Sentence examples for banal without from inspiring English sources

Every aspect of civilian life seemed utterly banal, without meaning or substance.

Milan, Sept. 26 — A challenge for thinking designers like Miuccia Prada is how to embrace multiculturalism without appearing frivolous, how to find beauty in the banal without being patronizing and how to operate in a world where all these terms are constantly shifting in relevance.

A scene in which two characters converse at a bar can be filmed in a banal way without revealing more about the director than a mere professional incompetence.

Eisenhower isn't a bad man, I think, just formless, banal, efficient smiles without personal wit or passions.

The man couldn't put two words together without sounding banal.

Murrow, who first came to prominence in the nineteen-thirties and became a star with his radio broadcasts from London during the Blitz, could go straight down the center of a subject without seeming banal.

If you are famous, you can be as banal as you like without pasting in any urls.

Kelly admitted that he preferred R & B music which deals with sex, love, and joy without becoming "either banal or smug".

At a time when the rock élite were seduced by the lovelorn laments and steel guitars of country rock, Morrison emerged with a work that offered a soulful romantic veneer without lapsing into banal sentimentality".

It's meant to be haunted by a boy who killed himself but you can probably do without that kind of banal symbolism.

And can it be an influence without its inducing nostalgia or banal references to Mom's closet?