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Example sentences for: banal

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On the cause of the princess's death in a car crash in Paris, Le Monde rejected all conspiracy theories and said the French investigating magistrate has already concluded it was fundamentally a banal road accident.
Bucking the consensus on The Ice Storm, the New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann excoriates director Ang Lee: "[E]verything in his directing, absolutely everything, is banal."
Similarly, rap is the logical consequence of pop's 30-year promotion of street cred over music: the reduction of the tune to a banal pneumatic backing track, the debasement of lyric-writing to a formless laundry list of half-baked hoodlum exhibitionism.
Snoopy and Woodstock--unlike Charlie Brown and Lucy--represent the relatively banal inner life of a successful middle-age man.
My appetite for Talk has been weakened by these "revelations," which seem as banal as they are carefully meted out.