Both Uses of
banal
in
A Death in the Family
- He began to realize the emotion, and the loneliness, behind the banality of what she had said; he was ashamed of himself to have answered as if it were merely banal.†
Chpt 9 *
- He began to realize the emotion, and the loneliness, behind the banality of what she had said; he was ashamed of himself to have answered as if it were merely banal.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(banal) uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusualeditor's notes: Pronunciation: Banal is correctly pronounced differently by various educated speakers of American English.