Sentence examples for banal description from inspiring English sources

It is a banal description of an art that gets some very curious and uncanny results.

With Nureyev, the offstage offenses were as numerous as the onstage miracles, which all too often receive banal description.

This is the narcissistic age, when even a banal description of a breakfast can be measured in a count of likes and favourites.

That seemed like a banal description of my experience, so I scoured the Internet, eventually finding a website called itchymoms.com.

Above all, the untold stories of the narrator's grandfather, a survivor of Auschwitz who spends his last years filling notebooks with banal descriptions of what he has experienced in Brazil – milk, hospital, etc. – before ending his life in a manner whose implications his son, the narrator's father, cannot face.

The script, by Leah Winkler, who also directed with Lindsay Mack, effectively skewers the false personas and banal self-descriptions on dating Web sites while underscoring the longing.

(Pamuk also has the ability to make the banal compelling – a description of the intricacies of electricity-meter reading, for example, keeps the reader entertained for far longer than it has any right to).

In a 2009 review for The New York Times, Sallie Tisdale lambasted it, calling Roche's descriptions "banal and repetitive," her vocabulary "painfully limited".

Rizza has a mesmerizing ability to get into the brain of an Asperger's-ridden loner who may or may not be giving us the whole story about his intentions and his past, which makes even the most banal and everyday actions and descriptions carry a tense, compacting weight.

Hana's descriptions of the affair are quite banal and clichéd.

One book is still contested — the most banal of the lot — precisely because it contains descriptions of sex that parents feel are unsuitable for tenth graders.