cheap and commonplace

Cheap and commonplace, bananas don’t seem to inspire profound thought.

Until eye-transplant surgery becomes cheap and commonplace, you and I will never know.

In this case the concluding couplet is cheap and commonplace—"fair Greece" and "old Rome" being anemic expressions unfit to live.

Neither can it be denied that Watson himself was not so solicitous as he should have been to profit by opportunities which a little pains might have put within his reach,—presenting, in this respect, a contrast to his more celebrated predecessor, Robertson; that he contented himself too easily with such cheap and commonplace materials as lay directly in his path; and that, consequently, the foundations of his history are much too slight for the superstructure.

All he did seemed cheap and commonplace, mere pointless lines and stiff wooden masses.