platitude

With that, the author lets him skate, onto the next platitude.

There is a platitude, beloved of the documentary community, that truth is stranger than fiction.

He can't stop repeating the bellicose platitude that America is at war against the virus, even though he spent the first two months of this catastrophe telling us it was no big deal.

That last sentiment wasn’t just a platitude to his fellow starters.

Like that disposable platitude, all the Orwellian nonsense coming from the top of the U.S. government about seeking a “rules-based international order” is nothing more than a brazen PR scam.