Sentence examples for exactly banal from inspiring English sources

Not that any of the nonsupernatural occurrences that surround Isaac — the Greek-chorus chitchat among his landlady and her friends; the steady work in the fields and olive groves; the rise and fall of empires and economies — are exactly banal.

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

The stuff of everyday existence must remain the same in his art, exactly as banal and functional as it is in life, no matter how vividly it is arranged or juxtaposed.

Dick's future worlds are rarely evil and oppressive, exactly; they are banal and a little sordid, run by a demoralized élite at the expense of a deluded population.

And those results are just insultingly banal!

In the end, his vindictive thrashings have very little to do with the actual practice of politics; the idea that political clichés are banal isn't exactly a blinding insight, either.

I'm sure many Guardian readers will find these "revelations" wearyingly banal, but they're exactly the kind of detail of ultra-famous lives that many of us unashamedly lap up.

"Larry came exactly not for the reasons people think but for the most banal reason," Pepi Marchetti Franchi, who manages Gagosian's gallery, insisted.

In a civilisation where the status of parking approaches that of a religion, Mann dwells on a banal, empty multi-storey and makes it a thing of haunting beauty - exactly as the professors from Harvard and London suggested.

Of course, patriotism and unity weren't exactly what Colin Kaepernick was concerned with in the fall of 2016 when he helped make the seemingly banal recitation of the national song so contentious.

Analyzing Warhol, she arrives at the banal conclusion that he "wanted to appear like an onion, many layers but all exactly the same", even though "you could tell that he was more complicated than that.