Sentence examples for banal comment from inspiring English sources

"If you record what people say before they laugh, and I've done this in thousands of cases, you'll find more laughter follows some banal comment," he said.

Even as he nibbled peanuts at the airport -- a point when one might expect some banal comment about the weather -- he said, "What does it mean to put people committed to exclusion at the head of government agencies?" "We saw what happened in the movie," he said.

When you get 34,000 responses to a single banal comment, you must feel like God does when people pray to Him: looking down at this sea of tiny pixels, each one a life, a story, a perspective.

The server will probably make a banal comment such as "How are you today?" They are trying to initiate conversation to develop a rapport with you.

These struck me — they still strike me — as uncontroversial, even banal, comments.

A woman watches a TV sitcom in which the characters are neatly dressed rabbits whose banal comments are met with canned laughter.

In her 2001 video, "Official Welcome," taped at a private collector's house, Fraser delivered a monologue that mimicked, as one critic noted, "the banal comments and effusive words of praise uttered by presenters" during gatherings intended to introduce avant-garde artists to wealthy patrons.

This is when people on the mass e-mail who you don't know hit "reply all" and you have to read their banal comments when you're just trying to get your work done.

The thing is, the fashion that comes down the red carpet has become almost too banal to even comment upon.

Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer called the president's comments "banal and offensive" and "adolescent stuff".

Like Jeff Koons, he is using banal, commercial clichés to comment on a society driven by infantile desires.