of Celebrity Fan Fiction 2013-08-26T09:45:08Z You have to sort through a fair number of platitudes to get to those gems, though. An avuncular Frank Gehry takes to the Web in new online master class 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z But the film, showing Saturday night on Showtime, has a few segments that get beyond platitudes. Television Review: ?From the Sky Down,? a Documentary About U2 - Review 2011-10-28T23:50:51Z But the nationalists who peddle these anti-immigration platitudes now are the ideological descendants of 19th century Americans who feared that hiring an Irish Catholic nanny would corrupt their Protestant children. On St. Patrick's Day, remember how anti-immigrant history repeats itself 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z So it’s easy to buy the platitude that Iran must never get a nuclear weapon or it’s curtains. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z This theory is devoid of sentimentality, of religious platitudes and wishful thinking. A grand theory of anti-blackness: The unflinching and profound terror in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World and Me” 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Her columns sometimes take thousands of words only to arrive at breathless platitudes. Heather Havrilesky’s “Existential” Advice 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Unlike many musicians, who speak grunt and platitude, Grant has four alternative languages – German, Russian, Spanish and French, plus working interests in Swedish and Danish. John Grant – review 2013-05-18T15:00:03Z “Honey, you wear whatever you want…” And I went on that whole being-comfortable-with-yourself platitude that parents pass on so confidently to their offspring, as if my insecurity wasn’t the reason for my speech. Motherlode Blog: Daughter to Dad: ‘Girlie’ Pajamas, Please 2013-06-14T20:03:49Z His audience includes seekers, armchair philosophers, Big Tech skeptics and New Age types looking for meaning beyond wellness-industry platitudes, he said. A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z He said that he and Sakach are the good guys, that the justifications cockers often offer for their activities – tradition, culture, pride – are empty platitudes used to mask blatant animal cruelty. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z Blanca, like Manuel, has had enough with the empty platitudes and promises of the most powerful; interested in results, not moral righteousness, she dares to play them at their own game. ‘Blanquita’ Review: The Victim’s Dilemma 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The obligatory Grammy speech by the head of the Recording Academy tends to mingle platitudes about the power of music with mild lobbying. The Best and Worst of the 2021 Grammy Awards 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Publicly, Lombard mouths trite platitudes about his vision for America even as he removes a Secret Service agent from his detail because the agent is taller than he is. ‘The Short Drop’ review: Deadly politics 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The perpetual theme is society’s dizzying, almost primordial vacuousness: In the beginning was the platitude, the meaningless title, the counterfeit check. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Those memories are a respite from her father’s drunken sorrow and the platitudes of her well-meaningschool therapist. Book review: ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith In a lesser world, the episode would have been ripe with hollow feel-good platitudes like that one, but someone knew better. Parks and Recreation: was the quarantine reunion episode worth it? 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z That meant some platitudes: “My pen is for everybody who’s been through something,” Snoop Dogg said. SXSW Music 2015: All Rise (Too) Early for Snoop Dogg 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z It deals mainly in platitudes and abstractions, with just enough detail to hold your interest and keep you hoping for something more. | 'The Ides of March': ?The Ides of March,? With George Clooney - Review 2011-10-06T12:00:00Z The tone of the narration is so wrenchingly honest that the film never lapses into self-pity or relies on mystical platitudes. Review: ‘Notes on Blindness’ Is John Hull’s Trip From Darkness to Light 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z There are just too many platitudes here, as Ellie puts it, using profanity as an adjective. 'Broadchurch' Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: The Center Collapses 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The talk of war and invasion proceeds in platitudes and snippets of propaganda; here and there, German atrocities perpetuated farther east are spoken of in hushed tones. 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Having mouthed the conventional platitudes in defence of the war, she is shocked into a guilty awareness, telling the imagined children "we will pay for your deaths one way or another". Tiny Kushner 2010-09-06T14:53:00Z For a swift antidote to the optimistic platitudes of new year, there's nothing quite like hospital waiting rooms, where any rogue act of exuberance is swiftly countered by the collective frowning of the preoccupied majority. Michael Holden's All ears 2011-01-15T00:06:04Z And I think, again, culturally, we’re being instructed to “follow your joy,” “do you,” all these platitudes that people hope might lead to a fuller or more empowered life. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z So this exhibition of contemporary art about song and music deals less with pop platitudes or starstruck celebrity than with the more culturally weighted arenas of created sound. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z In this regard, all the bland platitudes do serve a purpose. Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Yet to apply platitudes such as épater la bourgeoisie as either a dominating motive or a defining motif of Roth’s work is to fall into undercooked language. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z “In general, we tend to avoid books by politicians. They tend not to sell. They tend not to be written in their voice and are filled with platitudes you can get on C-SPAN.” Every candidate an author: The ceaseless boom in books by politicians 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The movie probably suffers greatly in translation, and American viewers may feel that the second half spends a lot of time elaborating platitudes about war and love. Japan Cuts Film Festival at Japan Society Emphasizes the Eccentric 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The platitudes rarely get you in the gut. Perspective | Restaged in front of the AFL-CIO’s national headquarters, ‘Working’ the musical labors to be a vehicle for activism 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z And for the most part his encouraging words aren’t banal platitudes so much as credible, witty nuggets of folk wisdom given a personal twist. Movie Review: ‘The Magic of Belle Isle,’ by Rob Reiner, With Morgan Freeman 2012-07-05T22:10:44Z You don’t have to be the teacher’s friend, and you certainly don’t need to kiss up and slather her with empty platitudes, but you do have to be respectful of the teacher’s standards and authority. Motherlode Blog: What if a Teacher Doesn’t Like a Parent? 2013-09-12T16:49:51Z "Hanif Kureishi courageously and irreverently speaks the truth about life in our multicultural world, beyond any platitudes of political correctness," she said. Hanif Kureishi scoops PEN Pinter prize 2010-09-17T08:38:00Z As a journalist or a documentary storyteller, you need to sort of guard against what feels false, what feels regurgitated, what feels like a platitude. “Mayor Pete” director on capturing authenticity: "The process of campaigning is dehumanizing" 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z In a musical, though, we ideally seek more than well-orchestrated platitudes. Review | Signature Theatre can’t save ‘Scottsboro Boys’ from its own self-righteousness 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z From the perspectives of a fire chief, a chef, and others impacted by the attack, the Nat Geo documentary series humanizes a devastating catastrophe that's often reduced to statistics and platitudes. A 9/11 viewer's guide, from the new Michael Keaton drama to surprising documentaries 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z But the film couldn't handle finishing on such a downer and so iInstead, we were offered a few platitudes, such as moving from consumption to non-consumption. TV review: Diamond Jubilee and Surviving Progress 2012-06-04T22:30:04Z One group is advancing pledges from platitudes to fund-raising. ‘I Vow to Tread Lightly’ 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z She provides a strong contrast to her sanctimonious, humourless sister Mary, who spouts empty platitudes about acceptable female conduct. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z They blocked his view, much as platitudes are an obstacle to speech. Mir?'s paintings are expressions of astonishment and joy 2010-08-24T12:59:00Z We read of the familiar long roads, lost loves, analogical flowers, and such other platitudes. You can't pick the lyrics out of pop 2010-12-09T12:07:00Z Yet their conversations are gratingly anodyne, invoking platitudes like “truth,” while the visuals insipidly jump between screens, close-ups of faces and slow motion shots of the two on the road. ‘Anthem’ Review: Flying High 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Poor pacing and editing result in a lack of transition between scenes; poignant moments are punctuated with distracting music; and the dialogue is overstuffed with platitudes that land like corny messages from fortune cookies. Movie Review: ‘Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara,’ a Gangster Sequel 2013-08-16T20:50:01Z Its universal message about hatred born of ignorance builds on itself that way — an honest reflection, not a platitude. 'Life, Above All' ? measured tale of AIDS in South Africa 2011-08-19T16:10:05Z The well-worn platitude about Oscar season — promulgated by publicists, producers, and the like — is that it is an honor to be included. Hollywood Awards Races Have Little Variation 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z He was attacked as a dilettante, one whose music wavered between bombast and bizarrerie, whose poetic productions mixed platitude and gibberish. Bob Dylan as Richard Wagner 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Often the songs lean on bland inspirational platitudes or mystical gobbledygook: “Feels like I’m floating, weightless in flight/Planets exploding, as a soul and gravity fight,” Ms. Nettles sings on the title track. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z Unsurprisingly, there were plenty of platitudes from Gaga — a pop star who was woke before it was on trend — about feminism, being yourself and equality for all. Review | Lady Gaga tries on yet another new hat at Capital One Arena — but it doesn’t quite fit 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Omar El Akkad, a journalist and fiction writer born in Egypt and raised in Qatar, won’t let us forget or fall back on resigned platitudes about the intractable nature of the refugee “problem.” Review | ‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z What to make of this, besides the usual platitudes about the terra incognita of emerging technology? Books still big business in 2010 2011-05-27T23:02:51Z It is tempting to think that any attention paid to the drug epidemic is a blessing, even if it is just a wrong-headed platitude and a seized Camaro. Nancy Reagan and the negative impact of the 'Just Say No' anti-drug campaign 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z One of Cousins’s earliest series takes its name from a familiar platitude: “What Girls Are Made Of.” Maisie Cousins’s Visceral Images of Desire and Decay 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Some of the “Queer Eye” guys’ advice like this can come across as platitudes on first listen. "Queer Eye" for the purity culture survivor: On the Fab Five's healthy approach to being selfish 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z But other performances revealed the deceptive challenge in tackling Wonder's music, which stays specific even as it goes wide, rarely indulging in the kind of platitudes some pop songwriters rely on to facilitate broad appeal. Beyonce, Ed Sheeran toast Stevie Wonder at all-star Grammy tribute 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z But the show’s appealing performers and catchy look don’t yet outweigh its lack of cohesion and its readiness to fall back on platitudes about the corrosive effects of wealth. Review: ‘Trust’ Is Flashy but Ephemeral 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z While science proceeds to new realities, art seems to reiterate mysterious spiritual platitudes. Why Heston Blumenthal deserves the Turner prize 2012-12-18T16:25:12Z Instead, they rambled on with earnest platitudes that could have been said about anyone. The Friends reunion was a total car crash 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Springer’s “final thought”, which attempted to paper over the atrocities of a given episode with trite platitudes, is present in every motivational quote posted to Instagram. Farewell to The Jerry Springer Show: 27 years of fights, bleeps and outrage 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z While everyone’s experience of the pandemic has been different, I do think there’s some truth to the platitude, at least as it relates to cooking. In Favor of a More Casual, More Forgiving Polenta 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Yet the poems also brilliantly rework cliché and platitude. Dear Life by Dennis O'Driscoll - review 2012-06-29T21:55:02Z As a result, viewers get a camera, not an angle, a set of platitudes masquerading as a moral intelligence. Fear and loafing on the campaign trail: Showtime’s “The Circus” cops out with cynical pundit porn 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Like “Provenance” itself, they do more to affirm academic Marxist platitudes than to sharpen critical awareness about the nefarious doings of the collectibles industry. Amie Siegel: ‘Provenance’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Tatum is saddled with a whole lot of explanatory voicevoer, full of obvious platitudes about life being a series of moments of impact, blah blah blah, but his sense of ache and sorrow is believable. A look at Channing Tatum's 5 films this year 2012-09-14T00:46:04Z Derrickson has a vested interest at play here, too, a raw desire to put an end to this debate with hollow platitudes rather than engaging in a meaningful discussion that could hurt his bottom line. Dear white Hollywood: Here are 3 things you need to hear about your defensiveness on race 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z As he offers bland platitudes, thugs whip up the audience into a mob that turns on a Muslim family. