Sentences with phrase «becomes banal»

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...

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.

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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.»

Although the Christian idea of love has become familiar, almost banal, its peculiarity has to be stressed again in each generation.

Public information, even of the most banal sort, has become harder and harder to obtain under his leadership.

This material seems ripe for an expository montage, but it becomes an extended setpiece, lasting nearly 30 minutes and offering little more than sketchy CGI and banal dialogue.

I love the disruption of this flow when the most banal moment transpires - when a giant boulder that becomes a swimming pool ornament narrowly misses our main guy.

AMERICAN HISTORY X An interesting and for the most part honest presentation of a difficult subject, this film about a young man who becomes the leader of a neo-Nazi gang is hampered by a banal ending and some unconvincing moments.

Shocking violence has become so yawningly common, so eye - rollingly banal that its flippant depiction onscreen is often just par for the course.

When found objects are removed from the environment in which they exists, they becomes transformative, the most banal object transcends itself to become exotic.

But in asking the player to perform meaningful mental labor to accomplish the task at hand, the banal becomes surprisingly gratifying.

Such banal items become metaphors for the inevitability of age and decay, but tempered with humor, hope and humanity.

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».

Playing with the former function of the cupboard, Troika subtly interferes with our expectancies of what might be conceived as a banal occurrence; the ghost of a water leak becomes the manifestation of an unfamiliar, suspended time - zone.

Choi explores the relationship between the banal and profound, allowing seemingly opposite concepts to fragment and become intertwined as he constructs a subjective and ever - changing experience for the viewer.

In the art world, Tara Donovan has become the belle of the banal.

With the help of around a hundred or so employees in his New York studio, he deals with popular culture subjects and often creates reproductions of banal objects, elevating their status to becoming works of art.

Li writes: «Bechtle's nonfiction of the most overlooked moments in life can send viewers to the verge of panic about becoming enthralled by the beauty of sheer banal insignificance.

To explore these ideas, she utilizes everyday objects and transforms them via installations: assemblages of banal ephemera become systems capable of renewal and decay, or stores of memories.

Duchamp showed that any banal artifact might become a readymade; Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons demonstrated that a replica of a commercial product might become art.

These pop cultural attempts become either banal (see the Whitney Biennial 2002 retrospective), unimportant, or culturally relevant.

The background spaces have become somehow more banal, less extra-ordinarily dramatic — an escalator, an urban alleyway, a parking lot.