Banality

Is it mere coincidence that "banality", when anagrammed, reads "Ban Italy"?

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Tom detests sandwiches because of their banality.

As a result of the ridiculousness of these bulletins and the banality of the other main programs, the Valencians turn their backs on their television.

The concept of the banality of evil came into prominence following the publication of Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, which was based on the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem.

The law of banality, one of the most oppressive products of feudalism, was revived for the advantage of the nobility.

Other banalities included the lord's exclusive right to hunt over the land, his monopoly over fishing, and his right to keep the dove-cote whose feathery occupants ate a peasant's standing crops.

In fact corvées, champarts, and rights of banality not only continued but had been increased in the course of the seventeenth century.