Sentences with phrase «into banal»

One of the most effective tactics I've seen for disarming this subversive point of view is a simple one — transforming feminist commentary from a threatening critique into a banal who - could - disagree, piece of liberal cant.»

Bechtle spent many of his early years in Alameda, and he captures this community and landscape through incisive, square - format drawings that glimpse more deeply into the banal and the all too often overlooked.

The reputation is ruined or the exciting story turns into a banal insight, the wildfire goes out, what remains, at most, is smoke.

Lichtenstein also parodied Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and the Old Masters, invariably boiling down their famous visual signatures into banal excerpts of color, line and form.

His earliest works implanted mystical totems such as the tooth fairy and Jesus Christ into banal interiors, summoning divine intervention that acquires humor from its proximity to reality.

He manages to weave bright, bold colours into banal situations and imbues almost everything he does with a wry sense of humour.

Steven Spielberg's film locates the beatific in its (literally) outsized star, Mark Rylance, but lapses into the banal when its eponymous Big Friendly Giant...

Rainey and Jana's presence also injects welcome balance to a story that occasionally threatens to devolve into a banal critique of American suburbia.

They may provoke us to step back into the banal security of the already - mastered world.

Not exact matches

«The mind - numbing media avalanche threatens to make war, terrorism and catastrophe banal, to turn the maimed and the dead into mere meat.

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.»

This puts power into the hands of the State, «which can compel people to commit sin, tolerate it, or allow it to take place through banal conformism» (p. 59).

'» Why does that sound banal from many lips, but startling from this «dilettante» or connoisseur who has dipped into the finer points of Cyril of Alexandria's thought?

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 quality of homily services ranges from the banal to the brilliant, with occasional slips into the heretical.

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.

Translations into the vernacular were deliberately demotic and banal.

A mother straps her screaming baby into a car seat; a moment of frustration during a banal trip to the supermarket.

Many readers of this magazine will have uncomfortable memories of earthly liturgies in which that foretaste has been hard to find: banal music, performed into a microphone situated in or near the sanctuary, trite Bidding Prayers read badly, an atmosphere lacking in reverence.

When it comes to smoothie making, I fall into the old banal combinations — almond milk, blueberries, banana — voila, done.

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

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.

«The Night Before» opens with a promising premise that quickly descends into the usual comic holiday cacophony of lowbrow, banal and tedious sex, drug and dick jokes.

Clearly whatever of interest that has kept readers returning to King's books does not translate into the film, which is as banal and unfulfilling as any major studio film released this summer.

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.

The Night Before (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language, drug use, nudity, sexual content The lowdown: This feature opens with a promising premise that quickly descends into the usual comic holiday cacophony of lowbrow, banal and tedious sex, drug and dick jokes.

Here, the emperor (Takataro Kataoka) remains an enigmatic offscreen figure for the majority of the film, which instead focuses on Gen. Fellers» dishearteningly banal, Nancy Drew - like investigation into whether Hirohito was guilty of war crimes.

These two unglamorous peeks into our native: folkways — some bizarre, some banal — are mysterious and disturbing, their seedy, documentary - like casualness heightening a sense of unanswerable terror.

They take clear pleasure in rendering banal spaces as canvasses, turning grain silos into giant eyes and shipping containers into towering portraits of the dock workers» wives.

They take clear pleasure in rendering banal spaces as canvasses, turning grain silos into giant eyes and shipping containers into towering portraits of the dock workers

The pace plods with uninteresting sidebars and the banal scenes of dialogue and storytelling outnumber the fascinating or interesting ones that could have offered a richer and more absorbing look into the man's method or the historical art period itself.

The 100 - Year - Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: This year's designated out - of - nowhere nominee plays like a Scandinavian Forrest Gump, weaving into and out of history while commenting on it in only the most banal terms.

Stacey Menear's screenplay doesn't manage to sustain its clever premise, with the final act featuring a banal and formulaic revelation that unfortunately takes what had been a spooky haunted house tale into familiar slasher movie territory.

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

«The Host» The conceit is banal: lazy, bureaucratic scientists pour toxic formaldehyde into Seoul's Han River, causing a mutant creature to develop from the chemicals, ravaging the city and effecting one unlucky family.

Payne's deadpan comedy implicates viewers into his view of pathetic, banal people and society.

But Aspen's document opened with five points of banal agreement (e.g., «Social, emotional, and academic development is for all students»), and then launched head - first into endorsing hotly contested notions like «restorative justice» and «culturally relevant» pedagogy.

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.

Despite many outlets dismissing the experience as banal and simplistic, we enjoyed the fact that it delivered on its premise of using Kinect to superimpose players into scenes from classic films; putting us directly into the movies in the most literal sense possible.

The plot and other game events are pushed forward by coming into contact with other survivors who, as soon as finding out you are immune immediately task you with some form of fetch quest ranging from the banal but vital task of getting car parts or fuel to burn bodies, to the weird and stupid like searching for some nutters teddy bear and necklace.

He was a banal, scowling, monotone white dude in a great looking coat in Human Revolution and Mankind Divided has, if anything, leaned into that black hole of characterization.

Of course, the aforementioned Goat Simulator started off as a parody of banal simulator games before going into mocking other game genres through ragdoll goat physics.

New York - based artist Frank Heath's artistic practice is catalyzed by unexpected interventions into otherwise banal scenarios.

Through their interaction, a glimpse into their associative potential arises to challenge the banal categorization we sometimes assign to colors.

Painted with broad expanses of flatly sprayed, banal commercial colors (e.g. manila envelope tan, file cabinet grey), they featured nearly imperceptible, atomized tonal gradations along their bottom edge — an unexpected intrusion of the transcendent into the profane, not dissimilar to that revelatory moment when a Reinhardt black painting begins to yield to an attuned and patient eye.

He made banal text into neon circles and Minimalist sculpture into confining spaces.

In an artist statement from 1988, Felix Gonzalez - Torres described his work for a show at the New Museum as «panoramas in which the fictional, the important, the banal and the historical are collapsed into a single caption.»

The most striking installation in the Zeeburg gallery is a series of stripes, ranging from black to white, which turn the banal chromatic shift of the venue's floor that occurs over the course of the day into something visible and discrete.

Kitsch, tacky or banal graphics and images are wryly incorporated into a dialogue that incorporates art history, literature and music.

Inspired by his experience working full - time as a business administrator, Uriarte creates work whose repetitive gestures extrapolate the banal rhythms of office life into imaginative abstractions.