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Updated: April 30, 2025
He seemed to regard me as a source of information about all the latest 'movements, and I had to shout banalities while he munched his mutton banalities whose one saving grace for me was that they were inaudible to Swinburne. Had I met Swinburne's gaze, I should have faltered.
"I don't know," demurred the octoroon, with her faint doubtful smile. "Persons don't welcome beggars very cordially." "If all beggars were so charming " Apparently he couldn't escape banalities. But Cissie interrupted whatever speech he meant to make, with a return of her almost painful seriousness. "I really came to ask you to help me, Peter."
As I sat day after day beside my grandmother's armchair in the dim room, with the blinds drawn to shut out the summer sunlight, and talked to her in a subdued and reverent voice, agreeing with all the old banalities she uttered, all the preposterous opinions she propounded, all the commands she laid upon me, I gazed beyond her at the cat, and the creature was haggard with apprehension.
"Greek meets Greek," thought Constance, amused, turning away to other guests. "I admit that." Miss Berber lit another cigarette. "I have seen your Danae. The people who have painted me have been fools. Obvious treating me like an advertisement for cold cream." She breathed a sigh, and sank again to the sofa. Her lids drooped as if in weariness of such banalities.
I do not doubt it, but I do often wonder whether every such person visits his sacred place as often as I visit mine. I go to mine very often, especially in summer-time, about six o'clock, when, amid the roar and the turmoil and the banalities of the real and the actual, I recall the wondrous tale of the Burning Bush.
This was the girl, I think, whom Jerry had described as having only five adjectives, all of which she used every minute. Channing Lloyd, a glass of champagne at his elbow, laughed gruffly and filled the room with tobacco smoke. I listened. Small talk, banalities, bits of narrow glimpses of narrow pursuits. I had to admit that Marcia quite dominated this circle, and I understood why.
Miss Smithson uttered amiable banalities with an evident intention to do nothing more; her demeanour was preoccupied, and she made no further reference to Rose. Soon a nurse respectfully called her; she hastened away full of apologies, leaving Leonora to meditate upon her own shortcomings as a serious person, and upon the futility of her existence of forty-one years.
But latterly, during the present generation that is, the ineffable Paliser M. P. for short who, with claret liveries and a yard of brass behind him had tooled his four-in-hand, or else, in his superb white yacht, gave you something to talk about, well, from living very extensively he had renounced the romps and banalities of this life.
Do you think that stale tobacco smoke, and the idiotically reiterated click of billiard balls, and the vacant stare of the fashionably brainless, and the meaningless exchange of banalities with the intellectually aimless have any attractions for me?" Mrs. Gatewood raised her pretty eyes in silence; Kerns returned her amused gaze rather blankly. "Clubs!" sniffed Gatewood.
Hardly hearing what she was saying, she made herself reiterate banalities about the moon. Her mind flew upward to the moon Jim's downward to his squeaking shoes. She lived at the other end of town from Raymond Bonner's house, and the long walk was made up of endless intermittent perorations on the moon, on squeaking shoes. But the song of the shoes never ceased. Louder and louder it waxed.
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