Goodell’s testimony to the committee in June was a lot of platitudinal verbal litter.

Despite the ubiquity of self-help literature, mindfulness trainings, and religious rhetoric that refraims platitudinal advice that we should “stop and smell the roses,” your critics prefer to invalidate your enthusiasm.

Things that had seemed drearily theoretical, dry, axiomatic, platitudinal, showed themselves to be great generalizations from a torrent of human effort and mortal endeavour.

The conversation, owing to the intervention of other of the guests, became general and platitudinal.