The conversation, owing to the intervention of other of the guests, became general and platitudinal.
"The Devil's Paw"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
He knew the Pope's face well, from a hundred photographs and moving pictures; even his gestures were familiar to him, the slight bowing of the head in assent, the tiny eloquent movement of the hands; but Percy, with a sense of being platitudinal, told himself that the living presence was very different.
"Lord of the World"
Robert Hugh Benson