bromidic

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.”

But look: Speeches to the General Assembly are bromidic by nature.

Neither its director, Farren Blackburn, nor his screenwriter, Christina Hodson, could have believed that this bromidic nonsense would generate chills.

Then there are some athletes whose personas seem to epitomize the bromidic beliefs that lie at the heart of American sports: Winning is the only thing that matters, hard work and perseverance lead to greatness, champions are made not born.

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