“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.”

“But all Wright does is repeat platitudes from his last confab at Brookings.”

“But members of the Omagh victims' group are not content with such platitudes.”