(n.) Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem is no longer that it's brazen, but that it's banal.
(2) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(3) As human papilloma virus type 5 is known to have malignant potential, clinicians should be on the lookout for these banal-looking and distinctly non-warty lesions in renal transplant recipients.
(4) But neither Jalili nor any other candidate has so far offered much in the election other than banalities – despite Iran's mounting problems, which now centre on the reduction of oil exports from 2.2m barrels a day to 1.1m in the past year due to tightening western sanctions.
(5) Most of the macroscopically visible abnormalities of the placenta are of no functional significance, the major exception to this general banality being the uncommon large haemangioma which can cause complications in the mother, fetus and neonate.
(6) He does this quite a lot, and even fairly banal details about his personal life are injuncted the moment they're out of his mouth, which is frustrating but unsurprising, given his publicity-shy reputation.
(7) Instead a banally labelled Office for Students (OfS) is to be created.
(8) Achebe's writing isn't anything as banal as cultural relativism – something he has been accused of – but a powerful refutation of the fact that before the white man, Africa was a "blank sheet of civilisation".
(9) So Zhou Enlai’s famous reply was actually quite banal – yet is now universally reinterpreted as a gem of sempiternal Chinese wisdom.
(10) And, at a time when Apple was essentially reinventing home electronics, Fiorina’s spectacularly banal mission statement was, “ Invent ” which is probably why we’re not all calling all tablets “H-Pads” today.
(11) There is indeed evidence to indicate that signaling molecules involved in cellular communication are 'banalized': that means that their receptors are liable to be expressed in almost any tissue by a wide variety of cells.
(12) Particular difficulty was experienced with small (less than 5 mm), flat lesions, which can be banal or potentially malignant.
(13) “One could clearly see from the evidence presented that Mladić, Karadžić and others from the Serb leadership of the time were not mythical characters – neither monsters, as the Bosniak victim narrative paints them, nor heroes and “fathers of the nation” as they are presented by the dominant Serb politic – but banal, self-centred opportunists drunk on the unchecked power to command lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
(14) Alternatively, might it not suggest that quite apart from banal, administrative, bureaucratic "filtering" – routine chucking out cases sent by applicants many years after a final domestic disposal, or without any domestic proceedings having been undertaken – the court is already making extensive use of highly discretionary concepts such as "manifestly ill-founded" to pre-judge the interest of its caseload, and is already selecting cases which it regards as "serious" or "important"?
(15) It's a trajectory that is on the one hand explainable, even banal.
(16) It looks as if someone, in a great hurry, has crammed details of the most banal US shopping mall design of the late 1980s and more recent Chinese design into a laptop in their student bedsit, pressed the "print" button and then, unbelievably, convinced someone, in an equal hurry, to build them.
(17) Occasionally, Sting sings in the sort of broad Newcastle accent he has never revealed before, the one he has previously felt placed him back in the small terraced street he grew up in, a place he once described as an "enclave of banality".
(18) As for bacterial pneumonias they usually present as an acute lobar pneumonia with a banal organism but severe gram negative pneumonias are possible justifying a detailed systematic approach in certain cases.
(19) That is why May should throw away the banalities and try to address a fundamental truth.
(20) Therefore it is very important to inform all patients and their parents about the low, but lifelong risk of infection following splenectomy in order to begin the antibiotic therapy as soon as possible even in cases of banal infections.
Bathos
Definition:
(n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
Example Sentences:
(1) At sufficiently high laser intensities, a photostationary mixture of bacteriorhodopsin (BR) and its red-shifted (batho) photoproduct (K) is obtained.
(2) The Batho power-law formula is in common use in many treatment planning systems to correct for the presence of lungs and other inhomogeneities.
(3) Reirradiation of the batho product with light at wavelengths longer than 520 nm yielded a mixture composed of presumably 9- or 11-cis forms of retro-gamma-rhodopsin.
(4) It was converted to the lumi intermediate through a metastable species, the BL intermediate, which has never been detected in Rh(9) at low temperature and whose absorption maximum was at shorter wavelengths than that of the batho intermediate.
(5) The lung dose correction was calculated using the methods of Batho or ratio of TMR.
(6) On irradiation with blue light at -191 degrees C, 9-cis-10-F-rhodopsin was converted to another bathochromic intermediate that was different in absorption spectrum from batho-10-F-rhodopsin.
(7) For high energies, however, it is more accurate in the build-up region than other commonly used correction techniques such as the ratio-of-TMR or Batho methods.
(8) It is suggested that in 5,6-diH-ISORHO, a primary bathorhodopsin intermediate analogous to the bathorhodopsin intermediate (BATHO) of the native pigment, rapidly converts to a blue-shifted intermediate (BSI, lambda max 430 nm) which is not observed after photolysis of native rhodopsin.
(9) Based on these results, it was infered that the formation of batho-rhodopsin is due to photoisomerization of the chromophoric retinal of rhodopsin and is not due to translocation of a proton on the ring or on the side chain from C-6 to C-8 of the chromophoric retinal to the Schiff-base nitrogen.
(10) It is shown that when BATHO is formed its transition dipole moves away from the original cis band transition dipole direction.
(11) Upon irradiation with red light at -191 degrees C, batho-12-F-rhodopsin was converted to a mixture of 12-F-rhodopsin and 9-cis-12-F-rhodopsin like that of the natural bathorhodopsin, whereas batho-10-F-rhodopsin was not converted to 9-cis-10-F-rhodopsin but only to 10-F-rhodopsin.
(12) The angles between both these transition dipoles and those of the long-wave-length bands of BATHO, BSI, and LUMI are also determined.
(13) "Track was originally offered to Christina Aguilera ," continued the subheading, with a detectable note of bathos.
(14) It is proposed that the rate of the BATHO to BSI transition is limited by the relaxation of the strained all-trans-retinal chromophore within a tight protein environment.
(15) It is concluded that in all of the pigments the results are consistent with the formation of an equilibrium between BATHO and BSI, which subsequently decays on a nanosecond time scale at room temperature to a lumirhodopsin intermediate.
(16) It is easy to understand Alastair Campbell's verdict on the unmanly spectacle of the governor's departure on the lease-expired colony of Hong Kong, an event which matches the taking leave of Granada by Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Spain, for dramatic bathos.
(17) These results suggest that the batho-lumi transition of iodopsin at low temperature is likely to be inhibited by the Cl- bound to the protein moiety of iodopsin, while at room temperature the Cl- bound to iodopsin could be released on the conversion process of batho- to lumiiodopsin.
(18) Inactivation by chelating agents such as o-phenanthroline or batho-phenanthroline sulfonic acid occurs only in the presence of reducing agents (mercaptoethanol and ascorbic acid).
(19) The photoproduct produced by the irradiation of AcRh(9) had an absorption spectrum red shifted from the original AcRh(9) and was identified as the batho intermediate of AcRh(9).
(20) Yesterday's push by Barclays into South Africa - by spending rand 33bn (£2.9bn) to buy a 60% stake in local banking group Absa - has the enthusiastic endorsement of the local black economic empowerment group Batho Bonke and the approval of the government.