Adjective : a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier.    From Dictionary.com. 

At Wednesday's meeting of the Young Guards, the red-haired 28-year-old Chapman was in beauty pageant mode, even mouthing the kind of banalities usually saved for such occasions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Her lids drooped as if in weariness of such banalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nest Builder] Reference

What Mundy says in reply to such banalities is immaterial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Absolute Friends]

"For it contrived to make her banalities sound somehow original.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lesley M. M. Blume: Reee-tarded: The Hex Upon our Tongues] Reference

We started off with the banalities of name, address and occupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truth And Consequences] Reference

Iraq has been reduced to the ridiculous banalities of stay or get out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defiant Afghanistan Deserves Candidates' Attention] Reference

He had long since learned to do his thinking under cover of general banalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Highest Treason] Reference

Several attendees groused that Blair's talk was full of platitudes and banalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles H. Green: Global Leadership and Business Success Are Both About Hitting Singles, Not Homers] Reference

When improvising, she spouts banalities which are oddly stressed and hard on the ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harman's rivals will have relished her inept PMQs performance] Reference

I just wanted to curb the endless propaganda of blatant banalities and hate and whew!.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: Late Night Music: Eva Cassidy; Tall Trees in Georgia] Reference

But the words were in any case banalities, such as please ox for God's sake or no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [the mission song]

Therefore, the colonel finished his own drink, uttered some polite banalities and got out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unnecessary Man] Reference

Stay on script ~ just sound bites on the way to the helicopter with the usual banalities ~.    From Wordnik.com.  [NOTE TO THE PRESIDENT / KARL ROVE] Reference

Is it that our consciousness is too filled with the trivialities and banalities of modern life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kabir Helminski: Does Religion Cause War?] Reference

Instead the incumbent leaders spoke in banalities and generalities that were often impenetrable.    From Wordnik.com.  [France: The Perils Of Victory] Reference

He was still producing a flow of banalities when they arrived at Room 306 to join a select group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder Without Icing]

The summer is always a good time for high-octane sports banalities, and this year was no exception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye to the Clich] Reference

She will be hampered in no way with the banalities of instruction offered her by the assuming ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

It will not submit to the humiliating banalities of candidate debates or to other distracting banter.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAD or NUTS Take Your Pick, It Might be IRRITATE] Reference

Ivan's answer was a smile; for he had no special wish to take advantage of this opening for banalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

If the press wonders why politicians and their surrogates speak in nothing but bland banalities, that's why.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Resigns Over Hillary-Is-Monster Comment] Reference

Statements like the idiocy, the moronic statements, the banalities coming from the National Security Council.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008] Reference

In fact when you read the writings of the Founding Fathers you see the compendium of banalities and clichés.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ignorance in Heart Rocks?] Reference

He sounded like he always does: as if he's choosing the appropriate words, rather than bleating out banalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: I've Asked My Team To Review Blago Mess] Reference

And as if McConnell vs. FEC didn't water BCRA down enough already we've now got further banalities to deal with?.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Blasts SCOTUS Issue Ad Decision; Romney Applaudes] Reference

Murmuring the indispensable banalities I bowed distantly, meaning to observe her impersonally before an encounter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

Unfortunately, even as distinguished an economist as Paul Krugman can at times slip into a mode of petty banalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheldon Filger: Paul Krugman Is Wrong on Inflation] Reference

How else to explain his film's befuddling infelicities, insistent banalities, shambling pace and pervasive ineptitude?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New 'Hulk,' old story] Reference

Everything is mercilessly catalogued, even the Advent calendar, and reduced to the quotidian banalities of the weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

Over and over again, the dull banalities of rehab life: from early-morning vomit to late-night, bedside-table epiphanies.    From Wordnik.com.  [What to Do Post-Rehab? Write a Memoir, Of Course] Reference

So will Britain's compliant party leaders as they continue to utter weekly banalities over the coffins of Wootton Bassett.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: Face Down the Militarists and Get Out of Afghanistan] Reference

In the first book the-sections Morita wrote were now familiar banalities about how shoddy American manufacturing has become.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Japan That Can Take Credit] Reference

It's very discouraging to watch my initial favorite candidate more and more becoming a parrot for mindless corporate banalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dodd Denounces Merit Pay For Teachers In Veiled Swipe At Obama] Reference

It's as if the show writers were on strike because nobody could do banalities for that long if they had actual writers available.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Alderman: CNN's Iowa Coverage -- May Cause Nausea] Reference

In a lawless environment where men with guns rule the streets, engaging in the banalities of life has become a death-defying act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take Limbaugh Off the Air in Iraq] Reference

Inhofe, like Limbaugh, Hannity, FOX and the rest, know their audience and what to feed them; overly simplistic mindless banalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gore Tears Up Global Warming Skeptic] Reference

Avnet, who made "Fried Green Tomatoes," serves up these refried banalities with a serene disregard for the way people actually behave.    From Wordnik.com.  ['War' Is Hell? You Got That Right.] Reference

In an ideal world, media outlets would ignore the trivial banalities of celebrity meltdowns and focus primarily on the real world issues that concern us all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Atkins: Why the Media Will Always Cover Celebrities] Reference