"I really don't object to
platitudes," he told Ruth later; "but what worries me into nervousness is the pompous, smugly complacent, superior certitude with which they are uttered and the time taken to do it.
Formal
platitudes were manufactured with effort, but Willoughby was kindled.
Then Lord Decimus, who was a wonder on his own Parliamentary pedestal, turned out to be the windiest creature here: proposing happiness to the bride and bridegroom in a series of
platitudes that would have made the hair of any sincere disciple and believer stand on end; and trotting, with the complacency of an idiotic elephant, among howling labyrinths of sentences which he seemed to take for high roads, and never so much as wanted to get out of.
And out of the dividends magnificent churches are builded in New England, wherein your kind preaches pleasant
platitudes to the sleek, full-bellied recipients of those dividends."
On the Brexit front, Germany's Merkel offered UK Prime Minister Johnson a 30-day window to come up with alternative proposals to the Irish border backstop, though this is no more than a
platitude as the EU don't see there is an alternative to the backstop without breaching the Good Friday Peace Agreement.
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PLATITUDE is a truth so often said that it becomes a bore.
Full of passion,
platitude and self congratulation.
Deciding to do so can seem to go against the wellused
platitude: If it ain't broke why fix it.
Platitude made quite a splash when claiming a first Listed win and he can defy a penalty by following up in the Londonmetric Noel Murless Stakes at Ascot.
the quality or state of being flat, dull, or trite: the
platitude of most political oratory.
IF Councillor Tony Concepcion was going to use my letter on the elected mayor subject as a platform to do a bit of self-promotion (ECHO letters February 22) the least he could do was steer clear from cringe-worthy
platitude and meaningless rhetoric like, 'empowering the electorate and giving them the right to choose'.
There is one particular
platitude that's jumping out at me of late.
a
platitude in the JACKIE JOINS THE SANTA DASH: PAGE 25
At home, we might make this process more than a
platitude by acknowledging the forces that keep hope alive.
