Adjective : a pat solution to a problem. ,His answers were too pat to suit the examining board. ,to have something pat.    From Dictionary.com. 

Despite a certain patness in the structure (Helen's father learns to be easier on his son as he is learning to be harder on his daughter; Annie's own damaged heart opens in concert with Helen's ability to interact usefully with the world), it's a lovely play, well-written, well-woven, a little sentimental, but not excessively so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Worker] Reference

Forgive the movie's patness; relish its many richly lived-in moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not A Season To Be Jolly] Reference

Joanna herself was a little surprised at the movielike patness of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silicon Mage]

The eloquent statement you have just made, for instance -- it carries all the patness of old conviction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pool in the Desert] Reference

Nor are you likely to care, since (A) the plot generated by this premise is wince-makingly artificial and (B) Mr. Marshall can't decide whether to make fun of its patness or play it straight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Improper Strangers] Reference

Lewis had been very eloquent in explaining how things should be, even if he wasn't working with the whole story, while Mally had an offhand manner about her that gave her reasoning a little too much patness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle]

But, the sealer on the lovefest is that Glaeser's writing tends toward patness and over simplification.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Guy Typing] Reference

Often there seems to be intelligent association of certain acts or conditions with corresponding sentences, these sometimes occurring with singular patness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference

Alexandria with French patness as a place "ou l'on faisait assidûment des vers sur l'amour sans être amoureux" -- "where they were ever writing love-poems without ever being in love.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

While I still find Mr. Bennett's here's-what-happened-to-everybody ending to be neat to the point of outright patness, I bought into the rest of the play this time around and cared about its characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [About Last Night] Reference

"Things fall about with an odd patness, as you say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference

Elfrida went on rapidly -- her phrases had the patness of formed conclusions -- "what you said betrayed a totally different conception of art, as it expresses itself in the nudity of things, from the one I supposed you to hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference

This he wished in an age so resembling ours, that I fear the description with equal patness may suit both: "Take ye heed" (said he then, and may we not advise the like now?) "every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference

"For all the impressive acting and the unusual familial arithmetic, there's some patness in the latter going of 'The Kids Are All Right' that keeps it feeling a little leaden and pedestrian -- particularly as it winds toward an unconvincing ending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freep.com - RSS] Reference