The music is often too banal to be good, let alone great.

And so he was, but never in a banal way.

Too many of us, when we plan a military action, can think only in the most banal way.

On the page the word looks short and almost banal.

Perhaps it has to do with so banal a thing as the way he looks.

What was he actually watching in the much more banal here and now?

Banal point, perhaps, but felt it needed to be made.

The young man must be of a more banal order than he supposed.

It was the sort of situation where, no matter what I said, the words would sound banal.

But what could be more banal than going with the trends?

"It actually came about for a rather banal reason," he says.

His words seemed banal to him, in the face of such perfection.

But the only phrases in my mind were too banal to voice.

That is by no means the most banal passage in the book.

I tell you: the text should be short and simple, but without being banal.

At all times the language of worship needs to be clear, but not banal.

The unfamiliar parts go out of their way to make her banal.

Everybody says sorry and life goes on - it's that banal.

"Fortunately, working in the field is not quite as banal."

"It may sound banal, but it's the only thing I can think of to say."

So now was the time for his little speech; the one the men always seemed to expect, even though the words could only be banal.

I could think of nothing to say that didn't sound banal.

But this explanation seemed far too banal to explain the woman.

All questions are welcome, from the bizarre to the banal.

I turn a banal song about three minutes long into a symphony.