Sentences with phrase «for banal»

In this way the works create a fascination for the banal, as the artist shapes basic raw materials, stretching and extending forms before freezing them at their fixed, final stage.

Though criticized for its banal subject matter and mixture of styles, the painting nonetheless attracted widespread attention.

For many players the game looses its unique climate, but it is a great alternative for banal games with banal scenarios that can be found on many websites.

That's somewhat unusual in my case, as I like to shift myself just for banal entertainment, but this transmission and its calibration works just fine either way.

And in a show of the film's most enthusiastic audience demographic barreling past irony, a clip from a panel at Fantastic Fest shows audience members performing humiliating tasks on - stage, from getting a real, permanent tattoo to dipping testicles in hot sauce, for banal prizes.

But too much of Women In Trouble settles for banal instances of infidelity, female bonding, or psychoanalysis when it needs to keep the action going.

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.

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

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Using these badges, organizations can not only tell who's working together, where, and for how long, but also how seemingly banal measures like face - to - face conversations correlate to performance and creativity.

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

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

It is distressingly banal to reduce Paul's language about sin and grace, about disobedience and love, to the level of cultural attitudes (toward, for example, «imperial ideology»), though such a reduction often passes itself off as theology in some seminary classrooms today.

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.

Abraham Moles, director of the Social Psychology Institute at Strasbourg, points out that while TV has been a cultural life buoy for farmers, lonely people, and the culturally and the socially impoverished in France, it has at the same time been a pressure toward the banal and the constricting for those already experiencing a communication - rich life.

As he explained it, «the only way for us to give witness is... to be what we are in the midst of banal, everyday realities.»

led us to disdain the old - style liberals, who for all their declared intention to make the country a more expansive place were in our view too smug of spirit and too banal of mind to be truly open to the new.

A little DDT and a few other banal polyhalogenated hydrocarbons and instantly the bald eagle is on the endangered list» for decades.

Moreover, leaving aside its unfortunate opening and closing frame chapters, where the struggle to believe is treated in banal, secular - triumphalist terms from the protagonist's adult vantage, this novel persuasively represents Islam as an active, complex source of theologically framed consolation and challenge for Midwestern Muslims, who emerge as variously flawed believers at odds with each other about the nature and imperatives of their faith.

His knack for «writing» banal lyrics — strung together into incoherent whole songs — together with imitation vanilla chords and melodies somehow passes as real church music.

But sociobiology tells too banal a story to be able to account for radical altruism — the ethical imperative that leads a person to risk his or her own life in the attempt to save an unknown and unrelated stranger from the danger of death.

Aristotle, as a great scholar (Chung - Hwan Chen) has shown in a work not yet published, substituted for the receptacle (as subject of changing predicates) the banal plurality of substantial identities, which of course in some sense are real.

As for his own prejudiced agenda, it is summed up with the banal «cautionary aphorism» with which he concludes his review: «Dante was a Catholic; Milton was a Protestant; Shakespeare was a dramatist.»

They have made the celebration banal, losing the sense of the sacred and have reduced its quality in an almost profane way, instead of adoring the Divine Mercy offered for them and to them.

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.

There is an attitude at that club, a winner attitude and objectives are clearly stated at the beginning of the season, it is all or nothing (as for us, we are lucky if in the middle of the season we get a «hopefully a top four finish» knowing that we f*cked it up due to banal and common Wenger tactical clueless season after season all the same...).

Clemson, Michigan and Washington each fell for the first time yesterday in the first truly chaotic Saturday of an otherwise pretty banal season (so much for that).

A couple of bad weeks to begin the year is too banal for the Cubs and their tragic history, so just remember there is still time for a good old - fashioned North Side reckoning.

Lawrenson makes banal and profoundly unfunny comments which pass for wit on the circuit for the comically handicapped.

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

The Teller's realization that there's no reliable evidence that any of the above is true led them to an understanding of divorce that's so simple as to be banal: everyone's situation is unique and there's no easy way through it for any individual or those individual's loved ones.

«Congratulations to @eonenergyuk for winning the best commercial exhibition stand award at at #ldconf» his press office tweeted, in the most banal yet poorly time tweet of the year.

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

The discovery that laughter is more often produced at banal comments than jokes prompts the question, what did it evolve for?

But if for some unfathomable reason, you absolutely can not resist the urge to compose short and banal messages instead of paying attention to the road, at least sign your organ donor card.

For all the talk of transcendence, a lot of the tips in Transcend are profoundly banal.

Often, Ukrainian online dating means banal sex tourism for many foreign men because a romance with a Ukrainian woman may be cheaper for them, in their opinion.

Forgive the film its small flaws of histrionic performances and cheap execution for the giddy rush of its banal, Verhoevenesque atmosphere...

Like fireworks, Bottle Rocket will be taking off fast but will not crash and burn, and with any luck we ll be seeing more of these wild Wilson brothers and less of the banal Baldwin brothers, and for Movie Magazine, I m Larry Carlin.

Simon Kinberg's script is awash in banal, expository dialogue — the characters having to keep explaining the plot to each other — but people don't go to X-Men movies for naturalistic exchanges: a few pithy one - liners will suffice, and Jackman puts the ones he does get across with the gruff brio of an old pro.

With understated fatalism rather than Titanic - size hysteria — at once slapstick and ice - cool — McKellar tracks a handful of average but bizarre Canadian earthlings as they prepare in small, banal, personal ways for extinction, then links them in a bigger human whole.

The Runner doesn't lack for drama, but the characters are so thinly and predictably drawn, and the movie's supposed insights into the art of political compromise so banal, that nothing catches fire.

Watching «The Room» on your own, and struggling through the banal dialogue and non sequiturs, the dreary sets, the elevator Muzak score, and the long, cringe - inducing sex scenes in which Wiseau bares his all for our appreciation isn't funny but sad.

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.

Adapted from Elfriede Jelinek's novel, Der Klavierspielerin, Haneke's rendering is a kind of anti-melodrama, taking the conventions of the doomed romance familiar from Bovary and showing them up for their contradictory nature: histrionic and subdued, grotesque and utterly banal.

Punishing herself for going off on «banal» tangents that conjure vivid images of Hitler's squalid bunker (Blind Spot's structural conceit finds Junge judging the playback of comments she previously made), she recounts in linear detail the beginning of the end, so to speak.

A movie so silly and banal that it may take us a bit longer than usual to realize how actually stupid, implausible and empty it is once it is over, with an awful amount of expository dialogue, poorly - developed characters and a non-linear structure adopted for no purpose at all.

It's a marvel and a menace, a banal fact of life and a force for incalculable change.

As much as «Everest» trades in a kind of authenticity, it also trucks in the most banal of disaster movie clichés; for instance, one of the principal characters in the trek is leaving behind a pregnant wife.

And this banal existence, for better or for worse, is in essence, Barney's life.

To state the obvious: «The Runner» doesn't lack for drama, but the characters are so thinly and predictably drawn, and the movie's supposed insights into the art of political compromise so banal, that nothing catches fire — least of all Colin's flirtation with the (married) campaign publicist (Sarah Paulson) who re-enters his life just as the missus gives him the boot.