banalne Englisch:

a trite remark

It's trite, but he really was like a father to me.

That argument has become trite

The "twin tiger cubs get separated ..." story felt a bit trite.

Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.

Much of the riots' coverage was taken from the cell phones of passersby, saving local news outlets valuable film which they would later use for banal "human" "interest" "stories."