banality

Example Sentences

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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

In that spirit, then, let me rebel: When it comes to the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., America loves to conjure up half-assed banalities in the name of “social justice.”

From Washington Post

It’s hard to square this familiarity, bordering on banality, with the technological magical realism.

From Los Angeles Times

As a classicist, he frowned on rock and roll as an "expression of base passions" and once called popular music a "cult of banality".

From Reuters