Better for the dialogue to be sparse when it's otherwise this platitudinous.
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The mammoth task of integrating the country's newcomers receives two short and platitudinous paragraphs.
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The summit was instead heavy on lavish symbolism and platitudinous remarks about mutual friendship.
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Pointing up a disjunction between brutal news and unrelated advertising is familiar, even platitudinous.
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Some private schools provided no grades at all, substituting platitudinous fluff for any measurable achievement.
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He also did himself no favors by his penchant for rather vague or platitudinous answers.
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Michelle Obama embodies the modern, American woman, and I don't mean that in any platitudinous or vague way.
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I was late to her book, having my doubts about platitudinous, focus-group-neutered memoirs by political personalities.
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Going on what we've seen so far, most will have no problem taking the money and issuing platitudinous statements.
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Fielding, whose Tom Jones would gain renown for his cheerful sexual exploits, found Richardson's platitudinous Sunday-school morality unbearable.
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"It sounds platitudinous enough, but it isn't, thanks to Hall's tight yet modest prose," our reviewer, John Kaag, wrote.
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Should you become a writer, brace yourself for the analphabetic rantings of the anonymous, the frivolous, the platitudinous and crapulous.
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On February 27th he finally plumped for the moderate, if platitudinous, president of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Antonio Tajani.
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"Michelle Obama embodies the modern, American woman, and I don't mean that in any platitudinous or vague way," Jones writes.
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The buzz-word smart-city is rapidly becoming platitudinous but YC will be starting from the unique angle of entrepreneurship.
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And because his mind is closed to rational thought outside his theocratic construct, everything he says comes out like platitudinous mush.
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The resulting "Khaled Ipsum Text Generator" spouts up to 10 paragraphs of non-sequitorial and platitudinous "keys to success" into poetic flarf.
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After all, let's be real: Commencement speeches can easily fall into the same platitudinous traps we've come to expect at these gatherings. Amirite?
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This is a movie that drop quotations from the likes of Faulkner and Einstein in their sessions and elsewhere, but rarely feels platitudinous.
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The whole debate he appeared to have the support of the live audience, who even raucously applauded his characteristically dull and platitudinous closing statement.
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So when Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's 'global community' he is, in effect, saying nothing — or saying something almost entirely meaningless as to render down to a platitudinous sludge.
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Soon after Jeanne arrives, she and Ariane talk about love, breeze past the fact that they're the same age and quickly shift from the personal to the platitudinous.
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Written by Ms. Donoghue and directed by Lenny Abrahamson, the movie flickers with grace and imagination during its initial half but devolves into a dreary, platitudinous therapy movie in its second.
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Every time a contestant leaves, the toothless piano music plays and the show offers some platitudinous sentiment: They came, they saw, but they didn't really conquer, but that's going to be okay.
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Not every plot strand is stellar so far — the scenes involving the ex-con Ronnie (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) being drawn in by the imam of a neighborhood mosque are a little platitudinous.
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Yet Monninger's affable prose offers distinct seductions ("the subway station smells like panting") and the platitudinous love affair ("Jack took me to bed in the late afternoon and devoured me") is spiced with sharp repartee and social criticism.
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And not in a platitudinous, quick-handshake-while-pinching-your-nose way, but a serious integration — the rhythmic and attitudinal choices that have long been central to hip-hop are becoming essential to artists far outside the genre.
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Politicians routinely cash in on their life of public service by transforming themselves from gamekeepers into poachers when they retire, lobbying departments they once ran, offering advice to companies they once regulated and producing platitudinous speeches for exorbitant amounts of money.
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This was both platitudinous and prescient: in 1969 a man was killed by Hell's Angels at the Altamont Free Concert during their set; the same year Jones drank himself into a stupor and drowned in his swimming pool in Sussex.
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Most founders of Vision Fund portfolio startups that TechCrunch spoke to have supplied fairly platitudinous comments or declined to say anything at all — you can read a collection of them here — but Gnock Fah suggested a new (and unique) perspective.
