Word: banalized
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...says Mrs. Maurrant. She withdraws from the window frame and while she is coming downstairs Mrs. Jones asks Mrs. Fiorentino if it isn't awful, the way Mrs. Maurrant is carrying on with that Sankey, who collects money for the Borden milk people. Mrs. Maurrant appears and there is banal chatter. Mr. (Third Floor) Buchanan, whose wife is in laboring pains, says a few words. Mrs. Jones admonishes him to give Mrs. Buchanan plenty of food, 'Remember, she's got two to feed...
...work than there is in the lyrics of Shakespeare. It is infinitely artless and spontaneous. But in its artlessness there is no sign of that intellectual poverty which so often shows itself, for example, in Haydn. Few composers, not even Beethoven and Bach, have been so seldom banal. He can be repetitious and even tedious, but it seems a sheer impossibility for him to be obvious or hollow. Such defects get into works of art when the composer's lust to create is unaccompanied by a sufficiency of sound and charming ideas. But Schubert never lacked charming ideas. Within...
...home in Reading, Pa., to attend my debut. My real name was Helen Howard, you know. Mother died some years ago. . . . My life reads just like the lives of Mary Lewis and Grace Moore. I do not cook. I am not an outdoor girl. Doesn't that sound banal...
...Vagabond stood irresolute, no, he was sitting--and silent. Just then the music swung into pianissimo and the violinist rendered a vocal solo. The Vagabond listened, hoping, nay praying, for a suggestion in the words that might provide a topic for small talk, however banal. The violinist's voice was excellent....What was he saying...
...surrendering to mediocrity, to mass-thinking. Your printed sentiments concerning Colonel Lindbergh's great achievement, his splendid personal qualities, were noble, and clearly expressed [TIME, May 23, 30; June 6, 20, 27]. You have paid your tribute. To publish his photograph, added to ten thousand others, would be merely banal...