banally

I added banally: "Where did you meet the lucky young man?"

Deliberately, almost banally had I not realized his purpose, he changed the subject.

Jack is evil, but contrary to cliche, not banally so.

"I'm sure you do," he replied -banally and even with sarcasm.

My reasons for returning were banally personal: to be with my girlfriend and family.

There is something banally obvious about beauty, which is why the camera loves it so much.

It raised a laugh: It is not every day that one sees impotence manifested so banally.

A little later, feeling sorry for his nurse and wanting to be reassuring, he said banally: "This is a nice world, Polly."

It was slick, all right, but without the element of surprise or spontaneity that would lift it up from the banally commercial.

I banally asked.

Lighted by a wall of white plastic panels, the environment is luminous and ethereal on one hand and almost banally matter-of-fact on the other.

But yes, I will be happy to meet you at the O.K. Corral, as you so banally put it."

Unaware of the value of life, the people of Grover's Corners live their lives banally and seldom get beneath or above the surface of life.

The banally obedient typist and the insouciant woman from "Bible Lesson" are the only two "shes" in the book with whom the poet makes no common cause.

But as a political 'activist', he had such a banally simplistic take on the world - indeed, in recent years his 'politics' bordered on the facile and infantile.

Yet banally expressed platitudes can do more harm than good, said the Rev. Barbara Lundblad, associate professor of preaching at Union Theological Seminary.

Of course, 'statistical fluctuation' sounds much more solid, scientific, objective - not those corny, cheap-romantic, banally legendary --" "Wait, don't be spiteful, please," Asya said.

The text in question is "If This Is a Man" ("Se Questo un Uomo," in America banally entitled "Survival in Auschwitz").

It is decent enough for its time but, because it is so banally written, it fails to recreate today the sense of urgency, loss and surprise with which it was greeted in the 1950's.

If you're trying to imagine more inventive ways of making all those music videos and special-effects film fantasies being turned out so quickly and so often banally these days, you might try looking backward to the turn of the century.

This impressive-sounding title was actually banally literal: it mostly comprised taking minutes of the Wednesday afternoon meeting, usually while seated in the NHS wheelchair (purloined from who knows where) used to steady the camera operator for tracking shots.

He described what he called the "technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire" in the World Trade Center as "little Eichmanns," i.e. as those who banally conduct their duties in the service of evil.

He liked New York's energy, California palled on him after a day or two, Las Vegas was silly and fun, most of the rest of the country was boring and banal: the reason, he apologized, that he wrote banally about it.

The low-key design, selected over proposals by the Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas and the Rotterdam-based firm MVRDV - is a banally tasteful vision of Modernity that is apt to please those who are pathologically averse to risk.