Sentence examples for banal phrase from inspiring English sources

The by-now banal phrase "banality of evil" doesn't mean that evil is banal; it means Eichmann had too shallow a soul to grasp the enormity of his evil.

It's a banal phrase, which seems vague to the point of meaninglessness, making it all the more slippery.

A box has been checked off with a banal phrase that suggests, from the very start, the tone — simultaneously abstracted, distanced, and artificially sweetened — that affects the entire film.

In fact, "unlock your potential" may actually be the most banal phrase these Thought Leader types employ.

Are we living in the post-communication age, all destined to just bark one banal phrase at each other and for that to be enough?

"I'm not going to say the usual banal phrases: that I'm not guilty, that this whole case is fabricated," said Mr Navalny inside the courtroom.

And the fact that he can express this conflicted sentiment only in the banal phrases of a seaside postcard (wish you were here) doesn't make it any less real.

In her last Paris triumph at the Olympia Music Hall, all that was left of Piaf was all that had ever counted — her immense, infallible voice, which rose to the roof, carrying its enormous, authentic outcry of banal phrases of anguish over lost loves, and poignant despair of happiness that would never arrive.

In the Second Concerto, the hook is quite different, the ludicrously banal opening phrase of an Odessa street song, a hawker's cry: "Bubliki!

His booming, pleading baritone exploded into every line of every song, so that even as banal a phrase as "Sugar pie, honey bunch" packed waves of wallops.

"I am not going to say banal, routine phrases that the case is fabricated, falsified and I am fully innocent," Mr. Navalny said.