Meanings (ES + gloss)
lugar común • platitud • tópico
An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course.
Semiramis was the first woman to invent eunuchs and women have had sympathy for them ever since; […] and women can tell them what they can't tell other men. And Ivor, suddenly chee…
obviedad • platitud • trivialidad
Unoriginality; triteness.
After a passage of what we feel to be true poetry, there follows, inevitably, a passage of platitude which no critical pre-judgment can force us to admire;
seemly platitude, flat-footed ordinariness, and well-enacted upper working class respectability cancel out any turpitude, exhilarating tension or satanic glamour a casino might be…
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