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z That kind of platitude indicates how disposable this kind of series can easily become; with luck, “The Fosters” will parlay its charming cast and spark of humor into something more. Television Review: ‘The Fosters,’ on ABC Family 2013-06-02T20:04:51Z But if you want an easy beach read that mingles platitudes and common sense, you’ve found your read for the summer — or rather, for the next couple of days. In search of the Mozart effect 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z These New Puritans are probably unique among the groups given to spouting this hoary old platitude in that they actually mean it. These New Puritans – review 2013-06-20T16:59:19Z They spoke in careful platitudes about bright new futures without ever suggesting there was anything dark about the past. Rewind TV: The X Factor; The Trouble with Aid; The Killing; The Poison Tree; This World – review 2012-12-16T00:05:52Z Not everyone is thrilled by the American propensity to look in the mirror and repeat stirring platitudes about success. Post-Oprah, Americans still hooked on self-help 2011-07-12T21:45:00Z The world of athletics contains countless platitudes about risk, and leaving it all behind on the field: All it takes is all you’ve got. The Artless Spectacle of Maroon 5 at the Super Bowl 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Carnal, reflective, almost platitude free: It was the best and most creatively adventurous of her albums. Beyoncé Unearths Pain and Lets It Flow in ‘Lemonade’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Organized by season, “A Year at Clove Brook Farm” takes a basic calendar format and packs it with recipes, lists, sources, photographs, folksy platitudes, D.I.Y. tips and quotations from Shakespeare and Thoreau. Is He the Next Martha Stewart? ‘Not So Fast,’ Says Martha. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The last time Lady Gaga spoke about her forthcoming album, she was mostly mumbling platitudes. Lady Gaga's new album 'finished' 2010-06-23T08:49:00Z Watching enough hours of funeral coverage eventually devolved into a numb exercise in how many hours news anchors can manage to fill on live air, using a mixture of platitudes and inane trivia. Perspective | The queen’s funeral doesn’t have to be about the queen 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z I can give you some platitude like “time heals all wounds” but … 'Mike's Place' tells the true story of terror in a Tel Aviv blues bar 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z This is a song for all you bigheads out there who think that disco music is lower than the irrelevant musical gibberish and tired platitudes that you try to impress your parents with. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z Haskell occasionally drifts into the Thoreauvian school of nature writing, with epiphanies and too earnest discussions of nature, but for the most part he avoids platitudes. 'The Forest Unseen': a very close watch on nature 2012-03-14T19:56:10Z It’s an elite that, rather than pushing for systemic change, only reinforces our lopsided economic reality — all while hobnobbing on the conference circuit and trafficking in platitudes. Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The evening ended with Luce describing her own political accomplishments and an underling adding “a platitude like ‘Yes, the Ambassador really handled that one well.’ ‘Price of Fame,’ a Biography of Clare Boothe Luce 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z With apologies to the president-elect, they apparently do represent some of us, and we are well beyond the point of healing platitudes. Perspective | Many of the images from the Capitol riot showed the terror. One highlighted the smugness. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z I asked him questions about toning my glutes I would literally never put in to practise to keep him talking, while sharing all the usual soothing platitudes about the relative safety of air travel. Space austerity: plane seats and change rooms needn't bring out our worst 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z They are far too busy airing platitudes that, she said, “travel like fire on the web.” Is the Celebrity Editor Becoming Extinct? 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z But throughout the night, other onstage platitudes seemed to materialize out of nowhere. 2015 Grammys: One dark night of the soul 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z To be a mother — that's the world's most important job say the empty platitudes from church groups and politicians. Mother's Day is gaslighting 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z She's supposed to be the strongest female character on The Newsroom, but increasingly, it seems like she exists to mouth Aaron Sorkin's platitudes and to debase herself before Will. Are Aaron Sorkin's women 'silent bearers of sexism'? 2012-07-02T17:03:00Z Bad advice, judgments and platitudes are not what Mitch needs right now. The Killing: episode seven 2011-08-11T21:04:01Z The one wouldn’t exist without the other, and Ms. Chiarelli’s rambling platitudes are no substitute. Movie Review: ‘Music From the Big House,’ by Bruce McDonald 2012-06-03T22:22:17Z It's entirely inoffensive and impeccably polite, to the point of collapsing in on its own platitudes. Theme Park: Theme Park – review 2013-02-21T21:15:01Z He noodles intricate riffs on an electric guitar while singing moony platitudes in a breathless voice, as if someone has just struck him in the midsection with a golf club. John Mayer Is a Wonderland 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z “The song feels exactly right,” Scharer notes, and this platitude captures what feels exactly wrong with the book. A Novel About the Life and Times of the Photographer Lee Miller 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z It is twisted, twisty, and very far from all the predictable outsider platitudes about celebrity culture. Cannes 2014 review: Maps to the Stars - Hollywood dreams turn queasy in David Cronenberg's brilliant nightmare 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z In this eminently admirable book, there are no easy answers or platitudes. The Roots of Black Pain in America 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z It is neither a form of academic inquiry nor a paranoid platitude nor an arbitrary gesture. Review | The value of Trevor Paglen’s art may remain a secret 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Any man who sneers at them now for worrying about the shifting paradigms, offering only meaningless platitudes or accusations of bigotry, is showing his male privilege. Don’t you just love it when a man explains to you what it means to be a woman? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z A grand, complex human drama is reduced to platitudes and pretty pictures, as some fine actors become ciphers of suffering and resilience in a strained and superficial pageant. | 'Miral': Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land 2011-03-24T21:53:01Z In this case, as a political category consciousness is a site of struggle, not a vacuum waiting to be filled with academic platitudes. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z I felt a little bewildered by all this aggressive positivity, and it was admittedly tempting to poke fun at the self-help platitudes. At the Wanderlust festival, yoga, hula-hooping and just plain old feeling good If you want me, I’ll be in the bar” Throw Joni Mitchell a platitude about love and she’ll catch it, sidearm it back at you, then spin around and order a whiskey. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z He captures the city’s dangerous, magnetic allure — for artists, for dreamers, for kids eager to escape the platitudes of suburbia. Review: ‘City on Fire,’ Garth Risk Hallberg’s Novel of New York in the Bad Old Days 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Metaphysical platitude, repetition, obsession, incoherence, "a car crash of cliché" – all are permissible because this is how grief is, the thing itself. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z DuPont mouths tender platitudes about seeing Mark's potential and allowing him to emerge from his brother's shadow. Cannes 2014: Foxcatcher review - Steve Carell gets to grips with his dark side 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Like two ciphers parachuted in from the future with a shining new morality, Malik's character and a doomed Jewish refugee both spoke a strange, strained language of high platitude. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z I hate the reduction of thought to faddish terms, platitudes and cuteness. Letters: Tech and Text: Thought as Distraction 2010-03-25T15:54:00Z If there’s any friction to it at all, it resides between the anti-authoritarian platitudes and the virulent melodies. Perspective | Imagine Dragons and the scourge of the rock-and-roll grave blockers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z When I complain, all I get are platitudes. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She resents her job and her landlady and is planning to ‘disappear’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Unlike every nation in Europe, we have no guaranteed preschool or after-school childcare, despite our endless political platitudes about how much we cherish our children. Women’s rights is the longest revolution 2013-02-21T17:14:00Z It is unsurprising, then, that the exchange led to this, a bloated tear-stick of a song that desperately wrings emotion from the blandest of platitudes. This week's new singles 2011-07-15T23:07:04Z Unctuous platitudes about its being a time of forgiveness and new beginnings regularly stall the movie in its tracks. | ?New Year?s Eve? : Garry Marshall?s Star-Filled ?New Year?s Eve? ? Review 2011-12-08T23:43:32Z When Perelman’s saccharine sensibilities take over, the film, as if by obligation, becomes a story about the power of human resilience and compassion — or some similar platitude. ‘Persian Lessons’ Review: Performing for His Life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z But the work is not steeped in songs about bouncing back from tragedy or platitudes about lessons learned. Mary Chapin Carpenter, Still Storytelling 2010-05-10T21:24:00Z If you ask rappers and producers about Dre’s genius, they generally offer one of two platitudes. Perspective | 25 years later, Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’ remains rap’s world-building masterpiece 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z That’s even harder to say, especially for the Prophets, who spoke, between songs, exclusively in blurry platitudes of empowerment. Prophets of Rage and the trouble with fighting today’s wars using yesterday’s weapons 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z It is much easier to say the so-called right thing, tell them that you’re thinking of them and offer a weak platitude of self-care. Perspective | Before you diagnose your sister-in-law’s issues, be a friend 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The idea seems to be that prodding athletes into spouting platitudes about games they just played constitutes journalism. The awesome dad move that smashed sports’ boys’ club: Stephen Curry’s MVP parenting: 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z They are a slurry of positive-psychology platitudes, with occasional dashes of Buddhism and even EST. When Growing Old Is a Blessing 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Over the years, as music historians bathed Woodstock and the Monterey Pop festivals in platitudes, the Harlem Cultural Festival was consigned to history's dustbin. A revolution, finally televised: Questlove's "Summer of Soul" corrects pop fest history of the '60s 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z His role is also one of the most clearly defined, based less on platitudes and more on replicable tips and visible transformations. Back to School With Tan France 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Marianne Owen is so hearty as a caring, wonder-struck librarian, she makes a stream of platitudes seem fresh. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z Like a lot of actors turned directors, she’s good with the performers, even when platitudes gush from their mouths along with the blood. ‘Unbroken,’ Directed by Angelina Jolie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z “We ignore the lessons of the Great Catastrophe at our peril,” he says, which suggests that platitudes, like cockroaches, will survive us all. Review: Justin Cronin’s long-awaited ‘City of Mirrors’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z “Shy doesn’t want to put out records, he wants to create movements,” Liles says weeks later over the telephone from New York, speaking in platitudes that still manage to underscore the incredible savvy of 300. Six months on the trail with Shy Glizzy, Washington’s latest budding rap star 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z After a few more platitudes, the lady of the hour strides to the podium. Former senator Carol Moseley Braun is back on the campaign trail, stumping for Joe Biden 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Why couldn’t a more profound examination of Lincoln be at the heart of the educational program instead of platitudes? Museum Review: Lincoln?s Legacy at Expanded Ford?s Theater Complex 2012-02-10T13:00:00Z The script, short on insight, skirts past sadness like the loss of her mother to a sanitarium when Ms. de Lavallade was 7, and pauses instead on platitudes or amusing mishaps. Review: Carmen de Lavallade’s One-Woman Show Comes to New York 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Potter offers possibilities rather than platitudes, and looks with both rigour and sympathy at the effects of living with illness, but also with regrets. