An argument that peters out or ends in platitudes loses much of its impact.
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Corporate America’s response should go beyond platitudes and simply checking boxes on diversity initiatives.
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For those looking to actually enact progress—especially leaders at the organizations where tired, thinly stretched workers dread hearing the next empty platitude—it’s time for a change in vocabulary.
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Instead of tone-deaf messages and empty platitudes, enterprises should walk the walk.
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Morning talk shows should be a doddle for a President: softball questions easily answered with a platitude or three.
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But how does one square his platitude with the reality of his situation?
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I thought this was a kind of platitude, but she corrected me.
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Although this sounds like a platitude, it has frequently been ignored.
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It is a platitude, and none the less true for that, that we need to have an ideal in our minds with which to test all realities.
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Mrs. Amber murmured protestingly, but, not knowing what a platitude was, felt she could not follow up the subject.
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Cheap wit will then often pass for brilliancy, and platitude for wisdom.
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Platitude though this may be, our greatest poets have not hesitated to use their highest powers to impress it upon us.
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British Dictionary definitions for platitude
platitude
/ (ˈplætɪˌtjuːd) /
noun
a trite, dull, or obvious remark or statement; a commonplace
staleness or insipidity of thought or language; triteness
Derived forms of platitude
platitudinous, adjective
Word Origin for platitude
C19: from French, literally: flatness, from plat flat