Words similar to anodyne

Example sentences for: anodyne

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In theory, John Hope Franklin is the perfect chair for an anodyne exercise in racial reconciliation.
The speech writers are busily at work spinning out their anodyne alliterations, their balanced bromides, their cautious clarion calls.
In so doing, he shows us that a great deal of sadism, animality, and outright lust can lurk behind people's anodyne professions that they just want to "uphold the law" or "maintain a level of decency."
But after about an hour of anodyne sentiments, Rahm Emanuel, a Clinton political adviser more pugnacious than the others, couldn't take it any more.
Where the old Newt was a compelling meanie, the new one offers anodyne platitudes and empty uplift.