He could talk now without the artifice ofbanality to hide behind.
So he edited them into a further banality and thus concealed his inability to give lofty utterance to his emotions by amusing himself with deliberately cheapened insincerities.
It would not save it from banality if he explained that he meant the habit of loving the very best one can do, and doing that and not something less.
We murmured some banality about not knowing a place where one could better come from than Boston.
A woman may love flattery ever so much and have ever so strong a moral absorbent system with which to digest it; she does not hate banality the less.
The standard of banality differs indeed for every woman, and with every woman for almost every hour of the day, and men of the world who husband their worldly resources are aware of the fact.
The sham rake-hells festooned their hectic amours with references to purple breasts, absinthe, Messalina, and Semiramis: the banality was plain to see.
Here the author describes his little amatory adventures, endeavouring to relieve their inevitable banality with a certain piquancy in the introduction of portraits of his men and women friends, chosen among an elegant society.
It is an analysis of moral degeneration, leading progressively to insanity, in a doctor who is seized by the pervasive banality of the village in which he practises.
Their restlessness of spirit does not permit them to resign themselves to the reigning banality or to take part in it without protesting.
They represented with eloquence the empty and deplorable banalityof the existence forced upon most of them.
They have been hampered in no way with the banality of school technique learned in the manner of the ever-present and unoriginal copyist.
She knows the psychism of patterns and evolves them with strict regard for the pictural aspects in them which save them from banality as ideas.
There is never so much as a hint of banality in his selection.
The bells hang in the window, adding thus to the picturesque rudeness of the general effect, so unfamiliar to the northern eye, so quaintly barbaric, so distinguished in its freedom from the curse of modern banality or vulgarity.
Whittier and Lowell--who ventured to turn to the life around them, and the banality of the result is a sufficient indication of the crudeness of the current taste, and the mean position assigned to the art of letters.
The banality amused him--sitting here thinking of Copper and talking about coffee.
The banality of this observation was mitigated by the feeling she threw into it.
He did not have to commit the banalityof reminding them of this conviction of his at their own tables; he had sufficient humour and penetration to credit them with knowing it.
Adelle's share of the universal mystery, in spite of the banality of its expression, may have been as great as any woman's who ever lived.
Moreover, in those of his compositions that approach banality most closely, there is a certain saving hardness and virility and honesty.
The conversation so halted that at length Janet was driven to the banality of saying: "I'm so sorry we have to go out!
I'd no idea there was a theatre in Bursley," she remarked idly, driven into a banality by the press of her sensations.
I remember one striking, and almost incredible instance of the banality and indelicacy which could be displayed by a man of the so-called artistic power.
It was a bungalow of logs, roughly constructed and saved from utter banality by being almost completely clothed in wisteria.
For over six hours he had watched banality emerge from chaos and had listened to the blasphemy and insults of Jackrack.
Something impersonal within himself marvelled at thebanality of tragedy.
Commonplace as his form of renunciation had been, he was not conscious now of any banality either in himself or her.
