A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. From LearnThat.org. [Stanley Baldwin]
The platitude is this, in the modern world peace and prosperity are indivisible. From Wordnik.com. [Western Nations in Postwar Asia] Reference
And that ridiculous platitude is literally everything you need to know about Sarah Palin. From Wordnik.com. [Palin: 'My heart goes out to Huckabee'] Reference
Morley once warned the Emersonians that a platitude is not transformed into a profundity by being dressed up as a conundrum. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of the Coming Peace] Reference
The platitude was the best that I could muster to my tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Dust] Reference
And, strictly speaking, a platitude is a “banal, trite, or stale remark” Merriam-Webster.com. From Wordnik.com. [Watching the Iraq Hearings With Petraeus and Crocker - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
My favorite example of a platitude is the oft-quoted line by Polonious from Hamlet: "To thine own self be true.". From Wordnik.com. [BTDF] Reference
Compared with this creative statesmanship, the administering of a routine or the battle for a platitude is a very simple affair. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
A cliché is a platitude which is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it but not using it!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
I think "platitude" is the right one, but I would've struggled to come up with one, too. From Wordnik.com. [Brew Crew Ball] Reference
"A platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased, or prosaic statement that is presented as if it were significant and original. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
That was first for her, and not as some platitude. From Wordnik.com. [Her Cocoon Of Values] Reference
Machiavelli: it is a platitude from the law books. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
This represents a welcome return to platitude-land. From Wordnik.com. [The Myth of the 'Values' Voter] Reference
They say Thompson is long on platitude, short on ideas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2007] Reference
She heard Brantome benevolently murmuring the platitude. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
They say Thompson's long on platitude and short on ideas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2007] Reference
That platitude had power for Craig, as it did for his party. From Wordnik.com. [Last Stop On The ‘V’-Train] Reference
Perhaps you think the promise sweet was nothing but a platitude. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
It's another thing to send men to die for a platitude like that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2004] Reference
I think this is a - it's a platitude, but it's a common experience. From Wordnik.com. [Leonard Cohen: Zen And The Art Of Songwriting] Reference
From somewhere in the back of his mind there popped up the old platitude. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
The difference between us and the Republicans is that change is not a platitude. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 14, 2008] Reference
Every word he says is hackneyed left-wing platitude, but he's an incredibly good speaker. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2008] Reference
"It's become a platitude," says Ted Littleford, executive creative director of Leber Katz. From Wordnik.com. [On Madison Avenue, Daddy Sells Best] Reference
At another stage she tried to take refuge behind the usual platitude: she did not love him. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
And if you can make it there — as the veridical platitude goes — you can make it anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [August 2007: More letters to the editor] Reference
We weren't just going to go in there and we didn't want to be served a big plate of platitude. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008] Reference
Come, be quick and speak and let your words be elegant, but without false imagery or platitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
McCain gives it a charming twinkle, and the hope of living on as something more than a platitude. From Wordnik.com. ['White Tornado'] Reference
And I know that's a bit of a platitude, but if we work together, we're going to get a bill passed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2003] Reference
Probably no political platitude is more invoked or more ignored than this: let's do it for the kids. From Wordnik.com. [Boomers Versus the Rest] Reference
The word "change" is now so overused that it's in danger of sliding past platitude into meaninglessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Theater of Big Change] Reference
It's an old platitude, but today it's more than just good advice, it's an undeniable foundation for thriving. From Wordnik.com. [Arjuna Ardagh: How to Thrive Authentically in the New Economy] Reference
We're all about failure not being an option, as if constantly intoning that platitude actually wards off failure!. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
"A dove," whispered Walter, just loud enough to be heard by every one, but softly enough to disguise the platitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
That's a lot of profundity for some very small shoulders (and some might say it has the ring of a greeting-card platitude). From Wordnik.com. [New and noteworthy paperbacks] Reference
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