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The phrase "a banal statement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a remark or assertion that is unoriginal or lacking in significance.
Example: "His comment about the weather was just a banal statement that added nothing to the conversation."
Alternatives: "a trite remark" or "a mundane observation".
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A banal statement that all banks are fine would be met with derision.
However, given the president's penchant for mistruths and exaggeration, HuffPost could not take such a banal statement at face value.
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You must not betray it.' This apparently banal statement takes on a larger significance when you start to read Houellebecq's latest book, The Possibility of an Island, in which Clement is disguised as the narrator's dog 'Fox' and plays a major role.
I find it awfully strange to find that "disquieting," but then, I'm not some creep weirdo bent on putting every banal statement Hagel ever made on trial.
And here's how the Daily Mail characterized the Health and Human Services secretary's banal statement: "Sebelius admits Obamacare will raise health insurance premiums in 2015".
This asks the public whether it agrees with a series of banal statements: among them should ministers protect nationally important landscapes, and should charities be allowed to care for trees?
His voice, labouring under a sore throat, is a croaky monotone broken by interrogative uplifts that turn banal statements into doubting inquiries - 'It was, like, July?' Coupland never discusses the emotional terrain of his life.
But relatives of the jailed journalists and defendants convicted in absentia said foreign governments must now go beyond banal statements and apply real pressure to help reverse the verdicts.
During the weekend, his lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini, issued a statement decrying the political exploitation of a "banal conversation".
Trying to stop a newspaper from publishing a banal exposé based on claims by a former boyfriend, he made a false witness statement.
A banal identity marker.
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