Sentences with phrase «by banal»

Both PST and Made in L.A. address the perception of Los Angeles as a cultural desert, characterized by banal architecture, shallow denizens, and dozens of loosely connected neighborhoods linked by miles of freeways.

Its names is inspired by the banal titling of skate videos and it carries through the same scratchy close - ups of metal hitting metal that these videos often show, the silhouette of the film maker only sometimes being seen.

This new body of work, created especially for the exhibition, features a series of found photographs altered with his trademark blocks of rich colour, accompanied by banal snippets of text that appear like captions beneath the images.

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.

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.

A-list sad - faces abound in a film where absurd concept is rivalled only by banal execution.

Owens's anger has been sparked by the banal way in which cycles of conservatism are repeating themselves, with consequent human cost.

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

Not exact matches

For Banal - Estañol, this is not a deal - breaker as boycotts have been circumvented by Catalonia in the past.

My unholy, banal, eat - shit - play definition: «love» is a word, created by people, to manipulate other people.

If I were trying to make up a sympathy sob story I would make up better details, more believable ones, than the grinding, boring, crushing, and banal reality of what it was like to be targeted by Men Of God protecting their image and bottom line.

Another non-issue championed by Faux News and swallowed whole by their ignorant, uneducated followers in order to generate righteous outrage over a banal topic.

This is not simply because its daunting length and complexity resist entry by ordinary readers, but because Jewett's relentless application of current preoccupations flattens one of the world's most powerful religious writings to the level of the banal and reveals how little theological passion and insight are to be found among contemporary New Testament interpreters.

While our worship songs are not individually Gnostic, they get very close by avoiding tangible terms in their lyrics, leaving the impression that the everyday is too banal for God.

The main point of his article was that the ICEL translation (of the Ordinary of the Mass) was not only banal, nor even simply erroneous; Monckton demonstrated that it was marred by systematic omissions, and systematic doctrinal defects.

I expect my comment - like yours - to generate more banal protestations by all the petulant children out there.

He agrees with Dalrymple that the legendary British reticence, fortitude, and good taste have been replaced by «the hug - and - confess culture» that is marked by «a banal, self - pitying, witless, and shallow emotional incontinence.»

Many of my generation received their upbringing surrounded by bland, ugly, and often downright counter-mystical modern church architecture, hidden tabernacles, and banal modern liturgical music more suitable to failed off - Broadway theater.

Correct Cunty — what a brilliantly appropriate name for someone who makes such a banal comment by the way.

TN: And not something banal and meaningless like reporting that a meeting was «productive», which is by - and - large most of what's broadcast from diplomatic and political Twitter accounts.

These works consist largely of inspirational testimonials glued together by pseudoscientific theorizing and advice that ranges from the banal to the ludicrous.

The reason is that the advent of humans easily could have been accelerated or delayed hundreds of millions of years by something as banal as an asteroid hit.

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.

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.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and company have mastered their banal stretch - the - tale - out template to such a degree that it's guaranteed few will question why the previously elusive Infinity Stones — which have been teased in just about every prior movie installment, as well as in some of Marvel's TV offshoots — are collected with ridiculous ease by purple people - squashing supervillain Thanos (Josh Brolin).

If you cut through Lucas» thickets of self - reflexivity, metaphysical mumbo jumbo and banal potshots at media violence, there are three ace performances here by actors who can elevate and enliven even as mediocre a piece of material as this.

Jones» character here is a fine companion piece to Berberian's Gilderoy - a man beset by anxieties banal and primal, unable to escape from his tiny world.

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.

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.

Directed by Jonathan Levine, who made the banal The Wackness (2008), the new movie nicely juggles Adam's various relationships with precious few hospital scenes.

No viewer will be offended by Moms» Night Out, but they should feel insulted by such banal gags as a broken car stereo blaring a kids» CD and a police stop plagued by miscommunication.

McDonagh seldom resorts to banal plot mechanics, opting instead for hardboiled discourse which channels the film's themes by stealth.

Possibly the biggest danger leading to the incident is the most banal: the bottlenecks and «traffic jams» caused by having dozens of climbers competing for a narrow window of opportunity on the mountain at one time.

Little sustenance was provided by Park Kwang - su's To the Starry Island, a banal story of a Korean island's passage through the 1950s, including the war years.

Written and directed by Greg Mottola (Superbad, Adventureland), this ensemble piece straddles the line between comedy and drama, the truthful and the absurd, the important and the banal.

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.

The movies have turned increasingly impersonal or least increasingly banal, delighted by their emotional structure and back stories and family trees without equally imparting that delight.

The bond growing between Charlie and Max throughout the film's second act is so clear and banal that by the time they actually start getting along, you feel like the movie has caught up with you when it should be the other way around.

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.

Supported by an ingeniously banal production design by Stefania Cella, Payne and his team never make their miniaturized aesthetic over-cute, or an obvious punchline (although there's a perfectly adorable moment when recently shrunk patients are gently transferred from gigantic gurneys to their now appropriately doll - sized beds).

Anderson has created for himself — and to some extent by himself (he directed it, wrote it and, though uncredited, shot it)-- a work through which he can freely exercise his gift for ecstatic cinema, never mind how banal or understated a scene might seem to be: Reynolds conducting his morning ablutions, for instance, shaving luxuriously, taming his hair with a pair of brushes, dressing to the nines just to have breakfast.

The trailers for the never - to - be-classic Christmas movie Love The Coopers make it out to be a banal but well - meaning piece of holiday fluff, filling the obligatory «ensemble dramedy» slot on the holiday movie bingo card created by the success of Love Actually.

But Love The Coopers is not banal and harmless, it is actually a searing portrait of holiday - driven despair, a ruthless and harrowing look at emotional burnout and the soul - crushing playacting demanded by the holiday season.

The banal dialogue was risible (a prime example has the humanist heroine played by Emily Watson in all seriousness state: «Without love, breath is just a clock ticking»), the main action hero, Christian Bale, was miscast.

But here's the rub: Seattle - based writer / director Lynn Shelton's opening premise — like Paul's new - found knack for curing temporomandibular joint dysfunction — degenerates from intriguing to banal by film's end.

It's a banal by the numbers biopic boasting a mediocre performance from Ashton Kutcher (he simply can't hit a dramatic note).

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 disc includes a pocket of extras: a banal 7 - minute making - of featurette (directed by Les Mayfield, late of Flubber) from the film's year of release that finds Hanks comparing the money pit itself to Jaws; a page of Hanks - themed Recommendations (Apollo 13, The «burbs, Dragnet); and The Money Pit's theatrical trailer.

Its creepy moral underpinnings are matched only by its utterly banal storyline: you can actually feel your brain cells dying as you watch.

But as my good friend Rick Hess argues, much of the actions urged by the film's producers and promoters are either banal (read to your child!)