banal
Example Sentences
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Yes, he was 88, but the Czech-born, British playwright, the true 20th century heir to Oscar Wilde, would never have arranged things so banally.
From Los Angeles Times
Even so, the kaleidoscope of tales and vignettes, and the blurring of the banal with the macabre, produces a dusky, dreamlike atmosphere that envelopes one’s thoughts like a fine mist.
If superhero fare has made even cosmic catastrophe seem banal, and you want to reconnect to the small-scale vicious potencies of real life, watch this.
From New York Times
Yet we know that it's not obvious and simple or banal because if it was we wouldn't have horse race coverage of our politics in the Trumpocene.
From Salon
Auerbach recalled that Bacon was full of opinions, “some inane and banal, many of them absolutely inspired and illuminating.”
From New York Times
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