The platitudes abound, but they're healthy platitudes, offered in earnest, even if the underlying dread remains deep and unshakable.
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But platitudes will not save us -- enforceable policy will.
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Pence's speech, full of vague platitudes, wasn't a space policy.
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But some of the sentiments and platitudes may sound familiar.
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Unfortunately, insistent platitudes and pigeonholing tend to mar Unger's efforts.
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Kemp wants those platitudes to translate into real action. Now.
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The end is not tidy or filled with comforting platitudes.
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And he'll need more than platitudes to keep them happy.
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Cheryl swears that her parents are only saying empty platitudes.
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Zuckerberg: *soothing empty platitudes increase* Senator: You're a good kid!
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Several conversations of little consequence follow: toasts, empty platitudes, etc.
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In response, I spoke generally, too, providing platitudes where applicable.
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He only speaks in platitudes and offers mantras as solutions.
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Do platitudes like that help or is that just naive?
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"There were a lot of platitudes today," Mr. Kent said.
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Radtke's poetic language becomes diffuse and begins to resemble platitudes.
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So maybe there's something to them more than just business platitudes.
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He says what millions think without wasting time on folksy platitudes.
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Neither journalists nor voters should be satisfied with evasions or platitudes.
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Even better, it doesn't pretend to offer easy answers or platitudes.
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Easier then to stick to meaningless platitudes and not alienate voters.
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The speech was about platitudes, lecturing and taking a victory lap.
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The point is to do better than platitudes and empty phrases.
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His platitudes offered a soothing alternative to the mounting Vietnam protests.
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Sanctions and platitudes were offered time and again, but little else.
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She refuses to talk about her values beyond generic, agreeable platitudes.
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When she asks the students to respond, they parrot party platitudes.
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Beyond windy platitudes and rehearsed talking points, not a single Prop.
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The next secret trailer packages the new content in cliche platitudes.
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Their silence, half-truths or platitudes on these issues was surprising.
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"It was long on platitudes and short on particulars," said Sen.
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He will get more platitudes and promises and very few results.
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Don't worry—these aren't schmaltzy Instagram quotes or multi-level marketing platitudes.
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She saw their profiles on the site, all platitudes and angry speeches.
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Now maybe we'll get more than platitudes and incessant fund-raising calls.
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So what is to be done to make COP21 more than platitudes?
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Its 23 "objectives" are peppered with vague declarations, platitudes and split differences.
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Under such a requirement, the only "free" speech would consist of platitudes.
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The tax "statement" is a series of platitudes, extremely light on specifics.
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In his first address as president-elect, Donald Trump played the platitudes.
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He spoke in simple platitudes without the cadence of a trained politician.
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By now there are plenty of people bristling with well-intentioned platitudes.
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The road to success cannot be paved with platitudes and good intentions.
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But Nick Kyrgios, the young and combustible Australian, cut through the platitudes.
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Q. characters struggle with their need for a program and its platitudes.
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And the newsletters reveal more than just motivational platitudes and marketing slogans.
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"Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes," Simonyan said.
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Candidates can hide behind platitudes and attack ads; presidents have to govern.
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O'Neill did not go in for platitudes, which made him good television.
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But even the usual boilerplate platitudes proved fraught at this summit meeting.
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They want us just to mouth the empty platitudes and move on.
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" When Miranda returns with the jacket, Stally says deeply sexist platitudes like "attagirl.
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Deftly, delicately, he coaxed these folks to disclose judgments free of gushing platitudes.
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The danger is that, by aiming to inspire, firms produce pious platitudes instead.
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In contrast, Donald Trump put out political attacks, weak platitudes and self-congratulations.
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Maybe one where a guy voices a series of platitudes over B-roll?
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People are tired of relying on platitudes and promises from 22 years ago.
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And like most presidential platitudes, they had an uncomfortable relationship with the truth.
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"Platitudes not backed by meaningful action ring hollow over time," Mr. Yamamoto said.
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People acknowledged that he's good at speaking platitudes and not answering questions directly.
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When he chooses to speak on the issue he reduces himself to platitudes.
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He sticks to platitudes and smiley detachment in public meetings with the president.
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Monster spoke like a small-time official, spouting platitudes and promises with ease.
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I was stocked with platitudes about stiff upper lips and hanging in there.
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Despite platitudes about being "Middle Class Joe," Biden has never had business leadership.
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Spare me platitudes of how we are all the same on the inside.
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Once standard platitudes were out of the way, I mentioned my newfound learnings.
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Just what the Christmas tradition needed — familiar cozy platitudes transposed into bighearted camp.
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Platitudes need to be followed with real efforts to extinguish hate and change laws.
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Perhaps our own social retrenchment has sharpened our awareness of nostalgia's platitudes and falsities.
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His speech is grand and always very serious, an unyielding stream of dramatic platitudes.
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Despite their yearly platitudes, it is clear that neither is coming to Georgia's aid.
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He had gotten to the point where phony platitudes didn't mean a thing anymore.
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But then they'll go online and use some speech template full of empty platitudes.
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Unlike SNL's resident deep-thinker, however, the humor in Kanye's platitudes is probably unintentional.
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It seemed to mainly be a vehicle to showcase Ru's best self-help platitudes.
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To his credit, he didn't sugarcoat his answer and didn't fall back on platitudes.
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These guys had some disposable platitudes that looked and sounded boring over their heads.
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This erasure of black pain to create space for blue platitudes does not stand.
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Sensible they may be, but they are not, as some academics suggest, mere platitudes.
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In our caustic speech we threw out platitudes, in our guts our feisty wit.
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Mr. Trump demands attention and platitudes, but a president is subject to immense criticism.
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And there's always the risk that it could devolve into rote recitals of platitudes.
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But when you&aposre writing a business email, try and stay away from platitudes.
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She told an actual story (kind of), which is different than most people's empty platitudes.
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They're as comfortable speaking truth to power as they are dismissive of platitudes and punditry.
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No more business as usual, no more deferential or courteous acceptance of these phony platitudes.
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Doug Sandler, chief equity strategist at RiverFront Investment Group, wants to see plausibility, not platitudes.
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Each January, celebrities dress up, get drunk, and sometimes even trade the platitudes for candor.
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"These aren't platitudes to him," said Katherine Brezler, co-founder of People for Bernie Sanders.
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With Pete Buttigieg you don't know what the hell you're going to get, except platitudes.
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"In contrast, Donald Trump put out political attacks, weak platitudes and self-congratulations," Palmieri said.
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Or does it read more like the empty platitudes we've seen emblazoned on Pinterest boards?
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That's why we listen to these platitudes, from both sides of the aisle, every year.
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But this isn't about meeting quotas, sharing platitudes on social media and trumpeting hollow awards.
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Uprooting years of gender inequity in tech requires more than saccharine speeches and corporate platitudes.
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"Cage" tries to do a similar thing with racial politics but gets lost in platitudes.
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" "I think the public is tired of listening to the same platitudes that they get.
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"The Republican Party is a party that's gotten by repeating Reaganesque platitudes," Mr. Needham said.
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"We step into the child's emotional space," she said, with our platitudes, advice and ideas.
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Spout off a few platitudes about "repealing and replacing" ObamaCare and call it a day?
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She was reluctant to be first lady, and did not hide her reluctance beneath platitudes.
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Fortunately, even establishment Democrats are starting to see that voters want more than centrist platitudes.
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Questions cannot be answered by platitudes, and ideas cannot be shut down by crude dictates.
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With no reason to show restraint, politicians drifted back toward the platitudes that came naturally.
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And that requires commitment greater than the platitudes emanating from the Summit of the Americas.
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As such, DTC health care companies limit their paid, or sponsored, posts to vague platitudes.
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Platitudes about civility and process are not the same as moderation and actual issue compromise.
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While some people tweeted pleasant platitudes at the innocent spacecraft, others were a bit more imaginative.
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Tired of the platitudes they hear from British politicians, the Irish are pushing their own ideas.
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"Facebook's so-called audit is simply too heavy on platitudes and not comprehensive enough," said Hankes.
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During dinner, it was like America's least favorite chiropractor was whispering banal platitudes to a corpse.
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Renata is the living embodiment of the empty platitudes that come with women "having it all".
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"Her picture of democratic socialism is all rainbows and unicorns, platitudes and aspirations," a columnist snorts.
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The therapist responded to some of it with silence and some of it with noncommittal platitudes.
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At the very least, Americans should seriously debate NATO's role in today's world, moving beyond platitudes.
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Silicon Valley's workforce does not promote America's best interests, and exposes the hypocrisy of its platitudes.
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First, a foreign policy that is marked by realism totally undisguised by platitudes or historical sentiments.
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You could see Jones himself retreating to Democratic platitudes about equal opportunity in his victory speech.
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His fliers accused his opponents of only running on "Platitudes, Promises and Slogans," according to WaPo.
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But actions matter and sprinkled platitudes won't make healthcare more affordable or our nation more secure.
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They are a slurry of positive-psychology platitudes, with occasional dashes of Buddhism and even EST.
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Amid the more generic life-coaching platitudes were concrete tips gleaned from years in the field.
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Instead, they have hidden behind vague platitudes like calling for "fair trade" or criticizing "multilateral" deals.
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Indulge in platitudes like "lyrical melody" and "haunting chords" and you're a pathetic lightweight, a philistine.
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Now, in the face of overwhelming controversy, some of those supporters are walking back their platitudes.
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Yet so far, his team has yet to come up with serious proposals beyond vague platitudes.
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When the shootings such as Orlando take place, we hear empty platitudes from politicians who urge prayer.
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The final communiqué put out by the 21 member economies is intended as a pistil of platitudes.
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Benoit Lapierre, retired from competing and now a life coach, espouses New-Agey platitudes to his disciple.
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BANNON: But even people on the Republican side who have come over here and just had platitudes.
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Facebook and Twitter have shown themselves to be totally incapable of helping them beyond sharing marketing platitudes.
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Instead, he offered vague anti-regulation platitudes and a reheated Republican plan to privatize air traffic control.
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But, of course, sex is complex and encapsulates far more than what can be contained in platitudes.
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He looks ready to lash out at any given moment, and he speaks mostly in cold platitudes.
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Nadella gave the expected platitudes in the announcement, while thanking Turner for his service to the organization.
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Benioff goes well beyond the platitudes mouthed by other CEOs by taking a stand on controversial topics.
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Full of empty platitudes and preachy generalizations, it was remarkable primarily for the enormity of Obama's conceit.
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People with Medicare and the hard-working Americans now paying into the program deserve more than platitudes.
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Fun hobbies of the super rich: Spouting platitudes about the way your flawless manicure makes you feel.
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President Donald Trump concluded Thursday's National Day of Prayer with more than just a pageant of platitudes.
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They didn't align with my core values, and I would never subject another woman to those platitudes.
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"They want us just to mouth the empty platitudes," Carlson said on Monday, referring to his critics.
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But their words were ceremonial, nothing but the necessary platitudes that signify a peaceful transfer of power.
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It was not that I accepted these platitudes, but it was not that I was lying, either.
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No one can elevate staid lines and platitudes to the point where they appear artful and necessary.
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Trump's empty State of the Union platitudes, as divorced from reality as they are, didn't mean much.
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Though he shares Julia's enthusiasm for a world without kings, Augustus expresses himself mainly in tired platitudes.
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I think the question before us now is, will a single night of soothing platitudes be sufficient?
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Or is it because they're realizing no amount of platitudes seem to get through to this president?
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They should cut back on the platitudes and make sure children get to keep their health insurance.
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We no longer live in a world where feel-good platitudes can distance us from our sins.
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If you are suffering, I do not ask you to start throwing around pie in the sky platitudes.
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The ad features the many broad platitudes and the lack of policy specifics common in Mr. Trump's speeches.
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It's apparently impossible for anybody to talk about cloud services and machine learning without resorting to vague platitudes.
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When we do talk about it, we blurt out platitudes, lower our voices or say nothing at all.
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Too many, including "God Save the Queen", suffer from dreary harmonies and platitudes about being victorious and glorious.
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He mostly spoke in platitudes about long-past manufacturing days, without focusing much on the present or future.
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Israelis and Saudis speak bluntly about the threat posed to civilization by radical jihadists; Europeans retreat behind platitudes.
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Her answers can feel heavy on platitudes and policy, though it's clear she cares about what she's preaching.
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Sticking to platitudes while discussing a turbulent time in his life, Mejia already sounds like a seasoned professional.
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"The conversation was much more far-reaching — it was not just tax reform," Cruz said, reiterating Trump's platitudes.
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Today, we're bombarded with pseudo-spiritual clichés and motivational platitudes in caption, status-update, and shareable-graphic form.
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And, with all these Pruitt platitudes obscuring the facts, one thing is certain — his words can't be trusted.
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To feel cheated by such platitudes is a testament to how good the rest of the book is.
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He had not told his teammates what he was going to say: they were expecting the usual platitudes.
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And it demands more than the gauzy pieties and press-a-button platitudes that too many politicians spout.
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Restaurants were state-owned, there was no commercial advertising and people spoke to outsiders in maddening propagandistic platitudes.
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While moving nimbly from neighborhood observations to broad national and international contexts, Moskowitz occasionally stumbles into unexamined platitudes.
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Platitudes such as 'violence only begets violence' have no use when the initial perpetrator has exhibited irrational evil.
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It's easier to mutter some platitudes about "free speech" and "connecting people" and watch the money roll in.
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"People began to want results, not platitudes," Ms. Dooley said, conceding her own "evolution," as she called it.
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Platitudes such as "violence only begets violence" have no use when the initial perpetrator has exhibited irrational evil.
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Probabilities are more meaningful than safe "anything can happen" platitudes, vague "it's likely" analyses or artificially confident guarantees.
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It would be wrong to reduce this film to an attack on white liberals who mouth racial platitudes.
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Such platitudes can be crippling when he doesn't actually engage or participate in the larger gay community around him.
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Most people pointed out that the speech, which was big on rhetorical platitudes, was very short on actual details.
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Wide Open, though, is matured and profound, but not steeped in platitudes; thoughtful while still maintaining a signature playfulness.
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OF ALL the platitudes so often heard about American football, arguably the most prevalent is that "defence wins championships".
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But a closer read of what they are saying keeps reducing the chatter to the status of mere platitudes.
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Their music is obsessed with the point where great truths harden into platitudes, where pure signal meets wretched noise.
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He largely avoids foreign policy, and when he does discuss it he offers platitudes or bizarre and vague proposals.
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"The dinner was just generalizations and platitudes," said Mark Papa, CEO of Centennial Resources Development Inc, who also attended.
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"The empty platitudes of this letter exemplify the NMNH's inadequate, cowardly approach to sexual misconduct," she told The Verge.
