platitudinize

Désir, 52, a bald and bespectacled consensus seeker, has been mocked as an “apparatchik” and chided for his party-loyalist platitudinizing—his “wooden tongue,” in the French phrase.

"A Hoosier Holiday" is far more illuminating, despite its platitudinizing.

Then Éugene Brieux, with his Y. M. C. A. platitudinizing, is greater than Molière, with his ethical agnosticism, his ironical determinism.

Pope's letters are the literary exercises of a man platitudinizing about virtues he did not possess.

Aspiring socially, she was reserved, pedantic, platitudinizing, thoroughly self-sufficient.