How to Use banality in a Sentence

banality

noun

• The trip offers an escape from the banalities of daily life.
• We exchanged banalities about the weather.
• The writing never rose above banality.
• Both the forms and the motions are simple to the point of banality.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• All of it true, most of it posed as a series of banalities.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 20 Sep. 2017
• An era of your career can’t come to a close with that kind of banality.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 8 July 2019
• No longer are the stakes confined to banalities on your news feed.
  — Tracey Lien, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The only effect was to put the banality of the clothes farther away from the audience.
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 28 Sep. 2017
• But it’s been a while since the coaches or players had such banality.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• Cleo stirs in Johnny a sense of wonder absent from the banality of his movie-star life.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
• The film is a harrowing look at the banality of evil in its most dangerous form.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023
• The mother of the bride doesn’t know that the wedding is all a big joke and a charade and a futile attempt to wring meaning from banality.
  — Rosa Lyster, The Cut, 20 July 2017
• But even Hewitt was aghast at the sheer cruelty of this and the banality of Sessions’s response to it.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 8 June 2018
• Her actions on that momentous night have been ridiculed as a sign of banality and a lack of feeling.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• This novel is about the banality of the evil that is systemic misogyny.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• Jonathan Glazer’s haunting film, an Auschwitz-set drama about the banality of evil, also hopes to find itself in the awards race.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 17 Dec. 2023
• Using euphemisms to cover for atrocities is the essence of the banality of evil.
  — Anna Lind-Guzik, Vox, 20 June 2019
• Life for him is too absurd to wallow in tragedy and too depressing for feel-good banalities.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
• There’s a lot of banality in being a coach; a lot of clapping hands, a lot of halftime speeches that blend together.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2024
• One of the first lessons Jesus taught his followers was about the banality of loving people who already love you, and being good to folks who have been good to you.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• Quarantine life is quite monotonous and getting dolled up has been a nice escape from the banality of the day to day.
  — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 13 Apr. 2020
• Baldwin’s essay is a cri de coeur on the banality of American life.
  — Time, 30 Apr. 2021
• The evening consists of short, episodic scenes marked by their banality despite the play's serious themes.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2020
• The trouble — and this is a banality — is that Hollywood doesn’t seem to know what to do with older actresses who aren’t straining to look younger.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• That’s not the war, but the banality of his domesticity.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
• That film, about the banality of evil, centers around a Garman family in the mid-1940s, the patriarch of which works as head Commandant at Auschwitz.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• What’s nice about the present ’90s revival is the return not of baggy denim but of the withering, banality-busting sarcasm of that decade’s cool kids.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2022
• Hannah Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil when discussing the moral wrongs brought about by hierarchy.
  — Max Norman, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2021
• The ideas explored here are not novel; Hannah Arendt's ideas about the banality of evil have become filmmaking tropes.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021
• Where Woolf found life in the banalities of daily life, Glass finds beauty from repetition.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024