It had taken several years of work by thousands of people interested in saving Britain's seas to work out this detailed proposal for a marine conservation network, efforts that were then dismissed by the fisheries minister, Richard Benyon, who described the plan as the "most banal campaign running in public".
Together, they performed an uncomfortably intimate and unsurprisingly banal run-through of details shared online, complete with pictures of the room's mothers, dinners and favorite sunsets.
The emotive momentum of the revolutionary project and an actual armed conflict gave way to the banal challenges of running a country, crippled with a weak economy, poor international relations and chaotic governance.
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.
Encountering poetry during our normal comings and goings, in the course of running a banal errand or traveling on a short trip across town can be a revelatory experience.
But as the cybernovelist Bruce Sterling put it while speaking at this month's South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Tex., a 3-year-old child today finds the computer "as banal as a fork or running water".
An admittedly extreme example concerns the Canadian-born philosopher Ted Honderich, whose book On Consciousness was described, in an article by his fellow philosopher Colin McGinn in 2007, as "banal and pointless", "excruciating", "absurd", running "the full gamut from the mediocre to the ludicrous to the merely bad".
It was something to do with a running track… Just the banal inhumanity.
Much of modern art is deliberately unbeautiful, and Peter wrestles with that, not afraid of magnificent, arrogant ugliness — because it has a beauty of its own — but running from the petty and the banal.
There is something almost spiritual in the eerie importance that all the ordinary, banal facts of a life achieve under scrutiny, as time is running out.