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z She also acts as the larger voice of reason, ending each episode with a tidy platitude. Netflix's zany "Waffles + Mochi" is helping heal my eating disorder 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z In the theater industry, platitudes reigned; but in Rhinebeck, a group of white people didn’t really know how to talk about it. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Her flat delivery of various liberal platitudes builds to the pronouncement “There are only three gun deaths a year in Finland—three!” Review: BrainDead is a Pointless D.C. Satire 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z In Coronation Street, Sophie and Sian, captivated by the proselytizing of Ken Barlow's grandson James, embraced the cause of the homeless and began to regurgitate platitudes about second chances and society's cracks. Daniel Maier's World of lather 2011-08-05T23:04:00Z Why was it important to you to avoid platitudes about the possibility for change? Ta-Nehisi Coates: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Anybody’s Expert’ 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Another man asks him: "Speak to us about platitudes." Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho – review 2013-03-24T18:59:01Z Yet beyond the platitudes, the program did offer a profound musical juxtaposition, at least on paper: Adams’s memorialization through a fragmented and highly localized musical language and Beethoven’s ode to universal brotherhood. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven But I don't believe a book full of platitudes and colourful symbols is the necessary serum. Sustainable design is wearing thin 2011-02-03T16:56:09Z But at almost every opportunity, Avrich undermines these numbers by cutting to one of an endless lineup of talking heads, usually to repeat predictable platitudes about Peterson’s brilliance. ‘Oscar Peterson: Black + White’ Review: Never Mind the Talking Heads 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z As he notes, the ready platitude for such nightmare scenarios is that words fail us. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-04-14T09:00:01Z It was a referendum on a certain genre of canned, cocktail-party social science, one that traffics in bespoke platitudes for the middlebrow and rehearses the same studies without saying something new. Review: Jonah Lehrer’s ‘A Book About Love’ Is Another Unoriginal Sin 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z What people really want to hear is that it’s all going to be okay through proof & specific guidance, not platitudes. Why You Can (and Should) Become a Mentor 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Most of these pieces have started, as mine does, with her defiance of the platitudes surrounding the disease. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Let’s talk about it together, not wish it away with platitudes. | 'The Momentum': Life Is an Existential Cabaret, My Friend 2011-02-09T01:42:27Z Depending on the observer, this unexpected exactitude either inspires platitudes about diversity or is a reminder of a tumultuous past. Seven Places in Europe We Call Home 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z So Jamie’s grandfather, whom we have never met before and prior to last week’s episode was just the source of some Hallmark card-level platitudes, now seems to have had something to do with Rosie’s death? “The Killing”: So that’s who murdered Rosie? 2012-06-18T14:40:00Z Meaning teems in the uncomfortable silences and deflections; each platitude contains multitudes. ‘The Novelist’s Film’ Review: Real Talk 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Uncomfortable truths on a range of topics, from empty pro-life platitudes, to what makes Bobby Jindal terrible, to the dumbness of “All Lives Matter,” are taken apart and somehow rendered as hilarious and necessary takedowns. Hari Kondabolu: America’s smartest and funniest “mainstream comic” 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z As with so many platitudes, a germ of truth supports it. Be It a $10 Wine, or Much More, the Judgments Come Free 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z He traffics in platitudes, such as: “Complexity is the enemy of execution.” Tony Robbins, self-help guru, is larger than life Though six years younger than Ireland, Butterworth was a much more harmonically and melodically imaginative composer, who never resorted to Ireland's tub-thumping platitudes and Edwardian sentimentality. The Complete John Ireland Songbook: Volume 1 – review 2013-07-11T21:30:00Z As Sarastro, Stephen Milling sang with a gruff bass but suggested an efficacious CEO who maintains his dominion with platitudes, fear and blunt persuasion. Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z To say that the sky’s the limit for Anne Pasternak, the Brooklyn Museum’s newly appointed director, is more than a platitude. The Next Steps for the Brooklyn Museum 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Johnson's jokes are side-footers into the open goal erected when normal communication was outlawed and automated platitudes insisted upon in its place. Boris Johnson, the comedian of politics, has the last laugh 2012-07-30T12:00:01Z Fortunately Jesse Armstrong, the British writer who created the show, turned things around with a clever, politically barbed acceptance speech that inverted the usual platitudes by “un-thanking” some of the pandemic’s major players. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2020 Emmys 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The single with the Edge intoning platitudes over a really tired backing: if we were to do something like that it wouldn't get past the demo stage. The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-21T12:17:40Z It’s a platitude that a physical journey is also an inner journey, but many platitudes are true. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z This is a short film, and yes, when Uzzle isn’t speaking of specifics, he does fall back on platitudes about the greatness of photography — but he’s still very much worth knowing. ‘F11 and Be There’ Review: Burk Uzzle, a Photographer Worth Knowing 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z And second, his story was inelegantly told, to say the least, packed with a mind-numbing variety of clichés and platitudes. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: First perfect 10s; Michael Sam leaves 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Winfrey shared no secrets, but she did repeat some of her most familiar, if impenetrable, platitudes, including “my personal journey is to fulfill the highest expression of myself here as a human being.” ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: A Timid Beginning 2011-01-18T12:08:34Z He drew on those experiences in “Infinite Jest,” whose high-I.Q. characters struggle with their need for a program and its platitudes. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Kissinger, renowned as a practitioner of realpolitik, often sounds as if he were mouthing platitudes when he tries to articulate the importance of the idealistic strain in American diplomacy. In ‘World Order,’ Henry Kissinger Sums Up His Philosophy 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z There are a few compelling details — the conversion of the Shoshone to the Mormon Church — but we are left with vagueness and platitudes. Museum Review: The Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City 2012-03-23T22:08:01Z She starts reading squishy self-help books and parroting their platitudes. Books of The Times: ?Once Upon a Secret?: Mimi Alford on Her Affair With Kennedy 2012-02-08T22:11:42Z One of those platitudes that we hand down to our children is that bullying ends after school. Ask Molly Ringwald: how do I stop the woman who is bullying me? 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The Killers soon traded synth-pop pulses for ringing guitars, Anglophilia for heartland rock, insecurities for vows of tenacity, twisted and idiosyncratic lyrics for arena-rock platitudes. Music Review: The Killers at Madison Square Garden 2013-05-15T21:27:57Z We wouldn’t expect an examination of American slavery to end with platitudes about the many despicable ways people treat others as objects. Museum Review: The Memory of Holocaust, Fortified 2011-04-22T22:46:32Z A cliché or a platitude can be just as powerful as a profound insight if that’s how you’re prepared to hear it. Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store” 2012-09-20T15:25:00Z I’m not tolerant of platitudes, empty pieties, self-evident propositions, commencement oratory and anything that sounds as though it might have come from the insides of a fortune cookie.” Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z It’s one of the many seemingly meaningless platitudes repeated over and over again in 12-Step rooms. My own sober miracle 2013-01-12T16:00:00Z He quizzed me about how much I’d had to drink and offered platitudes about the dangers of alcohol. I was raped — and now I can finally say it 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Tidy to a fault, a “Modern Love” essay is for people who think they are too smart for platitudes or perhaps even too smart for rom-coms. Review | The ‘Modern Love’ TV show is just like the newspaper column: Sweet, self-centered and nauseating 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z If Li counters platitude through fantastical illogic puzzles, Mejer Caso does so through the wildness of poetry, which does not even try to be logical. In a Sister’s Elegies, Proof That the Art of Losing Can Bring Comfort 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z So Jamie’s grandfather, who we have never met before and prior to last week’s episode was just the source of some Hallmark card-level platitudes, now seems to have had something to do with Rosie’s death? “The Killing”: Who killed Rosie Larsen? We’ll finally learn 2012-06-14T15:25:00Z They might feature one undeniable track – A Design for Life or Bittersweet Symphony – but the trade-off is generally the sacrifice of a band's more unique or intriguing qualities in pursuit of mid-paced platitudes. Who will make the next Great British Rock Album? 2011-07-14T21:00:02Z So goes the rest of this album, which gives the most obvious of platitudes the most glossy of sheens. Albums by Mary Lambert, Nico & Vinz and Angaleena Presley 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z But despite its emotional score, the film is more interested in unheroic details: insults ignored, insignia easily discarded, platitudes that dissipate in the air. ‘Devotion’ Review: An Airman in Reflection 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Talk about racial inequity went from platitudes to earnest conversation. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The women deliver a bounty of platitudes about ambition, female friendship, self-care, their mothers and sticking to one’s “practice”. 'Gwyneth glows like a radioactive swan' – my day at the Goop festival 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z “Historians and historical institutions are always using these platitudes or abstract ideas like, ‘Oh, we have to study the past to know our present and future.’ The Cold War as a museum: At the Wende, one man's 100,000-piece collection finds a new home 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z There is the cynical interpretation: that no one critiques that part of the message because it’s an empty platitude that no one really believes. The N.B.A. and China and the Myths of Sports Diplomacy 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z I almost hate to admit it but there’s another annoying platitude I’ve heard in AA meetings that I’ve been thinking about: it’s that God will never give us more than we can handle. My own sober miracle 2013-01-12T16:00:00Z These platitudes always seem to exclude the childless. Alarm clock Britain, Mr Clegg? It's about time you woke up to reality 2011-01-16T00:05:47Z The second is a sanitized myth: the father of the nation, the global icon beloved by everyone from the purveyors of global humanitarian platitudes to even the erstwhile enemies of the African National Congress. Nelson Mandela vs. his hagiography 2013-12-21T16:30:00Z I doubt if I could handle living that way anymore, but I’m very glad I did, and not because it “built character” or “tested my mettle” or any of the other poverty platitudes. In praise of idle hands: Underemployed and unashamed in America 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z I try to counter with some useless platitudes like, “Well, you’ll find someone else.” When your boyfriend loses his lover 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z “You don’t need platitudes. And, quite honestly, there is absolutely nothing you can say that’s going to be helpful, because none of us can bring back that baby, and that’s really what the person wants.” Twitter critics attacked Chrissy Teigen for sharing her pregnancy loss. Here's the right way to respond. 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z I cannot possibly avoid them all, so I may as well haul out numerous platitudes at once. Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness? 