Sentence examples for a very banal from inspiring English sources

It can be a very banal moment.

"This is a very banal error to make, but sometimes banal errors are made".

If it sounds like a set-up we've seen a thousand times before – even Scott Thomas admits she first thought of it as "a very banal story of adultery" – the outcome is anything but predictable.

So it's easy for us to say that Adoboli is a bad guy, and for lying, he is, in a very banal way.

A lot of my films take a very banal idea, like "The Grace Lee Project" [in which Lee seeks out other women named Grace Lee], and try to go deeper.

Any idiosyncratic representation of online personhood could be called "good", and it's also "good" that the machinations of social media are handily alienating a super-bullshitty mainstream, but it all happens in a very banal, basic way.

"Did you always want to be a writer?" "It's very banal, but yes.

You know, writing entire novels without the letter E, or telling the same very banal story (about a young man in a silly hat getting jostled on the bus and then being seen in a park a couple of hours later; really, it is banal) in 99 different ways, many of them absurd (and very funny).

Watching Ride, Rise, Roar, it's clear that Byrne is concerned with much more than just the singing of a song, which can get very banal and predictable.

The melancholy we live these days is very banal; it's become a means to attract sympathy and attention, so much so that the over expression of grief has become an essential feature amongst many of those "engaged" in literature; they do not just present it, they engage in it.

"It's a very superficial, banal little song that in my opinion does not convey the complexity of what the island of Sardinia is in its entirety," he says.