banality
Example Sentences
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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
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
Or, was "SNL" presenting queerness with the same banality as we’ve come to see straightness, albeit with the use of a somewhat dehumanizing pun?
From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025
And so we’re back to the whole lesson that we never seem to learn about how the banality of evil is real.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2024
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
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The Namesake
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