Sentence examples for banal praise from inspiring English sources
It would be antithetical to Boulez's spirit, then, to offer nothing but banal praise at his passing.
But he was put in an impossible position: however banal his remarks, had he praised Bale he knew that it might have been interpreted as a tactic, another weapon used in the bid to get him.
Reta keeps quoting back at herself the unadmiring praise ("bard of the banal") of the reviewers.
And it would be hard to separate any part from the other: the banal opening proves just as "enticing" (Longenbach's term of praise for dilation) as the artfully bizarre conflation of the cistern and the turtle (notice that Papageorgiou deliberately delays identifying whose "Head, limbs and tail withdraw").
The opportunity to enjoy a latte during a church service while singing insipid praise songs represents a Sunday morning extension of the most banal aspects of American life.
In a review of MDNA, Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph gave a mixed to positive review, praising its dance-friendly nature, but calling the lyrics banal.
Critical reviews were mixed; some of the more positive reviews praised the songwriting, while the album's detractors criticized it as banal and slow.
He praised the electronic flourishes, saying that they managed to "keep the music from veering into banal territory" and concluded that the song has a "quirky" sound previously unheard on other material by Beyoncé.
