banal

There seemed to be something basic or banal about whiling away hours in the gym.

Like so much of her career, Deen’s plea for forgiveness was outsized and totally singular, so much so that it became fodder to convey the brief intensity of an otherwise banal annoyance.

Yet in extraordinary times the constant juxtaposition of the banal and the monstrous becomes surreal.

Typically, our reasons for staying in a battle against crushing odds are soft, even banal, but universally defensible.

But here in China - where almost half of all cars sold last year were electric - it's a banal reality.