pious platitudes
Example Sentences
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The world does not need more pious platitudes delivered on the anniversary of still-unfathomable violence and pain and destruction.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2010
Though I guess pious platitudes are preferable to lower Manhattan hate marches, like the one that will be held at the site of the World Trade Center on the anniversary of the attacks.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2010
He therefore instructed a couple of speechwriters to work up a talk that contained some positive proposals, not mere pious platitudes.
From Time Magazine Archive
They might say that, with pious platitudes on his thin lips, President Coolidge capitalized on Prosperity, rode its inflationary waves to an enormous popularity.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was because his sermons, instead of consisting of a string of pious platitudes, interspersed with trite ejaculations and irrelevant quotations, were one long chain of closely-reasoned argument.
From The Days Before Yesterday by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord
