| It's a stunning mystery and an obvious platitude that Politics is a human activity. |
| That is a trite formulation of a very ancient truth, and one which is today an occult platitude. |
| This seems like a platitude, but it is surprising how few firms have more than hazy ideas. |
| Meanwhile, Mr Bush could be useful to him. It is a platitude that Mr Blair's foreign policy was his undoing, and its legacy baleful. |
| In their place, Echenoz proposes a rhetoric of platitude, insisting upon the commonplace, the dull, the ordinary. |
| Who else would know the sacred language sufficiently well to attain this degree of epigraphic platitude? |
