| What stopped this from being a pious platitude was his accompanying insistence that the objective could be achieved by reform. |
| They are living proof, after all, of that platitude of ecological debate: that pollution does not respect regional or national frontiers. |
| So instead politicians almost uniformly retreat to the safety of the platitude and commonplace. |
| That is a trite formulation of a very ancient truth, and one which is today an occult platitude. |
| 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. |
| In their place, Echenoz proposes a rhetoric of platitude, insisting upon the commonplace, the dull, the ordinary. |