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Mr. Buttigieg's critics say he is offering voters feel-good platitudes without a proven track record of electoral success.
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You get your earth shattering twist and the price you pay is the same stale platitudes for weeks afterwards.
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She feels people are generous with platitudes -- "thank you for your service" -- but don't understand what that service means.
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Sumpter had the confidence and meanness to deflect any questions from the audience that demanded specifics instead of platitudes.
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The Mermaid does a remarkably good job of smoothing over violation with a whole lot of platitudes and placating.
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Throughout the four-minute interview, McCrory recited platitudes about how the law supposedly protects North Carolinians' privacy and safety.
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It's one of those accounts that blasts out platitudes and viral memes with a heavy dose of future horror.
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It's important that companies like Facebook stand up for marginalized communities, but empty platitudes aren't how rights are won.
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Skip the platitudes, and instead write about a favorite memory that shows the recipient why they matter to you.
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The work questions who are we as a species, without resorting to universalizing platitudes, or a cheery, superficial humanism.
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I was offended by her apparent thinking that one size fits all when it comes to fielding those platitudes.
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Skip the platitudes and instead write about a favorite memory that shows the recipient why they matter to you.
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There's a set of platitudes that everyone is expected to say, which any minimally competent politician can easily identify.
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So I read Mr. Zuckerberg's plan with a keen eye on distinguishing meaningful changes from mere platitudes and evasions.
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They comprised mostly of sharing the worst Covid-22016-inspired tweets, separated by the usual supply of vague platitudes.
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As with most platitudes, you've likely heard those lines so many times that by now they've lost their meaning.
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Remember that the next time some politician defending ObamaCare provisions spouts platitudes about pre-existing conditions and the poor.
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It's all too easy to spout religious platitudes, but "by their fruits ye shall know them" (Matthew 7:16).
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So in many cases, he's retreated to platitudes, now that over-the-top outrageousness no longer wins the day.
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Those are platitudes that exist around content or process, and it's something I've played with for a long time.
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Ms Allen regurgitated a splattering of good-government platitudes about how Britain needs to be much better at harnessing expertise.
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Prince Ea speaks in platitudes, and he doesn't always pause to provide evidence for one claim before slipping into another.
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Despite their platitudes of caution and ethics, we've seen the consequences of Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" ethos.
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LeeAnne Walters, whose son was poisoned with lead and who didn't accept official platitudes but went public with her story.
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Unable to contain its appetite for Silicon Valley platitudes, Facebook claimed that its mission was to "empower billions of people".
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Firms can no longer spout platitudes about corporate "values"; independent watchdogs and staff stand ready to brand discrepancies as hypocrisy.
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Anomalies aside, Trump's speech was loaded with the typically hollow platitudes that have become a hallmark of a bizarre campaign.
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People forget how close the releases of EverQuest and Asheron's Call were, even though EverQuest gets all the historical platitudes.
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Walking straight from Geppetto's workshop to the Bachelorette mansion, Jack Stone speaks exclusively in platitudes grafted from other dating shows.
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There were mutterings at the event, and wild cries on Twitter, of disappointment (there were plenty of platitudes as well).
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"I don't think an appeal to austerity politics or just platitudes about the deficit are going to win," he said.
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This race to the bottom reached an all-time low with Kavanaugh, whose confirmation hearing never moved beyond judicial platitudes.
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Some panelists offered platitudes typical of women's conferences—"Success is really exhausting," Natalie Tran, from C.A.A.'s philanthropic foundation, said.
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Tuesday night's State of the Union was similar in tone to last year's address: It was bland, full of platitudes.
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Most obviously, "Toni Erdmann" is a father-daughter story, if one thankfully without the familiar therapeutic platitudes and psychological tidiness.
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But Mr. Kuczynski and other leaders have so far offered only platitudes, urging dialogue and a respect for human rights.
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But, when the television host pressed him to offer up platitudes on the bridge, Rotenberg did his best to oblige.
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The worst sort of twee-DM: "I can be your shining star" platitudes slung out over goal compilation synth stabs.
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Avoid platitudes, and unless you're intimately familiar with the person's faith, eschew religious language (like "she's in a better place").
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The alien from Vonnadoria, it seems, is back on Earth with a new assignment and a fresh supply of platitudes.
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I was offended not by Ms. Bowler's reaction to all the well-meaning, albeit awkward, platitudes that she regularly endures.
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"You have to reinvent retail," Kavana said, reducing the already empty platitudes of the sales pitch to impressive new depths.
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The survivors of Hurricane Harvey do not need empty tweets and platitudes from people like Donald Trump and Joel Osteen.
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Mr. de Blasio and the Council will have to lead the way, choosing specifics over platitudes, and clarity over mush.
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Throughout the night, candidates were forced past simply reciting vague platitudes, dunking on President Trump, and sniping at their opponents.
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Avoid writing gratitude platitudes in your email sign-offs if you aren't thankful or there's nothing to be thankful for.
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And they're not explained by some profound ideological affinity with her father, because she doesn't spout ideology — just gauzy platitudes.
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It's time "to stop repeating the platitudes and start having a more honest and blunt conversation about suicide," he wrote.
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I can do the usual, where I show my math and make platitudes about punching up rather than punching down.
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It's impossible to talk about "oneness" without careening into hippy-dippy platitudes about peace and love and harmony on earth.
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If you think Facebook platitudes are uniquely bad, you must have never stood in a greeting line at a funeral home.
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It's a very complicated subject you hear talked about a lot in platitudes, and not as much in details of science.
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Now, after Paige found Elizabeth drenched in someone else's blood and viscera, there should be no going back to patriotic platitudes.
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She probably does not care, but it makes me angry at how easily platitudes are passed off as journalism these days.
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Rather than providing simple platitudes, the series brings its characters together through empathy rather than sympathy, and honesty over blind faith.
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They were emulating her own frankness of spirit at a time when they could have just as easily used convenient platitudes.
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Colton's mom, who would obviously rather sip her wine than hear about her son's sex life, simply blinks on, adding platitudes.
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Both candidates had the opportunity to address serious problems with real solutions, but all we heard were platitudes and unrealistic plans.
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" But despite his grief, Bourdain's friend also pointed out that the chef would have "hated" hearing "these platitudes that I'm saying.
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We hear indistinct religious platitudes spoken through megaphones and a line of protesters waving homemade signs depicting images of aborted fetuses.
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Brrr, it's freezing, or *it's disgustingly humid out *are easily shared platitudes, no matter where you are or who you're with.
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What William himself feels about this as he recites platitudes written for him by the British government we will never know.
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For politicians and bureaucrats, it's an occasion for anodyne platitudes about the importance of gender equality in our schools and institutions.
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What I typed doesn't matter all that much since the output is an automatic string of businesspeak and TEDtalky corporate platitudes.
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Platitudes of the connected home, wearables, VR, bots and, most recently, live video have surfaced, and hopefully there will be more.
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He didn't shy away from politics, nor offer simplistic platitudes to salve the consciences of often advantaged-by-birth viewing audiences.
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Citing the Ginsburg rule, Kavanaugh repeated judicial platitudes about respecting precedent while declining, as did prior nominees, to give direct answers.
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When Ms. Bourelly catches herself spouting anodyne industry platitudes, she interrupts with the opposite: a string of playful, self-mocking obscenities.
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But the speech amounted to little more than platitudes about his "America First" worldview and quickly dissolved into patriotic word salad.
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Collectively, we agree this action speaks louder than "thoughts and prayers" platitudes commonly uttered by gun violence apologists after mass shootings.
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Their shirts, oftentimes printed on tie-dye, feature Dead platitudes, imagery drawn from lyrics, and playful references to classic Dead iconography.
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It is just another example of accustomed American idiocy where unimpassioned, immediate platitudes of the corporate logo stand in for art.
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We're watching closely to see whether he answers those questions, or whether Congress will settle for another round of Pruitt's platitudes.
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But, one way or the other, we're here to help with this simple guide to translate some of Pruitt's favorite platitudes.
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Much of Gingrich's speech is too vague to fact-check — just scary-sounding platitudes masquerading as truth-telling and brave honesty.
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He often answers their questions with random platitudes, in the confused way of someone who is reading a distant, blurry teleprompter.
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" A few hours later, Hearts issued the stock statement, full of platitudes, documenting the dismissal as a "difficult decision, made reluctantly.
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Ivivva, which was founded in 2009, takes Lululemon's yogic platitudes and apparel, shrinks them, and adds a dose of glitter. 9.
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My fellow delegate Monica Wulff, tired of the platitudes, raised her hand to ask a question specifically about Australian start-ups.
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While most companies have a mission statement and a set of values, they are often just platitudes hanging on the wall.
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Some Democrats have forgotten who they work for and cloak their pro-surveillance activities in TV-friendly platitudes about the resistance.
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But the impression from one person there was that Pence relied too much on platitudes rather than addressing the criticisms directly.
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It means he often talks in platitudes and hypotheticals, providing little detail or proof of concept (have you met Beto O'Rourke?).
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Clinton did what any experienced politician facing tough questions and a limited amount of time would: stall for time with platitudes.
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And if you think Facebook platitudes are uniquely bad, you must have never stood in a greeting line at a funeral home.
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When June tries to offer up Gilead's empty platitudes — "May God bless you and bring forth his miracle" — Ofmatthew is noticeably annoyed.
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When it does explain the platform, it buries it in long texts filled with platitudes about it being a place for everyone.
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I'm real sick of watching him justify his invasive condescension with white knight platitudes — and while making moves on Hot Rachel, besides!
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" As usual, Zuckerberg was light on specifics, answering the bulk of questions with platitudes like "we need to do a better job.
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They credit much of his rapid rise to a strategy that prioritizes platitudes over policy and is greased by white male privilege.
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Gone, too, are the broken promises, jobless recoveries, tired platitudes and constant excuses for the depletion of American wealth, power and prestige.
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But we didn't hear much from Apple itself on why it picked these shows to develop, beyond some broad platitudes about storytelling.
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You can probably even rattle off the main offenders — think platitudes like "pay your dues" and "be a yes person" — from memory.
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Many women, she said, "experience the Church as a male bastion of patronizing platitudes, to which Pope Francis has added his quota".
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This was intellectually lazy, offering platitudes (for a Germany in which we live well and gladly) rather than engaging in difficult debates.
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Read your letter again, and zap any clichés or platitudes that don't say something meaningful about you, the position or the company.
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One of Eddie's favorite platitudes is "No such thing as can't," and this is, apparently, supposed to count as a personality trait.
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Instead of offering employees a series of vague platitudes, he came out and said the president elect is a hateful step backwards.
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His much mocked dabblings in "radical chic" were, in fact, an attempt to look beyond liberal platitudes and take on systemic racism.
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Speaking in vagaries and platitudes, Beto says he plans to make us all into the better people he hopes we can be.
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Instead, Ryan promoted conservative policy platitudes and framed the GOP nominee as an opportunity for change after eight years under President Obama.
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The speech was, like the woman herself, fairly unobjectionable on its face, with platitudes about family and country, patriotism and hard work.
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Healthcare dynamism requires real market reforms that center on the consumer, not stale D.C. platitudes and the concerns of powerful pressure groups.
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Egged on by self-pitying plinks and moans on the soundtrack, the character soon sinks completely into a soggy swamp of platitudes.
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It's incredibly lazy—there's nothing here that you wouldn't get from skimming The Complete Idiot's Guide to Journalism—and full of platitudes.
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He has a knack for spewing platitudes that newcomers to Alcoholics Anonymous regard as profound, which is good for some droll humor.
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He could never imagine conforming, speaking in the stunted "platitudes" of the "ultra-modernists" who text around us in the Tim Hortons.
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We shouldn't expect either Trump or the tech leaders to issue more than vague platitudes in their comments immediately after the meeting.
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The Afghanistan speech is just the latest time he's promised the media a big, meaty policy before throwing them teleprompter-read platitudes.
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He's citing what's called an "informed ballot" test, where pollsters ask people how they'd vote after they mention platitudes about the candidates.
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The order includes some vague platitudes about developing new mitigation policies some time in the future, we should not hold our breath.
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That it's the others who are unoriginal and haven't a thought, that they're the ones who are imitative and full of platitudes?
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It's critical to stress the importance of being empowered and speaking truth to power, encouraging teams to share constructive criticism versus platitudes.
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In the past, like most writers, I've fled from this question and mouthed the usual platitudes about loving all my children equally.
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His daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, mouths platitudes about female empowerment while supporting the rollback of a federal rule on equal pay.
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"We live with integrity in ways that no other company does," and it's just the same platitudes over and over. Right. Right.
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The event was true to Trump's candidacy, with platitudes about veterans, viral internet meme stars, and invitees coronating Trump with an award.
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They don't want platitudes and will severely penalize any politician who pretends there is no real problem when everyone knows there is.
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The tone of the narration is so wrenchingly honest that the film never lapses into self-pity or relies on mystical platitudes.
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We already know, from the platitudes he spouts to donors about The Square, that Christian hasn't thought through any problems of class.
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But other than politicians finally getting the message to stop with the platitudes, how much can realistically happen to address gun violence?
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And does it matter if Davos is perceived to be just an expense-account-fueled frenzy of business deal-making and platitudes?
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But instead of just speaking for dollars, how about speaking her mind, in a lexicon purged of the usual platitudes and clichés?
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The most important thing, however, is to stop repeating the platitudes and start having a more honest and blunt conversation about suicide.
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The dialogue drags, from the corporate buzzwords to platitudes about life and grief which even Our Lord and Savior Helen Mirren can't redeem.
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At the other end of the scale are tomes containing a plethora of pithy platitudes about "breaking the mould" and "worshipping the kill".
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But in terms of what Britain wants, we have heard nothing but platitudes: "Brexit means Brexit", or "have our cake and eat it".
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It is as if North and South Korea made friends, not just with platitudes at a summit but with actions on the ground.
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Contradicting the platitudes of many of its competitors, Honor even found enough space for a headphone jack inside its spec-rich handset. Amazing.
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This is a difficult needle to thread, and we should expect her responses to include platitudes toward both of these sets of voters.
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His platitudes of self-worth mutated, now he was a self-professed thought leader, though his thoughts felt even more erratic and inscrutable.
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"That is an appalling statistic that we cannot paper over with platitudes about how 'HIV/AIDS affects people of all types,'" Schoettes said.
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We're fed a lot of platitudes about positive thinking — fake it till you make it, find the silver lining, the list goes on.
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Platitudes about disconnecting aside, the app does have some features that could be useful if someone really wanted to curb their digital consumption.
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Sure, she may win this election even if all she does at the debate is smile and say her usual list of platitudes.