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z And yes, her preference for fuzzy platitudes over actual opinions is frustrating to those of us who know how smart she is. ‘You are not expecting this’: Oprah on A Wrinkle in Time 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z In a 2017 interview with Vulture, the actor highlighted Get Out’s garden party scenes, in which guest try to compliment his character Chris, with crass racial platitudes. Trapped in the Sunken Place: how Get Out’s purgatory engulfed pop culture 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The moments where Ford calmly listens to the investigators’ scant recollections and empty platitudes are painful, but is their power undercut by how constructed these moments seem? Yance Ford’s Powerful Cinematic Memoir, “Strong Island” 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Spout back all of the platitudes about building a “one-life corporate culture,” show up with “DREAM and DO” doodled on your file folder, and you’re in. What Ivanka Trump doesn’t know will hurt us all 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z There's a balance to be struck, of course, between meaningful intervention and meddlesome platitudes. Damian Marley and Nas: 'We have a lot in common' 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z Through Guy, Banks picks apart the pabulums and platitudes that surround the disease. The Quarry by Iain Banks – review 2013-06-16T07:00:00Z He wrote in Levels of Life about the ire caused by the platitudes and perceived provocations dispensed by friends attempting to steer him through his devastation. Mum has died, dad is weak… our family is falling apart 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z I tried explained the controversy as best I could, throwing in classic platitudes about standing up for what you believe and fighting for the rights of others. Motherlode Blog: Mixed-Race Families and Same-Sex Ones 2011-11-02T15:38:24Z Graham Smith, spokesman for Republic, which campaigns for the abolition of the monarchy, said some Britons were already weary of the platitudes. UK leader pays tributes to Queen Elizabeth II 2012-03-07T17:46:03Z In “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Aunt Lydia is the orthodox teacher whose platitudes and instructions cycle through Offred’s mind. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Missy Elliott — simply to shower Jackson with platitudes, a colossal missed opportunity. In a New Documentary, Janet Jackson Is Hiding in Plain Sight 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z So he hired a Mississippi operative to organize a campaign for the imaginary candidate, Hal Philip Walker, whose hollow platitudes are pumped over a loudspeaker throughout the film. Why Robert Altman's brilliant 'Nashville' never had a sequel 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z It's as if Packer himself couldn't completely resist the helium platitudes of Napoleon Hill. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer – review 2013-06-21T07:01:01Z She speaks fluently and frankly about topics that few Americans, let alone public figures, would touch with anything besides platitudes—theology, Calvinism, metaphysics, and redemption; the nature of grace and sin. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z But the film offers mostly soundbites of Kipchoge offering in platitudes about how a marathon is like life — full of pain and joy. New documentary "Kipchoge" offers intriguing look at marathoner's skill but doesn't go the distance 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Usher doesn’t subscribe to that platitude, he relies on his own mantra, “Evolve or evaporate.” Usher Finds New Sound on Looking 4 Myself 2012-06-15T10:00:56Z And even as I rehearse these platitudes I have difficulty letting them go. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z While his exchanges with them reveal him to be confident of his Communist platitudes, he is ultimately respectful. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z But mostly the movie is a drizzle of platitudes. ‘A Chef’s Voyage’ Review: Not the Freshest Ingredients 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Egged on by self-pitying plinks and moans on the soundtrack, the character soon sinks completely into a soggy swamp of platitudes. Review: Love, Loss and Spiritual Torment in ‘The Sea of Trees’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z McCall's only leisure time activity seems to be reading classic novels and coming up with platitudes about them that are predictive of where the plot will soon be going. All things being 'Equalizer,' art elevates film's brutality 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z And the second half of this volume is filled with the sort of spin and canned platitudes common in political autobiographies. Books of The Times: Lonely Texas Girl: Laura Bush?s ?Spoken From the Heart? 2010-04-28T21:57:00Z “Is a platitude so deeply felt still just a platitude?” How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Or the one where they face off as rival “magical negroes” – a janitor and a repairman, both offering wise platitudes to a troubled white guy. Jordan Peele on Us: ‘This is a very different movie from Get Out' 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z She's done being nice and letting people say these platitudes they say to her about her child. “Hopefully you love to hate me”: Anna Camp on her "wickedly fun" villain past and new horror film 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z A psychic bully, she insists that the travelers put magic stones in their tea and spouts tired platitudes about cosmic connectedness. Movie Review: In ‘Crystal Fairy,’ Young U.S.Tourists Aim for the Mystical 2013-07-11T19:35:45Z An excellent example of what not to award, however, comes from “The Pulitzer at 100,” an hour and a half of congratulatory platitudes timed to the prizes’ centennial. Review: ‘The Pulitzer at 100’ Celebrates Awards More Than Winners 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z It is the season for Hollywood to celebrate itself in a sycophantic flourish of statuettes, tiaras and tear-stained platitudes. What effect has the internet had on celebrity? 2011-01-23T00:05:38Z In “The Book of My Lives,” Hemon doesn’t abide platitudes or false comfort. ‘The Book of My Lives’: war and wonder, death and remembrance 2013-03-27T22:25:54Z In its own way, Lewis' "Rock & Roll Time" is as stubbornly predictable as Boone's album, even if it contains more spirit and energy; in place of platitudes and strings are exuberant piano solos. Jerry Lee Lewis and Pat Boone spread their religions 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z His target, he said, was the "easy platitudes, evasions and, on occasion, downright untruths of the official history". Authors prepare to mark centenary of first world war with flood of new books 2013-06-09T08:30:02Z Her comments were not particularly scandalous but spawned tabloid feeding frenzies, because she didn’t just mouth promotional platitudes about her projects. Film: The Unwilling Diva 2010-10-02T02:43:00Z It’s time to retire this hackneyed expression to the final resting place of platitudes, alongside “I’m stepping down to spend more time with my family,” or “It’s not you, it’s me.” This Life: ?You Look Great? and Other Lies 2011-06-10T17:10:41Z If I am anything but positive and confident, I'm flooded with pity, unhelpful advice and platitudes. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Cast a wider net to find the support you need 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z And unleash the platitudes about the values of silence, listening and forgiveness. Movie Review: ?A Thousand Words,? Directed by Brian Robbins 2012-03-09T00:36:25Z In the most plausible beat in this movie, Elle’s answer is laden with platitudes. ‘The Kissing Booth 2’ Review: Another Dose of Prep School Drama 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Hefty and jut-jawed, he presented himself as the quintessential Texan, with his cowboy hat and boots and his down-home manner and platitudes. Opera Review: Opera Celebrates Bum Phillips, Who Led the Houston Oilers 2014-03-21T22:01:54Z In the way that people used to come to America -- this is a platitude, but what the hell -- to shed their past and fulfill their dreams, now they come from the East to California. Carolyn See's California, as told to Barbara Isenberg 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z “The road to death,” the anthropologist Nigel Barley wrote, “is paved with platitudes.” What the Living Can Learn by Looking Death Straight in the Eye 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z At the same time as soon as she starts to see into the family, of course she’s sees that everyone’s a human being and it’s much harder to have these kind of platitudes then. Carla Gugino: TV pits women against each other 2012-07-25T12:20:00Z There are scientific reasons for these seasonal platitudes, and it is no surprise that during each season nature provides us with the foods our bodies need for optimal health. Perspective | 10 ways to prepare for a fall full of healthy eating 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z When offered a chance to share platitudes about the importance of movie stars returning to the stage for the thrill of responding to a text and an audience night after night, he politely declined. John Hurt receives Shakespeare Theatre Company’s annual award Brooks needn’t approach the topic with suspicion, the way Church might, but it deserves an examination deeper than the platitudes he provides here. Still a maverick, Garth Brooks returns with 'Man Against Machine' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The SEALs, with their ethnically diverse membership and platitudes about the folks back home, are like the coolest commando hotshots from a World War II movie. Act of Valor: Trained SEALs 2012-02-25T17:11:06Z “Cage” tries to do a similar thing with racial politics but gets lost in platitudes. Review: ‘Marvel’s Luke Cage,’ a Hero for Harlem 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z So this is also a smarter and more intellectually ambitious memorial than many others, which too often deal in the platitudes of memory and healing. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Baby step, baby step, pose, platitude; baby step, baby step, pose, platitude. Melania Trump is busier than you think, but as quiet as ever 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z People talk in platitudes, and their lives follow the same story beats as countless fictions. | 'Roadie': ?Roadie,? Directed by Michael Cuesta - Review 2012-01-05T23:25:13Z Meanwhile, presenter Greg Gutfield of Fox show The Five described Affleck as a “Caliphate crusader”, arguing that “the inability to separate identification of evil from platitudes on tolerance is what enables evil to thrive”. Ben Affleck attacked by rightwing media for defence of Islam 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Episode 2, titled "Rice, Rice Baby," opens with our cheftestants generally commiserating with lots of empty, reality competition show platitudes. "Top Chef: World All Stars" cooks with sugar and spice (and everything rice) 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z According to West, men utter platitudes to please "the bats at the back of his soul"; on first appearances Henry Andrews is a "dull giraffe". West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-06T08:00:36Z The Stars and Stripes acts as harassment to the man’s dreams and sightline — the equivalent of an empty platitude at a funeral. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Though he shares Julia’s enthusiasm for a world without kings, Augustus expresses himself mainly in tired platitudes. A Novel of the French Revolution, Enacted in British Parlors 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z She hid her writing, she said, either out of embarrassment, or because she did not want her friends to praise it with platitudes. For Japanese Novelist Sayaka Murata, Odd Is the New Normal 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Williams tries to talk him down but Flamo, who has spent half his 32 years in prison, has no time for his platitudes. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z Now, at the telltale 20-year mark, it's more necessary than ever to pierce through the media-driven platitudes about Nirvana emerging fully formed overnight to transform music and the music industry. What the "Nevermind" celebrations get wrong about Nirvana 2011-09-24T17:01:00Z The idea of improving yourself by reading the right books and pronouncing the right platitudes predates Winfrey's chipper empire by some 21/2 centuries. Post-Oprah, Americans still hooked on self-help 2011-07-12T21:45:00Z This man’s way of ending things, I realized, was as clear as an X-ray, not of bones but of character, and surgically clean of the platitudes, excuses and lies that often accompany a breakup. Modern Love: Exit Left, Wordlessly 2012-01-12T21:14:33Z Mixing such urgent media with indulgent platitudes only sharpens the level of cognitive dissonance we're collectively experiencing as we witness these escalating hostilities from afar. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z That platitude pops up several times in this book, as when Roberta wonders, blurbing herself, “What could violate social convention more than women coming together to indulge their hunger and take up space?” Can Food Help Women Resist the Patriarchy? This Novel Says Yes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The principal wall texts do not name a single photographer, instead offering dubious platitudes like “Hip-hop portraiture is about pausing to see the subjects for who they truly are.” International Center of Photography Refocuses in a New Home 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The platitudes are not her fault: she was sworn to secrecy ahead of film’s May 2 release date. | Felicity Jones, Star of the Dark Romantic Drama ‘Breathe In’ 2014-03-26T19:12:16Z The testimonials inevitably descend into platitudes about personal “growth” and getting “some sense of myself back.” ‘She Said’ Recounts How Two Times Reporters Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Some sports movies build to inspirational speeches; “Under the Stadium Lights” treats platitudes as the main event. ‘Under the Stadium Lights’ Review: Friday Night, Lite 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z But every year, my sister-in-law texts me some platitude, like “Thinking of you.” ‘Defund the Police’? Easy for You to Say 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z And delightful though Mr. Smith is as Elizabeth and Hitler and a rosy-cheeked, smarmy Ronald Reagan, exuding platitudes, these historical walk-ons are more flashy jokes than substantial additions to the narrative. | 'Passion Play': Sarah Ruhl?s Play Within a Play at Irondale Center 2010-05-13T03:53:00Z There are plenty of platitudes and generalities being proffered here. LeBron James’s “The Shop” Reinvigorates the Celebrity Interview 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z There are a lot of platitudes about weight. Sometimes, you can’t love yourself at any size: How I lost 160 pounds 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Compared to the messy platitudes and artistic minefields of my other creative endeavors, screenwriting fit neatly and firmly into an easily verifiable pattern. