| He winced, but Joan rattled on with the platitudinous originality of youth. |
| Then again, football like many other sports, is a microcosm of life which itself can often be bizarre, platitudinous and banal. |
| Such hopeful and arguably platitudinous refrains about the utilitarian import of literary study abound in Exploring Capitalist Fiction. |
| Such events are usually remarkable only for their platitudinous euphoria, but a question from a BBC reporter suggesting that the record companies' oligopoly was tightening its control spoiled the party. |
| The tips are the same type of common sense platitudinous advice that columnists dispense on a regular basis. |
| Everyone this side of Charles Krauthammer agrees that Romney was general and platitudinous and not that engaged. |
