Banal in a sentence as an adjective

*I hate those "Joe Schmo supported you skill in [insert banal technical skill here]" messages.

Honest answer, I upvoted it because I'm sick of reading the typical banal stuff on HN.

He goes on to cite some examples of stuff that seems banal and boring because we're just so used to it: There are six people living in space right now.

"But somehow it's the more banal applications I can imagine that would deliver a more real sense of oppression.

But even the largest heap of banal evil in the known universe can be dealt with without unnecessary bigotry.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I've watched several TED videos and always found them to be full of platitudes and truisms, and the speakers banal and unoriginal.

It would capture one's attention in a way that the typical cute and whimsical holiday card would not. Just as this cover letter gets one's attention in a way that a direct, factual, minimal, utterly banal and archetypal cover letter would not.

Just seven lines of banal vitriol and claims--without justification--that the review "reads more like a lover on his last moments of love" and "making a thinner, taller phone is not innovation.

Some are very good at providing unique ways to describe their own insights about their lives but when someone starts rapping about world problems I just want to shut my brain off because it's usually pretty banal.

His meandering string of banal platitudes and buzzwords is seriously next level:"I personally refer to Xhibit as a multi-dimensional digital ad agency.

If you build a service oriented architecture for your company, you decouple the explicitly evil part of what you do that requires a uniquely sociopathic personality from the more banal customer service oriented part that can be fulfilled by commodity labor.

Banal definitions

adjective

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"