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Strength in What Remains
- The Thinker bears about the same relation to sculpture as the Mona Lisa does to painting, or "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" to poetry — a great work of art that has become hard to see for itself, buried under banal associations and dumb jokes.†
Chpt 2.12banal = uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
- As instructed, Deo read Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.†
Chpt 2.12 *banality = something that is 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.