Apparently you can't even talk about Jack FM without becoming banal.

"Death has become entirely banal," said Regina Pastrana, a social worker.

What had become banal was the attack on thinking, and this itself, for her, was devastating and consequential.

Eventually the numbing similarity of portrait, letters, bullet-gouged lighters and premature death become banal.

As the death toll mounts, the bizarre has become almost banal, but the doctor says it has taken too much out of him.

So widely accepted are some of the movement's goals that they have become banal.

The problem, of course, is how to capture banality without the work itself becoming banal.

As the death toll mounts, the bizarre has become almost banal.

In skiing, we're so used to winning that it's become nearly banal.

What was mysterious has become banal.