Sentence examples for banal thoughts from inspiring English sources

Ellipses confer gravitas on banal thoughts..

Then North Korea developed its own ideological brand, embodied in the banal thoughts of Kim Il Sung.

Our photo albums, dating preferences, porn habits, and most random and banal thoughts have all become profitable data sets, mined for advertising revenue.

What our teacher was complaining about, it now seems obvious, was the tendency of students to cloak our rather banal thoughts and impressions in a poetical gauze — our tendency, after reading Keats, say, to fill our poems with bowers and nightingales and long, slow vowels.

No easier to know, now, that on that spring night, among the thousands out in that northern English city, leaving pubs or walking home from a meal, preoccupied with their banal thoughts and quietly reassuring mundanities, there was a person whose thoughts were not banal or mundane at all.

How drugs patch-worked simple, banal thoughts into phrases that seemed filled with importance.

In an age where celebrities' every banal thought is posted on Twitter, mystery is an increasingly rare quality in pop.

It's not necessarily a cheat, but it's easy to make it so, to fix a contingent or banal thought in a way that automatically amplifies it.

But there was always the bubbling effervescence of a writer incapable of committing to paper a banal thought or a dull line.

"We know exactly how banal your thoughts are," he said.

"The Sisterhood of Night" to some extent marks out new territory for Millhauser, as does the curious "Balloon Flight, 1870". He has often employed images of flying and sinking to depict movement into zones of the imagination, and there has usually been an associated feeling of release and liberation, of escape from banal terrestrial thought.