Sentence examples for banal language from inspiring English sources

Yet in other passages emotionality is pushed almost to the point of hysteria, while banal language reduces the beautiful central legend to sentimentality.

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.

ACCORDING to Arianna Huffington, the use of banal, insipid language could spell doom for the Internet.

The assessments of potential targets, and the carnage they might generate, are couched in the banal, unemotive language of a business transaction.

Bush's language is banal and shoddy.

The worse everything gets, in other words, the more they seem driven to reassure us, in language often so banal it beggars belief.

These men presented politics as a Manichean battle against godless liberalism, their language alternating between banal paeans to American suburbia and crazy brimstone-filled excoriation of their enemies.

If the language becomes too banal it will not be able to attract the attention of the audience.

But they do so by engaging us with complexities of feeling and subtleties of character, expressed in language that rises above banal mediocrity.

Lee gives the quotidian a lyrical lift not so much through her language (which is as banal as her setting) as through her cutting and splicing of short scenes.

Under the circumstances this seems a sensible approach, though the themes — Mass Mediums, Language Confrontations, Expressionist Impulse — are fairly banal, mimicking trends identified in standard art-historical accounts of the era.