Is the banal barking of dogs enough to make me change my mind?
In other situations they might talk to themselves or just do a banal activity, like cleaning their boots.
They rarely engage with the writer, consisting mostly of a few banal phrases about the duty to work hard and study diligently.
There are melodic ideas of distinction, memorable yet never banal.
Some readers might find this exchange too banal to arouse more than a very faint flicker of humour.
Though completely banal, this model was a great help to find common ground on what to discuss.
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.
Thus stated, the message sounds almost banal, but on stage it was striking and resonated with great power.
