Sentence examples for that banal from inspiring English sources

But that banal explanation may actually be true.

I remember being in the Metro and hearing that banal voice: 'Careful!

Lowry wrote some of the book in Hollywood, and that banal, swollen-music, lingering-camera moment that black-and-white-era Hollywood specialized in seems to have seeped into the manuscript with the booze.

Xie spoke Mandarin at home and learned English in school; that banal "Hello" sign, aimed at the Chinese tourist, stands in for the inextricable weave of greeting and parting that makes up Xie's emotional landscape.

A few in the small crowd of mourners, as they looked up and watched that banal task--the hoisting up of the casket, the workman taking his caulking gun to seal things off--seemed fascinated, even stunned, by the plainness of it.

For if it seems unlikely that artificial turf -- that banal, discredited, visually displeasing fossil of the space age -- should now be positioned as a philanthropic boon to the world's poor, consider that its unlikely origins were in the world of philanthropy as well.

People saw something that was banal in action, and banal in its colour".

It's not evil that is banal, but its machinery.

Roelf also indulges in some mournful ruminations on the inevitability of death that strike banal notes.

When you undertake historical research, two truths that sounded banal come to seem profound.

Terrorism is sometimes fuzzily thought to have a sort of intellectual respectability that more banal forms of violence lack.