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But as contempt for the patriarchy fills every utterance, the spoof gets as platitudinous as the rhetoric it intends to mock — maybe even more so, as there's something about the intensity of Shulamith Firestone and Valerie Solanas that is pretty darn enjoyable.
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This is a movie that drops quotations from Faulkner and Einstein, but it rarely feels pedantic or platitudinous, thanks to the breezy, assured delivery of Mr. Khan, whose unforced ease is apparent when Jug gracefully resists a misguided romantic overture from Kaira.
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Others, like "Beautiful World," would go on to be used in actual commercials; that Target executives seemed to completely overlook the fact that the song's platitudinous optimism was belied by look-the-other-way horror only served to drive home its point.
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During a lavish state dinner that featured crab salad, borscht and a chocolate cheesecake festooned with North Korean and Russian flags, both Putin and Kim repeated nearly note-for-note many of the platitudinous remarks they made about mutual friendship at their summit appearances.
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While the sniping among committee members was sharper than normal, and the clans of noisy people seemed capable of sneaking into the hearing room with placards, colored pencils and loud voices, there was something reassuring about the platitudinous statements about precedent or watching Sen.
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In many respects this fragmentation is a fair response to a tired and platitudinous political establishment summed up by the dismal TV debate between Mrs Merkel and Martin Schulz, her SPD rival—which compared unfavourably with a more substantive debate at the small parties' encounter two days later.
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See Security Council Resolution 242: An Analysis of its Main Provisions, Prof. Ruth Lapidoth U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recalled the first time he heard someone invoke "the sacramental language of United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, mumbling about the need for a just and lasting peace within secure and recognized borders". He said the phrase was so platitudinous that he thought the speaker was pulling his leg.
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From contemporary reviews, Tom Milne of the Monthly Film Bulletin described the film as an "Italian parasite feeding on Apocalypse Now" as well as comparing the film to The Green Berets as the "Vietcong atrocities dominate the film with the same grim relish, and partly because ideological conflicts are reduced to the same platitudinous level." The review also commented on the action scenes, which were found to be "directed with [...] crude uncomplicated vitality".
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Reporting on the film's premiere, The Times commented: "Handsomely shot, soberly put together, it is weighed down somewhat by a platitudinous score from Ron Goodwin. The only sequence of the rejected Walton score, the Battle in the Air, turned down allegedly because it was not long enough to fill an LP, is not perhaps vintage Walton, but at least lifts the film with moments of sharp excitement."The Times, 29 April 1971, p. 3.Tierney 1984, p. 154.
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The sword of Damocles looming over the USSR in the form of an air strike followed by invasion allowed the United States to exert pressure in future talks. It was precisely this sword that played such an influential role in accelerating Khrushchev's proposal for a compromise. Throughout the closing stages of October, Soviet telegrams were typically rushed and showed signs of immense pressure. Khrushchev's tendency to use platitudinous and ambiguous language assisted the United States in exerting linguistic dominance throughout the compromise negotiations.
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Jon Pareles of The New York Times considered that "despite its platitudinous message, [the song] has stark edges and angles". Sputnikmusic's Zachary Powell commented that "'State of the World' keeps the upbeat motion that Rhythm Nation begins, but with more of a socially conscious twist. It shares with the preceding track a groovy beat and danceability, but takes it to another direction lyrically and shows the caring side of Janet Jackson". Dennis Hunt of Los Angeles Times commented positively saying that the move to social commentary was a rocky decision.
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In An Enemy of the People, speaking the language of comic exaggeration through the mouth of his spokesman, the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, Ibsen puts into very literal terms the theme of the play: It is true that ideas grow stale and platitudinous, but one may go one step further and say flatly that truths die. According to Stockmann, there are no absolute principles of either wisdom or morality. In this Ibsen is referring indirectly to the reception of his previous plays. For example, the commandment "honor thy father and thy mother" referred to in Ghosts is not simply either true or false.
