Sentence examples for banal words from inspiring English sources

Great music can be set to the most banal words.

The Ruskin portrayal is Leigh's way of putting down critics who reduce an artist's work to banal words.

A common idea about the art is that the music transforms banal words and unbelievable situations into sublime emotion: that it's purely about performance.

Blushing has generally been the response to overt sexuality, along with a lexicon of double entendres to mask X-rated desires with banal words, like "coger" (which, officially speaking, means to grab).

Everything that counts is under the surface, in the tortured, painfully refined minds of his characters, and James wasn't, for all his gifts, very good at inventing situations that could show an audience, rather than tell it, what lay beneath his people's apparently banal words and gestures.

In The Cut Ups (1966), a voice-over narrator intones the banal words "hello" and "yes" over spliced images.

These banal, commonplace words might well have been spoken about George W. Bush when he was president, and could, though with somewhat less likelihood, be spoken today about President Barack Obama.

A banal word, repeated several times, for a president who can be as eloquent as the next politician.

Banal little words, which look flat on the page, can wound and sting, and coil into double-meaning.

Whenever he testified on Capitol Hill, no matter how banal his words, and certainly when his Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates, traders would applaud and equity markets would add to investors' riches.

"Hairdresser" is too banal a word for the role that Gallant played in many of the 1960s' most striking fashion images.