Sentences with phrase «at banal»

Want to waste hours of your life staring at a banal... even when you're not at your computer?

Rather people laughed at banal phrases such as «I'll see you guys later!»

The discovery that laughter is more often produced at banal comments than jokes prompts the question, what did it evolve for?

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And the key to all that — what attracts these different factions — is something that, on the surface at least, sounds rather banal: a digital ledger, like the one in your checkbook.

Singh's videos, usually filmed at home, take the form of personal comedic monologues and skits about banal but relatable topics.

At the most banal level, this is a question of math.

The advice may sound banal, says Meir Statman, a finance professor at Santa Clara University, but it works.

More disturbing, though, is the banal presence of Paula White at the inauguration.

If I seem to be overstressing a point that is obvious and banal, it is because I know some «violent Christians» who do not at all take the attitude described above.

Abraham Moles, director of the Social Psychology Institute at Strasbourg, points out that while TV has been a cultural life buoy for farmers, lonely people, and the culturally and the socially impoverished in France, it has at the same time been a pressure toward the banal and the constricting for those already experiencing a communication - rich life.

Just because I can't write two sentences without throwing banal childish insults at you doesn't necessarily mean that I'm a caustic, insincere troll.

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.»

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.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

Too simplistic, banal, lacking in depth, shallow, doctrineless: Consider that one that just talks about unity among brothers that only mentions God in passing at the very end.2.

Preaching at its worst must have been banal, at its best superb.

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...).

But only because he was marginally more succesful than Ed Miliband at making the same banal point many times over, regardless of what he was asked.

«Congratulations to @eonenergyuk for winning the best commercial exhibition stand award at at #ldconf» his press office tweeted, in the most banal yet poorly time tweet of the year.

If you think that statement is banal then what about this one:» no government puts its citizens at risk for economic advantage» David Miliband.

But if for some unfathomable reason, you absolutely can not resist the urge to compose short and banal messages instead of paying attention to the road, at least sign your organ donor card.

Sitting in a café or at the bus stop, you listen in on conversations between people: grannies gossiping, spouses bickering, teenagers flirting and the banal and terrible stuttering and silences that happen between people.

The specific ending of the film, which wisely avoids the worst mistakes of the book and at least cuts things mercifully short after a series of catastrophes, is not successful or convincing; in fact, it's rather clichéd and banal, but the intuition that violent, terrible acts flow inexorably in part from Americans» unawareness and incomprehension of the simplest facts of their own lives is undeniably true.

With understated fatalism rather than Titanic - size hysteria — at once slapstick and ice - cool — McKellar tracks a handful of average but bizarre Canadian earthlings as they prepare in small, banal, personal ways for extinction, then links them in a bigger human whole.

If you cut through Lucas» thickets of self - reflexivity, metaphysical mumbo jumbo and banal potshots at media violence, there are three ace performances here by actors who can elevate and enliven even as mediocre a piece of material as this.

At once an astute study of the banality of modern life and a banal student film wrapped around a series of inside jokes.

Haneke and his actors, playing the bittersweet music of Haneke's crafted - down - to - the - essential script, show us fully and roundly what's at stake even as they depict its cruel, slow, biologically - mandated slipping away, and there's simply never been anything, no depiction of romantic / eternal love, more affecting put on celluloid: The fruits of Haneke's unwavering banishment of any easy sentiment or banal platitudes or reassurances about the human spirit is a pure, clear, penetrating, and overwhelming emotion.

It sounds a bit like a Media Ventures score at times - not just in the banal orchestration, but some of the tunes too - but also has the same sense of fun that Hans Zimmer's better action / adventure scores do.

A movie so silly and banal that it may take us a bit longer than usual to realize how actually stupid, implausible and empty it is once it is over, with an awful amount of expository dialogue, poorly - developed characters and a non-linear structure adopted for no purpose at all.

The burglars are personality - free voids whose leader (Billy Burke) does little more than sneer, spout banal game theory, and marvel at what an «impressive woman» Shaun is.