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" Rolling Stone was disappointed: "The featherweight "Get Back Up" is about his more recent terrible choices: "My shortcomings hit the media thanks to TMZ, the AJC and Wikipedia," T.I. rhymes." USA Today was more positive: "Chris Brown lends a hand on Get Back Up, on which T.I. admits that his "road to redemption has no GPS" but chastises critics who rush to judge him. This is a recurring theme, in between boasts about his wealth and clever pickup lines." Washington Post called this song platitudinous and he continued: " "Get Back Up," which features Chris Brown, working a similar rehabilitation strategy with greater commercial success.
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It initially received mediocre reviews from critics. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times said, "The fact that this film is constructed to endorse the exercise of murderers, to emphasize killer bravado and generate glee in frantic manifestations of death is, to my mind, a sharp indictment of it as so-called entertainment in this day." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times described the film as "one great old Western cliché after another" and that the film "is composed of situations and not plots." Its platitudinous character immediately laid it open to parody and one followed in the same year as Lando Buzzanca's For a Few Dollars Less (1966).
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During the writing sessions, Minaj had to rewrite the lyrics until she got the sentiment Madonna wanted. "Hold Tight" consists of an "arresting" chorus and a drum beat sound, described by Sam C. Mac of Slant Magazine as: "innocuous, lyrically platitudinous pop that briefly works itself up into something exciting when it threatens to become a gospelized stomp." Track eight, "Joan of Arc", is a ballad where Madonna sings about the media scrutiny of her life, singing: "Each time they take a photograph, I lose a part of me I can't get back." It also references the Roman Catholic saint of the same name.
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When asked about the album's lyrics and their tendency to post-break up issues, Benaissa commented: "I'd say, we're offering a broad range [of topics] with different directions [...] We just chose [the songs] for their statements, their energy and the feeling." Although the quartet had several titles for the album in mind at one time or another, including "platitudinous und boring names such as Comeback, Reunion, Chapter Four and New Beginning," the title of the longplayer was actually inspired by a demo recording for the album, named "Destiny Calls." The record failed to make the cut on the final track listing, but widely served as a metaphor for the band's "emotional relation" to the band.
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Alberoni's books have had a great success both in Italy and abroad, having been translated not only in countries like Japan, Spain, France, Denmark, Brazil, Sweden and many others such as Turkey and Israel. His books composed of newspaper articles have been pointed out by some critics as lacking scientific analysis, allegedly reducing to platitudinous advice about today's life and love matters. The most recent books are considered by critics innovative and notable both for originality of the content as well as writing style. Specifically "Mystery of falling in love" in the second part of the treatise offers an original critique to the most important theories of falling in love, especially with reference to the French social school.
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Lou Tellegen and Alice Calhoun in a scene from the film The film adaption was written and credited to screenwriter and director Charles Gaskill. However, in her book J. Stuart Blackton: A Personal Biography by His Daughter (June 1985), Marian Blackton Trimble writes that her father was unhappy with Gaskill's adaption of Chamber's novel, saying: "The script proved too involved, too scholarly, top heavy with long, platitudinous titles, the cardinal sin of the silent movie, and soggy with prolonged, unclimaxed scenes" (p. 150). Trimble says in her book that while en route by train from New York to Los Angeles, she penned a script that was acceptable to her father and actor Lou Tellegen as well, but Trimble received no credit for her work. Trimble went on to receive credit for other features under the pseudonym Marian Constance, mainly in films where she was working with her father.
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Trevor Phillips wrote in May 2016 "Rome may not yet be in flames, but I think I can smell the smouldering whilst we hum to the music of liberal self-delusion" by ignoring the effects of mass immigration. He explicitly compared his warning to Powell's: "He too summoned up echoes of Rome with his reference to Virgil's dire premonition of the River Tiber 'foaming with much blood'". From the damage the reaction to the speech did to Powell's career, Phillips wrote, "Everyone in British public life learnt the lesson: adopt any strategy possible to avoid saying anything about race, ethnicity (and latterly religion and belief) that is not anodyne and platitudinous". On 19 April 2018, British political activist and Breitbart News editor Raheem Kassam self-published Enoch Was Right: 'Rivers of Blood' 50 Years On, in which he defends Powell and argues that his Rivers of Blood speech has been realised.
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