The Only Use of
platitude
in
The Things They Carried
- I'd be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simple-minded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were sending me off to fight a war they didn't understand and didn't want to understand.
Chpt 4platitudes = things so commonly repeated that they are no longer interesting
Definition:
something so commonly repeated that it is no longer interesting