platitude

'A good speech is often a fine balance of platitudes, rationale, key points, and so many things.

The speaker seems to have no original ideas; his speech was full of platitudes.

I've tried to think of a softer way to say that, but all I come up with are new-age platitudes.

But when it comes to those at the bottom of the system who enrage the middle classes, he offers coy platitudes or ideas that cost money.

Asked why LeT had been able to "bounce back so quickly" , Mr Singh eschews the platitudes of international diplomacy.

Western diplomats believe its private message to Gilani is likely to have been very different from the public platitudes.

"I worry about these questions every night, " she said during a talk that was short on specifics and long on platitudes .

Meanwhile, at Deloitte the new chief is oozing platitudes as to the state of the company.

In the monthlong run-up to South Africa's World Cup, platitudes and speeches were the rule of each day.

They come in the form of gigantic spreadsheets or organizational meetings filled with platitudes but no content.

And calls by the conference's organisers to renew that search might be regarded by old hands as little more than platitudes.

You hear all the platitudes about teamwork but teams also talk out of both sides of their mouths.

We want to talk to customers directly in our own voices, not in platitudes written into a script.

Spare me your platitudes, and let me wallow in my own misery.

Or were the platitudes in his Inaugural Address a sign that he'll wait for the conventional wisdom to catch up with events?

Mentions the modern article to read, some platitudes , feared really could not discuss any fresh idea, is laughed in the natural family.

Platitudes about death and absence are easy, however close to hand and present death always is.

Mr Ban is said to be bland, given to platitudes, lacking charisma.

Please. Platitudes like these have been the stuff of commencement speeches from time immemorial.

Beyond the platitudes and projects lies the germ of a brilliant idea.

Such platitudes are common in Silicon Valley, where executives routinely introduce shiny gadgets with lofty language.

Despite Jedi platitudes about peace and patience, Anakin found the battles of the Clone Wars invigorating.

At a leadership meeting in December, Mr Banga grew impatient when executives spouted too many platitudes.

In the early days of campaigning this week, even those platitudes were uttered only rarely.

Those are best done by encouraging a constructive dialogue rather than resorting to platitudes or scoring points.

Her head was in a whirl of excitement, and she wished only to escape from Mrs. Lippett's platitudes and think.

All else is some old stuff from generation to generation for centuries thousands of people who said just platitudes.

And when it comes to providing emotional support, he says, skip the platitudes. What matters is being honest and human.

Beneath the wholesome, slightly insipid exterior and the platitudes, lies a savvy businesswoman.

Claims that "our workers are our most valuable assets" are too often platitudes, the emptiness of which is now being revealed.

And in the place of penalties for smoking. Let us have fines for platitudes and croaking.

Hard choices will have to be made, and traditional world-views and familiar platitudes won't help us very much.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

His speech was full of milk-and-water platitudes.

I believe my honesty was much more effective than warnings or platitudes.

For he still clung, amid the decay of moral platitudes, to the discredited ideal of chivalry.

Presenting platitudes if a man does not have an erection like ( "This happens to so many guys" ).

With so many of the world's political leaders sitting around the table, it will be hard to escape platitudes and hypocrisy .

Because we have the answers. Not platitudes and jingoistic rhetoric.

All too often, these promises yield little but generic advice and platitudes.

If not, often they sell you platitudes that sound good but are too vague to really mean anything.

The Seoul G20 conference will presumably draw a veil of bland platitudes over the world's ugly tensions.

He was mouthing the usual platitudes about the need for more compassion .

Tell a platitudes stories to experience after the old young.

You have nothing to offer the young of today's China but bankrupt ideas and meaningless platitudes.

My advisor's hollow platitudes aren't very helpful.

FARZAD: There are lots of platitudes thrown at this idea of we need more competition.

That makes the platitudes harder to bear.

My friend was raised with religious beliefs, but he was not comforted by these easy platitudes.

Written down, these are platitudes, but the effect on the spot is revelatory.

Ms Fiorina, for example, aware of Mr DeVore to her right, has been rolling out tea-partyish platitudes against big government.

mouthing the usual platitudes about the need for more compassion

Lies in rejecting all moral platitudes and in shunning all efforts at moral