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Updated: June 28, 2025
Groups gathered in the cafés or sauntered slowly, talking less than usual, gesticulating little, rolling over the good news in their minds as something beyond the power of expression. How banal to say, "C'est chic, ça!" or "C'est épatant!" Language is for little things. That pile of posters at the American Embassy had already become historical souvenirs which won a smile.
A banal phrase came to his lips, "You are in your element here." But he held it back, remembering that they walked in the midst of dust. Leaving the mosque they ascended the hill and passed the Tekkeh of the dancing dervishes.
Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality!" Blake smiled. "That seems to sound all right," he said; "but it doesn't remove the lover." The good-humored scepticism at last forced a way to Billy's susceptibilities. "Look here," he said, crossly, "if hearing's not believing, perhaps seeing is! Look at these pictures; they're not particularly modern or banal."
Charmian and he had been to Italy for their honeymoon, and had visited, among other places, Milan, Florence, Siena, Perugia, Rome, and Naples. They had not stayed their feet at the Italian lakes. Charmian had said: "Every banal couple who want to pump up a feeling of romance go there. Don't let us join the round-eyed, open-mouthed crowd, and be smirked at by German waiters. I couldn't bear it!"
When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action, and the closer the walls of Jean-Christophe's prison of care and banal tasks were drawn about him, the more his heart in its revolt felt its independence. In a life without obstacles he would doubtless have abandoned himself to chance and to the voluptuous sauntering of adolescence.
"When Dickie" Dickie was the Dean, "when Dickie was at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, we knew everything that was going on, but here in Welsley well, I often feel rather rusty." Mr. Darlington paid the appropriate compliment, not in a banal way, and then mentioned that at half-past seven he was dining in Little Cloisters. "That delightful creature Mrs. Dion Leith!" exclaimed Mrs. Dean.
Even on such a tramp as I had undertaken, in which I frequently walked for miles without sight or sound of a human being, I began to realize how banal and aimless is conventional conversation. Under such conditions you feel yourself in sympathy with the man who says nothing unless he has something to say, and who, in turn, expects the same restriction of speech from you.
His heroes are living people, who act, and whose banal life ends with a banal death. This realism and this passionate love of truth make the strength and the beauty of all his work.
As you walk along the shore, is it not a pretty sight to see them their great white sails look like stately swans. And still more beautiful is the sight when the setting sun throws great rays of glory round a passing bark." In silence Paul gazed at her. He hardly breathed, lest some banal word should frighten this wonderful nymph away.
No! I am not going to call them "eighty years young," or employ any of those banal euphemisms with which would-be "tactful" but really club-footed sentimentalists insult the intelligence of the so-called "old." Of course, I know that they are both eighty or thereabouts, and they know very well that I know. We make no secret of it. Why should we?
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