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Updated: June 23, 2025
With them it should never drop down to the too-common flatness and banality. Women have made this world one of the most beautiful places of residence to be conceived. They might make it one of the most interesting. It is the fashion for girls to be tall. This is much more than saying that tall girls are the fashion.
No, 'life, standing as it does in eternal contrast to intellect and art not as a vision of bloody greatness and barbarous beauty, not as the unusual does it appear to us unusual men; on the contrary, the normal, decorous, and amiable are the realm of our longing, and these are life in its seductive banality.
So he edited them into a further banality and thus concealed his inability to give lofty utterance to his emotions by amusing himself with deliberately cheapened insincerities. "Saving my linguistic face," he thought suddenly, and laughed again. Rachel was sad. They left her home in silence. "We'll go toward the park," he announced. It irritated him to utter matter-of-fact directions.
The conversation so halted that at length Janet was driven to the banality of saying: "I'm so sorry we have to go out!" And Hilda protested with equal banality, and added: "I suppose you're going out a lot just now?" "Oh no!" said Janet. "We go out less and less, and we get quieter and quieter. I mean us. The boys are always out, you know." She seemed saddened.
It was a note of intolerable banality, of philistine pretence and vulgar convention, such as Whitwell's low, unpainted cottage at the foot of the hill did not give, nor the little red school-house, on the other hand, showing through the naked trees.
It is an analysis of moral degeneration, leading progressively to insanity, in a doctor who is seized by the pervasive banality of the village in which he practises. Tchekoff, like many other Russian writers, has shown himself a master in the study of certain psychological anomalies.
Around her were strewn illustrated magazines and ladies' papers; but unfortunately the stories in the former appeared to her every bit as silly as the fashion-plates in the latter. Both had equally little to do with life as the ordinary flesh and blood human being lives it. She was filled with a rebellious sense of the banality of her surroundings this afternoon.
"And do you mind such people?" he asked, with an air of surprised contempt. "A girl has to be careful what she does." As Miss Van Tuyn said this she marvelled at her own conventionality. That she should be driven to such banality, she who had defied the opinion of both Paris and London! "Please come once more. I want you to help me." "I! How can I help you?" "With Dick Garstin.
I did not expect such a banality from you. Do you think, Mr. Henderson, we had better sell?" "Sell what?" "Our stocks. You are so occupied that I thought they might fall when you are up in the clouds somewhere." "No, I shall not forget." "Well, such things happen. I might forget you if it were not for the stocks." "Then I shall keep the stocks, even if they fall."
But she had already gone, with a parting injunction to be precise. When, three days thereafter, I retailed that banality to young Mr. Dyke, it produced a startling though not instantaneous effect. "I've got it!" he shouted. "Don't scare me off my bench! What is it you've got?" "The answer. She said he was not exactly her brother." "Who?"
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