bromidic sermons. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She paid homage to the good points of Flamingus, but he was too cut and dried, "bromidic," she classified him, for Derry had carefully explained the etymology of the word. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
All candidates favor the now-bromidic slogan: change. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
"Nothing quite so bromidic as that," laughed the artist. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
The pages are laden with sage counsel and bromidic expressions. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
Another bromidic piece of advice is "Be perfectly frank and sincere.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
It would be what your friend, I mean, our friend, Miss King, calls bromidic. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
Nine times out of 10 their favorite angle is the bromidic "do games make ya violent?". From Wordnik.com. [Why No Lester Bangs of Gaming?] Reference
To use Katherine Graham's favorite adjective, the prose can only be described as bromidic. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Heffernan: John Browne's BP Memoir: Not So Much Beyond Business as Beyond Belief] Reference
Brian, it was plain, had been decoyed by bromidic tales of cub reporters and "record-smashing beats.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Natürlich—both adjective and adverb—is a normal, indeed fairly bland and bromidic word in German. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories] Reference
You have to stop the rounded, rote, bromidic phrases, and use a normal language that cannot be ignored. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Reveals Her Inner Self] Reference
It's written lyrically - but manages not to romanticize death with sweeping and bromidic generalizations. From Wordnik.com. [Writing about the certainty of death] Reference
So far, however, his actual campaign is sliding into bromidic, insufficiency, and a rather complete lack of new ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Analysis of Democratic "Strategy"] Reference
How bromidic to note it -- we have many tastes in common!. From Wordnik.com. [The Agony Column] Reference
"His career is yours, you know," kittenishly bromidic, Emelene comforted her. From Wordnik.com. [The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors] Reference
The guests arrived shortly and there were the usual stiff, bromidic greetings. From Wordnik.com. [Broken to the Plow] Reference
I'll even be quite frank and confess I had thought of you in that bromidic version of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Visioning] Reference
She smiled at her bromidic remark, and sat down; but he did not reply, "Gil," she said at last. From Wordnik.com. [The Bad Man] Reference
"Joe Lieberman has the hectoring, bromidic, high-rhetorical style reminiscent of an especially pompous clergyman.". From Wordnik.com. [Answers.com: Today's Highlights] Reference
I asked with that bromidic zeal to please that so often discloses the fly just when the ointment's smell is sweetest. From Wordnik.com. [White Shadows in the South Seas] Reference
"I'm afraid I'd become rather bromidic," she answered gently, "and remind you that there's no fool like an old fool.". From Wordnik.com. [The House Without a Key]
"If you had said anything bromidic about Grant's Tomb, Jarvis Jocelyn, I should have thrown myself off the top of the stage to certain death.". From Wordnik.com. [Bambi] Reference
Berlin blockade: Soviet Union prevented delivery of supplies to Berlin; Allied forces began the bromidic (broh-MID-ik) adjective: Commonplace; trite. From Wordnik.com. [Answers.com: Today's Highlights] Reference
As the U.S. press swoons over Barack Obama and his bromidic promise of "change" to the exclusion of almost all else, the African media have noticed Bush's work. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
It seems almost bromidic to write that Asheville "has the finest resort hotel in the world;" yet, concretely, without equivocation or exaggeration, that is it fact. From Wordnik.com. [Asheville--the Ideal Autumn and Winter Resort City] Reference
Converse to what some bromidic administrators may give credence to, the basic longing to be favored for superior work does not die out after one matures from boyhood. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
But contrary to what we've come to expect from dime-a-dozen celebrities and celebrity interviews not worth two cents, the tale avoids bromidic egotism and journalistic platitudes. From Wordnik.com. [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference
But the (very German) Mr Bitomsky never once breaks from his bromidic delivery, to the point where we actually looked around our living room to see if we were being punk'd by our superiors. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Besides, I suppose lots of the people that go to Bohemian restaurants aren't really artists at all; they just go to see the artists; they're just as bromidic as can be ---- Don't you hate bromides?. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
It's just the same old blah-fucking-blah that got the GOP into its current mess, and is quite possibly the most hackneyed, bromidic piece of political nonsense we've ever had the misfortune of reading. From Wordnik.com. [FITSNews] Reference
The bromidic remark, heard very often three years ago, that "things will never be the same after the war" has proved as true a prediction in the field of modern language instruction as in other fields. From Wordnik.com. [The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921] Reference
"And you're the chap who wanted me to go to some bromidic old show to-night!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune Hunter] Reference
"Until about an hour ago I wanted to marry -- oh for the most bromidic of reasons. From Wordnik.com. [The Visioning] Reference
"If a bromidic remark may also be cryptic, Dorothea, you have achieved the combination. From Wordnik.com. [Ladies-In-Waiting] Reference
Did genius fail to burn? "he asked, employing a bromidic phrase which Queed particularly detested. From Wordnik.com. [Queed] Reference
/I'm bromidic and bright as a moon-happy night pourin 'light on the dew! "the words are brimming with the magic of absolute, unvarnished conviction. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News] Reference
Hermia, mercilessly bromidic. From Wordnik.com. [Madcap] Reference
But the explanation is very simple and bromidic. From Wordnik.com. [The White Mice] Reference
"Oh, bromidic Miss Smith!. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Named Smith] Reference
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