as in cliche
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
another sitcom based on the banality of roommates with opposite personalities
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Recent Examples of banality
Drive anywhere in the States and you’ll be hypnotized by banality: Practically every new car looks the same, and the look is boring, pedestrian, smooth-brained.
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2024
But that was before the psychological condition of Trump Derangement Syndrome reduced many gifted performers to banality.
—Armond White, National Review, 18 Sep. 2024
Buxton imbues the film with tension, and as the likable Foster takes John into increasingly obsessive behavior, the film finds more horror movie elements in the banality of the normal.
—Carole Horst, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
Manic and magical in a way that makes the banality of its final moments all the more crushing to witness, the episode crystallizes the spirit of perseverance that runs through Suleiman’s entire body of work, its every sly joke and slice of joy an act of rebellion unto itself.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2024
But that was before the psychological condition of Trump Derangement Syndrome reduced many gifted performers to banality.
—Armond White, National Review, 18 Sep. 2024
Buxton imbues the film with tension, and as the likable Foster takes John into increasingly obsessive behavior, the film finds more horror movie elements in the banality of the normal.
—Carole Horst, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
Manic and magical in a way that makes the banality of its final moments all the more crushing to witness, the episode crystallizes the spirit of perseverance that runs through Suleiman’s entire body of work, its every sly joke and slice of joy an act of rebellion unto itself.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for banality
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According to Nate, what makes working with Marielle satisfying isn’t just her determination to avoid the cliche, but her willingness to look for the best idea up until the last possible minute.Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024
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Of the many threadbare cliches passed down among wine lovers, the idea that white wines do not merit aging is among the most egregious.Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
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The two-dimensional characters communicate in bromides; Lena’s fellow privates, who suffer from the laziest defining characteristics (coarse Southern gal, proper preacher’s daughter, New Yorker), are the worst offenders.Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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In place of triumph-of-the-human-spirit bromides, though, what the book delivers is its own kind of cinema, harsh and true.New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2024
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Tour ’74 was Dylan’s first-ever arena tour—a rock commonplace by 1974 that had not even been imaginable in 1966.Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2024
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Neumann was a lifelong social democrat whose writings evince neither sympathy for Soviet communism nor any whiff of the fellow-traveling commonplace among radicals during the 1930s and 1940s.William E. Scheuerman, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013
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Third, your motivation is assumed as seeking ego-boosting platitudes and simply is intended to stoke your self-image.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Her tenure in the U.S. Senate was marked by support for standard-issue progressive platitudes.Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 15 Nov. 2024
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The history of wellness suggests that the best way to defuse Kennedy’s power is not by litigating each one of his beliefs, some of which are irrefutable health truisms, but by understanding why the promise of being well has such lasting appeal.Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
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Yet, in business, this truism is often easier said than internalized.Mark Kane, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Banality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banality. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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