Sentence examples for banal effort from inspiring English sources

She's got a powerful voice, but it's utilized here in a small, banal effort.

The vast majority of the letters were banal efforts to help constituents with rules and regulations.

It's the difference between boredom and outrage, or just ridicule (as with McQueen's previous film, "Shame," with its comically banal efforts to plumb the mysteries of sex).

Dayton neither spoke nor read French and was making no effort to learn, depending on interpreters for even the most banal exchanges.

The striking thing about these ads is how banal they are; "election interference" sounds very cloak-and-dagger, but the effort here is very clearly more subtle than that.

The banal familiarity of the seasons as they wash over us no longer require studied effort to estrange them.

Microsoft is similarly banal, saying that it has "taken many actions to focus the company's efforts around our core business strategy" in the last year.

In his painting of a pipe, The Betrayal of Images, Magritte announces the futility of such efforts: painting things so they look real has now become a cheap, banal technical skill.

After each screening I reemerged into the throngs of tourists at Potsdamer Platz without much to show for my effort, only the memory of time spent in various zones of exclusion from the familiar and banal.

These banal details, reported in every Greg Packer profile, help explain why so many journalists have made follow-up efforts: we cannot quite believe that manipulating the entire media requires so little sophistication.

These efforts — carried out in at least 33 countries — range from capture-or-kill commando raids to more banal training missions.