| 单词 | platitudinous |
| 例句 | Its Olympian tone made it a perennial touchstone at those political occasions requiring platitudinous wisdom. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It’s an idea that Mr. Koons would probably embrace with his trademark smile and some kind of pleasant, if strangely platitudinous, pronouncement. The Koons Collection 2010-02-26T22:48:00Z It’s platitudinous and also not quite right to say that Allen’s best works, like the works of those three, will endure on their merits or outlast the scandal or whatever. How do we watch Woody’s movies now? 2014-02-08T17:00:00Z The better the production values—Michael Bolton had a No. 1 hit version of it in 1991—the more bland and platitudinous it sounds. Percy Sledge, Pop Miracle 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z While Mr. Swaim is expected to answer the letters, he is also expected to deploy a whole lot of “platitudinous observations” and “superfluous phrases” to say, basically, nothing. Review: In ‘The Speechwriter,’ Barton Swaim Shares Tales of Working for Mark Sanford 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Mendes’s rain was no flagrant metaphor for night emissions; “In My Blood,” the song that he performed, is a platitudinous track about anxiety, done in unironic soft rock. The Scandalous Dullness of MTV’s First Post-Millennial V.M.A.s 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Curled up in a chair and refusing to engage, Alice endures the platitudinous sympathy of relations, while her mother becomes remote with grief. Alice 2010-06-25T20:30:00Z Christmas Story lampoons holiday greed but delights in it too — there’s no platitudinous ending about how Christmas isn’t really about presents. Generation X-Mas: The Rise of A Christmas Story 2011-12-24T14:59:14Z It’s also that after a while everyone starts to sound the same: a little beatific, a little high on wonder, a little platitudinous. | 'I Am': ?I Am? by the Director Tom Shadyac 2011-03-18T06:03:02Z It sounds platitudinous enough, but it isn’t, thanks to Hall’s tight yet modest prose. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Brand's platitudinous forays against politicians, especially Tory ones, were cheered enthusiastically. Russell Brand rules Question Time's clash of the egos 2013-06-21T00:13:16Z As the battle between these cartoon villains and Nate goes to court, the writing becomes painfully platitudinous, skating around the real controversies surrounding the domestication of intelligent primates. ‘Gigi & Nate’ Review: A Tender Bond 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Its first issue featured an article in which Scalia expressed his contempt for legislation aimed at the “platitudinous goals of pursuing ‘the public interest’ or preventing ‘sex discrimination.’ ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Pointing up a disjunction between brutal news and unrelated advertising is familiar, even platitudinous. Wade Guyton Packs Information in ‘The New York Times Paintings’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z I had to ask him this very platitudinous question more because he was so difficult a man to spend an hour with than for any other reason. He met Hitler, was mocked by Maugham, but what of Hugh Walpole’s books? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Her primary message—be yourself—has always felt both platitudinous and profound. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z And faced with a tired or platitudinous premise, Mr. Jackson goes blank: it happens on “You Go Your Way,” a song of marital dissolution, and “Everything but the Wings,” a song of trite angelic metaphor. New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z But, in between much lucid exposition and some ekphrastic gymnastics to die for, there is a disappointingly vanilla and platitudinous avatar of Sprackland abroad on that marvellous shore. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z If they dutifully deliver the film’s platitudinous message — “be yourself” — it’s with the conviction of a makeup brand selling a “natural look.” ‘He’s All That’ Review: Much Ado About Nothing 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z It begins after a brief, platitudinous monologue from Gadot, who may be on lockdown, but whose mind has been freed, bro. This ‘Imagine’ Cover Is No Heaven 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z And while it may be a platitudinous album, it’s a competent one. Critic’s Notebook: New Country Albums From Gary Allan and Randy Houser 2013-01-27T23:05:49Z China is platitudinously described as a compelling mix of ancient and modern — but in Shanghai, there’s ample reason. Conquering High-Priced Shanghai, From Dumplings to Modern Art 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z This is a movie that drop quotations from the likes of Faulkner and Einstein in their sessions and elsewhere, but rarely feels platitudinous. Movie Listings for Dec. 2-8 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z They accept platitudinous thanks from fellow citizens and offer halfhearted enthusiasm in return. Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown,’ and More 2013-08-28T19:05:14Z But the moments when a charismatic operator like this one finds peace and grace are usually the most pat and platitudinous parts of any memoir or journal. Books of The Times: ?Journals of Spalding Gray,? Edited by Nell Casey - Review 2011-10-17T21:27:58Z While he didn’t “doubt either its integrity or sincerity,” he found the show “naïve and platitudinous.” Broadway Revival of ?Godspell? 2011-11-04T14:59:10Z Often, it seems pretty innocuous, if platitudinous — but in the case of Claudia Conway, the entire segment registers as deeply disingenuous in light of Claudia's allegations that her mother is "physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive." "American Idol" spotlights Claudia Conway, proving the media's learned nothing from #FreeBritney 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Rivera could do only, perhaps, what he was good at: working, fulfilling commissions, and organizing human types and platitudinous dogma into impressively complex, large-scale compositions. Review | San Francisco’s Diego Rivera exhibition is the largest in 20 years 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z On one occasion, Sir Philip was interrupted by committee chairman and Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, who told him: "It sounds less credible every time you repeat it. It sounds platitudinous." Afghanistan: Top UK official regrets holiday as country fell to Taliban 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The responsibility of a photographer is not only to capture these platitudinous concepts of truth and beauty in artmaking, or the ways in which a subject might see or imagine themselves to be. Texas Isaiah is reimagining photography’s capacity to reveal what we know on the inside 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Often these statements are platitudinous, but this one is quite intriguing. G7 live news: Boris Johnson chairs summit’s opening meeting, saying world should ‘level up’ after pandemic 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Blacks appreciate the fine sentiments that are offered, platitudinous assertions of moral commitments, promissory notes that things will change. Protests over killings of black people could erode racism, researcher says 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Few people will share his contention that Eliot’s poetry is essentially platitudinous. Conclusive Evidence 1998-12-21T05:00:00Z Comforting because here, for once, was a normal human reaction; not robotic or platitudinous, not scripted or insincere. With respect: how Jacinda Ardern showed the world what a leader should be 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Trump got away with platitudinous promises, but now Democrats must take positions on purely theoretical ideas. Opinion | Democrats are conspiring to reelect Trump 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Having not yet attained Haemin’s tolerance for other people’s flaws, I can’t resist observing that his wisdom all too often comes across as platitudinous. Want to transform your life? Stop chasing perfection 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Thanksgiving’s nostalgic pull is anchored to the very dishes that food writers keep trying to wean us off of: trite turkey, corny casseroles, stereotypical stuffing, platitudinous pumpkin pies. Opinion | This one little trick will make Thanksgiving perfect 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z This is, of course, merely the latest example of the sort of platitudinous nonsense in which he specialises. Saudi scheme shows Fifa remains the world’s most expensive laundry service | Marina Hyde 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z But last year, slogans bit, being more memorable and profound, less anodyne and platitudinous. Cynthia Nixon: this season’s must-have at New York fashion week 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “The safest and surest route to the prize,” she wrote, “lay in alternating platitudinous statement and judicious silence.” Brett Kavanaugh’s Expert Evasions, Learned From Past Masters 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z His cynicism extends to everyone and everything except his own knack for producing hit songs, which he platitudinously trumpets as a means for “bringing humanity together”. “Mood Music” lays bare the exploitative side of the music industry 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Most National Security Strategy statements are appallingly platitudinous, numbingly conventional and quickly forgotten. Trump’s ‘Blue Water’ Foreign Policy 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z All the candles, and teddy bears, and balloons, and bear-hugs, and vigils, and platitudinous expressions of condolence by Texas governors and Teleprompted presidents cannot bring them back. Air Force Error Allowed Texas Gunman to Buy Weapons 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z And because his mind is closed to rational thought outside his theocratic construct, everything he says comes out like platitudinous mush. The vacuity of Mike Pence 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Looming over it all is a thick layer of platitudinous piety in which an invocation of God’s name is seen as a reasonable substitute for an offer of help. Senegal's Oscar entry ‘Félicité’ is an intimate drama set in the