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z I happen to get paid for criticism, and I would like to criticize that old platitude right out the window: No, everybody is not a critic. How to Complain at a Restaurant? Just Ask Our Critic 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z There are just too many layers of platitude and revised memories. Review | ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ tries and fails to bring meaning to the late singer’s legacy 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, in her professional life, She is equally given to platitudes. Review: ‘Kinship’ Stars Cynthia Nixon as a Journalist 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z One can find similar platitudes throughout Beijing’s official statements. Opinion: Tough talk from Biden at APEC won't move Xi Jinping. Here's what will 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z What do we miss, or misunderstand, when we look at Gaza or Ukraine through the filters taught to us from war movies, with their easy platitudes about valor and patriotism? Why there's no such thing as an antiwar film 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Ahmed cannot be consoled with vague platitudes about peace and understanding. The writers who reached out across the divide 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z The somber postgame locker room was filled with expected platitudes about not letting one loss define them. These Seahawks aren’t as good as we thought they were, and they need to figure it out quickly 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z Unlike Hudson, Hollingsworth will answer constituent concerns about crime with empathy and realistic solutions — not platitudes. Joy Hollingsworth is the council member Seattle District 3 needs | Editorial 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z She alienates Bonnie and the whole team with bloated speeches, anti-mediocrity platitudes, bursts of temper and displays of ingratitude. Review: 'Nyad' swims and sometimes sinks, but Bening's performance is Annette gain 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Iñiguez frequently says the school is “trying to humanize space,” and teachers say it isn’t just a platitude. This King County high school is starting the semester with a focus on preventing violence 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z After the handshakes, the platitudes and the lunch of Kamchatka crab dumplings, the outcome of the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stayed hidden. With Russia isolated on the world stage, Putin turns to old friend North Korea for help 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The No Labels manifesto championed by the likes of Joe Manchin is composed of misinformation, naivete, misguided solutions and timeworn platitudes. Column: How the media's obsession with Biden's age could help reelect Trump 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Amid the Labor Day platitudes praising workers, we rarely hear about older workers or elder poverty. Labor Day’s forgotten older workers | Opinion 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z All they received in return were platitudes and a speech illustrating how wonderful life was in California. Nadine Dorries' resignation letter in full 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z After all, these are the platitudes students constantly hear. Student Voices: Grief lingers after the pandemic. Kids need more support 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z It was high-mindedly dubbed The Alliance and backed with platitudes about “trust,” “gentlemen’s agreements” and “looking each other in the eye” — but no formal signed agreement. Pac-12 appears to be on borrowed time after Colorado bolts for Big 12 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The relative of a man who died after being given infected blood said evidence presented by Rishi Sunak to an inquiry amounted to "platitudes". Blood scandal relatives accuse PM of platitudes 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z In the flesh, the document is an agglomeration of misinformation, platitudes and premasticated nostrums. Column: The false centrism of political group No Labels 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z It definitely didn’t help to repeat those platitudes to myself as I sobbed through aisles at a few different grocery stores, searching for certified gluten-free replacements for the wheat-filled items Nova loved to eat. How a food writer’s family learned to adapt after her kid was diagnosed with celiac 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z “He deals in vague platitudes about faith … and he very much downplays his Catholicism,” said Cary McMullen, the former religion editor of The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida. How Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis talks about his own Catholic faith on the presidential campaign trail 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z “He deals in vague platitudes about faith and so on, and he very much downplays his Catholicism,” said Cary McMullen, a retired journalist and former religion editor of The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida. Florida Gov. DeSantis woos GOP Christian voters but stays tight-lipped on his own Catholic faith 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Public school equity will not happen until we move from ideological platitudes to an embodied practice. Resegregated schools: ‘Desegregate resources’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z When strangers share real stories about their lives, maybe one of the least intrusive things to do is not offer advice or platitudes, but to quietly lurk and listen. The Discreet Thrill of Lurking Online 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Secretly, he started to loathe it when people came up to him and offered platitudes about the need for healing. For family of Trader Joe's store manager killed by LAPD, impending trial brings anger 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z And then he paused, trying to quantify a platitude his tone indicated was of the utmost importance. Under D'Anton Lynn, UCLA's defense is 'trying to promote a different standard' 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The anxieties and challenges of these relationships are largely flattened into platitudes about our country’s deeply misguided priorities around health care. Review: Village Theatre’s premiere of ‘How to Break’ 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Before I read this, I had not understood the origins of the whole "bootstrap" platitude and how, actually, it was meant to be a joke. "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps:" How a joke about bootstraps devolved into an American credo 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z The pas de deux featured a lot of platitudes, a couple of tense moments and a number I can’t shake: 13,000. The U.S. and Mexico’s deadly dance 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z In the end, he couldn't offer much more than directing her to social workers and sharing earnest platitudes: "You're the bravest person I know," he told her. Doctors warned her pregnancy could kill her. Then Tennessee outlawed abortion 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “They’re full of platitudes like, ‘Take care of yourself,’” she says. Suffering in silence: Caring for research animals can take a severe mental toll 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z They also urged Washington politicians visiting Selma not to sully the memories of the late civil rights activists John Lewis, Hosea Williams and others with empty platitudes. Biden’s Selma visit puts spotlight back on voting rights 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z They also urged Washington politicians visiting Selma this weekend not to sully the memories of the late civil rights activists John Lewis, Hosea Williams and others with empty platitudes. Biden’s Selma visit puts spotlight back on voting rights 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z His characters are reassuring, often speaking in wise platitudes that feel universally relatable. With characters wise and reassuring, animated short 'The Boy, the Mole ... ' comforts 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Because his interviews usually consist of benign platitudes, on the rare occasions Ohtani makes declarative statements, they take an oversized role in shaping the public’s perception of him. It's anyone's guess what Angels' two-way star Shohei Ohtani's future is 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s unclear whether such platitudes will give Haley much cushion in a party that, for now, remains dominated by Trump and his supporters. Haley faces ‘high-wire act’ in 2024 bid against Trump 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Even for a reader familiar with Indian culture and Hindi, extricating oneself from the novel’s many tangents — rife with platitudes that are irrelevant at best and pontificating at worst — proves difficult. Review | ‘Tomb of Sand’ meditates on the cultural diffusion that permeates India 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z “I find it off-putting to just engage in platitudes. I much prefer to deconstruct an issue and speak of it in a way that hopefully elevates public discourse and educates the public.” Kamala Harris Is Trying to Define Her Vice Presidency. Even Her Allies Are Tired of Waiting. 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Like many of the products and murals that Goodman designs, the book is an ode to the circulation of neatly repackaged platitudes loosely disguised as products of enlightenment and self-actualization. Review | What happens when you try to capture a love affair in an infographic? 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z It’s a vague platitude, impossible to tell in most cases. Boys' basketball: Former rivals Dylan Black and Will Householter play in sync for Mira Costa 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z When it comes to concerts, some platitudes and superlatives are cliched to the point of being an expected part of the communion between performer and audience. Review | Rap newcomer BabyTron brings postmodern take on hip-hop to Union Stage 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The Rev. Bernice King, who leads The King Center in Atlanta, said leaders - especially politicians - too often cheapen her father’s legacy into a “comfortable and convenient King” offering easy platitudes. On King’s holiday, daughter calls for bold action over words 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The Rev. Bernice King, who leads The King Center in Atlanta, said leaders — especially politicians — too often cheapen her father’s legacy into a “comfortable and convenient King” offering easy platitudes. On King’s holiday, daughter calls for bold action over words 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Some will recite the familiar platitude that “we’ve come a long way, but still have a long way to go.” Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by practicing his words, continuing his work 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights icon, said people must move beyond platitudes and deepen their own commitments to the needed progress. MLK holiday to feature tributes, commitments to race agenda 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z They offered little more than empty platitudes over their scandalous six-year television blackout, blaming everyone but their greedy selves for SportsNet LA’s lack of widespread distribution. Hernández: Dodgers' brass still won't take accountability for Trevor Bauer fiasco 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z And talking with reporters, he gamely brushed off the historic and humiliating nature of his election, now the most protracted such contest since 1859, with an upbeat platitude. McCarthy, All Carrots and No Sticks, Grins His Way Toward the Speakership 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z He added, “I’m tired of your stupid platitudes that some consultant told you to say on the campaign trail, all right. Behind closed doors, tell us what you actually want, or shut the f--- up.” Policy demands, personal animus and more: Meet the McCarthy resistance 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z He instead mostly spoke in broad platitudes, saying he will enact “more family-friendly policies to make it easier to raise children” while keeping Florida “a law-and-order state.” DeSantis takes aim at federal government as he is sworn in to second term 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z The annual speech is typically heavy on apolitical platitudes — New Year’s dinner table fare for millions of Russian families. With Heightened Anxiety, Putin Prepares Russians for Long Fight Ahead 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Matt Gonzales, who directs an education justice center at NYU Metro Center, said he finds the chancellor to be “full of platitudes” and unwilling to consider the implications of a segregated school system. NYC’s Black schools chief isn’t sure racial integration is the answer 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z I agree with all the well-worn platitudes and bromides about “collective effort,” “vision,” “support,” “alignment,” blah, blah, blah in “There is hope to transform Seattle’s dismal Third Avenue.” Seattle’s future: Lack of leadership 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z In the book, it’s one of many absurd platitudes the characters use to make sense of a nonsensical world. Page to Screen: An exuberant 'White Noise' reinvents Don DeLillo — and Noah Baumbach 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Recently