Platitudes, cliches, rhetoric, pretty words. It takes the form of a dictionary of automatic thoughts and platitudes, self-contradictory and insipid. Instead it numbs you to death with its moronic platitudes, its pretensions to comedy. London critics had a field day sneering at its greeting-card philosophy and 1960s flower-power platitudes. They are given mostly platitudes and empty promises, although Grant seems the most accommodating. He spoke in platitudes, trying to transcend politics. Analyzing platitudes is part of the Canberra Plan of philosophical methodology. He is retrieved on the water by Rover while he robotically mouths campaign platitudes. Commonly used platitudes amongst Orthodox Jews are frequently expressed with their Yeshivish equivalent. The general advise was not to be harsh, which seemed to encourage platitudes. Conjoining the platitudes on a topic may give a Ramsey sentence. "Platitudes" is a realistic metafiction, a story within a story. Trey Ellis is most famous for his first work of metafiction called "Platitudes". "Moodysson wants us to see that there's a real person under the platitudes". "Platitudes" is a 1988 metafiction.