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Перевод: platitudinous

[прилагательное]
банальный; плоский; пошлый

Тезаурус:

1. He is prepared to forgive Patricia Hodge's platitudinous children's book reviews on the grounds that she is very beautiful.
2. The kind of poem that a literary critic would regard as banal, ill-written, shallow in feeling, and platitudinous in sentiment, might have major human interest for the cultural historian.
3. To write this sounds platitudinous, yet to translate that understanding into daily practice is far more difficult than might at first appear.
4. In 1992, the Conservative manifesto makes not even the most platitudinous mention of such a target: its four stated economic aims are "to achieve price stability; to keep firm control over public spending; to continue to reduce taxes as fast as we prudently can; and to make sure that market mechanisms and incentives are allowed to do their job."
5. For party occasions he delivered a skit sermon called "Under the Juniper Tree" which could reduce his audiences to helpless laughter by its caricature of the most platitudinous and pontificating type of preaching.
6. This innocent remark, which Shirley had injudiciously thought platitudinous enough to pass without comment, stirred her brother-in-law Steve to speech: he launched into an attack upon the City Council and the high rates, an attack guaranteed to annoy Uncle Fred, upset his mild dumb father, and plunge his brother Cliff into the deepest financial anxiety.
7. But for making certain general platitudinous statements, senior prison administrators could not make any significant contribution in suggesting solutions to the chronic problems of prison management.
8. Grace Stanislaus of the Bronx (NYC) Museum of the Arts delivered a demagogic, platitudinous rehash of the multicultural musings of the past decade, and was loudly applauded for p.c. effort.
9. To many observers Reagan had long ceased to be a president and become a king-like figure who communicated with his people in platitudinous homilies.
10. One clearly libidinous writer gives thanks for my providing him with a far from platitudinous substitute for an invitation to come up and look at etchings.
11. Branson's views about England were more platitudinous than revolutionary; England, he would say, is "a great place to live in, but as a great place it should carry on standing totally for democracy and people should have the absolute freedom to say what they think".
12. But while some things in one document may be manifestly weighty, other parts of the same document appear platitudinous, verbose or banal, a stringing together of old-fashioned cliches gilded with a little rhetoric drawn from the often superficial optimism of the early 1960s.
13. "It's very difficult to do because if you aren't careful you just write down a series of platitudes, but I think that a statement of aims and beliefs is very necessary even if it does look platitudinous."