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It is bromidic, but true, to say that two heads are better than one.

Each expresses the crystallized thought of her particular bromidic group.

Everybody else who is upset about the speech has focused on Quayle's bromidic endorsement of love, marriage and family.

"His career is yours, you know," kittenishly bromidic, Emelene comforted her.

Her book is often abstract, bromidic, tepid, precious.

The bromidic fashion press justifiably earned most of Mr. Altman's ire.

Ever at the ready with a bromidic phrase, Ellen with her "appropriate responses" talks of "maintaining cautious optimism."

"I'm afraid I'd become rather bromidic," she answered gently, "and remind you that there's no fool like an old fool."

And yet, bromidic and blurry though this public-relations job is, it is in its way not inaccurate.

Terry's bromidic psycho babble is offset by Renee's close-to-despair acerbity.

Brian, it was plain, had been decoyed by bromidic tales of cub reporters and "record-smashing beats."

It all leads to a bromidic, cloying cop-out in which Sally advises her mother to accept responsibility for her life.

Two live contestants in a recent version of the test mistook the bromidic prattle of their programmed opponents for human reflection.

Certainly, it has the virtue of being restrained in most of its scenes, but the dialogue, far from being smart, verges on the bromidic."

When he implores Dete to change his ways, his words are so guidance-counselorish and bromidic that the character loses credibility.

We meet foiled bombers in prison, parents of successful ones, survivors of attacks and numerous pundits armed with bromidic sound bites.

The words we hear from Mary Alice in her treacly voice-over at the beginning and the end of each episode are as bromidic as wisdom gets.

The Man's monologue is a spouting of bromidic theories about positive energy redirection, planetary transformation of the instant kind and harmonic convergence.

As the school year draws to a close, graduation season begins again - a time for girls in white dresses, misty-eyed grandparents, bromidic speeches and plenty of gift-giving.

But when George W. Bush tried to sell the Iraq war, he retreated from public view once he had made his case in a few broad, bromidic strokes.

The battle with lupus erythematosus - a debilitating illness - turns Joy Rose's egomaniacal, screamingly self-indulgent postures (more precisely, gyrations) into gush of bromidic inspiration.

These 800-plus pages hold too many broadly generalized, somewhat bromidic observations about a subject universally acknowledged to have its limits: the nature, culture and very rich hours of Washington, compared with other cities.

Now, not seven decades too soon, the musical theatre has decided to exploit the brand as well-to pit the transgressive power of Addams's mischief against the bromidic power of Broadway.

And even though the playwright is sending up the bogus literature of bromidic self-betterment, at times his own sensibility seems to be subscribing to the very same "philosophical equivalent of light FM."

All right, but what now has become of this hunger for a candidate who trumpets the call to sacrifice in these critical times, if you will forgive the bromidic prose so essential, alas, to political journalism?