Sentences with phrase «banal things»

The banal things around him gave him inspiration, things he found during his long walks, things that were no longer of use, things that were dear to him.

Not only based in the study of technique, but also in the study of subject matter, the series is a detached meditation on banal things I see constantly around me and denotes a jumping off point for a development of both self and style.

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.

There are many examples of admission essays on the internet, and yet most applicants fail since they write banal things that can not impress the committee.

It's a banal thing yet Lichtenstein's talent lies in his unwavering ability to make the banal compelling, to keep things rigorously breezy.

Not exact matches

My reason for an interest in a thing so potentially banal (and trust me, some of the proclamations are beyond....

This what has come out of the AGM on Thursday (amongst other banal and useless things... Nothing really decisive is discussed on those AGM... They are between shareholders and s * cking each other c*ck s when the fans pay «l'addition»...).

The frenzied hatred on even the most minor issues, the banal idiocy of those who pretend every event is a conspiracy against their online tribe, the lack of humanity or humour: these things tire you out after a while.

It is also important do not choose the banal and ordinary things that the person can buy it himself.

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.

Unfathomably gorgeous young woman who love all of the things banal middle aged men secretly hate about themselves?

His character may be banal, but his portrayal is the only thing that keeps you watching.

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 follow.

Unity is doing some great things although some may seem utterly banal unless you're intimate with the issues an AC game has.

Overall the gameplay is solid and the races are tight, but it's everything that surrounds these races where things start to become banal and, in some cases, cringeworthy.

J.J. Charlesworth's UK election special with a brief history of artists who have tried to work out which way the wind is blowing; Maria Lind goes in search of where things are really happening at Documenta 14 in Athens; Heather Phillipson considers interspecies empathy while watching Fevered Sleep's most recent performance; Jonathan T.D. Neil on the banal, the extreme, and the high commercial theatre of the art market.

They were asking basic questions: why an artist's actions must be in service to a physical thing; why poetry, music, and theater were such separate worlds; and why the studio and everything that happened in it (whether wild or banal) couldn't be fodder.

Creed has become particularly renowned for his aggressive deployment of a range of seemingly banal materials such as a blob of blu - tak stuck in the center of a wall, sheets of letter paper that are filled in with highlighter or ballpoint pen, collections of an enormous variety of balls, stacks of lumber, or neon spelling out simple words or phrases such as «Things», «Feelings» or «Everything is going to be alright».

Writer Gregory Volk notes: «The remarkable thing is how this exhaustive and systematic, yet extremely diverse anatomy of a banal backyard scene winds up so emotive and complicatedly human, suffused with longing and alienation, grace and agitation, loveliness and unease.»

Jennifer Bartlett: In the Garden (1980 - 83) catalog author Gregory Volk notes, «The remarkable thing is how this exhaustive and systematic, yet extremely diverse anatomy of a banal backyard scene winds up so emotive and complicatedly human, suffused with longing and alienation, grace and agitation, loveliness and unease.»

The tiles are not exactly a tool, but they are things that related directly to your body and they're banal non-objects.

Lichtenstein's talent lies in his unwavering ability to make the banal compelling, to keep things rigorously breezy

Once sculpture was taken off the pedestal, it was possible that artworks be confused with mere banal physical things in the world.

In the accompanying catalogue essay, Kirby described the works in Beyond Realism as «banal objects... things that we experience as directly as the things of everyday life.

He explains: «When you're exploring a new city, your eyes are always drawn to the unique things that locals consider banal and every day.

Sig, I work for a German Software Company, and some of the things that happen there make Monty Python look banal and obvious, so you've got to laugh.

The remarkable thing... is how banal it is.

It's one thing to talk about how algorithms go bad, but to show the banal birth of such an algorithm seemed like a story worth telling.

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.

The pictures not only find beauty in the banal, but they might also make you think twice before chucking out your old things...

I like reading your posts because they connect me to Australia and the small things I miss; to the daily banal stuff; parenting, working alone, writing, etc..