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And yet he keeps drumming the same beat — with the same old platitudes about unity, togetherness, and how most police officers mean well.
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With "Bismuth," the show puts all of Steven's noblest instincts on display in a way that doesn't once feel like it's preaching platitudes.
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Accordingly, they usually rely on well-rehearsed platitudes, giving little insight to the interviewer and so making the whole exercise feel largely arbitrary.
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Trump should also move beyond platitudes and recognize that bullying often reflects other social dynamics and hierarchies, including misogyny, racism, classism and homophobia.
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"Trump spoke in platitudes; he was a man looking for gray areas where there are none," Jelani Cobb wrote at The New Yorker.
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Either way, it seems to work with domestic audiences fed up with what they see as the ineffectual platitudes offered by mainstream politicians.
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You know, platitudes like the one Representative Eric Swalwell deployed in the only other response to automation on the debate stage either night.
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Friends were never much help, and the usual platitudes—like "everyone feels this way sometimes"—would often only make me feel worse inside.
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He urged them to take care of one another and to live fearlessly—platitudes in boom times, something much more vital right now.
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"Who knows what Theresa May has secured here apart from vague platitudes?" leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, said in a statement.
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The crowd laughed and cheered as they delivered flowery speeches, weaving jokes with witty rhymes, beauty-queen platitudes and proclamations on gender equality.
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If so, then aren't we just shifting the platitudes from a white family to a black family while continuing the cycle of discrimination?
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"Before them, the subject was mostly a collection of platitudes, a backwater that law schools largely ignored," Professor Gillers said in an email.
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The payoff is somewhat less so, especially once the film begins dealing in platitudes about friendship and the action moves to the Himalayas.
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As usual, he spoke primarily in platitudes, not policy specifics -- a style that wasn't helped by questions that were more atmospheric than specific.
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. — The Rangers issued all the appropriate proclamations heading into Wednesday's playoff opener at Montreal, but amid the platitudes were potential pitfalls.
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I also wanted to understand what it takes to have a substantive discussion on climate change on television that pushes candidates beyond platitudes.
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But by pre-dinner drinks, many guests are spouting platitudes about the experience despite being only five hours into the 22-hour program.
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Without Lindsay's voice-over and on camera platitudes about business, this show would be a less interesting Vanderpump Rules by way of Jersey Shore.
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The result is a mish-mash of very personal, human experience provided by Scourti's memoirs and the kind of platitudes shared in motivational memes.
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Unfortunately, when talking about how they would increase manufacturing, most of the candidates have not reached beyond platitudes and into the realm of reality.
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" In his speeches in Jerusalem he made do with vague platitudes about how "both Israelis and Palestinians seek lives of hope for their children.
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It is unclear, but so far I have little hope because most of what I've heard from artists who were there are empty platitudes.
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Amid dozens of vague platitudes about the power of women, there were only a few moments of real political bite during last night's awards.
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But in his speeches in Jerusalem, made do with vague platitudes of how "both Israelis and Palestinians seek lives of hope for their children".
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Working harder, training more aggressively, digging deeper—those platitudes don't apply when you're facing off against your billionaire employers instead of an opposing team.
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Sarah Manguso asks just that in her book 300 Arguments, a collection of 300 platitudes that reflect on life, writing, love, friendship, and more.
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If she wants to convince me and millions of others that her words and platform mean something, the proposals need to match the platitudes.
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Her album-length strategy hasn't changed: mix equal parts radio-ready bangers and melodramatic ballads, and season with inspirational platitudes and jocular self-effacement.
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Before the game, Coach Dwane Casey went straight for the buffet of elimination-game platitudes, saying he wanted his team to play with resolve.
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While that should be worthy of a denial as a culinary crime, the hearing was little more than Democratic posturing met by Republican platitudes.
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And even when we are exposed to glimpses of wartime violence and menace, it's undercut by fuzzy platitudes near the end of the film.
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That's too bad because there's so much good shit hidden in these random spoken interludes, even when it's just kind of vague inspirational platitudes.
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Mr. Trump continued his combative tone at the White House ceremony, in a highly unusual departure from the usual platitudes featured at such events.
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Now that my inner narrator has alternatives to I think and I feel, these seem not like self-help platitudes but like observable facts.
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But rather than inspiring their fans, their platitudes and luxurious surroundings are just getting on people's nerves, our critic-at-large Amanda Hess writes.
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Many of the quilts in the show similarly fall flat, trying to depict their subjects too literally and ending up with worn-out platitudes.
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The oddest thing about Trump's speech was its attempt to combine platitudes about the Boy Scouts with his usual red-meat rally applause lines.
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What he has given him are platitudes and attitudes, the outline of a well-meaning Peter Pan confronting mortality and isolation without the substance.
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Ms. Warren greeted the deluge with mixed success, never wobbling too precariously but retreating at times to the safe harbor of stump-speech platitudes.
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"Maybe tomorrow's ECB meeting sees nothing but platitudes and disappoints a market that is getting ahead of itself," said Societe Generale analyst Kit Juckes.
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"When they have to stand onstage next to each other and debate each other, platitudes aren't going to win the day," said Ms. Cutter.
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These generic platitudes remind us of the pensive thoughts that surround death but also its absurdity, reading simultaneously like memento mori and roadside billboards.
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Cortázar takes a different view, believing that subverting hegemonies of language are possible through questioning and distancing, through rejecting received wisdom and familiar platitudes.
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Characters like Chuck and Howard (one of the partners at Kim's firm) can offer vague moral platitudes, but they're also cruel when need be.
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In another, a different bunny is sliding its way down a massive spike, and I offer platitudes as it ruminates on the meaninglessness of life.
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Bland singers bellow inspirational platitudes before the drop — as the crunchy instrumental megahook providing a song's climax and bliss point is called — drowns them out.
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Viewers outside of Greek life might understandably perceive Total Frat Movie as parody, its heroes so blithely dropping platitudes that are neither profound nor funny.
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Still, articles about them tend to fall into platitudes, anointing the poet cooler than you, an avatar of supreme coolness, and the epitome of cool.
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It's a series of platitudes that offer no real resolution, no suggestion on our next steps, and completely fails to address the issue of guns.
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Considering both Ford and Lucas are notoriously reticent, it's perhaps unsurprising that their official statements on Fisher's death are straightforward and unencumbered by flowery platitudes.
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But what about more soigné crafts like sushi-making, and all of its accompanying Jiro Ono-ish platitudes about elegance and "human touch" and mastery?
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Your personal brand only exists online because that's what people are doing right now—tweeting and sharing platitudes that are 'where the conversation' is happening.
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He speaks in inspirational platitudes, straight off a billboard, as though he's convinced everyone he'll have a good time if he talks about it enough.
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But she admits that small success remains the exception to the rule, with venture funding scarce despite VC platitudes about disruption and changing the world.
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Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.), former head of the CHC, said she was frustrated by Nielsen's responses, which she characterized as "general platitudes" about shared interests.
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If Murphy wants to atone for stepping outside the bounds of principles he tells voters he possesses, it shouldn't be with more pro-life platitudes.
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The current presidential wannabes address us with empty platitudes about fulfilling potential, without talking specifically about how they would actually fix our failing education system.
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Now they photograph themselves reading the right books and tweet well-tuned platitudes in an effort to cultivate an image of themselves as politically engaged.
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The political platitudes may be more believable from Tester because, more than many senators, voters say he does seem to embody the state he represents.
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Apple's CEO Tim Cook offered a bunch of platitudes in response to Trump's election, even though Trump called for an explicit boycott of Apple's products.
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Despite platitudes about party unity, the tone grew harsher after one rural county discovered a tabulation error that added 100 votes to Mr. Colyer's tally.
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He shows up, spouts a few platitudes, and mostly leaves us wishing he were any of The X-Files' original crew of baddies or informants.
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An obsession with customers and a willingness to experiment sound like the kind of corporate platitudes you can read about in any basic business book.
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If Republicans truly wish to repudiate the white supremacists they've admitted (and sometimes welcomed) to their ranks, they need to do more than mouth platitudes.
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He blasted the Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz campaigns for insincerely mouthing focus-grouped platitudes while catering to their largest donors — and he was right.
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Into this May arrived with little more than platitudes and no more of a plan to placate her enemies or political partners in the north.
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They traffic in platitudes about bipartisanship, elevated rhetoric about the endless magnanimity of the American people, and paeans to the greatness of its military might.
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She used her speech to relay the industry's stark realities, urging talent to forge beyond "we can do better" platitudes about Hollywood homogeneity by making demands.
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He speaks in platitudes too often even now to be considered a maverick and he's not battle tested in way that Cuban is almost every day.
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Under all the grand mission statements and platitudes about changing the world, the tech industry still runs on cash, and promises of more cash to come.
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Kayleigh McEnany: Not the vision America wants The Democratic National Convention was short on policy and heavy on platitudes, short on change and heavy on continuity.
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Plenty of platitudes and praise were being handed out but no medals: those will be awarded on the final day of the Rio Olympics on Aug.
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Bush, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon — they all worked toward divisive policies but spoke the bland platitudes of "coming together as a nation" much better than Trump.
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Just like the famous dating show, in most boy band songs, a group of men compete for the same woman and express their feelings in platitudes.
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Crenshaw is thankful for other people's concern, but isn't interested in their uninformed suggestions or platitudes: My sweet girl and her first visit to mama's hometown.
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It was full of dissonance, contradictions and lies, sprinkled with feel-good one-liners, a couple of emotional moments, plenty of platitudes and even a rhyme.
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Marker places Laura — a nondescript vehicle for platitudes about technology and war — in control of the narrative, dooming the movie to the banality of her segments.
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Taken out of context, the messages in these videos could easily stand in for the platitudes you would expect from Instagram fitness models or life coaches.
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Under the subheading of "Learning From Leonardo," he offers 20 italicized platitudes, including Retain a childlike sense of wonder and Let your reach exceed your grasp.
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" Trump's grievances eventually turned into a mishmash of platitudes about dreams, histories, "the passion that burns in the hearts of patriots," and the "constellation of nations.
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He swept into a sclerotic Republican Party in which even its younger politicians are mouthing the same platitudes that were fresh and new 40 years ago.
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Ms. Smith's work, which doesn't feel fully developed here, resides somewhere between the potent platitudes of appropriated material and an attempt to distill her personal experience.
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National Security Strategies (NSSs), which presidents are required by law to issue annually, are usually so full of bland language and platitudes that they go unnoticed.
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They were so hurt and upset to see another gallery close with a lot of nice platitudes but no real, tangible efforts to keep it alive.
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"All of the platitudes, mentions, or policy statements about disability issues by candidates ring hollow when potential disabled voters can't even access their websites," says Wong.
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The first three sentences are boilerplate platitudes about CFPB activities that have nothing to do with the fact that the agency isn't conducting a reasonably serious investigation.
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The company, clearly aware of the fact that it's been way too long since the last desktop, also gave Panzerino a whole mess of platitudes and excuses.
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Clinton, in turn, will contrast her long experience in and around government, and her fluency with policy, to Trump's preference for platitudes and promises over policy details.
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On both, he provides just enough by way of vague platitudes to find something to agree with, but few details on what he actually wants to implement.
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When asked to provide some insight into their achievement, even those at the heart of the enterprise fall back on standard-issue platitudes and admissions of bewilderment.
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But these diplomatic platitudes were shallow at best and subsequent efforts to resolve numerous hacking incidents and trade violations through good faith negotiations have largely been ignored.
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I've never read a super specific horoscope and felt compelled to restructure my life, but give me some vague-ish platitudes to ruminate on, and I'm solid.
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While most designers choose to present a sanitized social media presence, filled with platitudes, peonies, and professional photography, Gabbana relishes in irreverently dipping into highly-charged topics.
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Those declarations were stripped down to meaningless platitudes by the time I landed my first job, and my boss asked me if I ever straighten my hair.
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My off-and-on quest to follow the path of Atlas — a mysterious entity that trades platitudes and red stones for obedience — has now become an obsession.
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The opposing candidates facing Trump have also taken their shots both on Trump's persona and his big promises and puffy platitudes that offer little to no specifics.
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There are no good solutions to this problem, and so tech executives tend to discuss it as seldom as possible, and only in the airiest of platitudes.
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It looks even worse from Warren who is supposed to be a populist authenticity candidate and not some poll-tested donor created amalgam of platitudes like Pete.
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As a rule, social networks are terrible at understanding their human users — no matter the ooey-gooey platitudes about bringing us "closer together" their executives piece together.
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By the time Democrats set about selecting their next presidential nominee, a seriousness about antitrust reform—not empty platitudes, but detailed commitments—will be a litmus test.
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Sure, it is easy to spout platitudes about racial harmony and equality, but when it comes to interracial marriages, navigating family traditions and politics can be tricky.
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In this age of political correctness, blunt conversations give way to solipsistic meandering around the point and vague platitudes meant to assuage any hint of interpersonal conflict.
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"Getting all these platitudes and things being said about you, and all these gifts, it wasn't in my DNA to believe any of this stuff," he said.
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It's an elite that, rather than pushing for systemic change, only reinforces our lopsided economic reality — all while hobnobbing on the conference circuit and trafficking in platitudes.
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PHILADELPHIA — After spending 24 hours in the center of a culture war, the Philadelphia Eagles shrugged off a white-hot controversy with earnest platitudes and easygoing humor.
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He has become a public performer over the past three years, cultivating a disarming "aw shucks, lordy, lordy" persona while covering his damaging actions with milky platitudes.
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Convention dictates that Conte talk about "taking it game by game," demanding that his players should not get ahead of themselves, but these are just platitudes now.
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All candidates of both parties have highlighted racial equality or racial justice policies, but some have outlined more thoughtful approaches than others with actionable plans beyond platitudes.
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Pious platitudes have failed Christians (never mind celibates) in coping in a sexualized culture that screams sex in nearly every ad, TV show, movie and dating app.
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And while it's common for candidates to reach out to opponents who drop out and offer gracious platitudes, Warren's conversations with some former candidates have gone deeper.
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The talk of war and invasion proceeds in platitudes and snippets of propaganda; here and there, German atrocities perpetuated farther east are spoken of in hushed tones.
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This allows them to be current and relevant to the company rather than getting caught up in the usual business platitudes that are commonplace in board meetings.
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To quote the standard platitudes, it has charms to soothe a savage breast; it is the food of love; it brings us together and sets us free.
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It was an unusually visceral, passionate response to an issue often treated with platitudes and vague expressions of sympathy, and one that Booker had credibility to offer.
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And if there are two things that play poorly in a debate (especially one against a veteran political debater), it's vague platitudes and over-the-top outrageousness.
