10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLATITUDINIZER»
Discover the use of
platitudinizer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
platitudinizer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
... platformer, plat formist, platitude, platitudinarian, platitudinar- ianism,
platitudinism, platitudinist, platitudi- nization, platitudinize, platitudinizer, Plattdeut
- play **• plum- sch, platten, platter, platydactyl, platyhelminth, Platyhelminthes,
platypod, ...
1. intellectual, pedagogue, Inf. know-it- all; bibliophile, bookworm, scholar,
highbrow, Inf. egghead, Inf. walking encyclopedia; aesthete, Inf. longhair,
bluestocking; platitudinizer, Inf. bromide, bore, stuffed shirt; attitudinarian,
attitudinizer, phi- ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
... she was happiest. §8 Strange Enthusiasms. — Who has not marvelled, among
artists, at the curious fascination of the absolutely unlike? Think of the violent
enthusiasm of the Socialist platitudinizer, Robert Blatch- ford, for Henry James.
George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, 1919
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Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General ...
Let me sign, and let me get this prating platitudinizer out of my sight.” The lawyer
brought a thick blotting-pad from the writing-table and pen and ink to the bedside
of the old man, and Nurse Marion stood by in intense excitement, with strained ...
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World authors, 1900-1950
The comment that Traubel was the "platitudinizer of the American Socialist
movement" approaches the truth. In the quarter-century left him after Whitman's
death, Traubel published several books of his own, but they are today regarded
as little ...
Martin Seymour-Smith, Andrew C. Kimmens, 1996
(Louis Harap is right in noting — June issue — that Golden keeps away from
commenting on foreign affairs, but I am just as glad he does, for who needs
another liberal "free- world" platitudinizer in this field?) His evocation of the East
Side ...
When the Com» mittee adjourned the stick was found to contain forty -one
notches. “ PLATITUDINIZER. M R. CALDWELL, M. POf course, the member for
Mid-Lanarkshire is never reported, for the. FROJV BEHIND THE SPEAKER'S
CHAIR.
... damn it," said the old man, " that is plain. — Give me the pen, Blenkinsop. Let
me sign, and let me get this prating platitudinizer out of my sight." The lawyer
brought a thick blotting-pad from the writing-table and pen and ink to the bedside
of ...
John Strange Winter, 1901
The flashy show-off, the portentous platitudinizer, the complimenting 'yes-man',
they prefer to the solid worker, the initiating thinker, the independent adviser.
They hate to have to face up to a problem. They are always seeking for
roundabout ...
... sound out the young man's prospects sum up in themselves the present state
of the Established. Posed in a mausoleum-like house of plaster casts and
oppressive draperies, the mother turns out to be a prune faced platitudinizer; the
father, ...
