“Yet whatever her impression may have been, she produced instead a vague platitude.”

“In their place, Echenoz proposes a rhetoric of platitude, insisting upon the commonplace, the dull, the ordinary.”

“What you quite often have when you listen to a politician is either geekspeak with a zillion statistics, or a platitude.”

“He was damped to the skin by Mary Ann's platitudinarian style of conversation.”

“The conclusion, for all its seeming platitudinousness, is very complex.”

“Yet it has evolved as the major challenge of our day, demanding responses beyond pious platitudes.”

“So says The Knife, who, as their name suggests, are not a conventional band content to offer vacuous platitudes served on a diet of mediocrity.”

“Divested of their high-sounding platitudes, these programs were intended to train the nation's future leaders.”