Sentence examples for banal remarks from inspiring English sources

Most laughter followed banal remarks such as "Look, it's Andre", "Are you sure?" and "It was nice meeting you too".

This time he comes up the passenger elevator, and makes a few banal remarks to his customer about the apartment, etc. and leaves quickly.

JUST as some women date only prison inmates, so there are those who yearn above all for Englishmen, with their exotic customs and their reputation for making even banal remarks sound like brilliant repartee.

One may argue that nothing new has happened in the chuckle business since man first slipped on banana peel, but imitations of animals and banal remarks like "the misery, the pain of others are funny" don't exactly merit an hour's worth of scrutiny.

Now, to note Ben Kingsley's acting excellence makes for a pretty banal remark, but to note it in "A Sound of Thunder" — voilà.

Even the most banal of remarks is dressed in ridicule for comic effect, with raised eyebrows and a conspiratorial sideways glance, uttered with the utmost seriousness to convey the exact opposite.

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.

Director Diana Wyenn boldly positions the waiting room upstage, behind a low wall, so that the actors start with their backs to the audience; even so, their anxiety is palpable, even infectious, as they fill the time with banal, upbeat remarks.

The chief whip, Michael Gove, said it was a statement of the obvious, and the London mayor, Boris Johnson, said the remarks were "banal".

"You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!" Not the funniest comment ever to grace Twitter for sure, but utterly banal – the kind of throwaway remark that any one of us might say out loud to our friends, or thoughtlessly bash into the box on a social networking site or a newspaper comment forum.

She even explains, in detail, her choice of the word "banal" in "the banality of evil," citing an anecdote by Ernst Jünger about a remark by a German "peasant" and says, "There's something outrageously stupid about this story ….