banality
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On a never-ending feed we watch the cute and profane, sleepwalking toward an emotional state beyond shock as entertainment: the banality of passive consumption.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
The real author describes it as a combination of plagiarism and banality.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
The finish line isn’t moral resolution, but the banality of the cash register: a product governed where it matters most, at the point of sale.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Just as Allfrey’s photographs were “crowded with lifetimes,” so is Russell’s novel, a work suffused with the “mystery of kindness” and the banality of violence.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025
Daylight, and the banality of family small talk, would dispel whatever impact she had made as a ghostly illuminated apparition.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The Namesake
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