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  • BANAL: It's integral for your film to be here, it's integral so that it will sell here.

    CNN Transcript May 16, 2008 2008

  • BANAL STEREOTYPES by lisa, Oct 21, 2008, at 23:34pm

    BANAL STEREOTYPES » Sociological Images 2008

  • BANAL: When you're always makes deals, a lot of the deals will be made on the beach.

    CNN Transcript May 16, 2008 2008

  • BANAL: It's entitle (ph) for your film to be here.

    CNN Transcript May 23, 2008 2008

  • She watched his anxiety melting away under her sunny smile, and soon perceived that, whatever doubt may have crossed his mind at the moment, she had, by the time the last bars of the minuet had been played, succeeded in completely dispelling it; he never realised in what a fever of excitement she was, what effort it cost her to keep up a constant ripple of BANAL conversation.

    The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • The situation was indeed grotesque, had it not been at the same time so fearfully tragic: the poor, weary woman, broken in spirit, and half frantic with the bitterness of her disappointment, receiving on her knees the BANAL gallantries of her deadly enemy.

    The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • She watched his anxiety melting away under her sunny smile, and soon perceived that, whatever doubt may have crossed his mind at the moment, she had, by the time the last bars of the minuet had been played, succeeded in completely dispelling it; he never realised in what a fever of excitement she was, what effort it cost her to keep up a constant ripple of BANAL conversation.

    The Scarlet Pimpernel 1905

  • The situation was indeed grotesque, had it not been at the same time so fearfully tragic: the poor, weary woman, broken in spirit, and half frantic with the bitterness of her disappointment, receiving on her knees the BANAL gallantries of her deadly enemy.

    The Scarlet Pimpernel 1905

  • Their conversation was BANAL, -- tame, -- ordinary; they might have been well-behaved, elegantly dressed peasants for aught they said of wise, cheerful, or witty.

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

  • HIS father was a general in the Indian army -- nothing could be more BANAL.

    Philistia Grant Allen 1873

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