| Such hopeful and arguably platitudinous refrains about the utilitarian import of literary study abound in Exploring Capitalist Fiction. |
| 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. |
| Everyone this side of Charles Krauthammer agrees that Romney was general and platitudinous and not that engaged. |
| Then again, football like many other sports, is a microcosm of life which itself can often be bizarre, platitudinous and banal. |
| Ideas endlessly repeated and permutated become platitudinous, trite, meaningless. |
