The Only Use
banal
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
(Edited)
- If one wants to appraise it, it is at once heroic and banal—but who wants to do that?
p. 272.8banal = uninteresting due to lack of anything unusual
Definitions:
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(1)
(banal) uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusualPronunciation: Banal is correctly pronounced differently by various educated speakers of American English.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)