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" Cruz responded by offering a variety of platitudes, including, "Well, Ma'am, thank you for that," and "if you want to engage in insults... I'm not going to reciprocate.
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The movie brims with sappy writing and almost unbelievably on-the-nose platitudes, and the acting from the majority of the ensemble cast leaves much to be desired.
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This fumbling Council of Ministers may mouth party platitudes, but they don't think about policy as anything more than a gesture to get the public on their side.
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Trump has never evinced any real interest in shrinking the deficit -- and the underlying national debt it feeds -- beyond some platitudes offered to fiscal conservatives during the campaign.
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He wrote in Foreign Policy that the video lectures repeated platitudes that would be "familiar to anyone who has spent time in Beijing in the last 40 years".
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The services overall have been weakened by "empty platitudes and concessions to political correctness run amuck," says Commander Dan O'Shea, a retired Navy SEAL and OEF/OIF veteran.
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The power of this meta-movie resides not in retrospective platitudes about women with metastatic disease but in its representations of their urgent exertions to imagine the unimaginable.
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Challenged by a journalist in August 2015 to specify what she still wanted to achieve as chancellor, Mrs Merkel offered only platitudes about wanting to fulfil her duty.
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Clinton may spout politically popular pro-Israel platitudes, but her track record of strong-arming Israel while embracing and mainstreaming Muslim terrorists speaks far louder than her words.
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Let's just say that the resolution of this struggle, towards the end, suggests what all of us need to do to get above media-saturated, bite-sized platitudes.
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But to my ear, it's a symphony of compromise, where only now and then a sour note sounds from someone who breaks from the platitudes they are spewing.
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At every opportunity, Bentley put in a word or two about the good work he's doing, peppering his answers with platitudes about jobs and the people of Alabama.
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If the United States is to in fact embrace health care as a "right," beyond mere platitudes, the government must be frank about the immense sacrifice this entails.
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With his slicked blond hair and cold, arrogant sneer, this politician-come-lately is an empty suit robotically shaking hands while spewing inane platitudes at meet-and-greets.
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Ocasio-Cortez will not sit in the Hamptons and utter bleeding-heart platitudes when she reads about the plight of the working class in the New York Times.
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Moscone's relentless rhetoric about neighborhoods might now seem like shopworn platitudes, but they were genuinely new and important when he was saying and doing those things in 1975.
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But rather than seek meaningful explanations, he falls back on ahistorical platitudes: "Strongman politics and boss-man rule, in simplest form, is the story of mankind," he sighs.
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The ideas in those books helped me cope with my circumstances much more than any of the "positive psychology" and the treatment approved literature—especially the spiritual platitudes.
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On the one side, you have a code of behaviors and fashions that includes safety pin piercings, ransom-note typefaces, and corroded voices wailing platitudes that sound revolutionary.
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During their confirmation hearings, both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh made the customary noises about respecting the Court's precedents, including Roe, but one group in particular saw through the platitudes.
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And even though she did nothing for me (she's ruthlessly plucky with young Donna's platitudes), I'll admit to admiring her choice to not even bother "doing" Meryl Streep.
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It was a made-for-cable moment; you could almost hear the blow-dried platitudes, voiced on soundstages elsewhere in the capital, about this parting of happy warriors.
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Grace is resentful and self-pitying in this stretch, and, while Bening's performance keeps the drama from ever becoming maudlin, Nicholson's dialogue never strays far from bland platitudes.
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Plus, the flare-up in the press over his friendship with Trump was not making Brady any more eager to engage beyond his usual helpings of football platitudes.
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While he often responded to Ms. Klobuchar in previous debates with his own platitudes, this time Mr. Buttigieg went personal, accusing Ms. Klobuchar of denigrating his military record.
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An excellent example of what not to award, however, comes from "The Pulitzer at 100," an hour and a half of congratulatory platitudes timed to the prizes' centennial.
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He has never had the guts to do more than mouth a few platitudes while paying obeisance to the gun lobby and the state's admittedly historic gun culture.
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And it might have been had DeVos been able to offer up anything other than benign platitudes and non-answers to every question that Lesley Stahl asked her.
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Democrats haven't been doing a good job of speaking to them on an intrinsic level beyond broad party platitudes, and Progressive Turnout Project is aiming to change that.
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Asked how he would handle Gaza differently from Mr. Netanyahu, Mr. Gantz rambled between platitudes about "rebuilding our deterrence" and "using our strength," but offered no actual solutions.
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But the platitudes Russell offers her — that she has smart eyes, that she seems sad — are so banal that even sheltered, naive Evie isn't really impressed by them.
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C.K.'s complaints about they/them pronouns aren't just offensive; they're also tired, well-worn platitudes parroted by everyone from psychologist Jordan Peterson to TV host Piers Morgan.
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I have no answers, I have no solutions, I have no platitudes about the Work We Must Do or the hope that persists in spite of our uncertain future.
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" Trump said, followed by a smattering of generic #GirlPower platitudes: "Amaaaazing —" *thumbs up* "— Project Runway —" *swings camera from herself to the TV* "— Karlie is host —" *delicate, tinkling laugh* "— epic.
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This is the grand health care reform that President Donald Trump described to the nation just last week in a series of platitudes before a joint session of Congress.
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RELATED: Trump ready to cast blame But it will take more than platitudes to unite his party, especially after both conservative and moderate factions demonstrated their strength this week.
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"When it comes to our national security – and keeping Americans safe from hate and terrorism – broad platitudes and vague explanations of safety procedures aren't enough," Thompson and Rose said.
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Like a double-dealing demagogue's speech, there's just enough pity to satisfy black grievance and just enough platitudes (Rose back-talking a white cop) to make whites feel superior.
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Then the Supreme Court hopeful himself gets a quarter of an hour to make an opening statement filled with platitudes about the law and plaudits for his adorable family.
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As for the EU negotiations, the same platitudes about the "best possible" deal are trotted out along with the line that "no deal is better than a bad deal".
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Contrary to the platitudes delivered in greeting cards and Hollywood movies, love is not always enough, especially when you combine managing a relationship with the stress of daily life.
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Sounding eerily like the speech George W. Bush gave in 2001 when he declared his War on Terror, Trump then turned to the reliable platitudes of good and evil.
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Director David Gordon Green and writer John Pollono dig past the cheery slogans and meaningless platitudes to find the human man underneath the heroic image we've constructed of him.
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They coined platitudes like "radical helpfulness" and sought ways to communicate humanity and approachability, but mostly they focused on three words, in a very specific order: AI, software, hardware.
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To take away from the inherent mundanity of the subject, our characters mouth jingoistic dialogue, giving us platitudes about how these tests will change India's place in the world.
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Wong's Khaled Ipsum takes Khaled's vague platitudes regarding horticulture, self-empowerment, and the power of cocoa butter and repurposes them, turning their collective lack of meaning into a strength.
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" Changing attitudes Such platitudes are just what Courtney E. Smith wrote about in a Refinery 29 story titled, "It's Time For Country Music To Change Its Tune On Guns.
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Mr. Smith spent almost no time on chat and platitudes, swapped out his own guitars rather than wait for roadies and tuned up at least once on his own.
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"In the past, I could run around and kiss babies and mouth party platitudes and expect to get re-elected," Mr. Katter said in a telephone interview on Monday.
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He blasted the Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz campaigns for insincerely mouthing focus-grouped platitudes... While he mocked a disabled reporter, race-baited, and bragged about committing sexual assault.
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Songs dealing with serious themes or thorny issues are largely off limits, queer identity is generally only addressed as subtext, and lyrics are usually scrubbed down to fluffy platitudes.
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Burial makes a solid case that the singer was always using his voice wrong and turns his platitudes into one of the defining tracks of the last ten years.
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But the show's appealing performers and catchy look don't yet outweigh its lack of cohesion and its readiness to fall back on platitudes about the corrosive effects of wealth.
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I love their perfectly synchronised dance routines, their hair that looks like neat little piles of custard, their skittles-coloured music videos, and their empty but comforting lyrical platitudes.
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This point may be best exemplified by Ed Ruscha's painting "Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights" (1962) that reeks of the accustomed immediate and bright platitudes of the corporate logo.
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I felt like a fraud, confronting his agony with platitudes when it was clear that anything short of reversing time to return his father to life would prove inadequate.
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Unless it is supported with extraphotographic evidence, it will be mired in platitudes about human brutality or the universality of grief, truths for which no photographic argument is required.
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I was very concerned about past instances of racism that had ended with just pithy statements and platitudes without a meaningful commitment to invest in structural or innovational change.
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Platitudes alone will not transform the president's "really tough, really big" intentions into the concrete measures our country needs to confront an epidemic that claims more lives each day.
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The pitches that dozens of startup founders deliver at Y Combinator's biannual Demo Day events have a ritualistic formality, alternating between change-the-world platitudes and invest-in-us promises.
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So, you know, I hope he means what he says, but so far (...) he has not issued a plan or a program to rebuild America's military other than the platitudes.
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This white fury has been fueled, of course, by a media that has either stoked the fires of fear and violence, or obediently regurgitated the platitudes of the ruling elite.
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So much so, that the initial conversation for this column involved a lot of beating around the bush, platitudes, and generalizations about the way each participant relates to money personally.
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They cite rhetoric and vague platitudes because that's the closest they can get to finding Trump actions that make him look halfway competent in carrying out this fantasy foreign policy.
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SINCE Pope Francis took office three years ago, the Vatican has had a lot to say about the most wretched inhabitants of the earth, and not just in vague platitudes.
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There's little semblance of a dramatic arc between the games, so what you're left with is a series of platitudes: putting nose to grindstone, doing the blue collar work, etcetera.
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A few had the decency to look sheepish, but the depressing, infuriating, majority offered nothing more than platitudes about us lasting longer than they'd expected before taking a few photos.
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LuAnn repeatedly tries to tell Bethenny she's onto the "next phase" of her life after Jason by spouting the pithiest faux zen platitudes possible, despite the fact the former Mrs.
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Set aside the instances of racial demagogy; even at its best moments, for decades the party has been unable to move beyond broad assessments and platitudes to advocate substantive change.
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If Rodgers is going to maintain positivity amongst the fanbase, he either needs to rewrite his personal book of stock platitudes, or take a different approach to critiquing his side.
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But it's not terribly persuasive if your superior judgment can't even help you offer 30 seconds of minimally vague platitudes about one of the biggest challenges you'll face in office.
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Worse are the flares of pretentiousness, like an unidentified, unexplained narrator who growls platitudes ("The stars and the dirt, they're the same dust") while laboriously rehabbing an ancient pay phone.
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But the news media more typically is invited into the room for only the first few minutes of such a meeting to record the traditional platitudes before being kicked out.
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The platitudes were there, as I expected, but the evasions were worse than I anticipated: The plan, in effect, is to entrench Facebook's interests while sidestepping all the important issues.
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Night after night, the president's favorite acolytes on Fox News trot out a series of platitudes, as well as bleary-eyed senators and experts, to try to calm people down.
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"We are about to bury the rights of over 100 million American women under a heap of platitudes," protested Mary Dent Crisp, the co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.
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But Chinese officials and the state news media want Mr. Trump to know that their leaders prefer doing diplomacy the old-fashioned way, behind closed doors and muffled in platitudes.
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For all the platitudes offered by liberal journalists about the free press standing as a cornerstone of democracy, they do not actually have a very good grasp of the concept.
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There's a lot of useless platitudes on the internet on the topic of self-esteem — telling someone with low self-esteem to "love yourself" simply isn't going to cut it.
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But thanks to this book, beautifully written and utterly devoid of empty platitudes, we get a glimpse of what that situation was like, and I'm eternally wowed by her strength.
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And the underappreciated moderation of most Democratic voters made them relatively tolerant of Mr Biden's platitudes when the main alternative was the excessive miserabilism of Mr Sanders and Ms Warren.
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The contrast between the earnest and ambitious enthusiasm of the young climate action protesters and the cynical platitudes of many of the political leaders gathered in New York is striking.
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I guess I'm having a hard time seeing how Trump is all that different from other politicians who speak in repetitive clichés and use slogans and platitudes to manipulate voters.
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It was only after his speech concluded that Trump strayed from his pro-business platitudes and into the brash pronouncements about the media and Democrats that usually pepper his speeches.
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I was starting to feel irresponsible, like the only way I could keep doing this was to forget about all the people my one-size-fits-all platitudes couldn't help.
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The current team has been sanguine about all that in its press-tour platitudes—creative differences, still owe a great debt to Bryan, making the show we want to make, etc.
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And despite the endless platitudes about cash growing on trees, American money isn't printed on paper at all — bills are created with a hybrid blend of 75% cotton and 25% linen.
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Later, trying to rehabilitate her image on the talk show circuit, Tripp would try to paint this as a feminist act and mouth platitudes about having acted in Monica's best interests.
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This second impulse gives rise to things like the Davos speech, which was read from an autocue, drizzled with platitudes ("I believe in America") and contained some goodies for his audience.
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There is also the warm, friendly CEO Eamon Bailey (Hanks), who couches all his Big Brother tendencies in casual, Upworthy platitudes of simply wanting to make the world a better place.
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Mr. Stumpf, they said, was offering little more than platitudes while allowing his top executives to avoid any real consequences — like being fired or having their enormous pay packages clawed back.
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For all the platitudes that he has spouted—in various interviews and in his Senate hearing—about building community and bringing people together, in his own life he prefers building walls.
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Rather than simply offering feel-good platitudes, Chalene tells listeners how to evaluate their priorities, make more time for loved ones, and reclaim some of the hours they spend doing busywork.
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Justin Bobby speaks in ridiculous platitudes, like "Truth and time tells all," which now sound like everything spewed on The Bachelor, but back then were unique in their somehow grounded inanity.
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Instead, we've been served the same platitudes: cutting taxes to spur jobs, as Trump offered, or investing in infrastructure and education because trickle-down economics do not work, as Clinton said.
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"No Broken Hearts" coasts on party platitudes and idyllic tropical grooves provided by Iggy Azalea collaborators the Invisible Men before bursting into a ginormous, irresistibly good spirited chorus about overcoming heartbreak.
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It was projecting bright red light and images of raindrops and, finally, the forest, calling to mind those Instagram posts of scenery paired with platitudes that Tiller's lyrics so boldly evoke.
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Without getting into Norman Rockwell platitudes, I see a determined pragmatism, a freshness that comes from growing up in America that only someone who spent years away from it can notice.
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He is reaching out to Floridians with generalities and platitudes, promising that whatever the problem is (the economy, immigration, national security, foreign policy, etc.), he is the one to fix it.
