A banal story!

it's just a banal story.

What a banal mind you have.

A banal suicide, it was said.

Thinking of it afterwards, it's really banal.

Instead, this element here is much more banal.

I can't believe it's simply a banal murder.

It's all so terribly absurd, tragic, monotonous and banal!

I would even say banal if the man weren't so extraordinary.

To speak of the Holocaust is neither a banal nor a trivial matter.

I scorn the completed work of art, the banal result of vulgar efforts.

Poetry is what elevates the banal and neglected object to a realm of art.

For he loved to surround everything he did, no matter how banal, with an air of wickedness.

And it's not a banal story after the liberation he continued to make false papers until the '70s.

I'm also convinced that, in an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Cliches like desperate times call for desperate measures and a hungry man is an angry man may sound banal, but they cannot be ignored.

Now, to close, we heard a couple of days ago about the value of making individual heroism so commonplace that it becomes banal or routine.

Now astrology we remove the banal idea that your life could be predicted that you'll, perhaps today, meet a lucky man who's wearing a hat.

That may sound banal, but it probably makes sense to recall that simple truth from time to time because the exercise we are now embarking upon is especially important.

And, of course, it's one that's dear to my heart, because all of these sentiments some banal, some a bit more profound all originally had come out of my diary.

Too many buildings that you see outside that are so banal tell you a story, but the story is very short, which says, We have no story to tell you.

But Parisians reject Hollywood s banal concept of love as a story that ends happily ever after. Their idea of romance centers on its opposition to staid values and predictability of bourgeois life.

Richard, I think very correctly, made the point at the beginning before all the chair designers came out about the history of chair designers imposing aesthetic solutions on this kind of universal, banal, common problem of sitting.

There is an argument, made by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, that a swift punishment might persuade Syrian President Bashar Al Assad to stop using chemical weapons and use more banal ways to slaughter his people. This does not make sense to me.

He was one of six people who were invited to participate in this competition, after six previous firms struck out with things that were so stupid and banal that even the city of New York was forced to go, Oh, I'm really sorry, we screwed up.

One incident in southern Somalia vividly demonstrated how insecurity can hamper humanitarian work. While our assessment team was in the town of Marare, a banal scene of two friends in their twenties having breakfast turned into a major drama when one of the boys mishandled his Kalashnikov and accidentally killed his friend.

The posters bear the heading To Animals, All People are Nazis a line from the Polish born Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. According to the court, Germany s laws on freedom of speech did not protect PETA s campaign, because to make the fate of the victims of the Holocaust appear banal and trivial was an offense against human dignity.