I refer, of course, to Monday, also known, in slightly less banal terms, as "the most depressing day in HISTORY", according to those trusty "experts" (and that was before anyone even knew that it would coincide with the 43rd bank meltdown of the past 12 months).
Although "The Sun" borrows from history in sweep and detail — down to the statuettes of Darwin, Lincoln and Napoleon that Hirohito kept — the movie is best understood not in banal docudrama terms but as an impressionistic portrait of a man who, stripped of power, is revealed as grotesquely human.
For example, the term "banal" means "boring or everyday," so to help you remember its definition, you might picture a banana peel (because the beginning of "banal" resembles the beginning of "banana") floating in a canal (because "canal" rhymes with "banal").
In the internet age, it's become repetitive and banal to simply agree to terms of service that we don't fully understand.
Norquist was taken aback by the depth of emotion; vapers described a seemingly banal political issue in deeply personal terms.
In a way, I think, in terms of wisdom, the most banal truisms are the most useful: "do the right thing", "whatever works", stuff like that.
In 1740, the term was applied to frontier guard duty infantry deployed in the Croatian Military Frontier (Banal Frontier), specifically its Karlovac and Varaždin Generalcies.
Debates about the seemingly banal norm of equality of opportunity reveal profound disagreements as to the nature of fair terms of cooperation in the modern world.
The term "celebrity culture" does to celebrity what "materialism" does to shopping: dismisses the whole thing as banal and evil.
