Sentences with phrase «as banal»

Don't let something as banal as an email address get in your way.

Most, if not all, practically house within their metal chassis a regular desktop computer, sometimes even running something as banal as Windows XP.

As banal a problem as it may seem to determine which similarly dressed person picked up which nearly identical yogurt cup, it's very difficult to get right at the speed and accuracy level needed in order to base an entire business on it.

The very expression» climate change» is therefore just a reference to something as banal as «change in the weather» or the tides or seasoanl change.

Minter's painting of course chronicles none of the specific events but just as clearly references the episode — as both banal history and burnished legend.

Objects that hold a personal resonance are raised to the status of relics despite their interpretation as banal or grotesque by the outsider.

The process itself, as banal as your nearest burning cigarette, is lent a poetic quality in a number of the works on show.

They took this stance in opposition to the widespread practice of what they regarded as a banal formalist abstraction dominated by the American followers of Mondrian such as Uya Bolotowsky and Burgoyne Diller.

His paintings are inspired by diverse historical references as well as banal images found in old books, magazines and the media in general.

Accompanying these works is «Pool» (2011), a silver painting on canvas, made with spray paint and enamel, which functions, just as its title suggests, as a banal puddle.

And so, we've got New York - based artist Valerie Snobeck, whose fascination is with objects as banal and strange as reservoirs, and now this series of new works will be presented at her first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, at Simon Lee Gallery.

Dalí's production after his Surrealist phase, once dismissed by scholars as banal kitsch, is now being celebrated for being so ahead of its time it looks as though it could have been made yesterday.

His mute and moody paintings have been described as banal and decorative «in a sickly way.»

Playing with the former function of the cupboard, Troika subtly interferes with our expectancies of what might be conceived as a banal occurrence; the ghost of a water leak becomes the manifestation of an unfamiliar, suspended time - zone.

And as far as that banal story goes?

I'd rather have a loud personality than someone as banal as Leo.

Despite many outlets dismissing the experience as banal and simplistic, we enjoyed the fact that it delivered on its premise of using Kinect to superimpose players into scenes from classic films; putting us directly into the movies in the most literal sense possible.

For instance, I want to know stuff as banal as why in the movie LOOPER they didn't just send those people back in time about a mile up above those corn fields.

I want to know stuff as banal as why in the movie LOOPER they didn't just send those people back in time about a mile up above those corn fields.

In an improvement over 2015's boring silver model, the 2016 Dell Inspiron 11 3000 2 - in - 1 comes in eye - catching «Bali Blue» and «Tango Red» as well as the banal «Alpine White» and «Foggy Night Grey.»

Julieta, the 20th film from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar is referred to as Banal in Shelagh's less than impressed review

Needless to say, when something tries to please everyone, everyone is seldom pleased; King Arthur is both stupid and boring, and the revelation that, stripped of tragedy, controversy, and resonance, Arthurian legend is as banal as and similar to Tears of the Sun (director Antoine Fuqua's previous film) displeases indeed.

It's almost as if a conscious effort has been made to make this mix of western, sci - fi and time travel genre elements as banal as possible.

Clearly whatever of interest that has kept readers returning to King's books does not translate into the film, which is as banal and unfulfilling as any major studio film released this summer.

It's just that the soporific uplift provided by the last two «Shrek» movies is just as banal as in any old live - action Hollywood drama.

The reason is that the advent of humans easily could have been accelerated or delayed hundreds of millions of years by something as banal as an asteroid hit.

I also learned that even in matters as banal as potty training, my husband is a wonderful father.

The cribs are not as like as banal crib.

I say this just in case there was anyone left who still doesn't realise rather than the majority who probably think that that statement is as banal as saying grass is green.

He loved to hear music from the guard's radio but would criticize what struck him as banal.

If we ever want nominalist, legal positivism to show up as the banal tripe that it is, then I don't see how not signing a semi-meaningless-though-legal document does this.

Not exact matches

YAAAS YOU BETTAAAAA,» passes as fairly banal blast from the IHOP Twitter account.)

While the company is talked about as the potential future of communication, Spiegel's plan to make money is decidedly banal: advertising.

Any one of the people who gets your photo can then respond with a visual or text message, and as TechCrunch noted, «flings» aren't ephemeral, removing the frankly banal forced «disappearing message» aspect of seemingly every new network.

For Banal - Estañol, this is not a deal - breaker as boycotts have been circumvented by Catalonia in the past.

That this was done in the most banal way — such as asking black people to name the 67 high court judges in the state before allowing them to register to vote — makes it all the more shameful.

It is distressingly banal to reduce Paul's language about sin and grace, about disobedience and love, to the level of cultural attitudes (toward, for example, «imperial ideology»), though such a reduction often passes itself off as theology in some seminary classrooms today.

However, Whitehead sees mans religious experience as providing a stabilizing unity and teleology to an otherwise largely banal existence.

As he explained it, «the only way for us to give witness is... to be what we are in the midst of banal, everyday realities.»

Anyone today who struggles through Kaplan's ponderous prose setting forth such banal and simplistic propositions as that Judaism is a «civilization» rather than a «religion,» that American Jews live in «two civilizations,» that the Jewish religious system is a collection of folkways, and that God is an idea rather than a personality must wonder what all the fuss is about.

This canard in turn limits his critical imagination to the rather banal contention that Moby - Dick «s primary focus should be understood as «good and evil interpenetrated.»

But, claims Gorringe, professor of theology at the University of Exeter, there was a «pull» as well: «There is not simply an iconoclasm, but also an iconpoiesis in the Reformation which understands that the world mirrors the divine in its banal, day - to - day reality.»

John XXIII knew, as did his successor Paul VI, that along with goods the Church should welcome, much that was meaningless, banal, and distracting would come in through the open windows, and some that was truly evil.

More «business as usual» when it comes to the banal double standards that gynocentrists so often traffic in?

Moreover, leaving aside its unfortunate opening and closing frame chapters, where the struggle to believe is treated in banal, secular - triumphalist terms from the protagonist's adult vantage, this novel persuasively represents Islam as an active, complex source of theologically framed consolation and challenge for Midwestern Muslims, who emerge as variously flawed believers at odds with each other about the nature and imperatives of their faith.

His knack for «writing» banal lyrics — strung together into incoherent whole songs — together with imitation vanilla chords and melodies somehow passes as real church music.

Aristotle, as a great scholar (Chung - Hwan Chen) has shown in a work not yet published, substituted for the receptacle (as subject of changing predicates) the banal plurality of substantial identities, which of course in some sense are real.

As for his own prejudiced agenda, it is summed up with the banal «cautionary aphorism» with which he concludes his review: «Dante was a Catholic; Milton was a Protestant; Shakespeare was a dramatist.»

There is an attitude at that club, a winner attitude and objectives are clearly stated at the beginning of the season, it is all or nothing (as for us, we are lucky if in the middle of the season we get a «hopefully a top four finish» knowing that we f*cked it up due to banal and common Wenger tactical clueless season after season all the same...).

Again, the odds are ridiculously low that this will happen, but if you think about Tebow as a 38th - round pick with one tool, but who was paid like a 19th - round pick because he has the potential to be a PR bonanza, this is an incredibly banal, dog - bites - man move.