Both Uses
banal
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And The Mountains Echoed
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- Then came an interminable stream of news and updates, much of it almost physically painful in its banality.†
Chpt 4 *banality = something that is uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
- I take inventory of the banal details of Mama's life in this room.†
Chpt 8banal = uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or 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)