Sentence examples for under a banal from inspiring English sources

An inky-black background sets off blazing-white sheets under a banal fluorescent-light fixture.

The other noses its way under a banal, concrete-framed office block, dating from 1972, which is shoehorned into the back of the site.

Castigated under communist rule for a "banal boudoir realism", Chang creates amoral, ruthless characters turned defiantly away from the political upheavals around them, who now appear a truer reflection of their times than any banner-waving would-be hero.

A banal identity marker.

A banal abomination.

Her pictures are vivid but in a banal way.

Sontag had run afoul of a banal but inescapable problem.

Feguer was a banal and hapless criminal.

Hanssen was evil in a banal way.

And which to a banal degree has become the banal norm on red carpets.

If that sounds like a banal statement, it's not.