banal
Example Sentences
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“What had been incredibly futuristic and achingly modern just moments ago,” he writes, “had transitioned to something almost banal within the space of a single ride.”
But sometimes, its pursuit delivers something even more interesting and memorable than a banal picture of perfection: someone to root for, flaws and all.
From Salon
This, like so much of the popular understanding of 15th- and 16th-century Florence, is one of those truisms so often repeated as to become banal.
Far from an indignity, I thought it lent a certain gravitas otherwise absent from my banal demeanor.
To underline the absolute obvious: These are serious, troubling allegations, far removed from the typically banal absurdities of college football.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
