bromidic

Example Sentences

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Chief Justice Roberts, writing for a plurality, lectured the nation with the bromidic insight that, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

From Washington Post

He was fascinated by the possibilities of reanimating a dead metaphor, playing with the bromidic visual formulae of mass culture, asking questions about inarticulacy, probing the tension between surface and depth.

From The Guardian

But you can tell when he means it and you can tell when he’s being bromidic, which is much of the time.

From New York Times

And with that bromidic, banal analogy out of the way, let's get down to the business of the day.

From The Guardian

The tale of the conversation spread like the prehistorically bromidic "wildfire," and Ninon won new laurels thereby.

From Project Gutenberg