What's the difference between bromidic and platitudinous?
Bromidic
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Platitudinous
Definition:
(a.) Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes.
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(1) These platitudinous attempts to reassure that everything would be sorted out with goodwill – well, if this is your proposition to take us out of the 40-year relationship, where is your detail?” There are other reasons why support for staying in the EU is considerably more solid in Northern Ireland than in the UK as a whole.
(2) Like a dancer in the corps de ballet required to grin despite the pain, she smiles throughout her answers (or, quite often, platitudinous non-answers).
(3) I always remember the startled look of the platitudinous young vicar who visited our house after my grandad died, when my mum said, "Don't come round here with your mumbo-jumbo.
(4) "If the union really wishes to play a role, it must escape from the situation where defining a common position comes down to seeking the lowest common denominator in platitudinous declarations or ritualised diplomatic tours."
(5) Later they would sit in a half-empty press room in the bowels of the stadium and, after half heartedly answering a couple of platitudinous questions from the host, be asked whether they were on drugs.
(6) Many spiritual leaders can sound obscure and platitudinous at once, as if they were simultaneously translating their message from some inner Tibetan original – the Dalai Lama really is.
(7) I have always been deeply suspicious of the kind of rhetoric that modern pop surrounds itself with: all that platitudinous “just be yourself”, “if you dream it you can do it” stuff.
(8) After all, the lesson of the past few years in celebrity has been that there is no problem in the world too complex that it cannot be addressed by the emotionalised, platitudinous pronunciations of an entertainer.