Those who fight shy of Maeterlinck because they credit the report, sufficiently widespread, that he is a platitudinarian, might be advised to sample him in this essay.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
We see, too, constantly, how thin is the barrier separating the chief Anglo-Saxon novelists and playwrights from the pasture of the platitudinarian.
"A Book of Prefaces"
H. L. Mencken
These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice, platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and social science.
"What Social Classes Owe to Each Other"
William Graham Sumner