These perils can, of course, result in tragedies, but they are not even a minuscule fraction as deadly as alcohol, to cite just one banal example.
Never has there been a more pure and banal example of the cult of the individual: a Premier League in which everything is measured by money and the success that that money has bought, and the money that that success will then generate: the supreme hydra-headed monster.
And let's not forget a rather banal example of what's coming just later this year when the new Xbox Kinect, complete with the ability to observe and monitor your heartbeat, arrives in millions of living rooms.
Practically everyone -- whether within or outside of the art world -- recognizes that some objects and images that are completely appropriate in a museum (perhaps certain of Mapplethorpe's photographs to use a banal example) would not be appropriate in a school hallway".
To reduce it almost to the banal by examples, if a judge informally calls a litigant's lawyer by his last name and his opponent's by his first, then no matter how correct the judge's ruling and likelihood that any other judge would have ruled the same way, when that litigant loses, he will conclude that he has been denied justice.
My biggest surprises were completely banal: for example, just how rich the rich of Newport were in 1900, or the discovery of how hard the stars worked in nineteen-thirties Hollywood.
The same held true for keys generated from iterations of some banal phrase for example, running the word 'receiver' through the SHA256 algorithm, taking the output and then running it through the SHA256 again as well as transaction IDs.
Those familiar only with the banal 20th-century examples made for the tourist trade are in for a happy surprise.
In his use of conventional diatonic chords, Messiaen often transcended their historically banal connotations (for example, his frequent use of the added sixth chord as a resolution).
"It binds social workers to a huge series of questions, some of which are simply banal", he said, citing examples of social workers being asked to check if trampolines were in gardens, and if so whether there were safety nets.
