Hindi is considered every day, mundane and banal. American literary critic Edmund Wilson lambasted her prose as banal and her characterizations as superficial. Their reward is something more than just an escape into banal mediocrity. Assuming disguises, Reggie encounters more of the banal and pompous side of life. Similarly his plays often begin in a banal manner that undermines theatrical illusion. Throughout, his mesmerizing vocals elevate songs that might otherwise scan as banal. It would spare them the trouble of paying attention to their own banal remarks. I was squirming about how banal it was. The texture is, for the most part, based on a banal descending broken scale motif. Christopher Hooton of "The Independent" described the episodes as "slightly banal". It would probably have been banal and transparent. The team also signed free agents Sunday Salvacion, Gab Banal and Papot Paredes.