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Witten often stumbled over his lines — his most notable moment was when he said that the N.F.L. had gone "left wing" in its protection of quarterbacks — and sometimes spoke in platitudes.
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The inclination to speak directly to black people in statements heavy on platitudes and light on substance is a reminiscent of when Trump visited a black church in Detroit in September.
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They deliver the same old platitudes: disaffected voters, angry white men who have suffered economically and feel forgotten, Trump's populist message represented the nation's deep-seated distrust of Washington, ad infinitum.
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" — amid a litany of platitudes that boil down to "women are good," culminating in a final line that pretty well sums up the song's thesis, such as it is: "Mhm, female.
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The alternative, to avoid wellness platitudes and not live up to one's full potential, is the choice of the two protagonists of both novels, and it's what makes their journeys so compelling.
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Trump has been practically radio-silent on the cosmic beyond until recent months, when he started issuing some vacant, nice-sounding platitudes about how space is great and America's for the taking.
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Men shaped like Legos offered platitudes on the steps of a state capitol, and, the Bachelorette attended an "unhappy" hour in honor of the literary legend and proto-Goth Edgar Allen Poe.
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Charitably interpreting the messages as sacred commands rather than platitudes, he is compelled to travel around America (rather like Mark Zuckerberg's "Great American Road Trip"), with the vague aim of "solving violence".
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Framed behind glass within the quiet of the gallery, the aggressive phrases: "Burn Baby Burn," or even "By Any Means Necessary," become lifeless platitudes without the individuals to bring them to life.
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There's a meditative mindlessness inherent in the motion of skating; it's a physical art enacted through fast-twitch muscle memory over mere milliseconds, and Kruger's platitudes can seem to interrupt that experience.
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The Democratic convention has been different and better in many ways — particularly about elevating the issue and using proper language — but even here I remain leery of empty platitudes over actual policies.
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And unlike the "girls can do anything" platitudes that plaster lunch boxes and Target tank tops, the film suggests that teenage women—like all women—can, and should, try to do anything.
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The vague "self-help" platitudes and stock-footage-laden graphics on offer this week tie neatly into the intersection of capitalism and spirituality that has come to define the American religious landscape.
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But for the most part, Ms. Handel and Mr. Ossoff stayed within the zone of bland and predictable platitudes on national defense: fund the military, support the intelligence community, work with allies.
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"We have failed to articulate, beyond platitudes, the essential connection between what we teach, how we teach and how that prepares people for the modern workforce," Steinberg said in a recent interview.
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Instead, in a 30-minute chat with Mr. Williams, a Carson adviser and conservative media personality, and Mr. Harvey, the housing secretary stuck to broad platitudes about his commitment to alleviating poverty.
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The unfinished hallways, filled with vibrant posters of cartoon animals, are nothing but cheap diversions attempting to combat their true bareness, just surface-level platitudes meant to distract from its deep misery.
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"But despite these fairly obvious, and disastrous, practical ramifications, the debate has not yet progressed beyond platitudes of concern for crime victims," Wallace wrote in a 1996 op-ed for the Washington Post.
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As a principle, it means companies tie their own hands when dealing with edgelords who think Nazism is cool; there are only empty platitudes about free speech to be found in their wake.
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But even when it did something dumb, it usually followed up that moment with a smarter decision, which kept whole evenings of programming from sliding off a cliff into mawkish, soft-focus platitudes.
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But each time, all that we get is an alleged billionaire throwing out platitudes and vague wish lists of policies he'd like to see enacted on the off chance he gets elected president.
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By contrast with other leading candidates, he announced for president without having thought through a candidacy about much more than a cult of personality and appealing platitudes without presidential-caliber substance or depth.
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He doesn't take prolonged breaks between songs, he acknowledges the crowd with various rap show platitudes, and makes it back to his jet before the stage crew has time to strike the stage.
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While much of Rainbow deals in platitudes of learning to let go and forgiving those who have hurt her, "Bastards" confronts the realism of her obstacles and works as motivation to navigate them.
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The task of translating Big's inner life to the big screen is largely left up to the voiceover, which at times feels like it's in danger of spinning off into platitudes or stereotypes.
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Ranging from "Always Be Hustlin'" to "Super Pumped," they read like Amazon's leadership principles run through a bro-speak translation engine; now they have been made into a blander set of eight platitudes.
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"He is audibly laughed at at work for his repetitive stream of hippie grandpa platitudes that serve as his 'platform,'" said Emma Johnston, a vice president at asset manager State Street Global Advisors.
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Those who feel strongly about commemorating certain positive aspects of Confederate leaders must therefore be specific about how they present these men, and they can't rely on the platitudes that white supremacists deploy.
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Though they're awash in emotional musical scores, slow-motion shots of local landscapes and broad platitudes, they also reveal a lot about what the top-polling campaigns think is their most salient message.
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"The forum is a talking shop without any consequence for world affairs … On the economic front, you will just hear platitudes you've heard 'x' times already," Ivanovitch told CNBC ahead of the Forum.
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Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) replied by expressing doubt in the role we humans play in climate change, repeating platitudes of U.S. energy independence, and disparaging those who seek a future beyond fossil fuels.
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And the toasts reveal everything: the rancor between the two families, the promiscuity, the unrequited loves, the bad behavior, the last-minute confessions — all delivered in drunken tangents that end with saccharine platitudes.
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" Hamilton said members of the Graduate Student Association met with university administration throughout 2019 to convey the urgency of many grad students' plight, but felt the administration responded with vague, non-committal "platitudes.
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As guests and panelists transparently congratulated the two on the good news, they and Geist would turn the best wishes into platitudes about their ratings (the show just delivered its best quarter ever).
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I love the way he struggles to talk about too-big ideas, layering vague, contradictory platitudes about the nature of memory and fear over each other until there's somehow something rewarding in the latticework.
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Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast: The script is chockful of the kinds of platitudes that would ordinarily arm critics with enough artillery to eviscerate a movie for being corny, heavy-handed, or unforgivably maudlin.
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"Third Point has, at best, a superficial understanding of the food industry and the company, as evidenced by its non-substantive plan filled with platitudes and business school buzzwords," the letter to shareholders said.
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Blessed by an extremist opposition and a big opinion poll lead, the government is coasting, muttering platitudes like "strong and stable" and emphasising its newish prime minister, Theresa May, rather than its party name.
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Epic feats of reclamation must at times be undertaken to rescue Duchamp's oeuvre from artspeak's insentient sediment of sloppy seconds, placebos or platitudes perfunctorily passed around, predigested, reheated, then regurged — said by Duchamp never.
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" Her best friend, meanwhile, is a walking cliché of New York City single lady platitudes at the turn of the 21st century: "She knew all the latest celebrity gossip, followed the newest fashion trends.
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So far, anyone asking that question is just seeing a lot of platitudes, (see mistake #1), and that's not nearly enough in a year when the voting public is angrier and hungrier for change.
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Dialog alternates between lowbrow humor and platitudes about the perils of helicopter parenting, with intercuts of Kunis hugging her deeply awkward kids, looking more like their beautiful babysitter than a woman who birthed them.
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He also gained a small but real following among certain conservative elites for his ideological heterodoxy on economic issues and his willingness to address blue-collar workers' frustrations with more than laissez-faire platitudes.
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If there's anyone who can reach the platitudes of Queen Bey, it would be badass human rights lawyer Amal, so we're all for her bringing not one, but two future humanitarians into the world.
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They transitioned away from the more prickly, vibrant sonics that started their career in favor of glassy-eyed pop platitudes, which, obviously, had a pretty broad appeal even if they were less immediately distinctive.
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Yet he did so largely by adhering to conservative policy platitudes and presenting the GOP as a force of change after eight years under President Obama — and not with a rousing speech for Trump.
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But instead of offering any real personal anecdotes that would give him a more human feel, it was full of pleasant platitudes and nice phrases that we now know were not even her own.
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The first few letters I wrote to him were positively hemorrhaging with impassioned, sentimental platitudes, but after a certain point in the first trimester I'd had just about as much as I could take.
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Here are the numbers… The first step for Clinton and Kaine is to go beyond the platitudes of their tax proposals so far and offer details — enough to allow independent analysts to score them.
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I keep coming back to what Tom told me when I asked why Pyramid Hill seemed to be so integrated, with connections spanning ethnic boundaries and conversations that go beyond platitudes or conventional wisdom.
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"It's unclear Beijing would have much of a role right now beyond their usual platitudes calling on all parties to exercise restraint," said Ely Ratner, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Growing up in East Germany, in what she would describe as a dictatorship, Ms. Merkel became accustomed to regurgitating nonsensical Soviet platitudes, or listening to the mind-numbing decrees broadcast daily on state radio.
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As Jeff Hornacek recited the usual platitudes while spelling out the keys to the Knicks' game plan before the game had begun, he had wound up in a moment of truth at the end.
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And it's more than a little bit insulting, as if fans in certain markets can't enjoy a game unless they're being spoon fed platitudes about how their favorite team is the very bestest ever.
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The book contains too many platitudes — "Inspiration favors the prepared mind" — oversimplified lists and seemingly arbitrary rules of thumb, and these flaws could have made it another forgettable tome in the vast library on creativity.
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Even in his allegedly major foreign policy speech, his rhetoric constituted mostly vague, quasi-emotional platitudes — make America look strong, save our jobs, make the best deal — that don't add up to a strategic doctrine.
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There I listened as innovators and "disruptors" were invited one after the next to take the stage and share with those assembled whatever TED-talk platitudes they'd rehearsed in hotel bathroom mirrors the night before.
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" On top of all of that, Dean can't even come to terms with how hurtful his behavior is, repeatedly giving terrible non-apologies by saying platitudes like, "I just don't want you to hate me.
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Here's hoping the company starts putting those background statements on the record — because until YouTube starts standing behind its decisions with arguments rather than platitudes, we are doomed to spend eternity talking past each other.
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When kids fall and get hurt, they don't ask for platitudes, they jump into our laps and wrap their arms around us, because when they're injured or sad, physical contact is an emotional Band-Aid.
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Financial markets are looking for substance beyond the usual G-20 platitudes - a "concrete pledge to boost infrastructure spending via greater fiscal stimulus," says CBA's Elias Haddad, or "fiscal activism" as Macquarie's Idris puts it.
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Of course, voters and activists wanted Sanders to win the White House, but that goal never surpassed their burning desire for real change rather than political platitudes presidential candidates have long used to tantalize Americans.
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To illuminate Slevin's business instincts, he shows her smiling politely and lightly rolling her eyes while her father — who owns multiple car dealerships — debones a chicken and dispenses vague platitudes about the key to success.
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There has been much written about stagnant wages, job loss tied to the closing of manufacturing plants and the movement of manufacturing overseas, but few offer real solutions, just pious or not-so-pious platitudes.
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A scene in which TV reporters cover a story, talking over one another with the same platitudes, is inspired, as is a segment that looks at tensions between groups of black girls and white girls.
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Though they entered their bye week without much outward defeatism, peppering their postgame remarks with platitudes involving words like "fight" and "pride" and "together," it was easy to glimpse the frustration simmering beneath the surface.
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" She does exactly that, demolishing Lehrer's approach as "a certain genre of canned, cocktail-party social science, one that traffics in bespoke platitudes for the middlebrow and rehearses the same studies without saying something new.
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Before Bergmann pops the big question, Gunnlaugsson is the model Nordic statesman: tactful, erudite, and well-spoken, offering platitudes about restoring trust between the government and the populace—which is actually pretty funny in retrospect.
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And Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), who could be the heart of the film, is ill-served by the snippets of footage that could be shot before Fisher's death — consisting almost entirely of vague, contextless platitudes.
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For Verma and her close-knit team, the vague platitudes carried high stakes — a second chance at a first impression after Verma's rocky relationship with Price had soured over hostile workplace allegations and other clashes.
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Though the final communique will likely reiterate the usual platitudes concerning unity of purpose and strengthening of the alliance's military footprint in Europe, it will not disguise the increasingly visible fissures in the NATO structure.
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In these trying days, every company in existence has been frantically emailing their customers, offering platitudes, deep discount offers, and, occasionally, real information about how they're trying to make this time easier on their workers.
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While he tried to portray himself as a unifier during the speech, he did so with platitudes about "unity" and "greatness," not by signaling a new willingness to address issues that are top priorities for Democrats.
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That was very pretty with its unified rose color, but "Observatory of Light" suggests to me the gaudy costume of a court jester and has all the wan and paunchy platitudes I associate with arena rock.
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At a time when pop is supposedly "purposeful" but rarely so outwardly political (despite the empty platitudes about living in a bubble spouted by celebrities) it's worth remembering—and celebrating—the outsider pride articulated on Kala.
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It's a fantasy built around the idea of being gazed at by straight men, and it disguises itself with platitudes about how what's really important is to be yourself and not care what anyone else thinks.
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After Parkland, when students were asking for solutions and got tone-deaf platitudes and unpopular promises to arm teachers from the administration instead, she could have made an impact by at least meeting with survivors. 3.
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Most famously, Mr Peele played Barack Obama in "Obama's Anger Translator"—a skit in which he spoke political platitudes directly to camera, while Keegan-Michael Key, his partner, ranted in the background as Obama's raging id.
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Despite that rhetorical caution, however, on the issue of deportations both candidates ventured from standard Democratic National Committee talking points and platitudes about the American dream, launching into a frenzy of outright pandering and promised lawlessness.
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Aside from his usual misleading platitudes, for instance that the Obama-era Clean Water Rule would have regulated puddles (it explicitly does not), Pruitt has generously scattered rhetorical chaff to obscure any wrongdoing at the EPA.
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Late night has struggled with diversity for years Late night has received much scrutiny in recent years regarding how shows staff their writer's rooms, and hosts have struggled so far to turn platitudes into practical results.
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But Katharina Lorenz, who plays Salomé as a young woman, makes her seem like a starry-eyed ingénue who utters proto-feminist platitudes with the peppiness of a Disney heroine, or a belle-époque Lena Dunham.
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The upbeat platitudes that have often accompanied the shift to digital tend to obscure pragmatic considerations, including that film is easier and less expensive to preserve than digital and isn't plagued by the same obsolescence issues.
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That's because, when confronted by questions about his record, Pruitt reliably responds with platitudes and meaningless catchphrases, using buzzwords to obscure the reality that he is allowing polluters to dump their toxics anywhere they please impunity.
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"Rather than being a subject of pious platitudes, the arts must be viewed as an essential part of our existence which can be easily neutralized by an uncaring populace or an insensitive political leadership," he said.
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But if Hollywood truly gives a damn about combating sexual harassment and assault beyond platitudes, it will have to find a way to change the system and its many willing participants from the rotted inside out.
