I won't provide research here because the point I'm driving at is that L-Girl and Allan didn't do any - or at best relied on the kind of platitudinal rumours about this country which are so common among the mainstream American Left. ❋ Unknown (2006)
With this speech, Obama makes explicit what he has largely left implicit, or at least broadly platitudinal, in earlier presentations. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This platform sees notable mostly for its platitudinal quality: “conquer unemployment,” “schools that guarantee success for all children” — sure, sounds good to me. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And, he was arrogant about it besides with his platitudinal response to the outrage. ❋ Unknown (2009)
McCain is remarkable that way: he understands intuitively that the public has grown tired of platitudinal boilerplate, so he provides his own running commentary on himself, much of it deflationary. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Some analyses merely wrap themselves up in the Constitution, without giving it any more than a platitudinal analysis. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This plays well with the neutered pseudo-left, as it has the requisite touch of platitudinal righteousness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Moreover, McMorris 'ads seem more powerful, talking about accomplishments, not just platitudinal ideas. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The early inside line is that he's ready to do something that doesn't involve waking up at two in the morning, and Klein's official eulogy does little more than pump the requisite amount of platitudinal sunshine up the ass of the soon-to-be dearly departed without really shedding any light on why Ed is out. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The thing about High School Musical is that even though it's inspirational, even though it's platitudinal, even though it's obvious, it's also self-consciously ridiculous. ❋ Becca (2007)
Beyond anything else, it is just another battle of platitudinal statements that leads to an even more frustrating stalemate. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“No, I couldn't do that,” said Lestrange to Barthrop, in one of those unhappy little silences which so often seemed to lie in wait for Lestrange's most platitudinal utterances. ❋ Benson, Arthur C. (1915)
The conversation, owing to the intervention of other of the guests, became general and platitudinal. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Things that had seemed drearily theoretical, dry, axiomatic, platitudinal, showed themselves to be great generalizations from a torrent of human effort and mortal endeavour. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
He knew the Pope's face well, from a hundred photographs and moving pictures; even his gestures were familiar to him, the slight bowing of the head in assent, the tiny eloquent movement of the hands; but Percy, with a sense of being platitudinal, told himself that the living presence was very different. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
When Palin continues her use of gun imagery makes her statements both platitudinal and meaningless. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It's a reflection of how denuded that chamber has become from Northern Irish affairs that the only non platitudinal remarks came from the former PD TD Fionna O'Malley ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Do your friends call you [dull]? [How about] [Boring]? Don't forget Platitudinous!" ❋ MpmTM (2009)
