Word: banalized
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Nobody, said the President, had ever signed the Atlantic Charter. Then where was it now? Mr. Roosevelt's face assumed a lecturer's look. This is what comes of thinking in banal phrases and banal thoughts, he said. There isn't any copy of the Atlantic Charter. The nearest thing would be the notes given to the radio operators of the U.S.S. Augusta, and H.M.S. Prince of Wales* (aboard which Roosevelt and Churchill traveled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in August, 1941). The agreement consisted of little scraps of handwriting. Some of it was the President...
...World War I without knowing how deeply its strength has been sapped. In some ways it is healthier: the vice and crime that Romains described as characteristic of prewar France is now hidden or distant. The high-minded liberal intellectuals talk vaguely of Russia. The relaxations are banal. The moneymaking is easy, and tiresome. The love affairs and divorces are equally casual. The French suffer from the delusion that the Third Republic is running Europe. They patronize the English, deplore U.S. blindness in keeping out of the League of Nations, wonder if a standing army of 650,000 will...
...proper showcase for its stars, Paramount has wisely revived the variety show, long neglected by Hollywood, but as tremendous care was taken on every second of the picture, it doesn't fall apart as it so easily might. The only real bringdown is the blatantly banal patriotic finale, which you can miss without regrets...
...drafting blue prints, of slowly rising waves, and the gay, milling mob mounting the crest of the stone-rimmed hill. You took us to the gods that were friends, with more yes and less no. The four of us, you with us, Inch, held fast to the heritages the banal would storm and rip open...
...literary exposition, the story holds the reader by creating curiosity over a conclusion which will satisfy neither the mature philosopher nor the artist. Rodes Arnold's "Staring" displays far maturer descriptive technique, but much of its merit is destroyed as irrelevant threads reduce the plot to a meaninglessly banal hodgepodge...