Sentences with phrase «made banal»

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

Directed by Jonathan Levine, who made the banal The Wackness (2008), the new movie nicely juggles Adam's various relationships with precious few hospital scenes.

Sternberg's visual style sensualized the heroism and hubris — an ideal approach that Anton Corbijn made banal in the b & w Ian Curtis / Joy Division bio-pic Control.

Without a personal sense of being involved in a win - all / lose - all affair, life itself is made banal.

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

The warped renderings and stretched perspectives make the banal scenes he depicts almost hallucinatory.

It's a banal thing yet Lichtenstein's talent lies in his unwavering ability to make the banal compelling, to keep things rigorously breezy.

Lichtenstein's talent lies in his unwavering ability to make the banal compelling, to keep things rigorously breezy

Paul, when making some banal point about past climate change, or CO2 saturation, etc, do you really think that the thousands of ACTUAL trained climate scientists have failed to consider these points?

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While the company is talked about as the potential future of communication, Spiegel's plan to make money is decidedly banal: advertising.

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.

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

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.

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.»

If I were trying to make up a sympathy sob story I would make up better details, more believable ones, than the grinding, boring, crushing, and banal reality of what it was like to be targeted by Men Of God protecting their image and bottom line.

I'll make sure not to step on any feet with my banal and gross misinterpretations.

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.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

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.

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

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

But only because he was marginally more succesful than Ed Miliband at making the same banal point many times over, regardless of what he was asked.

They go right back to the banal because it makes them feel secure.

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.

Kidding aside, accessories make an outfit your own and add personality to an otherwise banal ensemble.

Banal background that leads inexorably to a repetitive gameplay, combined with the simplification or the absence of some key aspects of this genre of games, such as the growth of the Pokemon, makes Pokemon Rumble a disappointing WiiWare.

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.

It's almost as if a conscious effort has been made to make this mix of western, sci - fi and time travel genre elements as banal as possible.

Payne's characters may see themselves as figures in a spaghetti - western - style landscape of moral absolutes, but their real value lies in their refusal to inhabit the Hollywood hero - to - villain spectrum; they're banally human and humanly banal, lovable for the very qualities that make them terrible.

The femme banals of the piece are Halle Berry as Jinx and the equally dreadful Rosamund Pike as quick - to - reform ice princess Miranda Frost, with a returning cast of John Cleese as gadgets expert «Q» (his fluidly - paced cameo the highlight of the film), Samantha Bond as «Moneypenny,» and Dench as «M.» An orbital satellite menace is suspiciously familiar (see: Goldeneye; Moonraker), as is a diamond subplot that makes absolutely no sense except as it references Diamonds Are Forever.

Supported by an ingeniously banal production design by Stefania Cella, Payne and his team never make their miniaturized aesthetic over-cute, or an obvious punchline (although there's a perfectly adorable moment when recently shrunk patients are gently transferred from gigantic gurneys to their now appropriately doll - sized beds).

The trailers for the never - to - be-classic Christmas movie Love The Coopers make it out to be a banal but well - meaning piece of holiday fluff, filling the obligatory «ensemble dramedy» slot on the holiday movie bingo card created by the success of Love Actually.

Given the fact that Hilary Duff is a performer who appears to be very cognizant of her career (as she made a smooth transition from a TV show to a singing career to movies), one would have to wonder why she would be involved in such a banal film.

With arguably the most banal dialogue this side of a Nicholas Sparks movie, If I Stay wastes the considerable talents of Moretz in a calculated tear - jerker aimed squarely at young teenage girls, who definitely deserve better than a movie which makes The Lovely Bones look like a neo-realist classic.

Vince Vaughn and Christian Slater are perhaps slightly more surprising inclusions, while Nicolas Cage is only at 15th due to the fact he very occasionally makes a great movie amid all the surreal / banal ones.

The disc includes a pocket of extras: a banal 7 - minute making - of featurette (directed by Les Mayfield, late of Flubber) from the film's year of release that finds Hanks comparing the money pit itself to Jaws; a page of Hanks - themed Recommendations (Apollo 13, The «burbs, Dragnet); and The Money Pit's theatrical trailer.

The truth is never made definitively clear one way or the other, but the film builds to the lyrically banal nature of what we do learn about Mr. Church as though he were Keyser Söze.

Our enjoyment of their banal crimes makes us complicit in the violence, though Wheatley is scarcely being as didactic or manipulative as the Michael Haneke of Funny Games.

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.

As Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) attempt to sustain a «normal» relationship, we're offered amusing contrasts between their banal, unsexy domestic life, and the «kinky fuckery» which made the books so popular.

Instead, she repeats reasonable but banal slogans such as, «When we give children the chance to succeed, they can» and «I do believe that schools and teachers can make a tremendous difference in the lives of [poor] kids who face these challenges every day.»

The Bad Bad trim and option choices take much of the life out of the 335i, and interior options make the cabin beyond banal.

Bad trim and option choices take much of the life out of the 335i, and interior options make the cabin beyond banal.

The prose is similarly deliberate and seemingly mundane, but the otherwise banal details are made more seductive by the fact of their foreign locale.

By making you physically fling — as in, put in a slingshot and shoot out — everything from explosive barrels to defensive buildings like outposts and armories, Siegecraft successfully gameifies the most banal part of traditional RTSs and summarily smothers what might otherwise be a dynamic and interesting game.

To nearly everyone's surprise, Stella appreciated Hawkinson as someone who has inexplicably made memorable art from «gestures as lightweight, banal and self - absorbed» as those any other artist of his generation practice.

Her layered canvases feature hybrid objects made from images of power tools, car keys, body parts, and banal nature backdrops.

In both cases, Skudder's decision to make her art props small result in an understated humor that light up otherwise banal still lives.

Inviting metaphorical or emotional response without resorting to banal symbolism, these paintings make questions like «yes, but what's it meant to be?»

The motif was then screenprinted onto paper in a manner usually associated with advertising or publishing, in order to make it seem everyday and banal — depersonalized, mocked and devalued, in a way.