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 *banality = something that is uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
- 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 9banal = uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
Definition:
uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
Pronunciation: Banal is correctly pronounced differently by various educated speakers of American English.