platitude

Instead of tone-deaf messages and empty platitudes, enterprises should walk the walk.

Morning talk shows should be a doddle for a President: softball questions easily answered with a platitude or three.

But how does one square his platitude with the reality of his situation?

I thought this was a kind of platitude, but she corrected me.

Although this sounds like a platitude, it has frequently been ignored.

It is a platitude, and none the less true for that, that we need to have an ideal in our minds with which to test all realities.

Mrs. Amber murmured protestingly, but, not knowing what a platitude was, felt she could not follow up the subject.

Cheap wit will then often pass for brilliancy, and platitude for wisdom.

Platitude though this may be, our greatest poets have not hesitated to use their highest powers to impress it upon us.