music scene of war-scarred Congo 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro took issue with Mr. Olbermann’s remark, arguing that the progressive response to mass shootings is “purely platitudinous and is clearly also a power grab.” Prayer comes under fire after Texas church shooting 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Instead, she chose to mouth platitudinous slogans to audiences that were often handpicked. Theresa May’s dreams lie in ashes. Her resignation seems inevitable | Matthew d’Ancona 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “The safest and surest route to the prize,” she wrote in 1995, “lay in alternating platitudinous statement and judicious silence.” Avoid, Sidestep, Retreat: Justices’ Advice on Confirmation Tactics 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z A Chicago Sun-Times critic called it “syrupy, platitudinous pap,” and others lampooned the book’s overwrought emotionalism and wooden prose. Robert James Waller, author of best-selling ‘Bridges of Madison County,’ dies at 77 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Part of this is due to the drearily platitudinous nature of the drama, which spends more than two hours drowning in banal self-helpisms. A father has a personal encounter with God in the eccentric, kitschy 'The Shack' 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Although the fictional parts are arranged to be dramatic — a pioneer story, full of obstacles — the staged scenes on Mars and on Earth are oddly plodding and ponderous, pious and platitudinous. Ron Howard takes us to 'Mars' (and it's a bumpy ride) 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Fielding, whose Tom Jones would gain renown for his cheerful sexual exploits, found Richardson’s platitudinous Sunday-school morality unbearable. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Hayward appears unconvinced he is the latter, even given his "platitudinous promise to 'win back respect'", saying a lot of evidence will be needed to "stop us thinking he was simply Uefa's anti-everybody-else candidate". Newspaper headlines: Osborne's cuts, children's teeth, 'LSD' exhibition - BBC News 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z This is the kind of platitudinous drivel that Rubio spews on the stump. Marco Rubio is not a moderate: If the Florida senator represents mainstream conservatism, the GOP is screwed 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Response speeches are always awkward and platitudinous, regardless of the party. Trump is the GOP: That’s why Nikki Haley’s bid to distance the party from him is hopeless 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The paintings satirizing North Korea’s platitudinous slogans — “North Korea is a good place to live” — and showing the late leader Kim Jong Il under an upside-down North Korean flag were hung on the gallery walls. This artist mocks North Korea with its own propaganda 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Here he was, on one of America’s most prestigious programs, ready to talk policy, and all we got were platitudinous non-responses. Donald Trump is the glib hero the right has been waiting for: What his “60 Minutes” interview revealed about his terrifying appeal 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z These grand statements of purpose authored or authorized by our school systems tend to be exactly the kind of platitudinous boilerplate you'd expect from groups of people hoping to inspire, but afraid to offend. Mission Disregarded 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z In public, he can sometimes appear to be ever the politician, having spent too much time in five-star hotel lobbies swimming in the shallow, platitudinous soup of what passes for international sporting diplomacy. Sebastian Coe: Athletics is about more than drugs, blood and urine 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z The major characteristic of bilateral relations, and the reason why anything but a very platitudinous description is unlikely, is that they are, and are always likely to be, complicated. How China-UK relations have evolved - BBC News 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s a vaguely sour piece, and a periodically platitudinous one, too, marked by Hare’s residual Thatcher-era indignation. Haves and Have-Nots 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z So many people talk about customer engagement these days, and a lot of that talk is pretty complicated and/or platitudinous. Answer These 6 Questions - And Customers Will Love You 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Other causes of concern, such as the 10 journalists jailed this year on the flimsiest of pretenses, are brushed aside with platitudinous references to the “rule of law.” Aung San Suu Kyi's Appalling Silence 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z His most recent book — on corporate finance — has a few platitudinous references to Japan but has essentially nothing to say about Korea and Taiwan, let alone China. Why Are Nobel Economists So Darned Useless? 