Sentence examples for banal tasks from inspiring English sources

What's more, even the most active abolitionists spent only a tiny fraction of their time on surreptitious adventures with packing crates and the like; typically, they carried out crucial but banal tasks like fund-raising, education, and legal assistance.

But "Veep," which is in the running for four Emmy Awards this Sunday, including one for best comedy, manages to repurpose politics as lowbrow farce, and offers perhaps the most realistic glimpse at the banal tasks, humdrum days and outsize egos that make up the daily lives of the city's political staff members: largely powerless people doing... things.

People love banal tasks done for them, but the transfer to a computer of a task that can threaten lives with one wrong turn will take a long time.

After the exhibition, the committee disbanded, and Raquelin took it upon herself to send out the bios and market the work, the banal tasks the artist normally would have done.

She was too much in her work for this banal task.

A few in the small crowd of mourners, as they looked up and watched that banal task--the hoisting up of the casket, the workman taking his caulking gun to seal things off--seemed fascinated, even stunned, by the plainness of it.

"The irony is that amateur innkeepers who couldn't be trusted with the banal task of photographing and marketing their properties are expected to excel at hospitality's most important rule: keeping guests safe and alive," he writes.

I've never seen one of these before – is it a thing in Britain to buy ridiculously overpriced garments for banal, everyday tasks?

I know plenty of parents who actively disagree with homework – who think five is too young, or the tasks are banal, or that the slippage between work and leisure is unwarranted.

To be sure, banal programming and manufacturing tasks will continue to migrate to India and China.

The job was to "establish a certain number of broadcasting stations and transmit therefrom, at certain times, programmes composed of whatever a programme can be composed", he wrote, but he knew that was only the most mechanistic and banal way of describing the task and the opportunity.