Sentences with phrase «banal fact»

One thing that disguises this banal fact is that the debate over new technology, the power of social media etc, is presented as a debate between technologists and anti-technologists.

It's a bit of a foregone conclusion now, since in the time since the hack the notion of Russian interference with the election has gone from unnerving possibility to banal fact.

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?

It's a marvel and a menace, a banal fact of life and a force for incalculable change.

While this may be news to many Westchester residents, it is not even an «open secret» in New Rochelle just a banal fact of political life.

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Meanwhile, the NDC's Deputy General Secretary in - charge of Operations, Koku Anyidoho, who said he has also gotten wind of the NPP claims, told The Herald «it is not surprising that the NPP will resort to this banal and outmoded tactics to attempt confusing Ghanaians», adding «what the NPP is refusing to accept is the fact that the Ghanaian electorate is not uneducated».

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

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.

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.

Given the fact that Hilary Duff is a performer who appears to be very cognizant of her career (as she made a smooth transition from a TV show to a singing career to movies), one would have to wonder why she would be involved in such a banal film.

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.

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.

The prose is similarly deliberate and seemingly mundane, but the otherwise banal details are made more seductive by the fact of their foreign locale.

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.

A multi-disciplinary collaborative team, IPO examines how the intuitive, fluid nature of the artistic process is both disrupted and energized by banal economic facts.

Large - scale paintings of U.S.A. FOREVER stamps are in fact reproductions from the USPS website, featuring a strikethrough over the text intended to prevent counterfeiting; the works highlight the chauvinistic message espoused by something so banal as our postage.