Sentence examples for banal with from inspiring English sources
The lyrics are banal with very obvious rhymes.
In The Times in 1989, Vincent Canby wrote that the true-to-life dialogue is sometimes "hilariously banal, with never a word wasted".
The whole thing was banal, with no thought or energy given to a new way of wearing layers, much less to design.
Yet Washburn has found the humor and the humanity in the banal, with the help of a terrific fourteen-person cast.
The design and the items left behind pointed to the ridiculous and the banal, with touches that were confounding or tragic.
Rarely extending beyond three or four pages, they fuse the banal with the surreal, shot through with a dark, tragicomic sensibility and casual, comic-strip violence.
He came back with a glossy, soapy, banal mess, with a sense of spectacle and a Mills and Boon storyline more suited to American style largess.
The personal mingled with the mythical, then the banal fused with the tragic.
But you can still peer through the glass cutouts of what was an abandoned elevator shaft to see the exhibits in this 60-square-foot space, objects quirky and banal, displayed with precision on shelves lined with red velvet.
He dignifies the most familiar characters and the most banal actions with their strange particulars — which is to say, with the freewheeling fancies of his own imagination.
With minimal dialogue and little exposition, Hulsing manages to elevate the more banal actions with vibrant, revealing animation to create something almost more real than a simple live-action narrative.
