| What stopped this from being a pious platitude was his accompanying insistence that the objective could be achieved by reform. |
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| What you quite often have when you listen to a politician is either geekspeak with a zillion statistics, or a platitude. |
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| In their place, Echenoz proposes a rhetoric of platitude, insisting upon the commonplace, the dull, the ordinary. |
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| So instead politicians almost uniformly retreat to the safety of the platitude and commonplace. |
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| It is a platitude to affirm that we have entered an era wherein the capacity to produce, treat and use information is the first of all assets. |
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| This seems like a platitude, but it is surprising how few firms have more than hazy ideas. |
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| Meanwhile, Mr Bush could be useful to him. It is a platitude that Mr Blair's foreign policy was his undoing, and its legacy baleful. |
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| The balance of truth and invention in Latin American writing would seem to confirm the platitude that, of the two, the truth is stranger. |
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| They are living proof, after all, of that platitude of ecological debate: that pollution does not respect regional or national frontiers. |
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| Although the performance may have reached a certain platitude, the learning process is still on-going. |
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| That is a trite formulation of a very ancient truth, and one which is today an occult platitude. |
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| It's a stunning mystery and an obvious platitude that Politics is a human activity. |
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| But life's grayness and flatness were recorded with a sense of resignation and quiet achievement quite distinct from platitude or petulant nihilism. |
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| But how does one square his platitude with the reality of his situation? |
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| An obvious platitude because we all know men are endowed with free-will, as opposed to protons and electrons who are just what they are, and nothing else. |
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| I thought this was a kind of platitude, but she corrected me. |
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| In Venice, 1975: After our long day's enchanting rest, yesterday we went down and found Gore — big, complacent, pompous, assured that his every platitude is an apothegm, a witty wisdom. |
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| Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course. |
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| Some of us listening to Thatcher's hastily redrafted party conference speech barely 12 hours after the explosion hoped to hear her express similar sentiments, a reassuring platitude appropriate to a grim day. |
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| Sounds like a platitude? Maybe, but it's true above all! |
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| Yet as an ending it feels somehow off-key, a heartfelt plea that is also a platitude, and that does little to resolve the weird energies of the movie itself. |
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| I am just wondering if the government would find it in its heart that we should also move in the same fashion, or are these just words of platitude that we are using? |
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| What she wanted the freedom to say was some imbecilic platitude ripped straight from the closing moments of a Jerry Springer show about how proud she was of her classmates and how much she believed in them. |
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| I would hope that the concept of European solidarity becomes more than just an empty platitude bandied about in order to drown out a very different reality. |
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| It would be a great thing to move forward to a situation where it becomes a principle of law and not a pious platitude that polluters have to pay. |
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