Example sentences for: platitudes

How can you use “platitudes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The film is said to be "the best Cinderella movie ever" (Mick LaSalle, the San Francisco Chronicle ), though politically minded critics call it "a preposterous polemic celebrating modern feminist platitudes" (Gary Arnold, the Washington Times ). (Here's the official site.)

  • It seems especially stupid for the administration to spew platitudes about the panel's mission of healing if its intention was to push one side of a contentious debate.

  • Most are platitudes of high banality: "Every ending is a new beginning."

  • After uttering the usual platitudes about how The New Yorker is the best magazine in the business, Tina became farklempt as she pronounced, "I love you all."

  • My friend W. G. (Lord) Runciman, the businessman and sociologist at Trinity (quite a combination), calls it "recycled platitudes."


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