banality

The entertainment industry has offered a palatable way for viewers to digest the horrors of the institution, without confronting either its banality or its larger implications.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

On a never-ending feed we watch the cute and profane, sleepwalking toward an emotional state beyond shock as entertainment: the banality of passive consumption.

From Slate ● May 12, 2026

And hence misfired plays like this one, in which collaboration among gifted artists results only in a work of logorrheic banality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

He does not talk about purity any more but of the necessity of using common cultural sign systems to reflect the iconic banality of our times.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Acquaintances can drift through conversational banalities or choose to engage in meatier, more satisfying subjects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

When it smoothly moves between the two, it feels like a singular commentary on life’s deceptive banalities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

The oral histories chronicle Mr. Obama’s journey from an uninformed candidate embarrassed by the banalities he found himself spouting on the campaign trail to a besieged president gambling his political future on all-or-nothing legislative brinkmanship.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

One can always expect a coward to utter clichés and reinforce conventional banalities.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2024

Ashish shrugged, like he couldn’t be bothered with such banalities as figuring out where Dimple’s roommate was.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon