Examples of banal

• 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.