The idea that noble, enlightened free-thought is less becoming in the case of women than of men is only one of the many generally accepted platitudes set in circulation by Rousseau.
It is impossible not to charge some of the moralists of the last century with an indifference into which they educated their platitudes and into which their platitudes educated them.
It is suggestive of so many pleasant little platitudes about "long ago," with anecdotic memories of poor dear Dick or Harry, that it rarely fails to interest and amuse.
But his time of jibbing at her platitudes was long since passed.
I danced round him with veils and cymbals--that people won't stand being pelted with platitudes from soup to dessert.
Platitudes can be of intense interest if they approach our case.
The habitual necessity to amass matter for the weekly sermon, set him noting his meditative exclamations, the noble army of platitudes under haloes, of good use to men: justifiably turned over in his mind for their good.
Turn your platitudes prettily, but write no word that could offend the chaste mind of the young girl who has spent her morning reading the Colin Campbell divorce case; so says the age we live in.
Platitudinous, perhaps, but how often some platitudes bear repetition!
Unfortunately, the phonographic iteration of diplomatic platitudes brings continents no nearer, unless it be for the mad purposes of war.
But like the psalmist's enemies, platitudes live and are mighty.
One of these pernicious platitudesis the statement that every one ought to know something about everything and everything about something.
Lizzie, after enduring the platitudes of Lieutenant Harrowby until she was sick of them--the burden of that officer's conversation being limited apparently to the observations of "Haw!
Philosophy cannot argue against Cupidon; he laughs Plato and his platitudes to scorn.
They gathered together to talk about what interested them, and not to simper and smirk, and give utterance to platitudes and affectations, as was the case with the society to which Mary had lately been introduced.
All her pompous platitudes cannot conceal the earnestness of her denunciation of shams.
The cashier was Martin's black beast, and his temper was a trifle short where the talker of platitudes was concerned.
But in Martin's estimation the whole tribe of bank cashiers fell a few hundred per cent, and for the rest of the evening he labored under the impression that bank cashiers and talkers of platitudes were synonymous phrases.
He has issued a long-winded, verbose statement since that time rehashing the same platitudes that have characterized all his writings and speeches, but has not turned over to the authorities the names of his local members.
I have searched it in vain for a single quotation of lyric song, a single scrap of verse that paints the world in rosy colors and lets moral platitudes go hang, a single strain of "Celtic magic.
Having been forced to swallow rhymed platitudes in the belief that they are poetry, a permanent and perfectly natural repulsion for the very name of poetry is too often the children's only acquisition.
Certainly they are not to be eliminated by throwing at the child's head such adult platitudes in rhyme as these, and telling him it is poetry.
Trennahan assured her that she did herself injustice; and in these admirable platitudes they pushed along a half-hour like a wheel-barrow, while both thought of the great oak staring at them from the foot of the garden.
It is easy to pour out platitudes upon such a subject, but the Psalmist does not content himself with generalities.
Answer that for us, and we will thank you; but platitudes about God watching over His truth are naught.
But the charm of that little flutelike voice, coming from that slight, white-clad beauty, made even platitudesseem like something higher than wisdom.
It really seemed to her as if she were stung by a swarm of platitudes like bees.
Here he ministered to the living Bodkins and delivered his sage platitudes to the unheeding ears of the Bodkin effigies that lay in the chancel “—staring right on With calm eternal eyes.
But she, very young and seriously intent, was now wrestling with the mighty platitudes of youth.
I who sat there beside you preaching platitudes in strong self-complacency, instructing you how morally edifying it is to be good and unhappy.
The flourish imposes, and people who cannot analyze take the whipped cream for solid pudding, and think that platitudes dressed in the garb of Fichte and Hegel are utterances worthy of deep respect and admiring wonder.
For the real man, as he reflected, was not the man who sat heavily self-complacent in a library chair, exuding platitudes and pride of patronage; but the man who hung upon the wall forever ridiculous while paint and canvas should last.
Yet behind the verbiage, the platitudes and bombastic phrases, his ear detected a very human cry of fear and cry for help.
Along with the revival of financial security had come a revival of pomposity, an addiction to patronage in manner and platitudes in speech.
We turn in disgust from the meaningless platitudes of the Republican Convention at Worcester, from the incidental admission of a plank in the platform which means nothing.
Ennui is like a long-winded, amiable, but watery-idea'd friend who drops in to see us and dribblesplatitudes until every nerve is tapped.
I am tired of amiable fools and theplatitudes of unintelligent saints.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "platitudes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
