Platitude

(noun.) a trite or obvious remark.

德洛丽丝整理

• For a platitude is generally inert wisdom. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The two big parties have had to preserve a superficial homogeneity; and a platitude is more potent than an issue. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The human impulses which create these social conditions, the human needs to which they are a sad and degraded answer--this human center of the problem the commission passes by with a platitude. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The call for greater parental responsibility is, I fear, a rather empty platitude, for it is not re-enforced with anything but an ancient fervor. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Had they held fast to that, it would have ceased to be a platitude and have become a fertile idea. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Compared with this creative statesmanship, the administering of a routine or the battle for a platitude is a very simple affair. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• His speeches began to turn on platitudes--on the vague idealism and indisputable moralities of the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was getting late, and we had no time to fool away on every ass that wanted to drivel Greek platitudes to us. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In the past it has been an armory of platitudes or a forecast of punishments. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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