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Speakers are usually party bureaucrats and officials affiliated with the school, delivering platitudinous and dry elocutions. Chinese College Grads Choose Wedding Dresses Over Caps And Gowns 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z We don't need more platitudinous damage control, but the truth about our history. Tell us the truth about the children dumped in Galway's mass graves 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The international tax system doesn't require a bit of tinkering here and a token measure there, accompanied by some platitudinous rhetoric to try to soften public anger. The G8 could act radically to stop tax avoidance. Don't bet on it 2013-06-16T05:00:01Z The real Alan Shearer, we were told by his friends when he was still a player is the one they saw in private, not the wary platitudinous guise he opted for post-match interviews. Steve McManaman collects campaign medal No3 with BT Sport stint| Rob Bagchi 2013-05-09T16:27:09Z Policy is, at its heart, depressingly platitudinous: one health minister this week described it as “working together to get results.” The Fattest Europeans 2013-02-21T09:45:00Z And as goes, you can't go much further than the biggest celebrity the sport has produced "confessing" to industrial doping – however ambiguously or platitudinously – to the most famous celebrity interviewer of them all. Lance Armstrong's 'confession' is a throw of the dice worth making 2013-01-16T20:40:04Z I was really getting tired of giving all those platitudinous campaign speeches ... Economic View: A Liberal Obama vs. a Moderate Obama in the Fiscal Debate 2012-11-24T21:53:59Z The two human buffers spent most of the 20 minutes swapping perplexed looks while Greene and Jackson exchanged platitudinous pleasantries about one another. Dai Green hoping to have last laugh over rivals come London 2012 Games 2012-05-30T21:20:01Z I never did share the platitudinous belief in propinquity. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z In promulgating your esoteric cogitation on articulating superficial sentimentalities and philosophical psychological observation, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z With some such thoughts does the platitudinous heart win from the confusion and thunder of a Niagara peace that the quietest plains or most stable hills can never give. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z It's to the honour of us anyhow that we can and do keep touching without the more platitudinous kind of demonstration of it. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z And I do not say this simply as an echo of what others before me have said, or to use a platitudinous phrase. Successward A Young Man's Book for Young Men 2011-08-15T02:00:27.860Z She will continue to fudge the facts and return, thoughtlessly, to the offensive with one of her platitudinous old reliables: Paul Revere loved freedom. Sarah Palin's vacation from history 2011-06-08T15:50:00Z Suddenly there came to me from nowhere, but with a poignance that seemed to make it new, the platitudinous thought that life is at once the commonest and strangest of experiences. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z It used to be axiomatic, platitudinous, that Frenchwomen dressed better than Englishwomen. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z The elderly vicar read a short and platitudinous address to the newly married out of a small pastoral book. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z A bare and not particularly interesting statement of facts or a procession of dull and platitudinous ideas is, even in verse, anything but poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The British prime minister’s repudiation of multiculturalism was so uncontroversial as to be almost platitudinous. David Cameron Takes a Whack at Multiculturalism 2011-02-13T15:00:00Z I liked Samuel Earp, though he was a most platitudinous Englishman. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Thank Mary for being honest, and not clouding the issue with platitudinous rhetoric. Well: Online Dating With a Difference 2010-12-28T22:51:17Z Mike Gatting was just as polite, just as platitudinous, in victory as in defeat. From the archive, 20 November 1986: England win leaves Border in disorder 2010-11-22T09:24:00Z Apart from accepting too many Republican prescriptions for the economy, Obama also waxes vague and platitudinous when asked about the extreme forces he's up against, like birthers, Beck and Limbaugh. Obama just doesn't get it 2010-08-30T18:50:00Z Sir Francis Bacon's now platitudinous observation that "knowledge itself is power" is as true as ever. Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy 2010-08-02T12:03:00Z Jesse Walker of Reason magazine said, "The rhetoric here is so all-inclusive and platitudinous as to be practically meaningless." Conservatives Should Honor Founding Principles 2010-02-24T01:17:00Z It is almost platitudinous to quote Herodotus' remark that the invention of geometry was necessary because of the floods of the Nile, which washed away the boundaries and changed the contours of the fields. