Sentences with phrase «banal comments»

(In the film's one gentle bow to humor, Lorens isn't aware of their agreement, and he's baffled when he fulsomely praises the food and wine, only to be met with scripture, or banal comments about the weather.)

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

One of the reasons that popes and bishops love to dress in medieval costumes is that they believe that it gives their sometimes bigoted and sometimes banal comments some real weight.

Correct Cunty — what a brilliantly appropriate name for someone who makes such a banal comment by the way.

Most laughter was in fact either triggered by a banal comment or used to punctuate everyday speech.

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I expect my comment - like yours - to generate more banal protestations by all the petulant children out there.

Lawrenson makes banal and profoundly unfunny comments which pass for wit on the circuit for the comically handicapped.

Punishing herself for going off on «banal» tangents that conjure vivid images of Hitler's squalid bunker (Blind Spot's structural conceit finds Junge judging the playback of comments she previously made), she recounts in linear detail the beginning of the end, so to speak.

The 100 - Year - Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: This year's designated out - of - nowhere nominee plays like a Scandinavian Forrest Gump, weaving into and out of history while commenting on it in only the most banal terms.

Film criticism seemingly doesn't get more banal than commenting upon Martin Scorsese's «fascination» with violence.

It pointed to the everyday subject matter (furniture, babies nappies, kitchen utensils, toilets) of the foursome, whose celebration of the banal in the lives of ordinary people was their attempt to make art more relevant and accessible, while making a clear social comment.

New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast once created a cartoon retelling Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain using Bic ballpoint pens as stand - in for the characters: this, I think, was a comment on the cartoonists» and writers» obsession with the banal writing implement.

In his signature style of modern art, Rosenquist is noted for his immaculately painted canvases whose complex layers and juxtapositions of banal imagery commented sharply on the values of American consumerism.