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
Let us have no pious platitudes about the end of relief.
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
Fellows like you utter pious platitudes; you proclaim the glory of women; you hold up your hands with horror at a man who dares tell the truth, and then you back out like cowards.
From The Man Who Rose Again by Hocking, Joseph
