What's the difference between platitudinize and truism?
Platitudinize
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter platitudes or truisms.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Truism
Definition:
(n.) An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one respect all that is left from Piaget's approach for psychotherapy generally is the truism that therapy fosters differentiation and integration.
(2) I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.
(3) It is a truism that politicians have to govern in prose and campaign in poetry.
(4) The argument turns, first, on the truism that a physician has no obligation to commit a battery, or unauthorized touching, and, second, on the thesis that a patient necessarily cannot consent to something that is unknown to him.
(5) It is a truism that the basis for safe management is careful co-operation between clinicians and pathologists who have all the relevant facts and who know and trust one another's judgement.
(6) That and the “truisms” that “we don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem” and “you can’t cut taxes by raising them”.
(7) It's a very strange film, since it reverses the usual truism that "you had to be there".
(8) It became a truism that more people voted on premium rate lines for reality show contestants than in general elections – although the truism was untrue, because many of these phone votes were made up of multiple calls by the same people.
(9) Over the past few years of recession and regression, it has become a trite truism of European politics that you can't go wrong going to the right.
(10) But it was wrong with such intelligence, and such an abundance of seriousness and knowledge, that even those who disagreed preferred its freshly minted arguments on the wrong side to a routine repetition of truisms on their own.” David Astor: A Life in Print by Jeremy Lewis will be published by Jonathan Cape on 3 March, £25.
(11) The mantra of Margarita Simonyan, who heads RT, is: “There is no such thing as objective reporting.” This may be true, but RT’s mission is to push the truism to its breaking point.
(12) It is a truism of the "Arab spring" and other periods of sudden change in repressive political systems that the most dangerous moments are those when the regime starts meeting its critics' demands.
(13) It is now a truism that men never talk to each other about things that matter.
(14) There are two truisms about education policy which researchers need to bear in mind.
(15) It is becoming a truism that the world increasingly resembles the world of 1914.
(16) Johnson’s talk of a Sunni-Shia political divide that abuses Islam, and an absence of enlightened regional leaders willing to overcome it, is another truism.
(17) All projects throughout history have always been delivered within the final budget – that is a truism.
(18) One swipe of Wayne Rooney’s right foot altered everything and for 25 minutes after the final whistle they revelled in the truism that only the result matters when the Premier League’s fallen heavyweights collide.
(19) While it is a truism that nursing homes should reflect a homelike setting, relatively few nursing homes have been successful in avoiding a hospital-like image.
(20) A clinical and roentgenographic analysis of 13 patients with pathologically proved xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (X-P) has demonstrated that many previously accepted truisms associated with this disease may not be valid.