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Example sentences for "banalities"

Lexicographically close words:
bamboozle; bamboozled; bambu; ban; banal; banality; banana; bananas; banc; banca
  1. One winter morning years ago the music critics of Paris sat and laughed themselves green in the face over the incomprehensible banalities of an impossible modernist opera called "Tannhäuser.

  2. Their questions wince in anticipation of the banalities they are doomed to elicit.

  3. Its very effectiveness is too apt for the dramatist, who can ill afford to tamper further with the indifferent banalities of actual existence.

  4. She will be hampered in no way with the banalities of instruction offered her by the assuming ones.

  5. Banalities are the light and mundane touches to life.

  6. In a mundane surrounding , we have to wait for revelations from banalities to help us delve into significance.

  7. These were preposterous banalities that distinguished life, unedited, from melodrama.

  8. The matron was shaking hands with people right and left, and exchanging inaudible banalities with them.

  9. I hopelessly fell back upon such banalities as the errability of mankind, being conscious all the time that some special and most curious infatuation must underlie this particular error.

  10. Murmuring the indispensable banalities I bowed distantly, meaning to observe her impersonally before an encounter.

  11. Her banalities were too vigorous to be aught but authentic and original.

  12. Not that he meant anarchy at all, but because the people who were caught by his banalities could not differentiate sufficiently to extract the core of truth from the great superstructure of extravagances with which he hid it.

  13. He pointed his morals with putridity and he adorned his really beautiful style with barbarities and banalities which make one shudder.

  14. It has amused me to put down with great care the few banalities which have normalized my days.

  15. He has triumphed by specializing in his weaknesses and insuring their survival; by disputing the simple laws of biology with interminable banalities labelled from age to age as religions, philosophies and laws.

  16. He broke one or two windows in the suffocating theatre of banalities and bon-bon amours.

  17. To Damascus contains some shallow thoughts and some banalities of expression, but it is a powerful creation, magnificently conceived.

  18. He always dismissed the idea almost before it was conceived, and fell back again into his old colourless life with its never-changing round of banalities and affectation.

  19. He had made one honest effort to escape from the banalities that were freezing his soul, and do something worthy of his name.

  20. It was not fair to bring me all this way from home, to have to dress up and look pleasant, and talk banalities to people I have never seen before and probably shall never see again.

  21. He seemed to regard me as a source of information about all the latest 'movements,' and I had to shout banalities while he munched his mutton--banalities whose one saving grace for me was that they were inaudible to Swinburne.

  22. The article was well-meant but full of banalities and errors; one could see that its author was not sufficiently familiar with art and that he did not understand anything about the talent of the great artist.

  23. Glad of the opportunity to pour out the banalities which had accumulated in me and were pressing for an outlet, I clung to him.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banalities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.