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Is there anything worse, anything less conducive to the enjoyment and understanding of the beautiful game, than a round table of former professionals braying platitudes at one another beneath the unforgiving lights of a TV studio?
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Unfolding in a vacuum Trump's presentation sometimes appeared to unfold in a vacuum as he voiced the platitudes and expressions of good feeling that are always uttered by Presidents in the State of the Union address.
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There's no series Verge staffers are more passionate about than Fast & Furious, and the next entry looks like yet another two-or-so hours of truly ridiculous nonstop action with occasional pauses for platitudes about family.
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There has been little from the prime minister beyond platitudes — "as terrorists evolve their methods, we have to evolve our responses" — to explain the move, aside from a befuddling reference to the British approach to antiterrorism.
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The residents of this utopia might feel safe in their bubble, with Ezekiel's platitudes about living life to the fullest painted on the walls like Bible verses, but Carol only sees lambs being bred for the slaughter.
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Women are fed a lot of platitudes during their Time Of The Month — your period is a natural sign of your womanhood, it's a beautiful reminder that you can bring life into this world, and so on.
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That conversation came back to me as I listened to the Democratic and Republican debates when they briefly veered into foreign policy, with candidates spouting the usual platitudes about standing with our Israeli and Sunni Arab allies.
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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Markus Söder, new leaders of the CDU and CSU respectively, beamed as they swapped platitudes on stage and gave their blessing to Manfred Weber, a CSU man running for the European Commission presidency.
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Donald Trump offered the promise of change last Thursday night, not platitudes, and his honest assessment of what America faced garnered a post-convention bump: He was leading Clinton by 5 points in the last CNN poll.
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The cards — which appear to be a real product produced and sold in the early '90s — feature Valentine's Day platitudes taken to their literal extreme courtesy of shocking stills from the director's extensive repertoire of horror films.
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Bieber sounds a bit too young, the drop is a bit too instantly forgettable, and the lyrics are full of the sort of vague platitudes you used to slap all over your Bebo account way-back-when.
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Slate's Will Oremus probably did the best job of laying out the case against her, arguing that she was "squandering the most important watchdog job in journalism" by parroting journalistic platitudes and reader complaints without thoughtful analysis.
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Even more inexplicably, when finally given the opportunity to address the public's deep-seated concerns about the economic, social, cultural and national security impact of a rudderless immigration policy, both candidates reverted to vague generalities and platitudes.
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I've talked endlessly here about how Kamala in many ways most represents the empty bipartisan consensus I see in the Democratic primary of paying lip service to progressivism with fake platitudes while playing up woke identity politics.
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But in a year of populist outsiders captivating voters sick and tired of Beltway BS and platitudes, savaging the Donald as the beginning, middle, and end of your playbook no longer has the markings of a winner.
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A lot of people talk in positive platitudes – maintaining that they 'don't look back' or that they are 'all about being true to themselves' – but talking to Craig you get the sense he really embodies those statements.
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So long as the policymakers of the US and Russia think they can simplify the Syrian conflict as one for or against Bashar al-Assad and Islamic "terrorism", Western involvement will remain collapsing under its own platitudes.
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Even when she depicts these situations using platitudes — "I was too distraught to answer," or it "scared me straight" — these moments have a powerful sting because of the way they pile on one another in quick succession.
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M would try to talk about behavior that troubled them, like their substance use and their pattern of starting fights with family members for attention, but their therapist would always respond with vague affirmations and empty platitudes.
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Murray Sinclair, an Ojibway and the former head of a national commission that looked into residential schools, says until the government comes up with a clear plan on how to achieve true reconciliation its statements risk becoming platitudes.
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Beth's husband seems like a dream man whose romantic platitudes are only bested by his irreproachable father Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia) — Randall's "we are perfectly-imperfect" speech in "A Father's Advice" alone — but this sounds like a nightmare.
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Add to this the explicit capitulation to moneyed interests, and you have exactly what we are experiencing now: a cadre of demagogues who are against everything without a vision to offer other than abstract platitudes filled with adjectives.
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I know the normal platitudes are that violence/retaliation isn't the answer, but a lot of parents of Larry Nassar's victims either wanted to do this or would have been happy had this Dad completed the task pic.twitter.
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But some critics have already complained that the big decisions were made behind closed doors, with too many public platitudes and not enough debate about issues raised by citizens, city staff and the region's already thriving innovation ecosystem.
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He can afford to be cavalier with his activism because he has a lot less ground to make up; he can offer vague platitudes and factual inaccuracies when ANOHNI isn't even invited to perform in the first place.
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But the pitch, which some found contained more platitudes than passion, was no match at a time of rising anger on the left that the political establishment has failed to address health care, income inequality and climate change.
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Asked to explain her swift political rise during a separate interview at her campaign office here, Ms. Rosen — polished, practiced, composed — spoke about her willingness to take chances and the support she has received, then drifted into platitudes.
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André Marcon lends the role a gruff despondency, which perfectly contrasts with Jérôme Deschamps's spot-on comic turn as the oblivious Serge Othon Weil, a friend of the couple, who preaches optimism by way of well-meaning platitudes.
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As we reflect on a year of his presidency and listen to his State of the Union speech tonight, and its platitudes of American togetherness, remember this: We can expect more divisive rhetoric in the years to come.
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And some of the profundities I'd recorded in the immediate aftermath of the experience — such as the supreme importance of love, an epiphany I'd had on LSD — now seemed embarrassingly thin, platitudes best suited to a Hallmark card.
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Adi Robertson, The Verge Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), who could be the heart of the film, is ill-served by the snippets of footage that could be shot before Fisher's death — consisting almost entirely of vague, contextless platitudes.
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Some of those he talks to mouth platitudes about everyone's getting along around the dinner table, but others aren't so simplistic, mentioning things like the difficulty Palestinian restaurants have in attracting a diverse clientele during times of tension.
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It's really hard to feel a sense of job security now when you see these new changes coming down the pipeline and you see temporary folks being let go and the only internal communications you're receiving are platitudes.
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The single dropped days after Swift wiped out her social media accounts last weekend, signaling that some kind of image rehab, ditching her usual bland platitudes and "carefully staged dinner party" Instagram photo shoots, was on its way.
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His address to Congress contained rhetorical flourishes ( "That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light up the world"), unifying themes (though they didn't go beyond platitudes), and red meat to the Republican base.
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"The market is sceptical of the platitudes and reassurances from May that the deal is within reach, with perhaps only a final, ratified agreement able to fully stabilise the UK currency," said John Goldie, an FX dealer at Argentex.
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Complete with idealistic rhetoric, eager platitudes to resolve any political conflict, a grin on his face and hope in his heart, and mindboggling metaphysical ambition, the Maryland rapper has cemented his reputation as hip-hop's leading self-help guru.
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By cleaning up the modern day 'sewers' of our lifestyles — not through magical drugs, complex procedures, or platitudes about prevention — but through a real infrastructure of technology that is being built right now — technology will bring an analogous impact.
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If you are looking for easy answers or reassuring platitudes, do not check in with Jack Bogle, the 22-year-old founder and retired CEO of the world's largest mutual fund company, Vanguard, which manages $24 trillion in assets.
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The declarations of both the hackers and the bankers don't amount to much more than platitudes, and the only time Mr. Esmail really seems exercised by the subject is when he takes an occasional sarcastic swipe at social media.
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I assume that because Biden is better at platitudes and pablum, he'll be judged the winner, while Sanders will be judged to have failed to move beyond the issues that motivate his base -- but not the broader Democratic electorate.
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Throughout his political career, he has championed populist platitudes like the "dignity of work" that have resonated with working-class voters in all corners of Ohio while also supporting liberal social causes like women's reproductive rights and L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
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And yet, the revolutionary King who proclaimed that America's greatness remained in "the right to protest for right" has all but vanished from public memory, replaced by generic platitudes about freedom and justice that can be claimed by anyone.
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Bush mostly avoids Veterans Day-style platitudes and sugarcoats nothing, not even stories about a veteran who wounded a fellow soldier with friendly fire and one shot by an Afghan security guard who was supposed to be an ally.
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It resembled a Trump rally as much as it did a charitable event, I reported in January: The event was true to Trump's candidacy, with platitudes about veterans, viral internet meme stars, and invitees coronating Trump with an award.
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As he's waiting to enter his plea, he gets a voicemail from Mer which says, among other inspirational platitudes, that they're the only two of the five original interns left, and he can't leave her to be the last one standing.
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Naturally, the Sons of Lucifer show up to kill Bobo, so Lemuel and Olivia, who are obviously this town's power couple, drop in and kill them all but only after Aubrey's husband comments with a few platitudes, and Lemuel eats him.
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It offered some platitudes: paying for promotion is forbidden and promotions should be awarded on the basis of good work, not "bargaining"; officials should follow the party's rules; and—rather tough to enforce—"boasting should be banned" and flattery "weeded out".
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Six months before Britain leaves the EU, Labour's policy consists of little more than having its cake and eating it (somehow maintaining the benefits of the single market while also forging its own rules) and meaningless platitudes ("a pro-employment Brexit").
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IBM's CEO Ginni Rometty is on Donald Trump's advisory council, but I'm still astonished at how they were able to squeeze so many meaningless platitudes into a statement in order to make it the least controversial thing ever written down.
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Regional industry bodies' response statements to the plan include the usual mix of welcoming platitudes combined with calls for "a cautious approach to regulation" to "allow AI to have the space to grow", as tech advocacy association, the CCIA, puts it.
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This spirit is echoed today mostly in hollow platitudes found in business consulting literature, where it exists mostly for the benefit of soothing an executive who may be leery about the optics of buying and executing automation tools at his company.
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I think some of the nuts and bolts of support can get a little boring, but conversely, it's not at all platitudes to say that the existence of this show demonstrates the importance of educational institutions and nonprofit arts organizations.
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The show is clearly signaling that trust and cooperation are the only ways to ensure peace and prosperity for all, and while it's a worthy message, those platitudes are hard to swallow when the country — and the world — is so divided.
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Buried in platitudes about hard work was the truth of the matter, which is that an aimless Phelps had become dependent on alcohol to the point that he pleaded guilty to drunk driving in 2014 and checked himself into rehab.
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" Since the deadly shooting, the students have participated in a CNN town hall with lawmakers and helped organize the "March for Our Lives" in Washington, D.C. "They're as comfortable speaking truth to power as they are dismissive of platitudes and punditry.
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They support Sanders because they believe he is real, honest and authentic in an age when politicians are obsessed with who gives them the money to purchase their policies and buy television campaign ads laced with platitudes, spin and often falsehoods.
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When their 8-year-old daughter Ellie (Jeté Laurence) starts asking questions about mortality, they're unable to offer her anything except platitudes and clichés—Louis the atheist via bloodless descriptions of decomposition, and Rachel countering with insultingly vague promises of Heaven.
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Per Forbes: Forbes reached out for a comment from Papa John's, and the company did not deny the incident, only issuing a statement full of platitudes about how racism is bad and how the company strives not to do racist things.
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"Beyond Borders," like its predecessors, is by no description a good show, but you can see the warm-bath appeal of its consistency and the insidious way in which it combines splatter-film scare tactics with pop-psychology platitudes and affirmations.
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If you want something more than worn rhetoric based on great-vs-good-vs-bad sports platitudes to help you understand where we are as a soccer nation—and a little bit of hope—look to the U-17 team.
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The first debate was more policy talk and platitudes than fireworks and personal insults, as the Times political reporter Lisa Lerer put it, but in the second, Harris confronted former vice president Joe Biden over his record and issues of race.
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HONG KONG — When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefly spoke with reporters on Tuesday ahead of a trip to North Korea, he answered questions about President Trump's planned summit meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, with diplomatic platitudes.
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But for Davos to be more than a punch line about the wealthy, it will have to address the pains of globalization head on and do better than its usual platitudes about building "a dynamic, inclusive multi-stakeholder global-governance system."
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He was, instead, a rather conventional old-style politician who gave Kennedy-style speeches without Kennedy-style commitment, uttering platitudes about change while he raised huge money from Wall Street and named Wall Street favorites to key posts in his presidency.
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But where past records found West battling a more tangled interiority, Jesus Is King, despite its occasional bright currents—a reunited Clipse, saxophone virtuosity via Kenny G, and an Auto-Tuned Fred Hammond (!!!)—is an album of simple Christian platitudes.
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It can be hard to just sit with someone who is in such pain without voicing platitudes, scriptural references and "advice," but those actions often offer little to the recipient and are, if we are honest, meant to console only ourselves.
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Yet the platitudes that frame many King holiday events often fail to mention the most radical aspects of his legacy, says Jeanne Theoharis, a political science professor at Brooklyn College and author of several books on the civil rights movement.
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While mental health is not a topic that can fit into neat text boxes, Tweets, or Pinterest-worthy platitudes, at times the long passages make the page structure feel unbalanced, and the all-too-valuable information becomes harder to peruse.
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At the very least, it would make it harder for tech overlords like Mark Zuckerberg to trot out vague platitudes about their platforms "building community" while thousands of poorly-paid workers burn their retinas gazing deep into the abysmal hell-feeds they've created.
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The lyrics encompass several flavors of jargon, combining business newspeak, self-help platitudes, academic blather, advertising slogans, therapeutic reassurances, mushy equivocations, and who knows what else into grotesque idiomatic hybrids taken to reflect the speech patterns of brave modern man in capitalist utopia.
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After sparking controversy for expressing explicitly pro-Trump views interspersed between watered-down philosophical platitudes on Twitter, West himself made a high-profile retreat to Wyoming and Montana to produce his latest works, including Ye and the five weekly albums he's released since.
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He's good at fixing things practically, not with words — so instead of empty platitudes, he simply drives to his abusive dad's house, takes his wedding ring off and tells pretends he's screwed his life up and needs money to pay off gambling debts.
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Jamison bridled at the Big Book's levelling platitudes, not only for their aesthetic offenses but because of the sentiment that allowed them to become the watchwords of the recovering life—that addiction makes no exceptions for individuals, so slogans apply equally to all.
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Instead, he gave us — as he invariably does when he discusses the topic — vague platitudes about how "we should help Americans purchase their own coverage," with no word on how generous that help should be or how it should be paid for.
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There were many empty platitudes about the importance of hiring woman and people of color, but the company's diversity report, released in August, revealed the company only hired about 40 more black people in 2017 than in 2016—out of 2,000 new employees.
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The Republican contenders fielded questions on trade, national security, immigration reform, and other surprisingly substantive topics, rehashing their views on guest worker programs, job outsourcing, and K-12 education with a couple of anti-Obama platitudes, but surprisingly little vitriol toward one another.
