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Example sentences for: banal

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The report also made the banal observations that "people find lying or sitting in the sun enjoyable and relaxing" and that "this subjective sense of well-being may be important in itself in improving the quality of a person's life."
So even when killers are as peculiar as Furrow, Dahmer, or Ted Kaczynski, the neighbors make a Herculean effort to present their homicidal acquaintance as banal.
Fear and Loathing 's psychopharmacological obsession is dated and dull, further proof that drugs are not only destructive but banal.
Of course when I am not working I am usually watching my MTV ." Home page Lewinsky came across as banal at best, empty-headed at worst.
Critics scoff at two new late-night talk shows, hosted by black stand-up comics, as poor replicas of the early '90s hit The Arsenio Hall Show . Vibe , produced by Quincy Jones, and Keenen , made by the creator of the comedy series In Living Color , are pronounced "indistinguishable" (James Collins, Time ) and "hard to stay awake through" (Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angles Times ). The main gripes are that the programs stick to a "banal" (Caryn James, the New York Times ) talk show formula and have even less bite than David Letterman's or Jay Leno's network show.