Sentence examples for no banal from inspiring English sources

If I was to make a history of the subjugation of women for the BBC, these would be my conditions: no banal opening saying, "Things have never been better for women, with blah women at the top of blah", a set of measures so meaningless when you're comparing burial grounds of the ancient nomads to the parliamentary structures of modern democracies that you might as well not be talking at all.

Bigotry gets no more banal than that.

No more banal and vague conversations about how Facebook is "killing it" at San Francisco bars.

Hardware exploits are obviously a bit trickier but no less banal.

Not only Presley's achievements, but his failings as well, are seen by some cultural observers as adding to the power of his legacy, as in this description by Greil Marcus Elvis Presleyy is a supreme figure in American life, one whose presence, no matter how banal or predictable, brooks no real comparisons..

And there is no need for any banal stretch for a false equivalency to explain why that would be.

No wonder that plaque is so deceptively banal, a banality that is in no way evil but merely a matter of business as usual.

(Or is the genealogy through the illusion-breaking monologues, framing the narrative, of George Burns and then Gary Shandling?) The quiz show, no matter how banal the form, no matter what scandals taint its history, cannot die because -- like sports programming -- it offers predictable unpredictability.

But attending a second show a few days later, my initial impressions were reinforced mightily: he has no insights beyond the banal and no stories beyond the vaguely personal that don't hold our interest or head anywhere.

No event is too tedious to report, no dialogue too banal to reproduce verbatim.

"It would end, I decided, with the millennial No 1 – an ultra-banal, ultra-repetitive, internet-flavoured hit".