I couldn't believe the banality of the question. 我无法相信那个问题的庸俗。
Frequently banality is the better parts of valor. 老生常谈往往比大胆打破常规更为人称道。
Far more suitable to the real interests of the authorities today is what I have called the aesthetics of banality, which misses the truth much more inconspicuously, acceptably, and plausibly, and( since it is far more digestib 今天对当权者真正的兴趣最适合的是我称之为平庸的美学,它十分难以察觉地、以被接受地和花言巧语地错过了真实(为它对于惯性的头脑来说太可以消化)并且非常适合在商品哲学中文化所扮演的角色:不是用真实激发他们,而是用谎言令其放心。
banality
[ noun ] a trite or obvious remark <noun.communication>
Banality \Ba*nal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Banalities}. [F. banalit['e]. See {Banal}.] Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. --J. Morley.
All of this banality is surrounded by parsley sprigs of literary pretension.
But banality is for nobody.
Every Kafka frisson is flattened by declamatory literalism; every dark Kafka joke is trapped in the headlights of the film's stagy overemphasis. Boxing Helena is another potentially startling idea boxed into banality by the mise-en-scene.
It is a cornucopia of banality.
Taken over by imperial banality, Miss Owada now smiles shyly at the cameras and walks behind the prince.
And occasionally, the love-struck Vincent even rises above scriptwriter banality.