Sentence examples for regular banal from inspiring English sources

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His reply: "Not even the ball?" After seeing "Brokeback Mountain," one character delivers this sardonic monologue: "Who wouldn't prefer a ruined life with a few pristine moments to a regular, banal, disappointing life?

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Unfortunately, as a writer, Mr. Montias isn't nearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or actor; Lucy gets to make a speech about wanting to return home to her mother in Puerto Rico and have a regular life, a monologue so banal that it makes the already ruined wallpaper peel faster than it might under normal circumstances.

Inadvertent DMs that show up in your regular Twitter stream are often banal like that, yet cryptic and intriguing.

And it offers insight into how a powerful industry draws out seemingly banal disputes with regular people who rarely have the money, willpower, or time to fight back.

Regular doses of avoidance/diversion, supremely banal forms of self-repression, are not only self-administered, but we pay for the privilege.

All this is very simple, banal even!

It seems banal even to note this.

But as so often in this unevenly plotted saga, high drama must make regular space for the hyper-banal.

But in a drama more concerned with atmosphere than story, the film-maker and her regular cinematographer Agnès Godard sustain and build a mood of creeping dread, in which banal, everyday activities are invested with a powerful foreboding.

More banal is "File 1000," which concerns Arnon Milchan, the billionaire Israeli film producer, and his regular shipments of cigars and champagne to Netanyahu and his wife.

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