For this avoidance of the banal he has been called a perverter of the heroic.
He moved, too--but already she had relapsed into her impassiveness, and when he had finished, she only replied with a fewbanal words.
When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action, and the closer the walls of Jean-Christophe's prison of care and banal tasks were drawn about him, the more his heart in its revolt felt its independence.
He went to the Palace, sat at the piano, played, and went away again, and nobody ever took the trouble to talk to him, except absently to pay him some banal compliment.
What a waste of time, what a re-chewing of banal ideas.
Paul giggled; when in doubt he always giggled, but he was thoroughly shocked by Ulick's banal defence of immorality.
Mrs. Franklyn, I now remembered, had suggested to me in the library that I might perhaps write something about the place, and I had taken it for one of herbanal sentences and paid no further attention.
The E flat nocturne is graceful, shallow of content, but if it is played with purity of touch and freedom from sentimentality it is not nearly so banal as it usually seems.
It has become slightly banal from frequent repetition, likewise the C sharp minor study in opus 25.
This may be said of Tarbes as well, which is a really banal great town, but which has perhaps the most delightful Pyrenean background that exists.
On one night of one particularly troublesome week without a letter he went to sleep from his banal world at an empty table and dreamed his anything but banal dreams.
At the dining room table they began theirbanal chatter.
When the conversation languished, he prudently sought again at the piano the phrases of the graceful and banal Sicilian air, fearing to slip into an air of Trovatore, which was written in the same manner.
The Countess Martin recognized at once a banal and doubtful collection; she felt bored among the multitude of little Parrocels, showing in the darkness a bit of armor and a white horse.
Why do I speak of these things, so banal and so well known?
We have tried repeatedly to understand those prosaic and banal dreams which have nothing foolish or repulsive about them, but which cause us to ask: "Why do we dream such unimportant stuff?
They are often so banal and intrinsically so meaningless that we ask ourselves in wonder why just these details have escaped being forgotten.
After a slightly trivial farce-overture of apparitions in various banal forms, Luizzi compels the fallen archangel to show himself in his proper shape; and the bargain is concluded after some chaffering.
Between Delphine and Corinne Madame de Staël had, in the fullest sense of a banal phrase, "seen a great of the world.
Of the books of Henri Beyle, otherwise Stendhal,[125] to say that they are not like anything else will only seem banal to those who bring the banality with them.
The banal phrase has been framed in the amber of "Théo's" verse, and so debanalised.
Then as now the advanced Jew would mask his self-indulgence under the guise of a banal philosophy, and jeer easily at archaic myths and tribal laws.
Of the literary splendour of that work it would be merely banal to speak; in few other of the books of men has there been anything so combining the gay pugnacity of an epigram with the vague sadness of a song.
It is very banal and very inartistic when a poor woman at the Adelphi says, "Do you think I will sell my own child?
His heroes are living people, who act, and whose banal life ends with a banal death.
My talk with him was so perfectly banal that I can scarcely have an opinion, but I should think one might talk to him easily.
The banal question told Clancy that he intended to ignore the incident of Spofford.
It was a banal remark, but his own nervousness confused her, and she must say something.
Fräulein Viebig has also succumbed to banaland extra-artistic purposes.
In the fourteenth century it fell to the Grimaldi, and to this day its aspect, except for the rather banal hotel and villa architecture, has remained more Italian in motive than French.
These histories of free-thinking young men breaking loose from their father's authority and running amuck among Paris studios and Leicester Square actresses become tedious and banal after a time.
It must be so; there is no profession so absolutely banal as diplomacy.
The banal little incident nearly snapped her nerves that were stretched to breaking-point.
Pearls are too cold and diamonds too banal for you," he said slowly.
The small, skimped stage, with its undeniably banal curtain, and the crowded dancing floor did not really promise unlimited delights.
Again he struggled mightily, with the banal kind of result that usually follows such paroxysms conversational topic-hunting: "You must find your life here and in Washington wonderful.
There had only been between this young man and himself the banal relations of two persons accustomed to frequent the same house, whom no tie unites, who seem ever separated by a certain antipathy of nature, of manner of life.
