Sentences with phrase «banal life»

The 2016 farming / dating / life sim lets you forget your worries and embrace a soothingly banal life in the countryside.

Snapshots of domestic personal scenes — a family at a picnic or banal living room interiors — are layered over items that circulate in public and private contexts — books without titles, UN treaty maps, magazine pages, or letters — that often show the signs of time and handling.

This piece is from a popular and highly coveted series of doctored images that the artist made by taking interior settings — from banal living rooms to entire movie theaters — and wrapping them in 3 - D «skins» made from paintings by art - historical figures like Mondrian and, in this case, Georgia O'Keeffe.

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This striking transformation of life into lifestyle, the way in which the tools, garments, and attitudes specific to particular times and places become commodities to be marketed to anonymous and rootless consumers: they are the natural (if also banal) expressions of our normal nihilism.»

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.

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.

It is banal, of course, to suggest that we can not live in the past.

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.

But sociobiology tells too banal a story to be able to account for radical altruism — the ethical imperative that leads a person to risk his or her own life in the attempt to save an unknown and unrelated stranger from the danger of death.

Having my dream of the perfect escape was preferable to having that dream come true and still be stuck here in a life most banal.

Without a personal sense of being involved in a win - all / lose - all affair, life itself is made banal.

As well as something to do, reading allows one to escape the banal, live other lives and learn without limitation.

These messages that «we perceive even if we do not conceive them» stand out from the materialistic and morally deficient chaos of our daily lives and «open up on another world which seems removed from the repetitive, banal and mundane» (p. 131).

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.

We're very repetitive, conditioned creatures and that often can lead to a feeling of stagnancy, like life is banal, patterns repeat, a waking sleep.

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.

Turning to a somewhat lighter subject, Bridges incisively contrasted the banal details of working - class Houston life with the frontier fantasies driving the nocturnal honky - tonk scene in Urban Cowboy (1980).

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.

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

Clearly the old adage about life imitating art is alive and well in the current political climate with the ridiculousness of a show like Aramando Iannucci's Veep seeming somewhat banal.

Distance from home is emphasised by Bob's fax machine that springs to life and spits out hand written notes in the early morning hours, banal questions about decor, shelving and carpet color, tedious reminders of home.

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

And this banal existence, for better or for worse, is in essence, Barney's life.

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.

To state the obvious: «The Runner» doesn't lack for drama, but the characters are so thinly and predictably drawn, and the movie's supposed insights into the art of political compromise so banal, that nothing catches fire — least of all Colin's flirtation with the (married) campaign publicist (Sarah Paulson) who re-enters his life just as the missus gives him the boot.

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.

Chronicling a week in the life of Paterson (Adam Driver), a bus driver and amateur poet whose home happens to be Paterson, New Jersey — also home to William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg and Lou Costello — the film depicts, day by day, his banal but unexpectedly engrossing routine.

A cubicle drone, he tweets out utterly banal thoughts («Panini with cheese and ham #livingthedream»), but Jon's waking life is but waiting moments in between the songs he's constantly composing in his head.

The diaries prove anything but banal, and filmmaker Judd Apatow — to whom Shandling was a lifelong friend and mentor — builds a searching examination of Shandling's life around them.

As Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) attempt to sustain a «normal» relationship, we're offered amusing contrasts between their banal, unsexy domestic life, and the «kinky fuckery» which made the books so popular.

Instead, she repeats reasonable but banal slogans such as, «When we give children the chance to succeed, they can» and «I do believe that schools and teachers can make a tremendous difference in the lives of [poor] kids who face these challenges every day.»

The Bad Bad trim and option choices take much of the life out of the 335i, and interior options make the cabin beyond banal.

Bad trim and option choices take much of the life out of the 335i, and interior options make the cabin beyond banal.

Thought is banal, but it is not devoid of edifying, that is necessary to start a serious thinking about respect to life and understanding.

-- Race Based difficulty in South Park — IT lives up to the hype apparently, too scared to watch by ourselves — Voltron Season 3 — WoW latest content — Star wars loses another director — lots of other banal pop culture chat

Taking inspiration from the 3DS sim Tomodachi Life, Miitomo encourages users to create a Mii based on themselves, connect with friends, and answer a range of banal questions.

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

This work illuminates Thiebaud's life long practice of questioning what we see in art by infusing banal objects with an iconic status.

Beneath the banal facade of post — World War II life was an undercurrent of madness and delirium that artists throughout Europe, Latin America, and the United States tapped for inspiration.

The strength of Tiravanija's work lies precisely in its ephemerality, and the slippery ways it escapes definition, the way it takes the material of the every - day and re-stages it, allowing the viewer a perspective at once banal and deeply profound about the quickly fleeting nature of life itself.

Scenes from contemporary life, ever so slightly dated, played out in banal landscapes, both lost in time and relentlessly modern.

This marriage of spooky beauty to evolutionary science plays out a struggle between life and death, the spiritual and the physical, and the banal and the sublime.

He has used live animals, sacred forms and banal objects within a controversial artistic process that aims at forcing the viewer to reconsider what is aesthetically pleasing and what is morally aceptable.

Inspired by his experience working full - time as a business administrator, Uriarte creates work whose repetitive gestures extrapolate the banal rhythms of office life into imaginative abstractions.

In both cases, Skudder's decision to make her art props small result in an understated humor that light up otherwise banal still lives.

TORBJØRN RØDLAND (b. 1970, Stavanger, Norway) is a Los Angeles - based photographer known for portraits, still lives and landscapes that transcend their often banal settings and motifs and move into the otherworldly.

The artist combines the real and the ideal, the traditional and profane, the grotesque and picturesque, the banal and sublime to reconceptualize still life painting and create works that are simultaneously celebratory and critical of the habits and habitats of our everyday online lives.

The singular artist, her patented methodology, her hand, her oeuvre, a life primed for retrospection contra the looming anticipation of death, banal idioms whose meanings have worn through semantic satiation, the grand narrative of painting and its anthropomorphic object, legends of pop culture, salient reason itself — all appear to instinct as enframing devices or resistances to subvert.

Living somewhere between film, modern news media and history painting, Kahrs» work seamlessly merges the beauty and tradition of painting and portraiture with banal yet grotesque objectivity, seducing the viewer into a reductive, saturated palate only to confront them with an aggressive yet all too familiar imagery.

Hard Light depicts the daily lives of two young women in Los Angeles as they engage in activities at once banal and strangely incomprehensible.