Word: banally
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...again this fall. While a show like CBS's Maude expands the limits of usable domestic subject matter, other new entries like ABC's Paul Lynde Show and CBS's Bob Newhart Show extend the already overextended tradition of stale sitcoms-symptoms of TV's banal-retention syndrome. More colorful, if not more original, is Anna and the King (of Siam) on CBS. It has the benefit of Samantha Eggar in the Gertrude Lawrence-Deborah Kerr role, and Yul Brynner in the Yul Brynner-Yul Brynner role, even if it does make the Orient...
...merely banal examples...
...five-piece set of red glass vases with standardized workers' images frosted into the sides. Fortunately, an entire wall is allotted to an imaginative wall hanging of a woolly owl with immense purple eyes--if not, it would be lost in a forest of skillfully constructed by thematically banal tapestries...
...giving out membership figures when his followers, who are grouped in local "grottoes," reached a total of 10,000. The most striking thing about the members of the Church of Satan (one of whom is shown on TIME'S cover) is that instead of being exotic, they are almost banal in their normality. Their most insidious contribution to evil is their resolute commitment to man's animal nature, stripped of any spiritual dimension or thought of self-sacrifice. There is no reach...
...novel. The German Lesson, are not fear-crazed automatons. They are men and women who eat herring, talk gossip, wash dishes and dig ditches. In decent times they would be called decent people. Their tragedy is their loss of contact with life. They live according to ideals, according to banal principles of duty, work, honor. When the world turns ugly and nobility of duty becomes complicity in murder, they never notice...