Sentence examples for mere banal from inspiring English sources
But a retired Los Angeles homicide detective named Jack Sawyer, who has done a mighty job of repressing his boyhood trials in an alternate world called the Territories, knows that there's more to these crimes than mere banal human cruelty.
As in the Quinean case, the Replacement Naturalist must maintain that without rational determinacy, normative theories of adjudication are banal, mere exercises in descriptive sociology.
It didn't matter that the dialogue was confused, the acting ham, the product a mere afterthought and the resolution banal.
At no point does it become a mere inanimate object with a banal material purpose.
"They're incredibly simple and also banal".
However, there are historic and grave moments where mere convention, forced media cheerfulness and banal sports analogies are inapt and a great disservice to the nation and the world.
It's a measure of how far behind we have left our rural roots that something considered as banal as a vegetable patch a mere 60 years ago is newsworthy today.
However, Rolling Stone described the album as "too often a monochromatic dirge of banal existential imagery cloaked around the mere skeleton of a musical idea".
Merely upstaging Microsoft would be almost banal.
"It is one of those better-to-be-dead-than-alive days you get in the north of England in February, the space between the land and sky a mere letter box of squeezed light, the sky itself unfathomably banal.
