At first he had thought that it would be a hardship to exchange his own realistic method, his studies of character, for those Banalities of plot and action independent of all motive, which wearied him even when read, boiled down, in a magazine.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
He would not spoil the parting by Banalities of hat-raising amid the group of friends or relations who would doubtless meet her.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
His rhetoric offends a taste that can tolerate and applaud verbose Banalities, with little trace of redeeming art.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill