Sentence examples for things banal from inspiring English sources

She perfected many of her desired limitations; she said things banal and socially appropriate; she was present, but unaccounted for.

Threats to us need to be addressed, even if they come not from Iranian nuclear weapons, but from things as banal as canned soup and A.T.M. receipts.

The whole thing was banal, with no thought or energy given to a new way of wearing layers, much less to design.

The term "celebrity culture" does to celebrity what "materialism" does to shopping: dismisses the whole thing as banal and evil.

Obsessed with the minutiae of the mundane, it was a show about every thing: the banal was elevated to the realms of idolatry, the naff deconstructed with ruthless precision.

And something I write may be quite sketchy and inadequate and banal — things about the people, about how they sounded or things they said or how they looked — and I'll know that isn't right, but I just go on, and then I get to know them, and I start getting to know them better just by something they say.

I did all the usual, banal things.

Banal things seem sinister or sad.

"I'm saying frighteningly banal things, but that's what a goddess does to you".

"People [are] being quite horrible on there, tweeting about the most banal things.

The wonder that kids exhibit at the simplest things, the most banal of experiences.