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude However platitudinous it may sound, I am compelled to remark how the time flies. A Top-Floor Idyl They are frequently commonplace, sometimes even platitudinous, and the author occasionally falls into what is perhaps the most dangerous pitfall for a moralist and social satirist, the adoption of stock butts and types. A Short History of French Literature Thus the master prefaces a platitudinous poem of thirty lines; which was soon followed by “The Teacher,” of sixty lines. Dürer Artist-Biographies This percentage gives rise to platitudinous thoughts on the horrid gamble of life. The Intelligence of Woman Verbally and platitudinously one may answer: For the sake of the "satisfactions" they are expected to afford. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The chorus of wiseacres, the bar-parlour politicians, whom chance or misfortune has led to favour one side rather than the other, are less cautious without being less platitudinous. Pot-Boilers His admission to the dead Immortals must be surely the occasion for much wagging of heads, for reams of platitudinous writing on the subject of fate and its whirligig caprice. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Leslie herself, though, found in it the flavor of old-fashioned romance, just faintly platitudinous, in which poetic justice is done. Aurora the Magnificent He had to deal with concrete illustrations, instead of expanding into platitudinous generalities. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) All this is so platitudinous that I feel ashamed to write it; but then, how can one avoid platitudes without avoiding truth? Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude These sentiments have to the modern ear a platitudinous ring. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle This mild, platitudinous rebuke came when all the damage was done. Australian Writers I simply couldn’t endure those Women’s Institute meetings which open with a hymn and end up with sponge-cake and green tea, after a platitudinous paper on the Beauty of Prairie Life. The Prairie Child She nodded and went off to her game, and informing Mr. Petherbridge that Lady Bruce was a platitudinous old tabby, flirted with him up to the nice limits of his parsonical dignity. The Rough Road God remains for Mrs. Eddy a "principle" indeed, toward which she has no attitude but that of a somewhat patronizing and platitudinous expositor. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Here, amidst a good deal of moral commonplace—wise and sensible for the most part, but sufficiently platitudinous—occurs a burst of angry eloquence. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman The quartette retired, the chairman advanced, motioned with his hand for silence, and announced the name of the first orator of the occasion, who happened to be a clergyman—a tiresome, platitudinous person. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 “There are times when even kindness can be a sort of cruelty,” he patiently and somewhat platitudinously pursued. The Prairie Child The statement frequently heard that "human nature is human nature" is only a platitudinous half-truth. Woman Her Sex and Love Life But when the sword of genuine conviction has passed through your soul, when you are doing business in great waters, then you fling aside your platitudinous petitions and call out in solemn earnestness for help. Sermons on Biblical Characters It left that to operate in darkness--then opinion rose in an empty fury, made an outlaw of one and a platitudinous philanthropist of the other. A Preface to Politics Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens—of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite. A Book of Prefaces I said I knew that the virtues of Queen Victoria had become somewhat platitudinous, but I thought it was a fortunate country in which the virtues of its powerful ones are platitudes. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Leigh was far from being mollified by this platitudinous commiseration, though he credited the kindness of heart that gave it birth; and he took leave of the president without further remark. The Mayor of Warwick Which is my platitudinous way of agreeing with the last postscript of your letter. August First She was educated by a father filled with enthusiasm by the teachings of Rousseau and with advice from the platitudinous family friend, Thomas Day, author of “Sanford and Merton.” Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book But the moment a meretricious and platitudinous ethical purpose began to be read into him—how he protested against it!—he was straightway adopted into our flabby culture. A Book of Prefaces Il Greco, for instance, is often as dramatically platitudinous as Guido Reni, but he also was making discoveries in design which happen to interest us now, so that we overlook his platitudes. Essays on Art Theoretically one would not have said that it would be original to take an old platitudinous law like the law of supply and demand, and act as if it were so; but it was. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy Carl informed me afterward that he had a similar sensation, and that all through the long platitudinous exercises my face was a great solace to him. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers Even the platitudinous Bland had his practical inspirations; if they had not been practical, they would not have been Bland's. Success A Novel Nor can the Committee be content with platitudinous recommendations as to how this immorality among young persons may be kept in check within the existing processes of the law. Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents Now Poussin is, or appears to be, in many of his works a dramatic painter, and for us his drama is platitudinous. Essays on Art That's specious rot, and platitudinous rubbish such as any soft idiot who's been glued all his life to an armchair can reel off by the mile. Jaffery That statement isn't in reality as platitudinous as it seems at first thought. The Story of The American Legion Some of the old women were in white satin, with many jewels on their platitudinous bosoms. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories And he felt even when he did open his case that the effect of it was platitudinous and disappointing. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Tear the architectural structure to pieces, and you have nothing left but the single, common, platitudinous brick; but for that reason do you say that your architectural structure is platitudinous? African and European Addresses Viewed from the later attitude of the Times, the earlier expressions of that paper, and in truth of many British journals, seem merely the customary platitudinous British holding up of horrified hands at American slavery. Great Britain and the American Civil War The stoutest heart may fail, without blame, before the flat-footed pedestrianism of these platitudinous volumes. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson This is platitudinous, but it needs to be borne in mind. Haydn The thing has become platitudinous, but remains as difficult as ever. The Bed-Book of Happiness He had a confused realization of platitudinous adieus, of a silly formality of speech, and he found himself in the hall. Jason He met the youth on the high plane of professionalism, refused to utter other than the platitudinous counters demanded by the occasion. The Rules of the Game This rather platitudinous sentence, from an otherwise excellent essay of the late Bishop Thorold's, is abundantly illustrated alike by my Collections and by my Recollections. Collections and Recollections It will be rather platitudinous, but it is a necessary reminder for what follows. What is Coming? Once Katherine, escaping from Mrs. Ware's platitudinous ripple, took pity on him, and asked him when he was going to redeem his promise and show her his collection of armour and weapons. Viviette This is platitudinous, but platitudes are not platitudes when we first make our personal experience of them. The Cathedral And one by one with relentless clarity she stripped bare all those platitudinous precepts that she had inherited, had accepted, as one accepts the physical facts of the world. Together He was disgusted by the platitudinous quality of thought, the drab and uncouth clumsiness of expression, the vague generalizations, the childish logic, the ill-mixed mayonnaise of abstractions and disconnected facts. Jean-Christophe Journey's End As Sommers refrained from making the platitudinous reply that such a remark seemed to demand, they were silent for several minutes. The Web of Life That some of its members were also under the influence of potent waters is perhaps a platitudinous corollary. Snake and Sword A Novel No doubt he harangued in that magnificently platitudinous manner of which he was the master. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography With some such thoughts does the platitudinous heart win from the confusion and thunder of Niagara a peace that the quietest plains or most stable hills can never give. Letters from America The "old favorites" are almost all platitudinous in thought and monotonous in rhythm. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism I think that I am sickeningly platitudinous, and I am sometimes exceedingly bored with the bourgeois which I have under my skin. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters The situation was too blatant, too raw, too near bedrock, too naked and unashamed, for me to take refuge in platitudinous generalities of excuse. The Red Planet I have seldom held forth so platitudinously even in the House of Commons. Simon the Jester Mrs. Chichester listened indignantly to this, somewhat platitudinous, sermon on how to develop character. Peg O' My Heart At first glance the flood of moral literature now upon us—social- conscience stories, scientific plays, platitudinous "moralities" that tell us how to live—may seem to be another protest against sentimentalism. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism "Of course," said I platitudinously, "human nature is the same everywhere; but there is more color—er—more drama and movement and—er—romance in some cities than in others." Strictly business: more stories of the four million Assyrian's speech; not a bad one, though platitudinous. Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus These gentlemen, with few exceptions, made heavy, ponderous, and platitudinous speeches. My Memories of Eighty Years She is repetitious, too, as well as platitudinous. The Diary of a Goose Girl He winced, but Joan rattled on with the platitudinous originality of youth. Adventure Nevertheless Martin liked him better than the platitudinous bank cashier. Martin Eden |
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