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Updated: June 23, 2025
Afterward she had met him face to face, and had tried to tell him how moved she was; but in her agitation, and because of a strange shyness that had suddenly come to her, she had ended only in stammering out some flippant banality that had brought to his face merely a bored smile of acknowledgment.
"Some of those branching candlesticks are very beautiful," he said; "the impression here is a little like that of a Catholic altar just before the mass. I've always thought I'd like to have my meals served in church, Saint-Germain-des-Prés for instance." "It is rather dim religious light." Nancy had no wish to utter this banality, but it was forced from her by her desire to seem sympathetic.
They throb with all the popular impulses; they laugh when the multitude laughs and weep when it weeps; and they have the gift which is really rare not common of calling the multitude's attention to their books in which is displayed, as in a consoling mirror, the sweet, rosy, empty features of banality.
That itch irked Banneker almost unendurably at times. He longed to be relieved of it; to scratch the irritant Severance clean off the skin of The Patriot. But Severance was too evidently valuable. Banneker did go so far as to protest. "Aren't you rather overdoing this thing, Severance?" "Which thing? We're overdoing everything; hence the growth of the paper." Banneker fell back upon banality.
A woman may love flattery ever so much and have ever so strong a moral absorbent system with which to digest it; she does not hate banality the less.
Here, after the destruction of one of the several Cathedrals of Riez, the Bishop celebrated Masses, but the little chapel was never consecrated a Cathedral. It has been recently restored and re-built in an uninteresting style, the exterior is bare to ugliness, the interior so painted that the six old Roman columns which support the choir are overwhelmed by the banality of their surroundings.
She thought, only to dismiss them for their banality, of a box of the finest cigars, of a soft flannel dressing-gown, a bath robe of Turkish towelling embroidered by herself, of a velvet jacket, and of a pair of house shoes.
Let me look out of the window! Has Burkett Hill tipped over? Has the sun turned in the heavens at high noon and started back to the east?" "What does it mean?" she asked. Her expression excused the banality of her query; her eyes told him that she knew, but her ears awaited his indorsement of her woman's conviction. He pointed to the big calendar on the wall. "It's a valentine," he said, gravely.
"I I think I can trust you to to do the right thing by me," she said, descending to a banality in her confusion. I held out my hand. She laid hers in it rather timidly, almost as if she was afraid of me. "I shall not fail you," said I without the faintest intention to be heroic but immediately conscious of having used an expression so trite that my cheek flamed with humiliation.
At their approach he quickly closed the covers, jammed papers in his pockets, and then waited to speak to the girls who had dragged him out of Round River a month before. "Hello," he greeted them, and both were glad he was boyish enough to be frank, and not stiff. "Wonderful day," Grace chirped in with banality. "If you don't care what you say," he replied brightly.
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