banality

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The real author describes it as a combination of plagiarism and banality.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

The finish line isn’t moral resolution, but the banality of the cash register: a product governed where it matters most, at the point of sale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

The banality of her letter to Putin was itself a choice — and was completely on brand, for Melania Trump has always been just as opaque as her prose suggests.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025

Just as Allfrey’s photographs were “crowded with lifetimes,” so is Russell’s novel, a work suffused with the “mystery of kindness” and the banality of violence.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

Daylight, and the banality of family small talk, would dispel whatever impact she had made as a ghostly illuminated apparition.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan