My contention is that the full use of those seven-and-a-half hours will quicken the whole life of the week, add zest to it, and increase the interest which you feel in even the most banal occupations.
EmailsEmails can be as banal and brief as any text message, but there are plenty of exceptions: long ones penned while abroad, or traveling, mail with attachments, breakup letters, I Miss You letters.
I own artisanal clogs that would befit a Quaker woodsmith, strappy snakeskin stilettos by Louis Vuitton and black-toed Chanel slingbacks that imbue the most banal of outfits with instant chic.
The reasons for going cold after a date range from the banal to the bizarre, with one respondent admitting that he couldn't stop staring at a date's mole, and another saying simply, 'They punched my cat.
On a day-to-day basis at work, do you trumpet every accomplishment, even the most banal?
Some of Davis's tips are banal to say the least: "If you are working from home, turn off the TV" stands out.
I've dragged my own CD boxes from apartment to apartment for more than a decade, certain that one day I will hire someone to convert them all to MP3, a task so banal and time-consuming the thought of it makes me want to bury myself under the stacks with my friend.
What might seem like a hellish scenario for those still keen on the solitary escapism associated with a traditional movie-going experience is meant to appeal to younger audiences for whom mobile phones have become lifelines and sharing one's every thought — even about something as banal as the air-conditioning in the cinema — has become a way of life.
Most financial-planning advice, like most New Year's resolutions, is too complex or too banal.
The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative.
