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Friday, June 8, 2012

236. Platitude


From, “Heat Feel Bosh’s Absence in Conference Finals,” by Howard Beck, 6/4/12, The New York Times:

“He was our most important player,” Spoelstra said in a pregame news conference Friday, and you could sense the muffled snickers around the room.
Few took the statement seriously, in part because Spoelstra,the Heat’s unfailingly self-serious head coach, is prone to broad platitudes and important-sounding coach-isms, such as, “play to our identity,” a phrase he invokes about 15 times per interview.

Platitude:  a trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant

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