Sentence examples for banal talk from inspiring English sources

But "Regular Singing" also brings to mind two other plays that opened on Broadway in repertory over the weekend: Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," works in which even the most banal talk comes to seem like a sad, funny, futile and magnificent affirmation of existence.

We need journalists, policy makers and others talking about technology in public – that is, people who don't just want to sell stuff – to help unlock the choices and options involved in technology's impact on our lives, not limit us with banal talk of revolution.

Combine purposefully banal talk with intense eye contact.

Schmidt replies with some banal talking points or an extended soliloquy, depending on his interest in the question.

Commentators continue to report the trivial and banal, the talking heads rush to Dubai just the latest instance, while missing the bigger picture of global economic expansion and improvement throughout American manufacturing.

Holbrooke disappeared for hours into secretive talks in government offices, always emerging with the banal news that the talks had been "productive," even when his aides told me that they had not.

Borrowing perhaps from Andersen, Travers gives domestic furniture and banal objects the ability to talk and think and feel, making the everyday world seem suddenly uncanny.

Those in power have to fix the banal before they can start talking about the abstract.

"It was incredibly domestic and banal, almost, and yet people were talking about receiving telecommunications from beyond the stars".

Marshalling actors and designers, he relives such banal non-events as a snatch of small talk in a hallway.

Jane Goodall's When Animals Talk ($14.95; Animal Planet) is a rather banal collection of stories about communicating with animals.