And while this is a bit of a platitude, it's not just a platitude.
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The "star ratings don't matter" platitude extends far beyond Evanston.
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It's a common platitude that reality is cruel and unforgiving.
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It may sound like a platitude, but it is not.
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From what we know, this was the platitude that was
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"You're only as old as you feel" is a cloying platitude.
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GUNDLACH: That just seems to me to be an empty platitude.
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The old platitude goes that you can find inspiration in anything.
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They just churn out whatever barely literate platitude occurs to them.
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But I didn't want to utter a platitude and tiptoe out.
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But my resistance has little to do with avoiding a platitude.
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But in this case, it feels like more than a platitude.
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Every few feet, a wall decal or poster offered an inspirational platitude.
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Otherwise you're likely to brush off their advice as a simple platitude.
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He is the Picasso of the platitude, the Kandinsky of kissing up.
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For Mr. Rajoy, unity means something more than a post-trauma platitude.
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As we know very well, that platitude will not solve our healthcare problem.
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To each platitude, Mr. Noor simply bowed his head, his hand on his chest.
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There's much wisdom in what he says, though some of it comes close to platitude.
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It's a common platitude within the beauty industry that infrequent hair-washing leads to healthier locks.
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No medical salve, psychological band-aid, or well-intended platitude could help with this particular wound.
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There's not a platitude in the English language that these writers have not embraced with abandon.
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Carnal, reflective, almost platitude free: It was the best and most creatively adventurous of her albums.
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It sounds like nonsense or, if not nonsense, a platitude, but, in a way, he was right.
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Some see it as a sweet, harmless platitude couples share about the beginning dates of their courtship.
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That is not just a platitude: the patients of sympathetic physicians have been shown to fare better.
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That's not only an extremely corny platitude — it's also my extremely corny pun referencing her new tattoo.
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Print your large, dumb face; your favorite empty inspirational platitude; the soft petals of a teensy flower.
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We're told to pray, but at what point is the power of prayer reduced to a platitude?
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"Pope Francis's talk of universal human rights, peace and dignity is little more than platitude," Green said.
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My father has a funny platitude he likes to use whenever I bring up my dating life.
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But then this reassurance is the kind of platitude that feels simplistic in a fully reported book.
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"The song feels exactly right," Scharer notes, and this platitude captures what feels exactly wrong with the book.
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" He also railed against another common corporate platitude: Managers who say, "Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions.
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Someone likely made up the platitude and simply slapped "Virginia Woolf" on it, like an "Authentic Feminist Saying" label.
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When you give a banal platitude, you're really telling me that I'm not allowed to feel how I feel.
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The juxtaposition of this platitude with the joyful burlesque of demons constitutes a lighthearted, anarchic commentary on police brutality.
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" They passed a T-shirt with an Instagram-friendly platitude: "Do what you have to do with love & passion.
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In June, Ms. Nauert tried to praise the partnership between Germany and the United States, a standard diplomatic platitude.
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I learned to try to live a life worthy of their sacrifice, but perhaps this is a false platitude.
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This would be an empty platitude without maintaining the prosecutorial independence that has become a cornerstone of American democracy.
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Or was this simply a palace platitude, thought up in the five-second lag between one honoree and the next?
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When listening to Crack-Up, the platitude "They don't make 'em like this anymore" comes to mind, but it's fair.
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Dailor's platitude of "we riff out, and it helps" sums up the overall message, and it's one we can agree with.
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I knew he would say it was unnecessary, but that platitude would be coming from his desire that I live forever.
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It's a laudable goal, but it's currently just a platitude—no more meaningful than say, SpaceX hopes to eventually colonize Mars.
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" No, I decided: "A platitude is precisely what is left of a truth after it has been drained of all emotion.
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"Pope Francis's talk of universal human rights, peace and dignity is little more than platitude," law professor Penny Green told CNN.
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Annie's simultaneously horrified and awed reaction to the séance embodies the conflicted relationship that the grieving can have with this common platitude.
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Trump followed up that platitude with one of the biggest lies of his presidency thus far — and that is saying a lot.