At least back in the olden days Media Ventures action scores used Backdraft as their template and so you ended up with things like The Rock which may be pretty banal but at least provided great fun, but now it's Spy Game - not an impressive musical work to begin with - that seems to be the model they all want to folloAt least back in the olden days Media Ventures action scores used Backdraft as their template and so you ended up with things like The Rock which may be pretty banal but at least provided great fun, but now it's Spy Game - not an impressive musical work to begin with - that seems to be the model they all want to folloat least provided great fun, but now it's Spy Game - not an impressive musical work to begin with - that seems to be the model they all want to follow.

But the end result is, at best, a rushed mess that sees the poetic ambitions of Snyder's previous DC films replaced with the banal grinding of plot gears and obligatory character exposition.

At its best, Real Time reminded me a little of Alexander Payne's wonderful Nebraska in the way it depicts small - town life as so unrelentingly ugly, banal, and tacky that it comes back around to being strangely beautiful.

At the other end of the scale, Tony Curtis and John Ireland as slaves and John Dall and Nina Foch as Romans are pretty awful, and the banal movie - star gloss of their performances periodically undermines some of the film's best claims to be taken seriously.

Unfortunately, the film lacks even the most banal of structures, meaning that it's a hodgepodge collection of scenes that don't flow well at all.

Possibly the biggest danger leading to the incident is the most banal: the bottlenecks and «traffic jams» caused by having dozens of climbers competing for a narrow window of opportunity on the mountain at one time.

Hamstrung by bad plotting and banal dialogue, not to mention the fact that basically anyone who we think is dead can be resurrected at will, it's nearly impossible to care.

Above Average's «Your Biggest Fan» web series is a modern riff on Saturday Night Live's «The Chris Farley Show», with comedian Rob King cornering various celebrities at a water cooler to accost them with banal questions and pathetic demands.

And in a show of the film's most enthusiastic audience demographic barreling past irony, a clip from a panel at Fantastic Fest shows audience members performing humiliating tasks on - stage, from getting a real, permanent tattoo to dipping testicles in hot sauce, for banal prizes.

Some of the best scenes in «Come Sunday» show us the banal, behind - the - scenes operations at Higher Dimensions, where everyday stresses and disagreements intrude as they would in any workplace.

But Love The Coopers is not banal and harmless, it is actually a searing portrait of holiday - driven despair, a ruthless and harrowing look at emotional burnout and the soul - crushing playacting demanded by the holiday season.

Seriously, every banal war / disaster trick in the book is at play in Battle: Los Angeles.

With arguably the most banal dialogue this side of a Nicholas Sparks movie, If I Stay wastes the considerable talents of Moretz in a calculated tear - jerker aimed squarely at young teenage girls, who definitely deserve better than a movie which makes The Lovely Bones look like a neo-realist classic.

Vince Vaughn and Christian Slater are perhaps slightly more surprising inclusions, while Nicolas Cage is only at 15th due to the fact he very occasionally makes a great movie amid all the surreal / banal ones.

Or is it simply that Kevin is a tragic and gruesome outlier: a freak exaggeration of the banal fact that boys get angry at their parents, angry at their schools, angry at new baby siblings, angry at themselves, and will find some way of acting out?

Such conclusions may look obvious, even banal, but in fact it was unprecedented for the federal education research agency to treat teachers, principals, and parents as key clients, rather than targeting its products at academics and policymakers.

At one time, we could have been excited by extraordinary mechanicals hidden beneath a banal skin, but in the Fiat ownership era with its emphasis on front - wheel - drive chassis, it's impossible to know anything about a modern Alfa before actually driving it.

As the narrator moves from married woman to the mother of six children, she struggles to find her identity even in the most banal things, such as the daily wash for example: There was a young woman from Moscow Who bought laundry detergent at Costco.

At an age when many of us have settled into middle - aged complacency, Morrison is always thinking, always challenging conventional wisdom, even when it comes to the most banal of activities.

Here at Great Rail Journeys we're all incredibly excited about this new venture - perhaps I should say adventure - a complete round the world trip by rail, very much in the spirit of the golden age of travel before the advent of the predictable and often banal package holiday.