Word: banally
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...tables and floor buried under a dune of exhausted tubes, boxes, crumpled photographs, muck. These, so to speak, are the lineaments of gratified desire. "I never believed one should have any security and never expect to keep any," says Bacon. "After all, as existence in a way is so banal, you may as well try to make a kind of grandeur of it rather than be nursed to oblivion...
...from the bowels of a transplanted and dispossessed group of people, left largely to their own devices outside the boundaries of the American cultural mainstream, who found self-expression and renewal in their adaptations of their parents' music. And whether outsiders found country music appealing or obnoxious, ingenuous or banal, they never doubted its authenticity; it was nothing more or less than a reflection of the lower-class whites of the South and West who created and sustained...
...creative writing at New York's City College. And apparently he was quite disgusted with everything, even himself. His TLS article May 11, 1973) attacked American university students of literature for their insistence that everything they study be "relevant," a phrase that most intelligent students had already recognized as banal and meaningless. But aside from the students "total eschewal of literary allusion." Burgess attacked Americans in general for their "puritanical enjoyment...
...they were ends in themselves. His fervent belief in socialism was a faith in people. Nick always believed that he saw in people what Michael Harrington, one of his favorite authors, saw: the seed beneath the snow--in the midst of a grade-grubbing, money-chasing, selfish, banal society he saw individuals who wanted desperately to love, desperately to be accepted, and who wanted to cooperate in harmony, rather than grovel and cut throats in competition. And--perhaps more than he ever suspected--he had an effect on his friends. Maybe he really did help us see the seed beneath...
...problem here, as in Earthquake, is that the scriptwriters feel obligated to fritter away time on people's banal problems. Bad marriages and love affairs naturally come apart, good ones grow better as the flames leap higher. Obvious cheaters and other meanies (the fire started because Builder Holden skimped on Architect Newman's safety specifications) get their comeuppance, while individuals of quiet integrity win a chance to prove their virtue...