Sentences with phrase «banal thoughts»

That means that when you're meditating and intense thoughts or feelings hit — not banal thoughts about picking up the dry cleaning, but rather a rush of anxiety or joy or heartache or anger — let go of the breath and open yourself to that experience.

In Diego Kid al Servizio di sua Maestà (Diego Kid on His Majesty's Service, 1974), he mocks Diego Velázquez's position as a court painter by recreating Las Meninas in miniature and revealing the banal thoughts of the royal family as they sit.

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.

Again and again, your voice rising, your voice rising until you're shouting, shouting above the cheers of your audience, your audience cheering in acclaim, acclaim for your banal thoughts, your banal thoughts with the word «Britain» in them, your banal thoughts.

If you want to give your banal thoughts impact, say them again and again.

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Even the CBC last year promoted its banal sitcom Being Erica with promises of a hot lesbian sex scene — and when the Mother Corp thinks girl - on - girl action makes acceptable prime - time viewing, it's a sure sign that sex is no longer shocking.

We get a great many of her thoughts — sometimes helpful, sometimes banal — and it is difficult not to feel patronised.

'» Why does that sound banal from many lips, but startling from this «dilettante» or connoisseur who has dipped into the finer points of Cyril of Alexandria's thought?

So many times I find myself getting caught up in the banal and mundane work of «service» that I miss the communion I think I have.

However, I think there is something utterly banal about the explosiion of discernment ministries.

You might think they're simple and too banal to blog about, but all of the reasons you gave for sharing your simple dinners apply equally to snacks.

Again, the odds are ridiculously low that this will happen, but if you think about Tebow as a 38th - round pick with one tool, but who was paid like a 19th - round pick because he has the potential to be a PR bonanza, this is an incredibly banal, dog - bites - man move.

I say this just in case there was anyone left who still doesn't realise rather than the majority who probably think that that statement is as banal as saying grass is green.

It's hard to understand how something so banal, even, stirs up such heated debate... That said, I wonder how many of the people insisting that women leave the room, or even cover up completely, would think it's ok to ask women on the street to cover up?

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

Thoughts fill our every waking moment, and whether they are insightful, banal, playful or bizarre, there is no denying that thinking comes naturally to us.

Probably my letter will seem banal and boring, but I ask you not to think, that this next identical letter from the Russian woman I think, that you receive set of letters from women, and probably you correspond with them, it was explained me by the assistant in the internet cafe.

Mawkish, bland and banal, this dreary love story — and it's no «Love Story» — seems to think it can throw together dying girl and handsome prince, and that's all there is to it.

Mostly, we see people reading the same few pages over and over, marked by the kind of banal power - of - positive - thinking bromides («Until you're off this planet, you have another chance») one might find stitched on an embroidered plaque in a hospital waiting room.

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.

Imagine a banal soap opera that's interspersed with occasional scenes of inconsistently thought - out horror, and you pretty much have Truth or Dare.

If you've ever found yourself playing an RPG and thinking to yourself how much you enjoy moving a character around simple maps, winning battles by pushing the fight button, and skipping through a banal trope - laden story, but wishing that it didn't take so darned much time and thinking to beat, has Kemco got the game for you.

The exterior is capped off with 20 - inch, 10 - spoke aluminum wheels, and Grand Edition badging — lest anyone think your high - class cruiser is merely the banal CL550 or CL600.

For the European market, the thought of another high performance Ford Focus has become banal, but North America is eagerly awaiting the launch of the first «Euro» hot hatch variant of the Focus, with the upcoming Ford Focus ST.. The original Focus SVT was based on a European model called the Focus ST170, but the...

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

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.

If you've ever found yourself playing an RPG and thinking to yourself how much you enjoy moving a character around simple maps, winning battles by pushing the fight button, and skipping through a banal trope - laden story, but wishing that it didn't take so darned much time and thinking to beat, has Kemco got the game for you.

When people say his name, I tend to think only of incredible but somewhat predictable color photographs of America, those very Shore-esque lyrical presentations of our most banal shades of red, white and blue.

I find that whenever I am having what I think of as a «transcendent» experience, it is often associated with the most banal activities.»

This banal anecdote is instructive when thinking about Lynn Hershman Leeson's ongoing retrospective, Civic Radar.

Objects can be glimpses into or our inner emotional lives or, in the case of exalted objects such as talismans or heirlooms, inspire magical thinking that is an escape from the banal and gives us a sense of control.

Koons, known for his love of appropriation, is most famous for turning banal objects into artworks (think balloon dogs or sculptures inspired by kitschy Hummel figures, to name a few).

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.

Continuing his investigation into what he terms «social geometry» — the intersection of physical space with human thought and behavior — Lionni trains his eye on seemingly banal images, objects, and substances, filtering them through a variety of meticulous processes in order to focus our attention on their oft - overlooked

What, exactly, is the anatomy of a banal seat we rarely give a second thought to on a Greyhound?

Please give a banal down to earth explanation, how is it, that you think the still bigger human CO2 - outlet leads to smaller CO2rise / year for same temperature?

Paul, when making some banal point about past climate change, or CO2 saturation, etc, do you really think that the thousands of ACTUAL trained climate scientists have failed to consider these points?

«I also think,» he adds, «this point is banal.»

She may also have come to think that the public stood in dire need of her warnings about Mr. Trump, even though, as Paul Horwitz has observed, «her remarks [were] essentially conventional, unexceptional, and banal.»

I think fundamentally the biggest challenge for developers is cultural: a lot of them are fixated on creating an alternate fantasy world, and are viscerally offended that their players keep breaking the immersion with all this cruddy banal real world commerce.

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