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It's a trajectory that is on the one hand explainable, even banal.
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By contrast, the feelings she'd had for Marion seemed tepid, even banal.
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When you argue for freedom in Britain today, it can sound obvious, even banal.
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On the surface, the facts of the 1968 killing seemed simple, squalid, even banal.
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Answers to even banal questions got the light touch, not the withering blast of old.
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It's all rather routine, even banal.
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He said this simply, without self-consciousness, and the words themselves were predictable enough for his age - even banal.
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I still feel angry for him, and I struggle to make even banal conversation with relatives who have spouted homophobia at the kitchen table.
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And so this ordinary, even banal conversation set in train the relationship that, with the help of Michael Finbar Clancy, would produce Miranda Ophelia Sinclair.