Sentences with phrase «how banal»

The remarkable thing... is how banal it is.

Instead, Freud's figures portray how harrowing and yet how banal it can be to inhabit a human body.

Every object in the show, no matter how banal on first glance, rewards extended looking, as testaments to craft and extraordinary attention to the details that separate the real from the unreal.

Her biggest piece of advice regarded summer internships, which she stated are always worthwhile, no matter how banal the work may seem.

It's striking how banal most of the posts are.

For such accomplished actors in the action and thriller genres, it's amazing how banal this action thriller is.

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.

For all that they lack acting ability — and playing yourself is actually the toughest of performance tasks, not the easiest — there's no way this trio should be held culpable for how banal the film winds up feeling.

How banal what have I written?)

Gossip grabs our attention, no matter how banal it is.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

If we ever want nominalist, legal positivism to show up as the banal tripe that it is, then I don't see how not signing a semi-meaningless-though-legal document does this.

(«How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.»)

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?

This can play out in many types of seemingly banal situations like: how do I feed my baby?

«Knowing how to properly contour is the difference between a banal everyday makeup look and a standout, professional one, and it certainly takes a bit of time and practice.

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.

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.

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.

Despite the elegance of the hotel, the music in the elevator was cloying and banal, and she wondered how it was this detail had been overlooked.

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.

Mirror's Edge is one of the most intriguing fusions of genres that's come out recently: I keep boring people with shouting about how it's more like a driving game with combos than an FPS, which is probably a really banal and obvious statement, but it's really interesting to me...

How an object so inherently banal and middlebrow as the grill can appear so vulnerable is a surprise.

How many Wrights are we denying ourselves, in our cult of the obvious and banal in art?

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.

Because, beyond the seemingly random «DJ Norm» set list performed at the Lexington the night of the exhibition opening - including OMC's «How Bizarre «- there's a humour to SONE that might be lost among the banal products and sleek aesthetic of Wilson's corporate critique.

Writer Gregory Volk notes: «The remarkable thing is how this exhaustive and systematic, yet extremely diverse anatomy of a banal backyard scene winds up so emotive and complicatedly human, suffused with longing and alienation, grace and agitation, loveliness and unease.»

Jennifer Bartlett: In the Garden (1980 - 83) catalog author Gregory Volk notes, «The remarkable thing is how this exhaustive and systematic, yet extremely diverse anatomy of a banal backyard scene winds up so emotive and complicatedly human, suffused with longing and alienation, grace and agitation, loveliness and unease.»

Convening luminary artists, writers, activists, and scholars to discuss how technology is transforming culture, Open Score will consider how, in light of our precarious and violent political moment, digital forms are called upon to assist us with tasks that range from the banal to the most urgent.

On the eve of the 2006 show she reflects on how months of seeing banal and derivative work have left her depressed about the state of contemporary art in Britain

Rachel Howard asks us to consider how memory can fix on banal imagery as a reference point for a dramatic or traumatic occurrences such as war.

All the while, challenging constructions of meaning and theme and how these constructs filter down and inform banal quotidian interactions between viewer and work, curator and artist, gallerist and work / artist.

She told us how people visiting her rarely notice them, but these are among her most treasured works: Woodman used her own body as subject, often blurred, awkward and contorted in banal domestic interiors.

However, neuroscience does have to do with art in what may seem quite banal — how, why and what do we see and perceive in a piece of art?

Everyone must consciously understand how our every day, banal actions either help or hurt.

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?

Sometimes i feel like i'm the only person on the left who hasn't elevated the most banal concerns about where my food comes from or how i get to work in the morning or what kind of shopping bags i use, above poverty and welfare and equality.

It's one thing to talk about how algorithms go bad, but to show the banal birth of such an algorithm seemed like a story worth telling.

And to reiterate how narcissistic and banal I am.