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If you watch a lot of tech keynotes, you get used to these sorts of generic, platitude-y visions of the future.
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The traditional (read: misogynistic) platitude is that a woman is beyond her prime once she's married, and especially after she's given birth.
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When Chris finally does resort to violence, it's a cathartic and empowering moment, and there's no platitude about peacemaking to be found.
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In this way, he dismantles the platitude—"he was a man of his time"—used to cover the sins of many historical figures.
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These two kids need each other; they need to inflict pain on one another to feel less lonely or some other grand platitude.
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He's also revealing his essence, which is that power—not giving voice to the voiceless middle, his preferred platitude—is what animates him.
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Unfortunately, in many instances, this favorite phrase has become little more than a feel-good platitude politicians use to check a political box.
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It's 2018, so let's scrap that platitude (it hasn't aged well) and try this instead: Beside every successful woman is ... another successful woman.
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They say you can have too much of a good thing, but that platitude just doesn't apply when you're talking about Girl Scout cookies.
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In response, she offered a platitude about being a New York senator on 9/11 as the reason she was close to the banks.
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"Here in Arizona, on our campuses, debate is encouraged, free speech is protected, and diversity of thought isn't just a platitude," Mr. Ducey said.
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Thunberg once again leaped into action, changing her Twitter bio to read: "A kind but poorly informed teenager" — a reference to Putin&aposs platitude.
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The app also delivers now-iconic and extremely sharable push notifications, which packages a person's unique daily horoscope into a platitude for the digital age.
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It strikes the right tone and, though it's a generally vague platitude, it's an easy layup and Trump doesn't botch it, which is saying something.
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Despite the platitude that "anyone who makes it this far is a winner," Ohno's record reveals that he was a first-place winner only twice.
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When Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz took the stage in a packed room in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, he led with a platitude that raised eyebrows.
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A recent production ended with a raucous finale brimming with Broadway frivolity, titled "Our Dreams Aren't Over," a perfectly fitting platitude for the high-spirited artists.
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THE FORECAST that future wars will be fought over water has been made long enough for it to become both a platitude and subject to doubt.
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In Queer Eye's universe, men are encouraged to become their full selves, but only at the cost of women being reduced to empty, platitude-affirming characters.
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The question is: When you&aposre typing that business sign-off, is your gratitude just a platitude — or are you being authentic and really expressing thanks?
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I happen to get paid for criticism, and I would like to criticize that old platitude right out the window: No, everybody is not a critic.
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A "fortune" implies that the client comes away with a tepid platitude about their life instead of a useful, inventive take on what they ought to do.
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Our nation's commitment to end discrimination against people with disabilities must include ending the payment of subminimum wages, otherwise it is nothing more than a hollow platitude.
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Whether or not that platitude is actually true, it's undoubtedly the case that only a small percentage of the ocean floor has been properly mapped and photographed.
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The true history of the Games is a far cry from the platitude-laden, sepia-toned nostalgia pumped out by the International Olympic Committee and Olympic sponsors.
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As the wise and platitude-spewing Grandma Nell (Diane Ladd) tells Mr. Williams's character, "You can't change the past, son, but you can create a new future."
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That's the sort of bloodless neoliberal platitude that only works if you believe that mental ill health is a mysterious phenomenon blooming spontaneously in a sick mind.
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In an era ever-defined by accrescent horror and perpetual anxiety, "Turn on, tune in, and drop out," is no longer a platitude, it's a battle-cry.
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If you've always wanted to join in This Is Us mania but couldn't get past the emotional platitude-heavy dialogue and emotionally manipulative tendencies — the music cues alone!
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At Marvel Studio's Comic-Con panel on Saturday, director Taika Waititi answered a question about his upcoming film Thor: Ragnarok with a new spin on an old platitude.
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And, indeed, a ruling platitude of our day says we need to get beyond the politics of acrimony and division that obstructs decisive progress toward this guiding ideal.
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Or to come off on one hand disingenuous, or on the other hand just trite, or, you know, there's that fine line between platitude and just the truth.
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As its title makes clear, the order is aimed at achieving U.S. energy independence, a platitude every U.S. president since Richard Nixon has spoken of as a policy goal.
