And so it had continued, a banal conversation that went nowhere.

Step wasn't about to disagree with him, but he didn't see how Douglas could know that from the banal little conversation he had with Stevie.

My wife stayed in the car and was soon approached by a young man who engaged her in banal conversation.

We see the parents having a banal conversation in the car moments before the accident and then the looming disaster.

The book ends as it began, with Bateman and his colleagues at a new club on a Friday night, engaging in banal conversation.

But banal conversations, or those where information is simply being imparted, have a lesser effect.

A tap on the line would register a banal prerecorded conversation.

After three and a half hours of sitting, occasionally listening in on the most banal and disgusting conversations at Trump's, she couldn't take any more.

The four of us made banal and tense conversation until my food arrived.

Machelle often revealed anomalies in the middle of otherwise banal conversations, seemingly unaware of their impact.