bromidic

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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 • Jan. 6, 2023

Perhaps some bromidic references to a post-Assad Syria will emerge from this U.N. session, but the facts are these.

From Slate • Sep. 28, 2015

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 • Feb. 23, 2013

But just when things start to become saccharine and bromidic, Mr. Bock cuts the scene off, as if acknowledging the threat.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2011

At the table she listened and responded interestedly to Mrs. Merlin’s bromidic remarks, was gentle with the children and most flatteringly deferential 135 to Kurt.

From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Lyford, Philip