Sentence examples for standard platitudes from inspiring English sources
These are standard platitudes that can be applied to Ireland in the international media these days.
From my experience of O'Neill, he has always been one of game's more astute judges and these were not just the standard platitudes from one colleague to another.
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.
If America's 40m Latinos dislike being patronised by Anglo politicians who throw a few words of Spanish into their standard platitudes, their leaders did not show it during John Kerry's speech in Phoenix to the National Council of La Raza (NCLR).
Darren Fletcher's defence of Levein on the eve of the 2-0 reverse in Brussels was as a robust as it was sincere, the Manchester United midfielder going way beyond the standard platitudes trotted out when a coach is under pressure.
Both offered a standard platitude — "good for the league" — for a fellow member of the industry elite.
He was slammed even harder when he turned up at the BET Awards allegedly shopping a record deal while uttering a few standard, impersonal platitudes about Jackson.
He can deliver the standard anti-Obama platitudes with what looks almost like conviction.
Even the most mercenary of gallerists will tell his clients to buy with their eyes and not their ears, to buy only what they love, and other standard art-world platitudes.
The phraseology employed by the author is original by Mesopotamian standards as they are known today: inventive, resourceful, testifying to a fertile mind, and clearly deviating from the commonplace platitudes that mostly characterize the standard accounts of Assyrian kings.
Neither they nor lawmakers are allowed to say anything to the press besides hollow, praising platitudes about how "high-standard" the treaty is.
