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Definition of Platitudes
1. platitude [n] - See also: platitude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platitudes
Literary usage of Platitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays by John Galsworthy (1913)
"... SOME Platitudes CONCERNING DRAMA A DRAMA must be shaped so as to have a 2\
spire of meaning. Every grouping of life and character has its inherent moral ..."
2. A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration, 1865-1868 by John Townsend Trowbridge (1868)
"Wearisome Platitudes. — The Effect they had on the Elections of 1866. THE hopes
expressed by the writer in the preceding chapter were not destined to ..."
3. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"He discharges platitudes of the most fatuous kind at my head as a newspaper
editor, at intervals of about two minutes, with a solemn look; eg "Mr. Godkin, ..."
4. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National by Norman Angell (1913)
"CHAPTER I THE RELATION OF DEFENCE TO AGGRESSION Necessity for defence arises from
the existence of a motive for attack—Platitudes that everyone overlooks—To ..."
5. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer (1919)
"... but the SOME Platitudes CONCERN- and combined, but not distorted, by the ING
DRAMA dramatist's outlook, set down without fear, 5 phenomena of life and ..."
6. Poems of Human Progress, and Other Pieces: Including One Hundred and Fifteen by James Harcourt West (1914)
"Platitudes The froth of pleasure quickly sinks to lees, • Its taste soon brackish
... Out on such cursed platitudes! but, — mark,— The truth they hold makes ..."
7. The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays by John Galsworthy (1913)
"... SOME Platitudes CONCERNING DRAMA A DRAMA must be shaped so as to have a 2\
spire of meaning. Every grouping of life and character has its inherent moral ..."
8. A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration, 1865-1868 by John Townsend Trowbridge (1868)
"Wearisome Platitudes. — The Effect they had on the Elections of 1866. THE hopes
expressed by the writer in the preceding chapter were not destined to ..."
9. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"He discharges platitudes of the most fatuous kind at my head as a newspaper
editor, at intervals of about two minutes, with a solemn look; eg "Mr. Godkin, ..."
10. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National by Norman Angell (1913)
"CHAPTER I THE RELATION OF DEFENCE TO AGGRESSION Necessity for defence arises from
the existence of a motive for attack—Platitudes that everyone overlooks—To ..."
11. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer (1919)
"... but the SOME Platitudes CONCERN- and combined, but not distorted, by the ING
DRAMA dramatist's outlook, set down without fear, 5 phenomena of life and ..."
12. Poems of Human Progress, and Other Pieces: Including One Hundred and Fifteen by James Harcourt West (1914)
"Platitudes The froth of pleasure quickly sinks to lees, • Its taste soon brackish
... Out on such cursed platitudes! but, — mark,— The truth they hold makes ..."
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