Lexicographical Neighbors of Platitudinizing
Literary usage of Platitudinizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church in America: A Study of the Present Condition and Future Prospects by William Adams Brown (1922)
"... but by misgovernment, and instead of blustering about reinforcements and army
reform, or—shall we say—platitudinizing about commercial education, ..."
2. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler (1868)
"... is a method quite external to the matter; but even this platitudinizing
formalism (for example, the eighth theorem in Wolffs Elements of Architecture ..."
3. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler, James Hutchison Stirling (1867)
"... as the mathematical (mathematico-syllogistic) method recommended by Leibnitz,
is a method quite external to the matter ; but even this platitudinizing ..."
4. Poetry, Comedy, and Duty by Charles Carroll Everett (1888)
"... a new sense from this experience of the manner in which the higher aesthetic,
moral, and religious life must suffer from all this prosy platitudinizing. ..."
5. The Church in America: A Study of the Present Condition and Future Prospects by William Adams Brown (1922)
"... but by misgovernment, and instead of blustering about reinforcements and army
reform, or—shall we say—platitudinizing about commercial education, ..."
6. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler (1868)
"... is a method quite external to the matter; but even this platitudinizing
formalism (for example, the eighth theorem in Wolffs Elements of Architecture ..."
7. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler, James Hutchison Stirling (1867)
"... as the mathematical (mathematico-syllogistic) method recommended by Leibnitz,
is a method quite external to the matter ; but even this platitudinizing ..."
8. Poetry, Comedy, and Duty by Charles Carroll Everett (1888)
"... a new sense from this experience of the manner in which the higher aesthetic,
moral, and religious life must suffer from all this prosy platitudinizing. ..."
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