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And know that suggesting we eat chocolate, smile the pain away, or any other platitude that treats depression as anything other than the disease it is can be damaging.
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As of this month, "battle of the sexes" is no longer just a moment in tennis history or a platitude trotted out to describe any variety of gender-based friction.
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"Nothing's guaranteed in sports; I still have to win two matches against potentially two extremely tough opponents," Williams said in what might have sounded like a platitude a few months ago.
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The platitude "don't feed the trolls" has limits, but it accurately captures an important harassment dynamic: the more visible and agitated someone's response, the more "exploitable" they are for future attacks.
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As such, he should be able to see something of himself in Joshua, a statement which is not in this case a mere platitude but rather the key to a surprise result.
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So, how about on this Veterans Day instead of saying "thank you for your service" which often feels like an empty platitude and annoys veterans: provide education, provide awareness and reduce stigma.
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The overriding assumption is that words don't mean much to Pruitt, and he is inevitably going to do whatever polluting industries ask for and then make up some platitude to justify it.
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"It's a platitude that language opens doors," said Andrew Cohen, a professor emeritus of second language studies at University of Minnesota and who was instrumental in developing the language acquisition research center.
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Previously, their hired singers would murmur a platitude or two before disappearing into the sweeping synthesizer uplift, but here they belt verses, choruses, prechoruses, and fully resolved melodies that spin and dazzle.
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From Manchester to the White House, kids issues aren't taking a perfunctory "job well done" platitude anymore–they are demanding promises and results and will have the political juice to back it up.
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Instead, analysts from Morningstar and National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago found that people had no idea what to do and consequently relied on a platitude of investing: Diversify.
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"If anyone else came out with these sort of cliché-ridden, impossible-to-disagree-with, back-of-a-greetings card platitude, they would be ignored," complained Adam Bienkov of Business Insider on Twitter.
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" That platitude pops up several times in this book, as when Roberta wonders, blurbing herself, "What could violate social convention more than women coming together to indulge their hunger and take up space?
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Before that night, I'm sure I would've dismissed the idea of "trying to perceive myself the way a stranger might" as a New Age-y platitude that was meaningless at worst, unrealistic at best.
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Mr. Corbyn goes out of his way not to use the word "anti-Semitism," and when he is forced into condemnation of it he invokes the platitude that Labour opposes all racism and discrimination.
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When asked how he would define the middle class, Trump offered up a platitude that "the middle class has been forgotten in this country" before pivoting to his tax plan and proposals to cut regulations.
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The claim that a peace deal is needed to keep Israel as a Jewish and democratic state is a platitude because for 25 years people have been saying that and Israel has only thrived and prospered.
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But stereotypes — no matter what they're about — have the ability to hurt and cause anxiety for the individuals you're making generalizations about, whether what you're saying is something traditionally considered offensive or a seemingly benign platitude.
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Before the election of Donald Trump, its passionate dictum to choose between love and fear would have been a mild, feel-good platitude meant to politely jostle, but never deeply disquiet, a mainstream white Broadway audience.
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Trashed for being vain and shallow, and chastised for promoting an airbrushed, platitude-filled, unattainable image of gay life, Instagays and everything they stand for would've been a low-hanging target for The Other Two to hit.
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As such, both before and after the match, the platitude of a 'six-pointer' is bound to be trotted out at every opportunity, from Soccer Saturday and Football Focus to Final Score and Match of the Day.
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Biden sells shirts and stickers declaring that "Joe will beat him like a drum," as well as a collection of shirts with quotes taken from Biden's first speech in Iowa, a platitude-heavy rebuke of the president.
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That might seem like a platitude, but this establishment is Nutella-themed in the way that Cheerios are an 'o'-themed breakfast cereal, or "Work" by Rihanna is ostensibly a song about working: unremittingly so, through rote repetition.
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Clinton had a chance to give any vague campaign platitude as her closing statement, but she chose to call out what could be an example of how race and white supremacy still influence modern American politics and policies.
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It's a common platitude that a good boss treats his employees like family, but in Rosen's case, the intimacy is real: James, and another worker, Derek, are so close to Rosen and his family, that they attended his son's bar mitzvah.
