Agram is the seat of the ban, or viceroy, of Croatia-Slavonia, of the Banal and Septemviral courts, the highest in the land, and of a chamber of commerce.
As for Tiger's play-off secret - he made it sound almost banal.
Banal lyrics with meaning and worth is another essential weapon in a jazz singer's armory.
Banal, empty platitudes fill its pages like wet cardboard clogging a dustbin.
But I prefer today to do something altogether more mundane with you, you might even consider it banal.
But the danger is that we just make Conservatism seem banal.
But the danger is that we just make conservatism seem banal.
Everyday reality is often banal for most individuals.
He doesn't like English poetry, he finds it very banal.
He repeated the banal questions she asked the housemates on Friday night including the absurd '"How would you like to be remembered?"
He struts his banal clichéd image and sets out to alter its course according to his inner world.
How can we explain the persistence of this banal idea?
How can you stand to listen to banal music without getting tired of it?
I try to avoid being banal when sitting in an interview.
In such a way the imagery of the demonic becomes commonly accepted, banal and trite.
In the simpler, kinder early days of the world wide web, all a page needed to do to get ranked was have a few good keywords and some banal copy and perhaps a meta-tag or two in the HEAD to attract attention.
Is it banal to dress up as a 1965 hippie?
It might seem that nothing so short as a text message can be more than banal, cheapening the word "love".
It was a banal, yet apparently necessary, observation about British society today.
Not everything works; for example, "Rock Star" is a pretty banal song.
Note how the author's seemingly banal insights into his own life come together to form a coherent, devastating whole.
Nothing is permanent is a banal statement, but relentlessly true.
Some artwork does not interest me, especially if it is banal.
The banal realities of the film industry really do determine what we see on the screen.
The south, I sense, finds this rather banal.
The store was filled with banal, mass-produced objects.
This should have been a thriller on par with The Gift, but instead is totally banal.
What better way to fill the time than to write an utterly banal post about the weather?
When Greenblatt discusses the sources of Shakespeare 's inspiration, they are often stunningly banal and overly speculative.
When Greenblatt discusses the sources of Shakespeare's inspiration, they are often stunningly banal and overly speculative.
You can not be banal if you want to stand out to a publisher.