someone asked me if Madison was our “forever home” — a platitude that reminds me worms will one day eat my remains. Is life better outside L.A.? What I learned after moving away 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan vowed the summit would yield more than the platitudes that have previously frustrated African leaders and supporters. Biden gathering with 50 African leaders in first such summit in eight years 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Someone who must address issues such as immigration beyond the same old tired platitudes but also without alienating working-class white voters. A very different game with Democrats replacing Iowa caucuses with South Carolina 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z You name it, and when all the platitudes have been stated and done, one thing is always missing: strong committed leadership from the mayor and City Council. Seattle’s future: Lack of leadership 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Frank characterized the process as “just four friends spending a few months with him and now using platitudes saying he’s fit to proceed.” SBC president says disgraced predecessor is unfit to return to ministry 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Through seven games, the defensive effort of Willard’s squad hasn’t just been praised by the platitudes of opposing coaches, but it’s instead a defining feature of the team’s promising start. Undefeated Terrapins enter Big Ten play with new identity under Willard 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z During that visit, which at first appeared to be similarly heavy on the platitudes, the two men planted kisses on each other’s cheeks and held hands in front of photographers. Biden and Macron: A Bond Built on a Birthday Wish, Ice Cream and 30 Phone Calls 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z How can we get people not just to acknowledge our pain with platitudes and sympathy cards and flower arrangements, but to feel it? Review | Rob Delaney’s book, about the loss of his son, sings with life 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The issues are too fresh, and too consequential, to be addressed with such platitudes. Review | Princess Diana confided in Andrew Morton. What more is there to divulge? 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Council hopeful Traci Park’s ads featured racially coded language about crime and homelessness side by side with platitudes about diversity and cuts to people of color smiling and nodding. Column: Campaigns flood us with reductive racial rhetoric. How can we push back? 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Someone named Cody Johnson punctured that platitude: “If you believe in these ideas, you wouldn’t charge money to verify that someone is a human being worthy of being heard.” Free Press roundup: Musk doubles down on press attacks 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Actually boycotting the World Cup and not playing would make a far greater statement and back up their conviction far more than mere platitudes. Playing like future Ballon d'Or winner? Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z However, I expect that these efforts will excel in processes, platitudes and studies without sufficient tangible investments in livable wages. Working families: Invest in livable wages 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Denver’s record, the incessant “What’s wrong?” questions and the tepid reaction to his platitudes — they are telling him that. Perspective | Russell Wilson wanted more. Now he has to salvage whatever he can. 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Yet there’s hope in the fact that anti-racism, diversity and social consciousness have become such trendy mainstream issues, even if we’re overly focused on perceptions, platitudes and symbolism. Column: Campaigns flood us with reductive racial rhetoric. How can we push back? 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z During it, Mr. Jobs says that refinement comes from mistakes, a platitude that captures how Apple used trial and error to develop devices. Who Gets the Last Word on Steve Jobs? He Might. 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z They’ve been pushed to be medicated or plied with platitudes that hurt more than help. Arizona farm gives refuge from pain, for man and beast alike 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z News organizations sneered at the plan — the Washington Post called it “substance free,” and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch referred to the GOP concept as “a list of platitudes, not plans.” Trump rejoins Forbes’ list of America’s richest people 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Johnson and his allies have accused him of speaking in platitudes rather than in detail about his plans, avoiding unscripted moments in front of reporters and hiding from voters. Wisconsin’s Johnson embraces controversy in reelection bid 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The three players gave the typical start of training camp platitudes when talking about the trio. Wizards’ trio of Beal, Kuzma, Porzingis building ‘synergy’ in training camp 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z “But what I’m hearing more often than not, are just platitudes and there’s really no plan.” Is Seattle Police Department ready to embrace alternative responses to a gun and a badge? 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z "It wasn't just platitudes. The two of them sat down together in a corner and Biden was saying: 'You got all this going'," he says. What kind of a King will Charles be? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z If it was a plan that you sought, it was platitudes that you got. What is the Seahawks’ plan for the future? Well, it’s not really clear 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Whoever wins will be forgotten quickly by history, remembered only as someone who mouthed the right pro-Trump platitudes to appease a House GOP that forbids divergence from the ex-president. Analysis | Liz Cheney went against the ‘clear’ path. Now she leads an anti-Trump movement. 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The Scottish Liberal Democrats said the Tory leadership debate was packed with "superficial platitudes that only play to their narrow Tory party member electorate". Tory leadership: Truss and Sunak reject indyref2 in Perth 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z All the while, Ladybug flirts and goofs and munches, alternating lamentations about his bad luck and therapy-gleaned platitudes that sound like something a school principal might deploy. Review: Why Brad Pitt's 'Bullet Train,' sleek and shiny on the outside, is empty on the inside 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z All the stupid platitudes that you can say about, you know, he’s moving ahead or blah, blah, blah. Jonathan Banks of ‘Better Call Saul’ explains Mike’s saving grace 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Until they see that kind of proof, words are just platitudes. Bear market brings out bad advice 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z She said "people are exhausted by platitudes and empty rhetoric" and an "intellectual grasp of what is required to run the country" is missing. Kemi Badenoch launches bid to be Conservative leader 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Now, the Google doc just seemed like another venue for Netflix executives to post platitudes. Netflix doesn’t want to hear it anymore 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “We will not win with platitudes and half measures. Now is the time for bold action.” Abortion rights activists direct fury at Biden, Democratic leaders 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The party's inability to offer people anything other than empty platitudes about voting in five months is indicative of a broader laziness at the core of the institution. Democrats face rage after Roe disaster: "It feels like they couldn't care less" 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z They could barely be heard over the celebrations and the protesting and Fergie, but they offered up a few platitudes and cathartic rallying cries, but there really wasn’t much else to say. Perspective | No matter if one feels relief or devastation, the weight of overturning Roe is profound 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z And as employees continue to wonder what the acquisition will mean for them, Musk offered bong-rip platitudes about the future of civilization. Elon Musk’s plan is to run Twitter off the top of his head 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The same cannot be said of challengers who are thin on accomplishments and have campaigned on platitudes. Opinion | In the D.C. Democratic primary, stay the course 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z When Mr. Adams discusses them, he does not get beyond platitudes. Opinion | The Post endorses Brooke Lierman in Democratic primary for Maryland comptroller 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Chapek announced that Walden would be succeeding Rice in a statement that lacked the glowing platitudes that Hollywood usually turns to in these moments. No Relief in Sight for Prices 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z It doesn't strengthen speech but hollows it out, incentivizing selfishness and leaving us with empty platitudes. Gun violence, neoliberalism and Citizens United: We can't change things without facing the truth 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z No politician may come and simply repeat the platitude of thoughts and prayers. Perspective | We need a national memorial to gun violence. Now. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Think: flowing clothing, lots of meditation and shirtless pics captioned with inspirational platitudes. Eight new travel books to read on vacation this summer 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z But the film may inadvertently end up doing that, by delivering a message that can be boiled down to a platitude: Live every day as if it is your last. Review | Jerrod Carmichael’s directorial debut looks for comedy in a dark place 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Words and platitudes are great — at award dinners. We celebrated "free speech" this week — just as it's slipping away from us 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z For his part, Mr. Walker has stuck with platitudes and talking points as he hones his budding general election message. Herschel Walker’s debate avoidance in primary spurs general election questions 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z “I thought it was full of buzzwords and platitudes but really short on details,” she said then in a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing. The military wants ‘robot ships’ to replace sailors in battle 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z “People feel the pain of Biden’s inflationary policies in their pocketbooks, and his empty platitudes, broken promises, and blame games won’t change that,” Mr. Pigott said in a statement shared with Inside the Beltway. Talkers picks the 100 ‘most important’ radio hosts 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Youngkin’s suggestions on how to “combat” plastic pollution are a series of platitudes, euphemisms and hollow rhetoric. Opinion | Youngkin is trashing Virginia’s future 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z It highlights the risks of gig work and how families often have little or no communication from the companies involved other than platitudes offered to the media. More than 50 gig workers have been killed while working in the US since 2017 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z It may be a platitude offered too often to losing sides, but the opening weekend was more competitive than the scorelines suggest. Six Nations rust, records and renaissance 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z JUPITER, Fla. — Spring training is the time, at least publicly, for baseball players who are trying to rediscover themselves to spit out platitudes as if they’re sunflower seeds. Perspective | Baseball took Victor Robles’s joy last season. He wants it back. 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z From the beginning, however, there were questions about how his combative New York legal style would fit in Washington, where statements are often couched in platitudes and weighed for their political implications. Bernard Nussbaum, embattled White House counsel under Clinton, dies at 84 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Black History Month, Women’s History Month and the upcoming Pride Month — all are starting to seem like exhausting platitudes about the promises of the American Dream with no payoff. Discriminatory legislation: ‘Erases societal progress’ 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z And in answering questions, she seldom ventured beyond talking points and platitudes. News Analysis: Ukraine crisis gives Kamala Harris a new role 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z "The early movers moved with action instead of platitudes. And they were some of the less likely sectors to start first," he said in an interview. Mass exodus: Behind corporate America's unprecedented show of force against Putin's invasion 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z But he spent far more time blaming President Biden than Putin, and often spoke in vague platitudes without specifying what he would have done differently. Trump muses on war with Russia and praises Kim Jong Un 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z They talk about solutions and even show empathy in public, but when the rubber meets the road, they have nothing but platitudes to offer. Opinion | Maryland can’t wait for traffic relief 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Running 80 minutes with no intermission, “The Fifth Wave” has some vague ideas about what the next iteration of feminism might look like, but they’re more platitudes than provocation. Review: An icon/assault survivor struggles with a choice in Macha Theatre Works’ ‘The Fifth Wave’ 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z "It is clear from his actions today that this promise was merely a political platitude. Unfortunately, his refusal to meet with his own deputies is consistent with the secrecy with which he manages his administration." Los Angeles deputy DAs slam George Gascon for declining their invitation to defend himself against recall 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z “Shouting out Reagan platitudes in 2020 is not what you want to hear, and Kevin gets all that,” said one conservative strategist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to frankly discuss the situation. Heritage Foundation, former powerhouse of GOP policy, adjusts in face of new competition from Trump allies 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The promises and platitudes nonetheless amounted to noteworthy progress on Capitol Hill, a place where partisan disagreements these days have come to transform all but the most basic debates into intractable conflicts. Democrats, GOP inch ahead toward potential deal to fund government, avert shutdown 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z As we face the most dangerous crisis in decades that risks pushing the world into nuclear war, very few are doing anything more than mouth safe platitudes. U.S. hypocrisy on Ukraine paralyzes media, Congress — and even progressive Democrats 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z “The more Spotify fails to confront the actual PR crisis of Rogan himself, by writing platitudes about applying rules to all creators equally, their customers will continue to demand corporate accountability,” she added. Analysis | The misinformation reckoning hits Spotify 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Do you feel annoyed when people pepper you with platitudes such as “Time heals all wounds” or “Life will never give you more than you can handle?” Review | What is ‘toxic positivity’ and why is it a problem? A new book explains. 