But overall this is a pretty anaemic procession of soft rock clichés, with big choruses and bigger platitudes.
These are more than liberal platitudes.
In the process Ms Whitman and Ms Fiorina may have lost many swing voters in a state where independents are 20% of the electorate.Ms Fiorina, for example, aware of Mr DeVore to her right, has been rolling out tea-partyish platitudes against big government.
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.
Mr. Romney can remind you of the dorky uncle at the Thanksgiving table — the one who excitedly delivers platitudes with a big wind-up, and then gets the platitude just ever-so-slightly wrong.
Writer-director Jennifer Westcott's anemic script tosses out a host of issues (climate change, sports doping), lessons (dream big, friends come first) and platitudes ("Success trains, failure complains") that get lost or conflated amid a story that tries to be too many things at once.
It's too soon to tell, but there's one area where immediate steps can be taken to make good on platitudes about debt slashing and big government bashing: scaling back our bloated federal estate.
Unfortunately, Mr. Trump offers only platitudes and more divisive rhetoric, big promises without real solutions.
In Venice, 1975: After our long day's enchanting rest, yesterday we went down and found Gore — big, complacent, pompous, assured that his every platitude is an apothegm, a witty wisdom.
It also gave space to the absolutely charming indie action RPG Bastion, by Supergiant Games, which deserves the early platitudes heaped upon it by the big American game sites.
