Sentence examples for banal statement from inspiring English sources

A banal statement that all banks are fine would be met with derision.

You must not betray it.' This apparently banal statement takes on a larger significance when you start to read Houellebecq's latest book, The Possibility of an Island, in which Clement is disguised as the narrator's dog 'Fox' and plays a major role.

However, given the president's penchant for mistruths and exaggeration, HuffPost could not take such a banal statement at face value.

I find it awfully strange to find that "disquieting," but then, I'm not some creep weirdo bent on putting every banal statement Hagel ever made on trial.

And here's how the Daily Mail characterized the Health and Human Services secretary's banal statement: "Sebelius admits Obamacare will raise health insurance premiums in 2015".

This asks the public whether it agrees with a series of banal statements: among them should ministers protect nationally important landscapes, and should charities be allowed to care for trees?

But relatives of the jailed journalists and defendants convicted in absentia said foreign governments must now go beyond banal statements and apply real pressure to help reverse the verdicts.

His voice, labouring under a sore throat, is a croaky monotone broken by interrogative uplifts that turn banal statements into doubting inquiries - 'It was, like, July?' Coupland never discusses the emotional terrain of his life.

And, at a time when Apple was essentially reinventing home electronics, Fiorina's spectacularly banal mission statement was, "Invent" which is probably why we're not all calling all tablets "H-Pads" today.

It's a statement so banal it's hardly worth the ink.

Instead, he told the court, the defendants made a series of "banal and self-contradictory" statements during their 2009 meeting, many of which were "at best scientifically useless" or, worse, "misleading".