10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLATITUDINARIAN»
Discover the use of
platitudinarian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
platitudinarian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism
Shaw. as. Platitudinarian. The general formula of George Bernard Shaw, to wit,
the announcement of the obvious in terms of the scandalous, is made so
palpable in his new book, Androcles and the Lion, that even such besotted
Shawolators ...
Henry Louis Mencken, William Henry Nolte, 1987
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The Best Words: More Than 200 of the Most Excellent, Most ...
A person's mood or behavior, his temperament, was thought to be determined by
how much of each of these body fluids his body held. platitudinarian (plat-i-tyood-
ah-NER-ee-an) noun a person who frequently utters platitudes. “You wish me ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
“Lou, you're a regular platitudinarian. Very original,” eddie wisecracked. “But
seriously speaking, do you think we'll find him?” “Platitudinarian, huh? now that's
a fifty dollar word if I ever heard one. I didn't think the schools these days taught
you ...
Louis Anthony Agnello, 2012
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The Monthly Christian Spectator. 1851-1859
He had a platitudinarian-looking face, and was, perhaps, best definable as a
platitudinarian man. Dr. Wach could preach you a sermon from any text, at any
time ; and no wonder, for he never really preached but one sermon, which was
like ...
5
The Contemporary Review
If there is the risk of cant on one side, the other is not free from it ; and of all forms
of cant and platitude, probably the most unreal and platitudinarian is that which
speaks of visits to museums and galleries as leading 164 The Contemporary ...
The platform, howover, of these parties in joint-convention seems well enough,
although it is much sneered at by the Administration papers as negative and
platitudinarian. It asserts, for one thing, that a tariff should be for rcvenuo alone; ...
... had to be defrayed by some unwise fool, who had stupidly attempted to expose
something venerable to ridicule. But why do the platitudinarian censors of
literature keep circulating this joke in their little sphere, after the manner of Mb.
Pope's ...
Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, 1855
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Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press
Robert Buchanan's assessment is typical of the sort of critique described earlier
that privileges Evans's early fictions for their embodied authenticity, but here
there is an added misogynistic edge: we decry her “tiresome, platitudinarian, ...
9
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
He was damped to the skin by Mary Ann's platitudinarian style of conversation.
Despite its prettiness, her face was dulness incarnate. "Anyhow, remember to
take in the piano if I'm out," he said tartly. "I suppose you've seen a piano—you'll ...
10
Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of ...
The positive ethical teachings of Reformism are mostly of the platitudinarian type
usually designated as copybook morality. Surely, very poor substitutes for Israel's
ancient Torah. The weakness and the inconsistency of the Reformist movement ...
