banality

Example Sentences

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The real author describes it as a combination of plagiarism and banality.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

Once youth sports returned, I clung to the routine and banality that came with it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2025

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

Or, was "SNL" presenting queerness with the same banality as we’ve come to see straightness, albeit with the use of a somewhat dehumanizing pun?

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025

They invented stupid TV shows, unleashing a cavalcade of ever-increasing banality as they tried to out-stupid each other.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater