banality

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At around 250 pages, this isn’t a particularly long book, but it’s padded with such banalities.

From New York Times

Scraps of dialogue overlap to reveal both banalities and fleeting epiphanies:

From Washington Post

More distracting than the emotional banalities are the verbal clichés: the hairs that “stand on end,” the chances that go “up in smoke,” the rugs that are beaten “within an inch of their lives.”

From New York Times

Their small boosts in serotonin belie the utter banality of capitalism in action, how abstracted their clicks and scrolls are from the actual material goods and services that make up an economy.

From Seattle Times

On the platform, she has unearthed an audience eager to inherit her wisdom as a stripper: the good, the bad, the banality of men’s attention.

From New York Times