Banal

That same something kept him from making more than the most banal conversation with the man - the weather, the last earthquake, the next earthquake, and yeah, the Guide says Myron Floren is going to come back for a special guest appearance this weekend on the Welk show.

Effie makes me say a hundred banal phrases starting with a smile, while smiling, or ending with a smile.

"Yes, but they have a kind of mystical or magical force. And they often deal with banal subjects -- not just religion."

The people of this stranger-colony were not Greek—at least not in the majority—but Levantines of sorts, aping a Greek culture; and in revenge producing, not the correct banal Hellenism of the exhausted homeland, but a tropical rankness of idea, in which the rhythmical balance of Greek art and Greek ideality blossomed into novel shapes tawdry with the larded passionate colours of the East.

She promised to meet him in Deauville, the coming summer, “though,” she sighed, “it’s becoming too dreadfully banal; nothing but Americans and frowsy English baronesses.” And at that moment in Zenith, a cocaine-runner and a prostitute were drinking cocktails in Healey Hanson’s saloon on Front Street.

He was incapable of heroism, weak, banal, more spiritless than a woman, avaricious too, and cowardly.