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It was "a personal, bare-knuckled contest, fought and lost on the banalities of local politics."
On a lighter note, do you have any favorite travel writing banalities yet?
Time derides John Gray, the author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus , as an egomaniacal huckster who's making millions selling banalities to vulnerable couples.
(I loved it when she uttered banalities about needing to let one's elderly parents retain an illusion of control, and Tony turned that into a sneaky strategy for letting Uncle Junior think he was fronting the crew, when Tony was really running things.)
People such as Al Gore who aim to please all of us, or as many as possible, traffic mostly in ecumenical banalities about the virtue and values of Godliness: Gore talks nonsensically about parents who "struggle to pass on the right values" to their children.