Sentence examples for merely banal from inspiring English sources
And that's the real problem with the new version of Wall Street: what was once evil is now merely banal.
The triumph of seeming over being, artifice over the obvious, the superbanal over the merely banal, queer discourse circa 1957 as McCourt ventriloquizes it sublimes itself into ever higher heights of perfectly pitched absurd acuity.
The kind of reformation Mr. Kristof is pushing was fairly successful in many countries in early modern Europe, but successive generations began to see its modest claims as merely banal, leaving its children adrift -- alone with their insignificant selves, a fence of rights and an empty sky.
Regular readers of the Times Literary Supplement's "NB" column will know that the writers have been conducting a long-running investigation into "The FCUK-ization of Everything" — the title a play on the once provocative and now merely banal acronym for the clothing company French Connection — examining the increasing ways in which our public discourse seems to be pockmarked with the F-word.
One may worry, again, about whether there is an interesting or fruitful normative story to be told (rather than a merely banal descriptive sociology), but it suffices for the analogy with Quine that there remains some substantial domain of cases where the foundational program can not be carried out, so that the case for replacement remains intact.
The relationships that hold the space station's many dimensions together not merely the banal and predictable romance of Valerian and Laureline but the politics of the space station are simple, the mind games thin, the rhetoric unpersuasive.
Chandler was not being intentionally banal, merely contending that you do not declare a rivalry as much as you create one.
While the civil trial is being hyped as a great exposé of Wall Street's role in the financial crisis, it may be something more banal, merely showing how clueless financiers can be.
But instead of infusing the story with the inevitable yet indefinable, as Bartleby's protest does, they merely teach the banal lesson that he who lives by the pickax and screwdriver dies by them.
And those results are just insultingly banal!
