Drunk driving, strangely, is par for the course this time of year, one of many ugly but banal sides of Spring Training.
She became fascinated by banal domestic side of Hitler: his life with Eva Braun.
An aura of dreamy melancholy, accentuated by Christopher Bowen's musical score, pervades the entwined stories, which treat the bizarre and the banal as sides of the same coin.
Whether he's feeding ducks in a pond or strolling in a summer rainstorm without an umbrella, nothing is too banal about experiencing the simple side of life.
In all the years I have been visiting this little bistro, on a seedy side street in a banal neighborhood, it has never been listed in the Michelin guide.
Instead, there is the grim moral tone of a writer who finds nothing amusing about the banal evil men who work on either side of the law.
But the nomination also kicked off a news cycle as banal and insider-y as anything this side of the White House Correspondents Dinner, a bizarre discourse that's not about Kavanaugh's likely impact but on his bland-as-milk personal life.
It's true: as social networks capture more of our lives, the information they collect is increasingly the banal; the choice between scrambled or sunny-side-up eggs, and complaints about pop-up ads.
