Sentences with phrase «even banal»

His colossal still life painted in response to a request for images of September 11 may be great, or awful, or even banal - I don't know yet.

This new international group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York gathers together artistic reactions to the ways in which media representations of violent conflict and identity are increasingly rendered through an individualized, and even banal perspective.

Framing spontaneously filmed, everyday — even banal — moments by way of longstanding classical tropes, GOD's work offers a lush hybrid of postmodern appropriation and post-apocalyptic fairy tale.

Philip Taaffe and John Bauer allow abstraction to look garish or even banal, especially in reproduction.

Such conclusions may look obvious, even banal, but in fact it was unprecedented for the federal education research agency to treat teachers, principals, and parents as key clients, rather than targeting its products at academics and policymakers.

Is there a possibility that we can't convict someone in even the banal court of public opinion on the basis of online evidence?

Not exact matches

Or with something else even more banal, but inescapable: the weather?

Yet, for the truly astute CEO, business knowledge can come from even the most banal consumer experience.

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.

Your freelancing is often banal, even silly.

I am not convinced that this objectification of humanity into victim and executioner does justice to the complexity of the human individual or to the dynamic of evil... The web that unites victim and tyrant in the same person is more complex than the white hat / black hat caricature that seems banal even in its natural habitat, the «grade B» movie.

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 won't even get into how banal the dipping sauce is.

Materazzi is always direct and never banal, even when you ask him who will decide the derby: «Icardi or a defender.

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?

I also learned that even in matters as banal as potty training, my husband is a wonderful father.

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).

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

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.

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.

Add a bold detail, like the oversized butterfly sleeves to your apparently banal outfit and make your street chic apparel even more versatile and bold.

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.

Haneke and his actors, playing the bittersweet music of Haneke's crafted - down - to - the - essential script, show us fully and roundly what's at stake even as they depict its cruel, slow, biologically - mandated slipping away, and there's simply never been anything, no depiction of romantic / eternal love, more affecting put on celluloid: The fruits of Haneke's unwavering banishment of any easy sentiment or banal platitudes or reassurances about the human spirit is a pure, clear, penetrating, and overwhelming emotion.

I don't even talk about old graphics and engine that hasn't been optimised for PC.The story about the squad that always doubts whether to go on their trip to destroy a super weapon is banal.

Even Christopher Plummer gives a fairly banal performance, though to be fair he has very little to work with.

Even the most banal dialogue is designed to be read as deadpan.

Unfortunately, the film lacks even the most banal of structures, meaning that it's a hodgepodge collection of scenes that don't flow well at all.

«Dick Van Dyke Press Interview» (8:48) is a single - take Q & A between the actor and off - screen journalists whose questions are rather banal and even a little skeptical.

The way he so effortlessly constructs an imaginary world of quirky characters, and a visual experience so resplendent and idiosyncratic that I wonder how he can even function in this bland, banal world that the rest of us inhabit.

Sean Gilman: What have come out are an endless supply of the same blockbuster product Hollywood's been taunting us with for almost a decade now: bloated superhero origin stories, dark reboots of Valuable Intellectual Properties and the lazily half - written, half movies that pass for comedies, exploiting the likability of SNL alums and Anna Kendrick and making even the weirdest vulgarities seem utterly banal.

Even when featuing in some of the most banal of tv drama's, such as Consuming Passion, she herself never fails to deliver.

«There is no logical or theoretical reason to believe that teaching these banal philosophy activities, which isn't even real philosophy, would result in an increase in children's mathematics ability.

If you are a young startup, or even an established business, don't get jaded and start to feel banal about your company if people are begging to give you money.

A recent survey conducted yesterday on Facebook Burnout states that even though the social network is many years old, people are clearly not jaded or banal about it just yet.

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.

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.

After 400 years of continuous space travel in one direction, somehow the new system has fewer alien races, less biodiversity, and even more banal ancient alien tech strewn about each planet.

while she announces «THIS IS THE MOST BANAL QUESTION EVER», even when it's just been asked by her Choice of Games editor.

Yet it seems to lose all pretense of this when, like clockwork, the game is reminded that it needs to pander to your most banal and primitive instincts, in a way that foregoes any amount of taste or even build - up.

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

Carefully building a nuanced soundtrack whereby even the collective voice of its re-enactors never drowns out the source material, what might be an otherwise banal video collage eloquently reveals our personal response to nostalgic ephemera to be a whisper relative to the flat and highly constructed voice of pop culture.

Some revel in the genre's glamour and allure, while others critique its elitist associations and instead call attention to the banal or even the grotesque.

But the real scandal is that we're even still talking about this banal artwork

Even more astonishing was to see that such sophisticated patterns of design and color were made out of the most banal of materials: plastic — or, more specifically, polyester resin.

What's attractive to one is banal, even disturbing, to another.

... Although it may strike us as politically incorrect today, it is useful to recall that, even as vestigial remains from past academic practices, the presence of nude models and their active participation in studio life was a fairly banal occurrence in Leroy's time.»

Examining the mythology, iconography and even psychology of the iconic accessories, each artist also brings their own experiences and ideas, offering their own take on a once banal object and simultaneously forcing them into an unlikely means of expression.

Even if Prince privileges the banal, such as car hoods, he nevertheless succeeds in placing them in a state of suspension that is equally anchored in the trivial and the auratic.

I collect seemingly banal and discarded objects and paint my daily encounters with them; expressing that even a pile of junk is worth painting.

Banal even.