The candidate's platitudinous speech was long and delivered in a monotone. From LearnThat.org.
The third also has a platitudinous interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Clinton has some experience with platitudinous pap. From Wordnik.com. [Writing The Book Of Bill] Reference
This too can be seen as toothless if not platitudinous. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Your basic insipid Lefty platitudinous Pavlovian life or. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign Officially Endorses Lieberman's Claim That Obama Hasn't "Put Country First"] Reference
Will it be safe, non-controversial, platitudinous content?. From Wordnik.com. [Fear and Vlogging on the Campaign Trail, 2008?] Reference
It is basically platitudinous waffle to pad out the answer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
It's a bit "Thought for the Day" (ie, bland and platitudinous). From Wordnik.com. [Politics live blog - Tuesday 14 September] Reference
They weren't just platitudinous words out of Castel Gandolfo on that day. From Wordnik.com. [Bono On Bono]
Expect a lot of silent bobbing and platitudinous weaving before the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [Elena Obama] Reference
That statement isn't in reality as platitudinous as it seems at first thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of The American Legion] Reference
With tedious bovinity you have munched your way through a platitudinous mantra. From Wordnik.com. [Lefties at War] Reference
PRESS: ... and never use platitudes, it has been the most platitudinous 24 hours. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2000] Reference
We are daily treated to platitudinous refrain that six hundred people die every day. From Wordnik.com. [DEBATE ON BUDGET VOTE 16: HEALTH APPROPRIATION BILL SPEECH DELIVERED BY JAMES NGCULU - ANC MP] Reference
The photo of Billy himself looked almost out of place amidst this platitudinous talk. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Silent]
We are daily treated to a platitudinous refrain that six hundred people die every day. From Wordnik.com. [June 2003 - Second Term] Reference
Isn't representationalism -- at any rate the basic version of it -- itself platitudinous?. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
The fact that ultimately everyone came from somewhere is a bordering on the platitudinous. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Widdecombe for London Mayor?] Reference
Ain't it a shame that that Louis Armstrong song got played so much that it's become platitudinous?. From Wordnik.com. [dogsolitude Diary Entry] Reference
He refuses to offer the platitudinous "Presidential" answers that are establishment conventional wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [O'Hanlon Sighting: He Says Obama's No Nukes Comment Was Right!] Reference
We now tragically know their ruinous carelessness has turned the middle class into a platitudinous fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Franken: The Illegitmate Fat Cats] Reference
Charlotte gave a diplomatic, but for that, transparently platitudinous answer: 'They all said it was nice.'. From Wordnik.com. [Be My Enemy]
Vivacity had increased in her throughout the meal, till her conversation sounded less platitudinous than it was. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
So I think John McCain knows not of what he speaks and it is red meat of a very platitudinous kind for this crowd. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2008] Reference
And do we trust a platitudinous “leopard” who has colonized the home of a much smaller, less powerful creature?. From Wordnik.com. [HOUSECAT KUNG FU by GEOFFREY GATZA] Reference
Spectacular visuals are not enough to sustain interest in limp, cliched, platitudinous, drivel for three long hours. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Republicans in small corner boxes uttered platitudinous talking points with increasing, if characteristic, smugness. From Wordnik.com. [Landon Ross: A National Failure - Our Health Care Conversation] Reference
When they went into this extensive detail, or not so detail, it was more a platitudinous discussion of foreign policy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000 Presidential Debate: The Spin Room - October 12, 2000] Reference
Every once in a while, someone at a conference makes a statement that stands out from the usual platitudinous palaver. From Wordnik.com. [Merrill Goozner: The Empire, er, AMA Strikes Back] Reference
Then, we heard "after the elections" followed by the nauseatingly platitudinous "we won't step down 'til they step up.". From Wordnik.com. [The Never-Ending War] Reference
But that exchange didn't get nearly as much coverage amid Paulson's platitudinous soundbites and talk about bailing out GM. From Wordnik.com. [David Fiderer: The Simple Arithmetic of Hank Paulson's Financial Disaster] Reference
Notwithstanding his achievements his platform speeches are banal, platitudinous and appeal to emotion rather than intellect. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I think that I am sickeningly platitudinous, and I am sometimes exceedingly bored with the bourgeois which I have under my skin. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
He was taking refuge in formality, deliberately trying to lower the emotional tone of the meeting to one of platitudinous convention. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
To keep the balance between platitudinous redundancy and utter incomprehensibility was the crucial problem of late baroque allegorism. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
She instead defended her right to platitudinous statement and judicious silence, now deciding that her 1995 conclusions were mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [Did Elena Kagan Basically Call John Roberts An Evil Umpire?] Reference
Representationalism itself seems to be included in that stock of baseline platitudes; at any rate there is a platitudinous version of it. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
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