I could platitudinize like that (rather badly) in my 2nd-Grade essays.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Reply] Reference

His voice, according to Sadd, was "not good enough and not bad enough" to settle his fate, so he continued with the singing lessons he couldn't afford and, as I would platitudinize to his father, "after all, it's his life.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Working Murder]