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It was "a personal, bare-knuckled contest, fought and lost on the banalities of local politics."
(In fact, even the banalities I've just written are actually the subject of intense controversy.)
What words have I uttered to conflict with these obvious banalities?
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.
Nicholson shouts workplace banalities while waving his bat: "Have you ever thought for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers?"