platitudes

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Eames Bradley duck the issue of an amnesty but again lurking in the platitudes is the recommendation

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  1. noun A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant. See Synonyms at cliché.
  2. noun Lack of originality; triteness.

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  • I have no patience for piety or for platitudes, and no particular confidence in the existence of an afterlife. —  AHMM,March2006
  • When he presided at the Cooper memorial meeting in New York he uttered only a few stately platitudes, and yet every one went away with the firm conviction that they had heard him speak words of the profoundest wisdom and grandest eloquence. —  Daniel Webster
  • She murmured a few platitudes, then escaped into the warm Sunday morning, her thoughts about Collis Raeburn savage. —  McNab, Claire - [Ashton -5] Dead Certain
  • But the wide- weltering chaos of platitudes, agitated by hysterical imbecilities, regulating England in this great crisis, fills the constitutional mind with sorrow; and indeed is definable, once more, as amazing! —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Eames Bradley duck the issue of an amnesty but again lurking in the platitudes is the recommendation —  Slugger O'Toole
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