Sentence examples for banal discussions from inspiring English sources
Ahmed Benchemsi, a veteran blogger from Morocco, says he was brought up to assume that all the family's telephone conversations were intercepted, even banal discussions about forthcoming weddings.
There followed some banal discussion of some charity dinner or other, so I switched off.
Unfortunately, today's discussions about drug policy are dominated by the ever-popular but banal discussion about "legalization" and a "failed war on drugs" -- even though the former is unsupported by science and the latter is a term abandoned by drug czars past and present (and Joe Biden).
Several British soldiers recorded instances of Germans asking about news from the football leagues, while other conversations could be as banal as discussions of the weather or as plaintive as messages for a sweetheart.
"I find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal and an outrage and an insult to the voters," Bloomberg said, declaring that US voters deserve "a lot better" than the current frontrunners in the Democratic and Republican fields.
"I find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal and an outrage and an insult to the voters," Bloomberg said.
But that discussion rapidly degenerated into irritating whimsy about the phrase "Freeze the balls off a brass monkey"; and whimsy was never too far away, which was a pity, because some of the discussion of the way metaphor is transformed into banal language was gripping.