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On top of all this, she's encouraging young women to follow her lead, tossing empty platitudes about empowerment to the curb to focus on financial independence, building a community, and subverting negative stereotypes about feminism—one perfectly manicured nail at a time.
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Her life now is a white-winged cap and platitudes and ritual rape; her life then (when she was known as June) passes in idyllic flickers, an unreal wash of light that lingers in her room like a dream she can't shake.
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She needs a passion and conviction more potent than mere attacks against Trump or 10-point programs drafted by team advisers, accompanied by platitudes about how great things are going in a country where two-thirds of voters want to see change.
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He speaks in vague platitudes, he shovels lettuce into his mouth with his bare hands at meetings, he lives in a surprisingly modest house, he wears a uniform of an unkempt beard, hoodie, and jeans, but of course, he's hiding something sinister.
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Without the DNC providing a public explanation for why it refuses to let candidates participate in a climate debate, voters are left with milquetoast platitudes and a party apparatus that has accepted tens of thousands of dollars in donations from fossil fuel executives.
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As one speaker after the next drones on about the joys of education, he finds himself growing increasingly uncomfortable in his academic robes: Such platitudes seem to him painfully at odds with the priorities that guide most modern institutions of higher learning.
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Wearing a No. 45 jersey and a crisp Yankees hat at his introductory news conference on Wednesday, Cole captivated an audience of team executives, coaches and even some cynical reporters used to hearing dull platitudes from the megastars who arrive in the Bronx.
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Kipnis pushes her argument beyond the realm of what's reasonable in part, it seems, for professorial aims — to force readers to really consider their position and to see if they can fully defend it, or at least to think beyond feminist platitudes.
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In the abstract, ideas on the subject lurk in the same part of my mind as platitudes about creating "strong female leads" onscreen, and a well-intentioned but preposterous pillowcase that says "Consent Is Sexy," gifted to me by my undergraduate university.
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There is no such figure in "Beanpole," and instead of recycling platitudes about men and the righteousness of violence, this movie tells a tough, unsparing story about war trauma, which seeps into souls and bodies and inevitably becomes — Balagov suggests — a generational bequest.
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Over time, it can feel very isolating, and platitudes about embracing the single life probably don't do much to help, especially if one knows that they alone are enough... while also really wanting to find love and share their life with someone else.
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Spike Lee's magnificent, sprawling interpretation of the life of one of the civil rights era's most pivotal and controversial leaders — featuring a phenomenal performance by Denzel Washington in the title role — transcended polemics and easy platitudes to encompass an often contradictory evolution.
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It is not just that he issues the usual platitudes about wanting to "look forward, not back," focusing on the Fire rather than the ashes of his time at United — it is that his trials have not diminished his determination, but redoubled it.
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What we're left with, in the current plot in which Rick tries to unite various survivor groups against Negan's predatory Saviors, are platitudes about community building and the ethics of self-preservation, swathed in the show's always evocative cinematography and high production values.
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" SEAN DARBY, CHIEF GLOBAL EQUITY STRATEGIST, JEFFERIES, HONG KONG "The talks appear not to have progressed much further than pleasant platitudes and introductory remarks but it left with both parties feeling that there had been some success getting the whole process started.
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Fini's art, like that of such radically different but equally rebellious peers as Claude Cahun and Dorothea Tanning, disarmed male authority and dissolved gender norms — as the curators attempt to explain in wall plates too often bogged down in today's "woke" era platitudes.
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And yet, even though A Bronx Tale is trying its best to adhere to Broadway's current mantra of injecting rosy platitudes into every potentially barbed political statement, it still manages to be an indictment of its mainly white audience — and everybody else.
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I have felt gratitude and discomfort about the disproportionally large burden that military service members carry in our society, and I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out the best way to "support the troops" with real action instead of platitudes.
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"My Darling," a swaying lullaby that reads like a dedication to Tweedy's son, Spencer, bears good intentions but never rises above a series of whispery platitudes (he doesn't want him to grow up too fast, and also, he would like the good times to last).
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At the risk of soaring too close to the blissed-out platitudes of a Pinterest quotes board, or the equally vacuous rhetoric of Ivanka Trump's awe-inspiringly tone-deaf Women Who Work, I've often struggled to untangle my job from my sense of identity.
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This is a debate that needs real solutions, not platitudes, and it is with that perspective that we are convening diverse experts to find new and better ways to incorporate patient input into our efforts and make patient centricity more than a talking point.
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But the next president has to move beyond platitudes and implement a serious policy of leveraging new infrastructure investment from home and abroad and backing the shift toward a new urban political economy built around transportation engineering, alternative energy, digital technology and other advanced sectors.
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Like much of contemporary feminism, International Women's Day has been sapped of its politics: Instead, every year, women are fed pollyannaish platitudes about their strength and courage, even as those with the power to improve the material conditions of women's lives decline to do so.
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Instead of judging the book on its own merits—literarily, it's a surface-level memoir brimming with defensiveness and platitudes, and politically, it's about what you'd expect, for the record—critics on both sides have been arguing whether Clinton should have written it at all.
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But "Lucha Mexico" often plays less like a character study than like a simple promotional effort, with repetitive platitudes — "If you're totally healthy, that means you're not pushing it," Strongman says — that seem better suited to a motivational workout video than to theatrical nonfiction.
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The variety of antitrust positions in the emerging Democratic field means that it will no longer be enough for a candidate to mutter a few platitudes about big corporations and let the party's technocrats decide what the nation's approach to monopoly power ought to be.
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If you're in the market for genuine inspiration on this front, I urge you to read "Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship," by Gregory Boyle, a book that shows what the platitudes of faith look like when they're put into action.
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The contrast played out in Rob Quist's populist approach in Montana versus Jon Ossoff's vague platitudes about wasteful spending in Georgia, with both factions not only having their own champions but seemingly accepting that the choice of electoral terrain dictated the choice of policy platforms.
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" After noting that Beyoncé "dresses like a wealthy stripper," he went on to mansplain how women should and should not be inspired to feel empowered: "[I]t would be merely absurd, not necessarily dangerous, for a woman to feel 'empowered' by these rote pop song platitudes.
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More important than any of this, Clinton needs to drop her veil of platitudes and explain why she's evolved on so many issues that beloved figures like Sanders were on the right side of when the polls weren't favorable (gay marriage, free trade, free public college, etc).
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Complex Op abstract sculptures like those of François Morellet and Frank Stella suffer the most from this revelation — their sculptures appear as cumbersome decorative design within this context — while nimbly audacious Surrealists, ever in opposition to oppressive platitudes, seem to bear the different scale and context best.
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Trump peppered his remarks with a more balanced mix of banal platitudes, lies, and characteristically offensive agitation than marked his inaugural address and other speeches—aimed more squarely at lazy pundits primed to celebrate Trump's latest "pivot" than at insecure members of the Republican congressional conferences.
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"Seeing is believing of course ... but for now the market chooses to believe that Xi's words will prove to be more than mere platitudes in coming months," Ray Attrill, head of foreign exchange strategy at National Australia Bank, said in a note regarding stocks' overnight advance.
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Its centerpiece Trump song was all treacly platitudes and Alicia Keys, and it was surrounded by songs where he rapped about butts over the "I Love Rock N Roll" riff and/or rapped about ripping condoms in half in a shouted perversion of the Migos flow.
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As they learned to write analytically and precisely, they watched the people who ran our campus cocoon themselves inside a bevy of administrative platitudes in their futile attempt to ignore the reality that the nation's top public university had systematically and scandalously failed to enforce the law.
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But when your best pal — who, in Paul's case, is an outspoken leader and president of the players' union — isn't publicly decrying this ouster as a miscarriage of N.B.A. justice, something clearly went terribly awry, no matter what spin-room platitudes were recently mouthed by the Rockets.
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A large crowd of students walked out of the Notre Dame commencement ceremony on Sunday in protest of the speaker, Vice President Mike Pence, who delivered a speech that mixed platitudes about bright, dream-filled futures with a lengthy rebuke of political correctness on college campuses.
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Make no mistake, the students behind the #NeverAgain movement have succeeded in part because they stand on the shoulders of generations of activists who shrugged off the cloak of apathy, stepped out from behind the safety of platitudes and promises, and did what needed to be done.
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So even though Baldwin was in character as Trump when he vowed in the Phoenix rally sketch that he would deliver his greatest "hits" — before rattling off a tired list of his trademark platitudes — he honestly might as well have been directly addressing the SNL audience instead.
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The abortion extremist rhetoric that celebrates abortion even post-birth, infanticide for babies born during an abortion, appeals to almost no one, despite the cheers in New York for abortion through all 9 months or the platitudes of Virginia's Governor who wants babies to be comfortable as they die.
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The testimony was chock-full of platitudes about Twitter's important role as a "global town square" where people can engage in "an open and free exchange of ideas," assurances about accusations of political bias in ranking and restrictions, and a bit of background about how the site's algorithms work.
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Instead of listing actual issues where that might be the case-- reproductive rights, perhaps, or LGBT rights, or refugee policy or climate change -- Trump offered a series of platitudes about how her father listens to different opinions and that it's normal for children to disagree with their parents.
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The best bits of "The Morning Show" are actually its most warped, particularly its satirical portrait of the way people, no matter how complicit, mouth mealy platitudes about how much they care about the "brave victims," even as many of those women stand among them, silent or silenced.
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And just as Julian Castro proved the night before in hammering his peers on immigration policy, Yang had a real chance to move the needle among his fellow candidates—in Yang's case, articulating the importance of addressing automation in a manner that extends beyond the 'more education' platitudes.
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But not even Variety could get studios or agencies to talk about diversity beyond platitudes, or in many cases, even at all: So, what are the heads of Hollywood's six major studios saying about the lack of diversity in their executive ranks and in the content they produce?
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Yet claims of "colorblindness" and melting-pot platitudes did not stop people from complimenting my English or asking where my parents had gotten me, nor did they prevent my classmates from pulling back their eyes and teaching me slurs I was usually too humiliated to report to anyone.
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Add to that the fawning commentators, the endless stream of platitudes aimed in their direction and the incessant bants about Gary Lineker's pants, and we found ourselves wishing Manchester City had won the league, just so we could all be rightfully miserable come the end of the season.
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Can't Say it Ain't Country's 15 non-skit tracks are hook-heavy, radio-rotation heatseekers, loaded with broad platitudes (even in their titles, which include, yes, "Can't Say I Ain't Country," as well as "Women" and "People Are Different") that play to all sides of the political spectrum.
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While I salute their efforts to step up and propose more than mere platitudes, the fact remains that these bills alone would do little to combat the threat of white nationalism and other extremist ideologies and nothing to address the scourge of gun violence in the United States.
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As a globe-spanning attempt to tell a start-to-finish story of the drug trade, "Zerozerozero" evokes Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film "Traffic" (based on the superior British mini-series "Traffik"), and it shares the movie's tendency to sacrifice dramatic specificity for the sake of broad-brush platitudes.
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As pressure mounted on prominent council members like Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, Stephen A. Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group, Ginni Rometty of IBM and Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo, as well as other chief executives who remained silent or issued platitudes, corporate boards were hastily meeting to map strategy.
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With Ms. Loeffler and Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state, in attendance, Dr. Warnock ripped politicians who "offer platitudes" to the King name while "supporting voter suppression and voter purging and unnecessary programs like 'exact match,' racial gerrymandering" — a litany of Democratic Party criticisms of Republican voting policy.
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But it is unclear whether Mr. Xi, who rarely ventures beyond platitudes in discussing the strategies of the world's second largest economy, can take advantage of this time of transition when the rest of the world is gauging whether the United States is pulling back from global leadership.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE in his kippa, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu bearing platitudes as dead as December leafs.
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Her casting in The Politician—as a woman living in unfathomable luxury, who speaks in platitudes and believes in the healing power of crystals—is less savage than it might have been by dint of the screenplay's co-authorship by her new husband, the writer-producer Brad Falchuk.
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New York (CNN)The United Nations gathered world leaders to present concrete plans to tackle the climate crisis Monday, making made clear it didn't want to hear platitudes, as scientists, activists and religious leaders warned that urgent steps are needed to slow rising temperatures that intensify devastating natural disasters.
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I think that it's hard to answer that question without resorting to platitudes, but security is such an immensely key part of what we do, and what customers are buying from us, that we've always thought that we need to be the best in the world at it. Right?
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Add to that the local businesses which rely on the club for their existence – the favourite pubs, diners and food stands where supporters have passed countless hours – and the reality of relocation seems rather more profound than Karren Brady's platitudes about changing 'brand values' and cultivating West Ham's 'global appeal'.
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His coaches—a part-time high jump coach who worked for free, and a young, talented but then-inexperienced head coach—knew almost as little about anti-doping protocols as he did and, according to both coaches and Thompson, they never spoke about drug use beyond vague D.A.R.E-inspired platitudes.
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The platitudes—including an analogy borrowed from Chief Justice John Roberts, who in 2005 said a judge's role is simply to "call balls and strikes"—gave way to more substance later, when the 21 members of the Judiciary Committee took turns lobbing softballs and curve balls at Mr Trump's pick.
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Jimmy Kimmel ruined Halloween for kids again with his annual candy-eating prank Chris Evans and his brother play a super embarrassing guessing game and things get awkward, fast Colbert mocks Republicans' 'desperate' new impeachment defense strategy Lilly Singh is here to tell you people's true meaning behind common platitudes
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I'm a decidedly left-leaning person, and I disagree with many of the platitudes, un-cited statistics, and statements of the leaked memo; but I can't help but think that the widespread dismissal of this memo as the work of a backwards thinking evil-doer is a missed opportunity for discussion.
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In his final chapters, Knox begins to fall into vacant platitudes, as with his gasp-inducing assertion that the Me Too movement "is surely evidence of a major breakdown in the capacity to empathize, to relate, to feel" on the part of contemporary people compared to those of Georgian England.
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This means that candidates wanting to signal to voters that they know how to properly go beyond platitudes could stand to make a good showing at this second candidate forum on LGBTQ issues during this election cycle (the first was a joint effort between The Advocate magazine and GLAAD in September).
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" Adam Lassila, 30, of Athens, Ga., who attended the conference, said Mr. Sanders's criticism of Mr. Trump was justified and illustrated that the senator represented "the kind of politicians that we want in this society, those who describe things how they are actually happening and not speak around them in platitudes.
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No doubt, most immigrants do work hard and love their families, as do most other kinds of people, but such flattening platitudes suppress what is obviously true: that people from other parts of the world are different from some Americans, and so when they become part of America they bring change.
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If the privacy woes of the last decade carry over into a 2020 and beyond, despite new regulations that aim to give consumers control over the information companies collect on them, it's going to take more than privacy platitudes at a tech-friendly trade show to lock it all down.
