Sentence examples for slightly banal from inspiring English sources

"It's slightly banal, I suppose, to answer your question with statistics, but for once they do add up to something".

Whereas the first time [ie Dollygate], I thought, 'You're all a bunch a cunts, and I'm going to carry on.'" Towards the end, he uttered a line that, in its own slightly banal way, pointed up the thread that runs between the McBride hoo-hah and the current expenses crisis: "If you're trying to be a good person and lead a good life, can you be active in politics?

There was the slightly banal one where the singer of the original Marineland jingle demanded that her voice be taken out of the song.

There was the slightly banal protest where the singer of the original Marineland jingle demanded that her voice be taken out of the song.

I refer, of course, to Monday, also known, in slightly less banal terms, as "the most depressing day in HISTORY", according to those trusty "experts" (and that was before anyone even knew that it would coincide with the 43rd bank meltdown of the past 12 months).

"It has the slightly boring, banal quality to it".

It could be how much time Angelenos spend in their homes, which shift ever so slightly between banal and -- haunted?

The slightly more banal reality is that the agency is finalizing an action, begun two years ago, to formalize the position that trans fat is no longer "generally recognized as safe".

In this, he offers a series of banal and slightly more tolerant policy proscriptions.

Her Ramona remained slightly retrograde, emphatically middlebrow, and basically banal throughout its thirty-plus years of intensive development.

Indie amnesty brings together thousands of relatively banal anecdotes about unglamorous people doing slightly idiotic things into something quite majestic.