| Then again, football like many other sports, is a microcosm of life which itself can often be bizarre, platitudinous and banal. |
| He winced, but Joan rattled on with the platitudinous originality of youth. |
| Such events are usually remarkable only for their platitudinous euphoria, but a question from a BBC reporter suggesting that the record companies' oligopoly was tightening its control spoiled the party. |
| I skip the actual awards shows because the acceptance speeches are generally cringefully platitudinous and depthlessly insular. |
| Ideas endlessly repeated and permutated become platitudinous, trite, meaningless. |
| Surely such a bunch of worthies most of them retired would simply produce yet another platitudinous report, doomed to gather dust. |
