Sentence examples for once banal from inspiring English sources

His journey to Mumbai was at once banal and strange.

Its narrator, Henry Park, works as a spy for a private-detective agency, Glimmer & Company, in New York; Lee cleverly renovates elements of the traditional detective thriller, by making spying at once banal (one of Henry's jobs is to track a rising Korean-American politician) and emblematic of a wary immigrant caution, a sleeplessness poised between assimilation and alienation.

It is at once banal in its simplicity and amazingly unfettered in the amount of content you can stream to the device.

Bedford's photographs, at once banal and surreal, capture a pious and devout way of life that will soon be dissolved.

The effect, said one diplomat, has been to "make what was once unthinkable banal".

Then there are the myriad forms of violence that were once the banal backdrop of daily life.

It was a judgment at once utterly banal and somehow more truly horrible than Sophie's Choice.

"Spaces, which once seemed banal or unimportant, now reveal nuances of Greek reality and have social and political implications," she said.

Most of the disparate families and couples populating "Carnage" are unaware of one another's existence, but they are linked by a set of circumstances at once utterly banal and curiously magical.

The cache of documents is, at once, horrific and banal.

What was once beautiful seemed banal; coyness -- those hearts -- was revealed to be just corniness.