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• n  a trite or obvious remark

• It is a banality, a clich, but it is a point on which many Americans, possibly including Richard Nixon himself, seem confused.
• This address at Kenyon was vintage Wallace: a smart, occasionally meandering discussion of the issues that consumed him, from the banality of life to the meaning of consciousness.
• What Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil has engendered an astonishing banality of explanation.

• platitude
• cliche
• commonplace
• bromide

News & Articles

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• Comment on "Hannah Arendt" review: How it looks to think
  Banality of evil says a lot about what is going on in our country right now as fossil fuels rule and the living planet dies
  June 22, 2013 - Denver Post

Quotes

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• Simon Crean in The Age
  He's the one that sought to mastermind my demise from the parliament,Mr Crean said. "I know the banality and the viciousness in him. Such a person, unless he's prepared to change his ways, should do the honourable thing and quit as deputy...
• Edward Norton in Courier Mail
  People who liked Fight Club, I think will like this film a lot because on a deep psych level, it's about the same things,Norton says. "It's about fantasy as a desperate attempt to get away from the numbing banality of what the modern world...
• Robert Gates in The Conservative Voice
  Reading the transcript, I sort of had the ...... reaction that this was the banality of evil. Hearing this guy go through this incredible list. I did this and then I did that, so on and so forth,Gates said.