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Conte not only offered the platitude that he wanted them to stay but also informed them that, no matter what they felt they needed to improve — extra training sessions, more analysis — he and his team would be there to provide it.
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Most likely dreamt up sometime between the Bosman ruling and Pierre Van Hooijdonk going on strike at Nottingham Forest, 'wantaway' has absolutely no meaning outside of the world of football, and hence is the purest form of cliche, the truest platitude known to man.
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But he takes this platitude further; the premise of his wildly influential life's work is that each of us have a love language that we use to express love, and that this is usually this is the way we want to be shown love, too.
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It was once a commonplace platitude to say that painting is dead, but the work in this biennial did convince me of the bounty of innovation available in these other media, as well as the superabundance of meaning available from artists and institutions practicing in West Asia.
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This is one reason I think The Shape of Water has a fighting chance at winning Best Picture, because if there is anything that Hollywood loves today — in a way that approaches platitude — it's the story of people who are different finding goodness in one another.
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"It gives in one eddying concentration almost every possible foolishness, cliché, platitude and muddlement about mechanical progress and progress in general, served up with a sauce of sentimentality that is all its own" H.G. Wells wrote in a ringing non-endorsement for The Times in 1927.
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Its overarching message about the importance of being kind to yourself might sound like a platitude, but its shrugging attitude toward sex (have it if you want, whatever) marks a change from the implicit assumption, from many other sex advice books, that more (and wilder) sex is better.
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Instead, after Mr. Buttigieg led the attacks on Ms. Warren over her health care plan that began in October, he is snaring her primary voters — including women of Ms. Warren's generation like Ms. Bagley and Ms. Luddy — with a platitude-heavy message of uniting the country and restoring democracy.
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In addition to putting on a huge show of letting Kesha sing while flattening her specific condemnation into a toothless platitude, the Grammys returned throughout the night to applause lines with the overall message that "women deserve better" — not seeming to realize that the ceremony itself was proving that point.
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The club's American proprietors, Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien, were particularly unconvinced by the contender who could offer only the platitude that to come out of a slump that has taken the club to 20153th in the Premier League standings, Swansea's players simply needed to work harder, to run more.
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There is an urgent necessity to distinguish between "a beanfeast of pomp and platitude," as Andrew Gowers of the Sunday Times of London called Davos, and global organizations and gatherings that do produce tangible, actionable results that can protect life on our planet or democracy as a social and political ideal.
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This kind of platitude might have been seen in the past as a feel-good message of unity rather than divisive rhetoric — but the current political climate makes even reminders that freedom of the press is good, that not all foreigners are bad, and that bullying people is wrong into politically charged flashpoints.
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"Heartbreak of the moment isn't endless," she sings, in "Think About It." This might seem like a billowy platitude, but if you are someone who does not think that every flubbed decision is fodder for personal growth, it is comforting to hear someone assert that nearly all mistakes can be neutralized, if not conquered.
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If the platitude about millennials participating in casual sex while secretly hating it holds any truth, then Taggart and Halsey are its avatars, standing in for whole generational attitudes; as singers they scream past each other and fail to connect, doomed to fuck a repetitively steady stream of anonymous ciphers for the rest of eternity.
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"That's what Terry Wolfson said when she called me at work—" I was going to offer up some platitude about how the animal hadn't suffered, though for all I knew the dog had gummed it relentlessly, the way it had gummed my arm, when a voice called "Hello?" from the street behind us and we broke awkwardly apart.
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Editorial Diplomats at the United Nations spent several months trying to come up with a comprehensive plan to address today's flow of refugees and migrants, the largest since World War II. So far they have failed, as became clear last month when they released a platitude-laden blueprint for a discussion of the crisis by world leaders who will convene in New York in September.
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A less precise target appeared on t-shirts printed with the words "We Should All Be Feminists," the kind of soft platitude that plays both sides; it takes from the title of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book and speech – it doesn't go so far as to ask what feminism might mean to fashion, though a more generous reading might be that the responsibility to embody Adiochie's message is, literally, on the wearer.
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