Meanings of as banal in inglés

I wish it wasn't as banal to say it: me too.

The words that escape him are as banal as he feared they might be.

The evil was as banal as the everyday artifact and had no special status.

Just being with him made me happy, as banal and trite as a teenage crush.

Which, as banal as that sounds, turns out to be kind of a big deal.

The tableau would have been unthinkable only a moment ago; now it's as banal as dirt.

How can something as banal as a phone call or a knock on the door really compete?

The term "celebrity culture" does to celebrity what "materialism" does to shopping: dismisses the whole thing as banal and evil.

It could be something as banal as buying Belgian chocolate bars at the corner shop and engaging the cashier and staff in the local language.