Sentence examples for is not banal from inspiring English sources

He offers little that is not banal; slows his sentences with nervous "ums"; looks too often at his notes rather than at Ripken or the host, Ernie Johnson; and wants to rewrite the record book to reflect his wrongheaded view that the Cubs' Carlos Zambrano throws 120 pitches nearly every game.

That is no good place./ When wind blows up and stormy weather/ makes clouds scud and the skies weep,/ out of its depths a dirty surge/ is pitched towards the heavens.' Where Raffel has the rather tinny 'nor is it/ A pleasant spot!' Heaney has the swallowed emphasis of 'That is no good place.' And while Raffel's language is not banal, he cannot match 'heather-stepper' or 'dirty surge'.

All meta-analyses so far published, including the one presented here in figure 2 (top panel), are concordant and indicate that the Mediterranean diet, as compared with control diets, may reduce HbA1c levels by 0.30 0.47%, which is not banal in the overall management of type 2 diabetes.

Anything that isn't banal is said to be an outburst.

The seeming banality is partly strategic, because some of what she's saying — "As you think, those thoughts are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency" — isn't banal at all.

This fact was not banal at all, but unprecedented, shocking, and wrong.

I like to see people who have interests that aren't banal.

But they certainly weren't banal when he first dreamed them up in the 1940s, or when they were first put in to practice in the Anglo-Saxon world in the 1980s.

But the evil wasn't banal; the methodology was, using not witches' potions or Wagnerian thunderbolts but the order and logic of bureaucracy to violate every boundary of civilized relations.

"I'm pretty much obsessed with taking down the white stag of song writing with love songs that aren't banal or sentimental," said Tillman, "Because in my experience, love is anything but".

One of them is that evil is not only banal, but often results from brutal insensitivity rather than devilish malice.