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A father asked Cruz if he would support a bill aimed at stopping the Department of Veterans Affairs from overprescribing drugs—a measure named after his son, who died of an overdose while in VA care—and the senator just repeated vague platitudes about VA reform and the war on drugs.
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Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of Americans, except for vague platitudes about "consumer choice" and "free markets," as if consumers at the mercy of their local internet monopoly are craving to have their web history quietly sold to marketers and any other third party willing to pay.
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" However, the Republican strategist wasn't completely glowing in his analysis of the Democrat, arguing in his Wall Street Journal piece, "Such platitudes go only so far in masking what drives Mr. Sanders' philosophy: resentment, grievance, and a desire to take from those who have and redistribute the wealth, all to expand government.
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McKenna's fixated on the stability of family as bedrock, and the best way to convey family stability is through forthright platitudes, so we learn that people get old, a mother never rests, you can't be happy by taking someone else's happiness away, and, most importantly, the apple never falls far from the tree.
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The biggest danger for Hillary Clinton is her own success: with the pundit class declaring her victorious, and the potential of her seeing a small bump in national polls, Clinton might wrongly think she can just keep on keeping with her string of empty platitudes and poll-tested answers for just about everything.
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Sansa seems far too cynical at this point to buy Petyr's platitudes about how she's underappreciated by her family and deserves to be queen — the dude did basically sell her to a rapist — so we're hoping that she'll be the one to sell him up the river and firmly establish herself as #TeamStark.
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Their actions demonstrate that contrary to their platitudes about states and localities dealing with minimum wage, the low-wage workers in the 21 states with minimum wages currently stuck at the federal rate of $85033 per hour, have virtually no realistic chance of seeing an increase anytime in the foreseeable or reasonable future.
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I steeled myself internally to do what has become second nature to me since taking my job as head of the nation's oldest political organization fighting for abortion rights, NARAL – to find the patience to try to steer the conversation away from platitudes and towards data, away from polemics and towards reality.
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Achieving the "ideal world" Johansson speaks of, one where "any actor should be able to play anybody," will require actors like Johansson herself to be vocal in their support of more inclusive casts and to show their support in their actions and via the roles they play, rather than in empty platitudes.
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Beyond a couple of visceral pieces by Molly Crabapple in the Postmasters booth, the closest thing I saw to a political statement was Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija's T-shirt silkscreening shack, where, for $20, buyers can mix and match one of seven self-knowingly ironic platitudes with one of eight celebrity images.
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Back then, the conversation would turn to talk about homework and prank calls we would never actually make; this week, the six of us went from birthday platitudes into choosing the next movie we would stream as a collective (2008's Stepbrothers was the first film brought up in the subsequent group chat).
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She includes a few dutiful sections near the end about technology and philanthropy, reciting some talking points from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, but you get the sense that Orlean doesn't feel entirely at home with the requisite tech platitudes ("the worldwide portal to the future") or the earnest belief in smooth efficiency.
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Yet despite all the calls for unity, the prayers offered and the platitudes voiced, there are few signs yet that any candidate, lawmaker, law enforcement leader, or civil rights campaigner has mustered the trust and respect of voters needed to knit a mournful nation together and freshen the stale national debate on race and violence.
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Trump's reaction to defeat The President's public comments before and after the humiliating defeat was typical of his engagement during the process, showing an incomplete understanding of the political dynamics, a tendency to apportion blame to others and a lack of specifics about how the legislation could be saved or improved beyond unspecific platitudes.
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When the NFL commissioner is talking about how seriously he takes player safety, or the quality of the football that the NFL is selling, or crafting a coherent/non-disgraceful policy on domestic violence, he is mostly blowing bubbles; issuing those perfectly circular, perfectly artless leadership platitudes is his job, more than anything else.
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Surely, the Northeast and American West are not the Middle East, but if we turn our backs from people in need — be they people who struggle with the stigmatized disease of addiction, or refugees who have endured trauma and lost their livelihoods — we may realize that the walls we build will inevitably crush us. Platitudes?
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" When asked whether Trump had behaved appropriately for a supposed ally, May gave platitudes about, "a long-term, special relationship that we have, an enduring relationship…" When asked whether it was still appropriate to invite Trump for a state visit, she simply said, "The invitation for a state visit has been extended and accepted.
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Looking over Stein's campaign promises and the Green Party platform, you'll find a number of worthless platitudes, but also some legitimately good ideas: healthcare as a basic human right; abolishment of the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote; reenactment of Glass-Steagall Act; and universal child care, to name a few.
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I would hope, you know, that Director Wray would care enough about the 13,000 folks at the FBI that instead of just offering platitudes about how great an organization it is would defend those 13,000 by holding accountable agents like Peter Strzok and others who, you know, tarnish the badge that the 13,000 other agents hold.
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The "not who we are" crowd is usually short on details to back up their claims, relying instead on platitudes and quotations from famous liberals, such as "yes we can" from the presidential campaign of Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaNew Hampshire only exacerbates Democratic Party agita Sanders drags Democrats to the left; will it be 1972 all over again?
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" With his latest collection, The Resignation (Roof Books, 2018), the poet plays around in this hollowed-out form — empty vocabulary, bankrupt signs, theatrical platitudes — and transforms it through glitchy translations into something that posits "… deposition, giving up, letting go, being forced out, usurpation, ending it all, or stepping down, as existential questions to the hetero-patriarchy.
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During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump's agriculture advisers had a tough row to hoe: They had to assure farm-state Republicans that Trump's constant tirades against trade wouldn't hurt a farm economy that relies increasingly on exports, by mouthing vague platitudes about the great "deals" the candidate would cut with key trading partners like China.
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In case the parallel isn't yet clear, check out Tim Rice — who wrote the lyrics to Evita — writing about "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina," one of Lloyd Webber's most famous songs: It has been slammed by many for being a string of meaningless platitudes, but that is precisely what it was meant to be in the first place.
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It understands, in rare and terrifying way, the mental toll of feeling like either an exile or a dangerous apostate within one's faith community, alienated both from a caring God and from the platitudes that seem to satisfy others in the pews — of becoming convinced that if you're not frightened then you're purposely shutting yourself off from reality.
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Swisher tried to nail Dorsey down on hard examples of what Twitter is doing to end harassment, which ended up being yet another foray into the land of platitudes with a few pit stops at relatively minor tweaks that it has made (introducing a rule against misgendering, downranking some "bad actors," and the mute function, which was introduced... five years ago).
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Centered around a loosely-categorized sub-genre of electronic music that mostly served as a financial boom-and-bust injection for the music industry over the past decade, the culture surrounding EDM has long been guaranteed a tainted legacy: on musical merits, it's easily dismissed, and we regularly ascribe decline-of-civilization platitudes towards its culture of chemical excess and rank misogyny.
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The lengthy bulletin teeters tonally between the actually sort of quite nice pitter patter of painless platitudes, and the kind of genuinely terrifyingly megalomaniac business speak adopted by precocious AS business studies students who've watched an episode or ten too many of The Apprentice and have decided that they'll retire at the age of 35 after 14 years at Goldman Sachs.
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Views of football videos on Instagram in Q258 230 (up 23% in two years) Of under-214s admit illegally streaming games Drop in viewing of Sky's live TV channels in 22016/217 season For this World Cup, many millennials will tune into their national TV broadcasters to watch matches, but will skip the punditry shows in which former players in suits spout platitudes.
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When its script deviates from Adams' soft and graceful language in the novel, or from the miniseries' fast-paced action/reaction structure, it can devolve rapidly into mawkish and unsubtle platitudes about friendship and love and community, which mostly just underscore how little friendship and love and community we've seen because Watership Down has been too busy trying to scare us.
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The solution Greer offers to the Trump era — the "big terribleness" that falls over the concluding chapter — is a Lean In-style manifesto that exhorts women to speak with their outside voices, and it's never quite clear whether that book's empty platitudes speak to the emptiness of Greer's ambitions or are meant to be read as potentially constructive and empowering.
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I used to be able to counter the mounting terror and disgust for myself with hippie platitudes, "Money is an illusion, man, meant to enslave us," or "You're an artist dude, you're after something bigger than money," but this self-administered bullshit has left me spinning in place, calcified, broke, and wearing the same pair of self-made jean shorts far too often.
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But even if you read the flashbacks as an attempt to make Serena Joy more sympathetic, they depict a scenario in which she has more agency taken from her by her husband — who eventually declares that she should not speak anymore, a foreshadowing of everything to come — than by the protesters, who do eventually listen to her as she shouts not particularly convincing platitudes over them.
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What it seemed to concede — amid lots of platitudes about community, family, the world stage, and some probably well-meant but ultimately vague promises about reducing misinformation and making more sophisticated content filters — was that Facebook has more or less inadvertently become one of the world's most influential institutions, one run by unelected, extremely rich people who have spent several years denying the responsibility their power gives them.
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Ryan's speech was a short affair that echoed the same red meat and platitudes we'd just heard from Gov Walker, and he soon handed the mic over to Vice President Elect Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters FEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding MORE.
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Who wouldn't hire a cantankerous Caravaggio double to come speak to a high school assembly about the dangers of bullying and alcohol abuse, a Frida Kahlo impersonator to cheer up teenage patients at a children's hospital, a dead ringer for Georgia O'Keeffe to put in an appearance at a flower market, or even a Jeff Koons double to spout profound-sounding platitudes at a hedge fund's general meeting?
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The commercial-style shots of glistening, happy, successful Scientologists' faces (and the "cautionary tales" of drug addicts, criminals, and other unhappy individuals who, presumably, need Scientology in their lives), the vaguely spiritual platitudes, and the promise that Scientology can lead participants to better jobs and better lives all tie into a much bigger rhetoric increasingly prevalent in American culture: the idea that spirituality is, ultimately, about self-improvement.
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For now, though, let's lay a great share of the blame on those who earned it most: the political and military leadership at the top, across our divided political spectrum, who together steadfastly refused to define an achievable victory in Afghanistan and refused to do the difficult, honorable thing and bring the soldiers home—leaving us to kill and die downrange, while thanking us for our indefinite service with boisterous platitudes.
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He repeats a handful of platitudes with apparent earnestness: that artists have nothing but their own intuition, that worrying about offending others prevents the creation of real art, that audiences should be grateful for the access they are given to artists' consciousness, and that the kind of judgment-free letting go it takes to view his works is directly analogous to the personal peace he has won through daily meditation.
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Voters, most of whom self-identify as Republicans, overwhelmingly selected Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE as their party's presidential nominee, undeterred — and indeed often encouraged — by his nonsensical platitudes and meandering, often incoherent, policies.
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So when "No Country for Old Men" is no movie for actual endings, they just go along, claiming that it was "clever" because the Coen brothers "broke the rules," when really most people would've appreciated knowing what the heck actually happened to the main character or why Tommy Lee Jones needed to be in the movie at all, considering that he does nothing but speak in platitudes and not catch anyone whatsoever.
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Even with all of its borderline ridiculous platitudes, it's particularly interesting that This Is Us is a huge success at a time when America's most popular shows tend to live on one end of the spectrum or the other: either the gruesome, violent, more serious side — think Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, or NBC's Chicago shows (Fire, PD, Med, and now Justice) — or straight-up comedy: think Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory.
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Without dropping breadcrumbs, Gomez is left with platitudes like "If my love was like a flower would you plant it, would you grow it?" in "Vulnerable" and "I need to let my mind rest (my my my) / While my body reflects" in "Let Me Get Me." Gomez is threading a fine line between confessional songwriting, in which women are expected to give up their deepest, darkest secrets, and protecting her mental health by drawing a line around her privacy.
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I get the force of the "don't pray, do something" admonition — but it relies for its force on the premise that prayer is "doing nothing" (a premise I don't share), on the premise that I'm trading away a more effectual course of activity (when prayer and activism are not zero-sum alternatives), and on a general resentment of public figures who make much of theological platitudes without directing any of the executive or legislative authority they have toward ameliorating a situation.
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The trio formed, in 2007, as New York college students whose musical interests drifted between lo-fi folk, brainy electronica, and slow-burn R. & B. In 2013, they stirred those three disparate sounds into an arresting self-titled E.P. On its four tracks, the lead vocalist and songwriter, Kelly Zutrau, sings about heartbreak, dishing out honeyed, first-crush platitudes ("My baby, he don't love me no more") over the ruminating laptop compositions of her bandmates, Joe Valle and Marty Sulkow.
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Opinion by: Saagar Enjeti Former top tier candidate Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarris posts video asking baby if she'll run for president one day Krystal Ball: What Harris's exit means for the other 6900 candidates Saagar Enjeti unpacks why Kamala Harris's campaign didn't work MORE dropped out of the race yesterday finding out that standing for absolutely nothing, spouting vague platitudes on race, picking dumb fights on the debate stage is not in fact enough to become the Democratic nominee for president.
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Regular features like Epiphanies (where a chosen writer describes a musical object that radically altered them in some fashion), the Inner Sleeve (where, yep, an album sleeve or other music-related piece of design is discussed by an individual) or the fan-favorite Invisible Jukebox, in which musicians are played records that pertain to their own career and then discuss them, are pivotal to the publication, injecting each issue with a kind of first-hand personality that removes artists from the rote platitudes of the release cycle.
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So, enough with the platitudes of a 30-second ad buy — if companies support gender equality, here's how they can show it: Commit to opening up your books and pledge to weed out gender and racial bias in compensation, pledge to create boards that reflect the diversity of your customers and your workforce, stop spending millions of dollars to stymie the passage of much-needed policies like paid sick days, sane schedules, paid family leave and an end to the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers.
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After a week of controversy over the cost, over whether or not he would attack his enemies, or whether America really needed a salute to the military, President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE delivered a July 4 speech full of clichés and platitudes — "for Americans, nothing is impossible … Americans take care of each other" — and managed something rare for Trump.
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Still, let's talk about Real High because it's a record imbued with the sense of the year's mid period, those moments when opportunity becomes reality, when life can feel like more than the sum of its parts, and all those other platitudes that feel like being in love—whether that's with yourself, with someone else, with the idea of relinquishing the past and looking forward to the future, or simply leaving the house in shorts for the next four months and returning home in the morning scented with the breeze of the good life.
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If you fear the end of the world, if you feel dehumanized and unsupported by capitalism, if you've grown weary of a system that can seem as if it only sees you in terms of the value you might create for it and not as a human being with intrinsic value — and even if only a couple of these things are true some of the time — it's hard not to live in the world and not want someone to stand up and start shouting about it, instead of offering bland platitudes about how everything is going to be all right, even if everything is going to be all right.
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