Sentence examples for banal speech from inspiring English sources

But no subjects have received less attention, or been treated with less honesty, than foreign affairs and national security — and Mr. Romney's banal speech was no exception.

He had given a speech about the Labour past, a totally banal speech as it happened, creating associations that were every bit as hackneyed as they were tedious.

At its worst (rare) it allows banal speech to be sacredly intoned across the music; at its best (often) it gives 21st-century domestic desolation a new, more resonant voice.

In "Valedictorian," Susie Geiser is a squirming, casually foul-tongued Valley girl delivering the main banal speech at her North Hollywood Extension High School graduation ceremony.

Even in the cavernous food hall, their utterly banal speeches are fed to us via a huge screen that most seek to sit as far away from as possible to avoid intellectual indigestion.

I would have thought this proposition self-evident now that this Court has swept even the most banal commercial speech within the ambit of the First Amendment.

Coming from someone with a reputation for effortless, improvised rhetoric, the speech was shockingly empty: the liberal historian William Leuchtenburg called it "the most banal address by an American president I have ever heard".

If the indictment is faulty or the speech banal, that, too, can be news (or the occasion for editorial comment).

No one who has attended a public meeting where some audience member insists on wasting everybody's time with a long, rambling, banal, self-aggrandizing, intellectually empty speech could be entirely unhappy to see the student in question escorted from the microphone.

Let's be honest, most of the night's speeches were disastrously banal, typified by Rudimental, who screamed: "Make some noise!" The crowd duly made some noise.

Mr Trump's speech was by turns bitter, blowhard and banal.