Sentences with phrase «in banal»

The pictures not only find beauty in the banal, but they might also make you think twice before chucking out your old things...

It's important that both of you remain keenly aware of where your money is going and that both of you participate in the banal, monthly tasks that help you secure and maintain financial stability.

There were profound lessons to be learnt in banal suburbia, from the repetition of housing styles and the concrete shapes of elevated freeways, that Smith absorbed and took along with him when commuting into New York City, and which would later manifest themselves powerfully in his art.

He shared Pop Art's interest in the banal, the consumer society and the cheerful imagery of comics in bright attractive colors.

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.

Car stereos, discarded parts of plastic furniture, and other relics of cheap consumer culture are some of the objects that are produced in the banal evolutions of common situations.

Like many of Brannon's prints, Masturbating A Lot combines the superficiality of simplified form and content with acerbic narrative text and images, uncovering a deeper — and sometimes abysmal — meaning concealed in these banal situations.

Always interested in the deep influence of popular culture, Kunath's work locates sincerity in the banal.

Michael Stamm's nine paintings feature subtly shifting color and evoke a sense of claustrophobia and longing for meaning in the banal; Pedro Pedro's vibrant color palettes and flattened perspective portray food, flowers, skulls and cigarettes.

Hailed as the father of colour photography, his ability to find beauty in the banal has changed the way we look at the world.

Swingers invade the Turbine Hall, Hume finds beauty in the banal and a high - spirited surrealist comes to Margate — all in your weekly dispatch

Scenes from contemporary life, ever so slightly dated, played out in banal landscapes, both lost in time and relentlessly modern.

Joe Biel renders precise figures in graphite on paper, documenting» performers» in banal or bizarre situations.

His work appeared in the banal and seemingly endless exhibition for younger artists called «Aperto.»

And just as important, Bianca is allowed a few bits of contact with her husband (one of which is a nervously comic highlight), and that decent, frightened man lets her down in banal but telling ways.

(It's here, in these banal conversations about «craft,» that these other political dynamics come into play.)

This is echoed in a banal flashback of William showing around a potential investor and touting Westworld as if it were just a Mecca for market research.

Giants attack medieval Britain in this banal retelling of the old fairy story, writes Philip French

Despite these shenanigans spanning the universe, Infinity War is shockingly short on memorable images, with most scenes composed in the banal shot - reverse - shot coverage familiar from episodic television.

It sounds a bit like a Media Ventures score at times - not just in the banal orchestration, but some of the tunes too - but also has the same sense of fun that Hans Zimmer's better action / adventure scores do.

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.

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.

But, claims Gorringe, professor of theology at the University of Exeter, there was a «pull» as well: «There is not simply an iconoclasm, but also an iconpoiesis in the Reformation which understands that the world mirrors the divine in its banal, day - to - day reality.»

So many times I find myself getting caught up in the banal and mundane work of «service» that I miss the communion I think I have.

Not exact matches

And the key to all that — what attracts these different factions — is something that, on the surface at least, sounds rather banal: a digital ledger, like the one in your checkbook.

The lowly potato, that most banal dinner staple, was considered a freakish, pernicious foodstuff when it was introduced to Europe in the late 1500s.

There are also panel discussions ranging from the sci - fi (Bionic Organs: Prostheses to Cyborgs) to the practical (Innovation in the Aviation Industry) to the banal (Regional Tech Development Priorities and International Collaboration).

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

BUT: The music is both overwrought and banal, the actors try so hard but finally seem ridiculous (their characters are the most stickish of stick figures), and no person is transformed THAT MUCH in this world (see Flannery O'Connor).

That this was done in the most banal way — such as asking black people to name the 67 high court judges in the state before allowing them to register to vote — makes it all the more shameful.

P.S. I suppose the equivalent pop music juxtaposition would be Annette May's lyrically stern (but musically delicious) «Vacation in Heaven,» with Blur's outrageously banal «Girls and Boys.»

It seems almost a banal occurrence in ancient times.

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.»

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

One of the reasons that popes and bishops love to dress in medieval costumes is that they believe that it gives their sometimes bigoted and sometimes banal comments some real weight.

Banal Christmas cards from a previous occupant still decorated the walls, but our friend Monica brought one she had made, the front of which read, «Et lux in tenebris lucet, et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt.»

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

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.

In this full and complex story, then, we find conjoined a miracle and the most banal of human reflection.

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

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.

Such calculation is all done in a cold corporate office environment with each window, glassy surface, and video screen reflecting the banal, if ruthless, maneuvers of well educated women.

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.

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.

Like innumerable older Catholics, I found elements of the Mass of Paul VI not only smacking of Lutheranism but simply banal in comparison to the mysterious beauty of the Tridentine rite.

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.»

Anyone today who struggles through Kaplan's ponderous prose setting forth such banal and simplistic propositions as that Judaism is a «civilization» rather than a «religion,» that American Jews live in «two civilizations,» that the Jewish religious system is a collection of folkways, and that God is an idea rather than a personality must wonder what all the fuss is about.

It is banal, of course, to suggest that we can not live in the past.

This canard in turn limits his critical imagination to the rather banal contention that Moby - Dick «s primary focus should be understood as «good and evil interpenetrated.»