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Hermione was an enthusiastic talker and seldom discussed banalities. From every circle where she found herself the inane was speedily banished; pale topics the spectres that haunt the dull and are cherished by them were whipped away to limbo, and some subject full-blooded, alive with either serious or comical possibilities, was very soon upon the carpet.
Following my rule to be always original, and conceiving that clever people like myself and the Princess must surely be above the banalities of politeness, I replied that I could not bear a walk with no object in view, and that, if I DID walk, I liked to walk alone.
Colonel VanDeusen was a man who would never have made Private First Class in an army that operated on a strict merit system. His thinking was muddy, and his conversation betrayed it. All he felt comfortable in talking about was just exactly what he had been taught. Slogans, banalities, and bromides. He knew his catechism, and he knew it was safe. "What I mean is, we got nothing to worry about.
With its carefully premeditated style, its sameness, its stripping of supple syntax, its poverty of color and nuance, this language, pruned of all the rugged and often rich expressions of the preceding ages, was confined to the enunciation of the majestic banalities, the empty commonplaces tiresomely reiterated by the rhetoricians and poets; but it betrayed such a lack of curiosity and such a humdrum tediousness, such a drabness, feebleness and jaded solemnity that to find its equal, it was necessary, in linguistic studies, to go to the French style of the period of Louis XIV.
Two cooler rogues I never wish to meet! "But wouldn't it be well, sir, to hasten?" asked William. "We have plenty of time now, my son." "You have not entered this room," said the girl, her terror slipping from her, "simply to offer these banalities. What do you wish?" "What perspicacity, William!" cried the rogue, taking out a cigarette case.
There were three other officers seated with MacMaine around one of the four-place tables in the big room. MacMaine only paid enough attention to the table conversation to be able to make the appropriate noises at the proper times. He had long since learned to do his thinking under cover of general banalities.
And he began to feel ashamed. He, a man who, by virtue of his name and of his wealth and, if he would be bold, by virtue of his intellect, was able to live in some noble and distinguished way he passed his time with banalities that were half sordid and half humorous. These things had their place. Youth might find them not unfruitful of experience. They degraded a man of forty.
After Walt Whitman, Paul Fort, for instance, seems simply an eloquent prose writer. And none of them can get the trick of it. None of them! Somewhere, once, I heard a voice that approached it; a voice murmuring of "Those that sleep upon the wind, And those that lie along in the rain, Cursing Egypt " But that voice went its way; and for the rest what banalities! What ineptitudes!
She fell back into monosyllables or gentle banalities; and George noticed that she was always restlessly conscious of the movements in the room who came in, who went out and throwing little frightened glances towards the door. He was glad indeed when his task was over.
Johnswort, of which she, with his vision, formed the supreme interest and equally the mystery; and it went warmly to his heart to have her peremptorily abolish all banalities by saying, "I was wondering if they were going to give me you, as soon as you came in." She put her slim hand on his arm as she spoke, and he thought she must have felt him quiver at her touch.
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