All 3 Uses of
banal
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She sought faith in spacious banal phrases, taken from books: "the instinctive nobility of simple souls,"†
Chpt 18 *banal = uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
- They hurt each other very much, and sometimes they were close to weeping, and invariably he used banal phrases about her duties and she used phrases quite as banal about freedom, and through it all, her discovery that she really could get away from Main Street was as sweet as the discovery of love.†
Chpt 36
- They hurt each other very much, and sometimes they were close to weeping, and invariably he used banal phrases about her duties and she used phrases quite as banal about freedom, and through it all, her discovery that she really could get away from Main Street was as sweet as the discovery of love.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
Pronunciation: Banal is correctly pronounced differently by various educated speakers of American English.