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Youngkin speaks in platitudes, such as “the rights of parents” and the biblical exhortation to “love your neighbor.” Opinion | Youngkin could hardly be off to a worse start 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z "We need a coordinated, collaborative, concerted global effort which is underpinned by serious investment, not just warm words and platitudes and applause," he said. Rich countries' access to foreign nurses during Omicron raises ethical concerns, group says 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z “We need a coordinated, collaborative, concerted global effort which is underpinned by serious investment, not just warm words and platitudes and applause,” he said. 74,799 more cases reported in UK; Russia breaks daily infection record – as it happened 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z “We do not need any more speeches, we don’t need any more platitudes,” said James Woodall, former president of the N.A.A.C.P. of Georgia. Voting Rights Groups Skipping Biden’s Speech in Georgia Over Inaction 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z “A visit has been forced on them, requiring them to accept political platitudes and repetitious, bland promises,” the statement said. Voting-rights activists warn Biden to skip Atlanta speech without plan for legislation 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z “The problem with some of these platitudes is that they pretend that we all have universals,” she said. Gift giving: Is it really the thought that counts? Psychologists weigh in. 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Ever since Meyer was lured off a TV set by Jaguars owner Shad Khan, he has been spouting airy platitudes that have as much substance as a young-adult novel. Perspective | Nobody believes Urban Meyer. That’s why he’s failing. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Under a headshot of him straining a smile sits a quote that is as much a platitude as it may be a warning: “Every CEO gets the exact organization they deserve.” Inside the slow, strange collapse of electric delivery startup Chanje 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Somewhat like Manchin and Sinema, Garner mouthed platitudes about tradition and limited government to mask his allegiance to what today would be dubbed "the one percent." Sit-down strikes revolutionized the labor movement — could it happen again? 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Even the most well-intentioned people, at a loss for what to say to a mourner, often resort to platitudes. Earl Grollman, rabbi who ministered to mourners, dies at 96 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z First, the obvious: This is a franchise that has been focused on building for the future by hiring “football guys,” those hardened lifers who fit the bill of every coaching platitude meme. Playing It Safe, Giants Steal a Win From the Raiders 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Without much more than hand-waving and platitudes about the “moment” of the streetcar being over, the council appears prepared to walk away from this nearly 25-year history. Opinion | D.C. should not walk away from streetcar expansion 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The paper, which describes how Shiba and its progeny works, is also peppered with soaring-but-vague platitudes about community, freedom, revolution and destroying traditional paradigms. Shiba Inu passes Dogecoin as top “dog” in cryptocurrency 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Often, their prompts are just simple platitudes — ”Thanks!”, The future of AI is a conversation with a computer 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z But even as the company sidesteps its own panel of experts, Facebook can retreat into platitudes about the free exchange of opinions, as if every choice was being guided by a higher set of principles. Social media vs. the world 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Charity Oxfam was one of many groups that registered their disappointment, calling the Rome summit a "missed opportunity" full of "vague promises and platitudes" that failed to deliver badly needed concrete action. Draghi says G20 a success, made progress on climate goals 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Sure, he dresses it in a red-fleece vest and non-threatening platitudes: “soar and never settle,” “lift up all Virginians,” “a new day.” Opinion | Youngkin banishes Trump, but he can’t clean the stench of Trumpism 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z I’m always a little skeptical of anyone who leans too heavily on the “there’s opportunity in a crisis” platitude. Column: Here's what it will take to slow the gentrification of South L.A. 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Anyway, platitudes about natural language drift won’t sway doubters any more than now-ubiquitous jibes at the “grammar police” will, because the issue is not really grammar. Opinion | Gender-Neutral Pronouns: The Singular ‘They’ and Alternatives 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z "Don’t forget all the platitudes that he mentioned regarding everything else because I think that overrides just saying that he wants to win and somehow connect that to he wants to leave," Maddon said. Maddon: Shohei Ohtani didn't say he wants to leave Angels 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z “Don’t forget all the platitudes that he mentioned regarding everything else because I think that overrides just saying that he wants to win and somehow connect that to he wants to leave,” Maddon said. Maddon: Shohei Ohtani didn’t say he wants to leave Angels 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The bankruptcy of the liberal class is important, for it effectively turns liberal democratic values into the empty platitudes those who embrace autocracy condemn and despise. America's fate looks bleak: Will it be oligarchy or autocracy? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Critics on the left say that Mr. Starmer’s camp has opted for platitudes and shied away from distinctive left-of-center policies to avoid offending any electoral group. Labour’s Leader Struggles to Emerge From Boris Johnson’s Shadow 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z At a moment when the United States needed soaring oratory, Bush was an inarticulate man mouthing the most anodyne platitudes. Empty words: How Bush and Giuliani failed to capture the moment on 9/11 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z The owners of sports franchises — or other companies, for that matter — often speak in platitudes and broad strokes when discussing the operation of their businesses. Perspective | Tanya Snyder spoke of her own pain. She left out the WFT’s victims. 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z This season, the NFL once again will present its version of social justice as platitudes stenciled on turf and slogans in small print on the back of football equipment. Perspective | The NFL’s idea of social justice is just a sticker on a helmet 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Oligarchies, which spew saccharine pieties and platitudes, engage in lies that are often far more destructive to the public than the lies of a narcissist autocrat. America's fate looks bleak: Will it be oligarchy or autocracy? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Let’s be clear: The phone call in question was not an innocent exchange of diplomatic platitudes. Opinion | The trouble in leaving Afghanistan 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Biden found himself in a real-time crisis that overrides the platitudes he offered when running for the office and in the early months of his presidency. Biden in the ‘loneliest job,’ a presidency driven by crisis 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z “This is not a time for platitudes and distractions. This is a time for active anti-racism, nothing less.” Rhode Island school district fights to keep critical race theory meetings private 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z You might think that the “pro-family” Republican Party would be eager to translate platitudes into practical help. Opinion | Turning Child Care Into a New Cold War 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z As he introduces himself to voters, he needs to provide policy positions, and not just platitudes. Opinion | So far, Glenn Youngkin is mastering the duck and the dodge 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z She mostly stuck to platitudes about the community, leaning heavily on the jargon of upscale progressives. Why a New Mexico House Race Is a Crucial Test of the G.O.P. Focus on Crime 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z They have described being dismissed with blank stares or platitudes such as “It isn’t that bad” or “That’s just part of being a woman,” or told to come back when they are “really in menopause.” Opinion | Women Can Have a Better Menopause. Here’s How. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z “It was, ‘Sorry, I made a mistake,' and a lot of platitudes. Stanford, Facing Pressure, Reverses Plan to Cut 11 Sports 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Pence received a standing ovation when he took the stage and talked about the Trump-Pence administration's accomplishments, offering what one attendee called "a lot of platitudes." At private Texas event, Republican presidential hopefuls tiptoe around Trump 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Time's Up, a leading advocate for industry reform, slammed the proposal as "window-dressing platitudes". NBC refuses to air Golden Globes over lack of diversity 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z “But our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes.” Biden’s declaration: America’s democracy ‘is rising anew’ 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z But others want far more than platitudes from Harris, especially on immigration as the daughter of immigrants. Column: After 100 days, Kamala Harris is a big reason for Biden administration's success 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z He delivered the requisite offseason platitudes about a World Series title always being the goal. Analysis | The surprising Red Sox, plucky and revamped, are rolling through the AL East 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z If that is truly a goal and not a platitude, a school-zone monitoring experiment is well worth a try. Editorial Roundup: North Carolina 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z “Everything else he says is platitudes. What he says about covid can save lives,” the pollster said, arguing that Biden’s current popularity made him more effective than many politicians. ‘I’m still a zero’: Vaccine-resistant Republicans warn that their skepticism is worsening 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “They, of course, offer platitudes about ‘respect for freedom of expression’ at the same time they celebrate or encourage my resignation.” Professor rips new discrimination on campus against ‘whiteness’ 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z No, they get only chyrons and newsprint, to go with smarmy platitudes of inaction, specious pieties worn smooth by repetition. The victims of this war don’t get a wall 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z It was, he thought, the same old story: Police kill a Black person, protests erupt, politicians pledge reforms and corporations offer platitudes about supporting needed change. Floyd spurred broad push for change globally, activists say 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z We celebrate our extraordinary experiment in self-rule too often with platitudes and empty gestures. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Instead, Ford officials are falling back on platitudes about how “invested” the automaker is in Ohio Assembly and its workers. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Senate Democrats suggest the appointments project the values of the new president, who anchored his campaign around bipartisan platitudes and pledged to rely on experts. Analysis | Biden’s slow and steady approach on Cabinet choices seems to be working 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z This letter runs counter to the governor’s efforts and teaches these student athletes that the principles in the Constitution are only platitudes. Editorial Roundup: Tennessee 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z In response to the lobbying, the city’s final plan watered down key emission goals, replacing specific strategies to cut emissions with vague and sometimes misleading platitudes. A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Even speaking in private, Mr. al-Assad stuck with the platitudes that characterize his public speeches. Having Won Syria’s War, al-Assad Is Mired in Economic Woes 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z “There were no buzzwords, no platitudes, it was just very to the point. A lot of substance to his answers, so that really stood out.” Hernández: Chargers bolting into the unknown quite a bit with Brandon Staley 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z “There were no buzzwords, no platitudes. It was just very to the point. A lot of substance was answered, so that really stood out,” Telesco said. Chargers’ new coach Staley looking to connect with Herbert 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z I could speak of it only in platitudes and banalities. Opinion | What Would David Bowie Do? 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z As Americans began to process the Trump-endorsed insurrection, the blatant sedition, public figures shared the same platitudes about America that they always do when something in this country goes gravely wrong. Opinion | We’ve Seen the Ugly Truth About America 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z In public, Tomlin is full of scowls and digestible platitudes showcased throughout games and in news conferences, a vastly different demeanor than his players see. Mike Tomlin Reaches Another N.F.L. Postseason With Fewer Black Peers 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z “It creates more stress, confusion and uncertainty if they sit on the fence and throw empty platitudes at the problem,” Buckles added. COVID surge throws 'essential' Hollywood production plans up in the air 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z In an essay, he mocked the platitudes that infest most lists of writing rules. Review: If anyone can teach you writing, maybe George Saunders can? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Now they've reached a point where information is an unnecessary impediment to their effort to overwhelm all legitimate political or ideological debate with a mélange of platitudes and bromides. Lost in the middle: Will the arrogant certainty of "centrism" destroy America? 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z This is not the “divine order” of cute platitudes or Hallmark cards, Brown said, but one that is honest and clarifying. Black residents got pushed out of the Central District. Now a ‘Seattle Soul’ restaurant welcomes them back. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z “We think messages pre-COVID around resources going to students who are further from opportunity was jargon and phrasing and platitudes to a too large extent.” Inslee wants $400 million to mitigate pandemic-era learning loss, but we don’t yet know its extent 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z And sometimes it means the platitudes of Utah Nice. AP ROAD TRIP: Amid American rancor, a dash of Utah Nice 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z “I think Maya is a really grounded person who understands that we can’t just spout platitudes,” Ms. Trump said. A Trump Fund-Raiser for Maya Wiley? Yes, but It’s Mary Trump 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z In August, he hosted American Compass’s first live conversation, a remote interview with the junior senator from Missouri, Josh Hawley, billed as a discussion about the “empty platitudes and hypocrisy of ‘woke capital.’” Win or Lose, It’s Donald Trump’s Republican Party 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z He hardly campaigned, and when he did, he often focused on local issues and spoke in platitudes. The strange, one-of-a-kind political campaign that almost landed Walter Johnson in Congress 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z “These statements are often swaddled in gauzy platitudes — and that means the rest of the world should judge China by its track record rather than its promises.” Analysis: China struggles to fill Trump's 'America First' leadership void 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Within hours, social media was awash with parodies: “Meaningless slogan. Three-word platitude. Invoke heroism.” Coronaspeak has gone viral, and the English language may never be the same 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “Subsequent hearings have presented to the public a vapid and hollow charade, in which repetition of platitudes has replaced discussion of viewpoints, and personal anecdotes have supplanted legal analysis.” Barrett’s Testimony Is a Deft Mix of Expertise and Evasion 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z It focuses on the paths we are taking to avoid repeating previous mistakes—not as an afterthought or vague platitude but as a core part of the message. Why So Many Americans Are Skeptical of a Coronavirus Vaccine 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z He must spell out how he’s going to help them with programs, not just platitudes. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z If Starmer wants to appeal to working class voters, his pitch should be based on solidarity with the working class and defending their interests, not just slogans and platitudes. UK coronavirus live: more than 57,600 deaths involving Covid-19 now recorded 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Overly enamored of their own tepid twist and reliant on on-the-nose platitudes, Bush and Renz, advertising veterans and self-described “activist filmmakers,” mine America’s original sin of slavery and botch the landing. Review: Janelle Monáe can't save 'Antebellum' from its hollow, high-concept horrors 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z To claim that these words were mere "platitudes" would be an understatement. What are the true goals of QAnon? It's the 21st century's ultimate catfish scheme 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Of Mr. Trump, he recently tweeted that “barely being able to read lies, distortions, and platitudes from a teleprompter IS NOT PRESIDENTIAL.” Will Doug Emhoff’s Legal Career Be an Issue for the Biden-Harris Ticket? 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z That’s not a platitude, but a difficult stance that underpins the survival of this wildly diverse nation. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z But the campaign also notes that the vice president will contrast those accomplishments with what they describe as simple platitudes being offered by Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Pence gets top billing on GOP convention's third night 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The player who spoke only in benign platitudes is slowly pulling back the layers. Watt’s Up; Steelers LB TJ Watt stepping into spotlight 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z “The message — explore and embrace the rich legacy of your ancestors because it’s part of you — may sound simple, but in Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s hands, it’s hardly a rudimentary platitude,” Ali wrote in her review. Beyoncé's 'Brown Skin Girl' video from 'Black Is King' is now on YouTube 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Harris offered a few platitudes about the importance of voting, and then introduced the night’s convention host, Kerry Washington, in what seemed like a pretty straightforward kick off to the Democratic party’s evening. Hysteria and dismay: Fox hosts spend evening fear-mongering over Kamala Harris | Analysis 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z “This is his dream,” Bartomeu said, and it was not an empty platitude. Ronald Koeman gets dream Barcelona job but may not have long to make mark | Sid Lowe 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The message — explore and embrace the rich legacy of your ancestors because it’s part of you — may sound simple, but in Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s hands, it’s hardly a rudimentary platitude. Review: Beyoncé's 'Black Is King' reimagines 'The Lion King' as abstract tribute to Black power, beauty and wisdom 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z And Lucas, for the most part, pulls off the platitudes and aphorisms he is asked to spout. Review: 'The Secret: Dare to Dream' should have wished for a better movie 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z "He's smart enough to mouth the platitudes he knows most Americans like," Shapiro said. Ben Shapiro: Left's 'Blame the system' narrative aimed at erasing US history, culture 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The commissioner’s containment measures have been launched, with the usual meaningless platitudes and expressions of faux concern. Perspective | The NFL long has known what it has in Daniel Snyder. The league owns this scandal too. 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Ford campaigned tirelessly and Carter’s folksy platitudes began to wear thin. How does Trump stack up 100 days out? 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Let’s not fool ourselves with sentimental platitudes about the national pastime. Editorial Roundup: New England 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z She cycles through platitudes in an effort to get through an answer and then is reduced to awkward laughing. No hard feelings after fight? Kristine Anigwe is 'cool' with Brittney Griner 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z They noted that companies often seemed to be “seeking participation trophies” and trivializing the Black Lives Matter movement with “empty and vague platitudes,” providing no concrete plans for change and ignoring complaints of inequality internally. A Rush to Use Black Art Leaves the Artists Feeling Used 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z The paper called the common saying that “We’re all in this together” a “platitude” that fails to acknowledge the data that shows the coronavirus has been a disproportionate burden for racial and ethnic minorities. Los Angeles teachers union links defunding police to reopening schools 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Like the façade offered by Donald Trump, with his predilection for groping flags and spouting meaningless platitudes, they are only symbols obscuring actual reality. Defenders of Confederate monuments are afraid of real history 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “This is more than offering platitudes, they’re spending money,” Todd Boyd, a University of Southern California professor and expert on pop culture and black history, told The Post of the Kaepernick deal. Analysis: The Disney Co. is now in business with Colin Kaepernick. That says more about him than it does about Disney. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z If the last six weeks proved anything, it was that players thanking fans for their support after a game is more than a platitude. Do Empty Stadiums Affect Outcomes? The Data Says Yes 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Rye also took issue with Biden’s plan for black America, titled “Lift Every Voice,” saying the blueprint is full of “platitudes.” Liberal Democrats, after quiet stretch, roar again 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z It becomes easier to reduce this truth to a set of platitudes about what culture is made of, and how memory must be preserved. By tearing down our statues, Albanians stopped learning from the past | Lea Ypi 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z In Sunday school, it might have the force of a platitude, but Catholic Workers take it with the utmost gravity. 'One of the gentlest people I know:' 75-year-old shoved by police a peace activist, not a provocateur 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, their platitudes only work to obscure and further prolong longstanding social and economic injuries. These protests feel different. There's cause for hope - but also a very long road ahead | Sandra Susan Smith 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z “We’ve received nothing but empty platitudes and empty promises, and the wound just scabs right back up,” she said. From Cosmetics to NASCAR, Calls for Racial Justice Are Spreading 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z “All of these things would show that this is more than just platitudes.” As big corporations say ‘black lives matter,’ their track records raise skepticism 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Hollow promises and platitudes about injustice have become stale. Column: Tianna Bartoletta wants people to 'give a damn' about the fight for Black equality 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Unlike the vague platitudes often offered in speech by her elders, in her two-and-a-half-minute speech Gauff did not waste a word. Patrick Mouratoglou: 'Coco Gauff was more mature at 14 than women of 25' 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z In still other places, officials are whistling right past this volatile issue, mouthing vague platitudes about wearing masks and allowing a little more space among children’s desks. Opinion | How to Reopen America’s Schools 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Chinese sports stars usually express thanks and offer platitudes about their government — if they address politics and power at all. Chinese soccer superstar calls for ouster of Communist Party, stunning nation 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Like any corporate document, they occasionally get bogged down with platitudes. How Ford, GM, FCA, and Tesla are bringing back factory workers 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z But so far in this crisis, and even before it, there has been a strange vacuum of basic shared-values platitudes. What’s the Point of a Celebrity in a Pandemic? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z |
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