| He winced, but Joan rattled on with the platitudinous originality of youth. |
| He is a master of platitudinous nonsensical mutterings meted out in a muttonheaded masterly display of the obvious. |
| He had a confused realization of platitudinous adieus, of a silly formality of speech, and he found himself in the hall. |
| I skip the actual awards shows because the acceptance speeches are generally cringefully platitudinous and depthlessly insular. |
| Such hopeful and arguably platitudinous refrains about the utilitarian import of literary study abound in Exploring Capitalist Fiction. |
| The tips are the same type of common sense platitudinous advice that columnists dispense on a regular basis. |
