banality

banal | American Dictionary

banal
adjective
us/bəˈnæl, -nɑl; ˈbeɪ·nəl/
too often used in the past and therefore not interesting:
He just sat there making banal remarks all evening.

Examples of banal

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But the poetic relation between the two too often tends either to the banal or the meaningless.
Rather, he gives us unexpert sophistication: a village band staggering from solecism to solecism in an ostentatiously banal and trivial tune.
It is no banal event that she rises above making noise.
What was once fresh and liberating could verge on the banal today.
What happens next in his argument is oddly banal.
The ad hoc committee that investigated the defeat came up with no fewer than 28 reasons, from the banal to the incisive.
The use of figurative language, banal as it may seem, reflects the experience of the user and the intellectual environment in which he functioned.
Thus stated, the message sounds almost banal, but on stage it was striking and resonated with great power.
Even more schematic from a dramatic point of view, indeed banal, would be a mapping of this opposition on to one between harmoniousness and bleakness.
Though completely banal, this model was a great help to find common ground on what to discuss.
Some readers might find this exchange too banal to arouse more than a very faint flicker of humour.
There are melodic ideas of distinction, memorable yet never banal.
They rarely engage with the writer, consisting mostly of a few banal phrases about the duty to work hard and study diligently.
In other situations they might talk to themselves or just do a banal activity, like cleaning their boots.
Is the banal barking of dogs enough to make me change my mind?
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