Banality in a sentence as a noun

She was the one who coined the phrase the "banality of evil".

The banality of evil sort of thing I guess.

Why worry when you can distract yourself with trite banality?

Indeed, the subtitle and thesis of the book reflects that: "on the banality of evil.

The banality of the lyrics are in truth not significantly worse than the lyrics of the average pop song.

Most, but not all, songs of that genre dress up their banality in slightly more interesting turns of phrase but ultimately it's the same thing.

Hannah Arendt wrote about the banality of evil; I think one could write just as convincingly about the banality of greed.

Interestingly in this interview between Assange, Cohen and Schmidt, which was linked elsewhere in the comments, Schmidt was actually the first one to say the phrase "the banality of evil".

Banality definitions

noun

a trite or obvious remark

See also: platitude cliche commonplace bromide