Sentences with phrase «most banal»

Time and again, we have been told that the sapient Facebook algorithm remembers everything you say and do, anticipates all your future needs, and listens to the most banal litany of your life.

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.

Being environmental is not a destination — it's an ongoing challenge beset with all sorts of obstacles, and problems from the most banal to seriously complicated ones.

Featuring subjects that range from deli counters and isolated figures to dramatic views of San Francisco's plunging streets, Thiebaud's drawings invariably endow the most banal, everyday scenes with a sense of poetry and nostalgia.

Painter Mathew Cerletty applies hyper - realistic precision to the most banal and unremarkable subjects that populate his life — from corporate logos, to cinder block walls, to Ikea furniture.

This movement initiated the idea that art can be created from all sorts of stuff, including the most banal everyday scraps of material.

This 57» x 84» image of the most banal subject shines in the hands of a master.

Ester Partegàs often addresses the most banal aspects of the urban landscape with a keen eye for telling details that otherwise would be overlooked or dismissed.

Bound by the most banal relationship to music and by an attempt to avoid all interpretation, elaboration or creativity as such, the performers anticipate the music in order to do the sounds.

The intricate, labour - intensive installations of Sarah Sze frequently use the most banal and insignificant everyday objects to express the biggest and grandest ideas.

Even more astonishing was to see that such sophisticated patterns of design and color were made out of the most banal of materials: plastic — or, more specifically, polyester resin.

Byrne is recognized for his innate ability to create extraordinary visual and sensory experiences out of ordinary and mundane materials, elevating the most banal of subjects to a high art form.

I find that whenever I am having what I think of as a «transcendent» experience, it is often associated with the most banal activities.»

Their innovative works are lyrical, open - ended combinations of unlikely fragments - a slab of marble with a lettuce, or fruit scattered among neon tubes - giving the most banal materials a metaphysical dimension.

January 17 - March 9, 2014 Ester Partegàs often addresses the most banal aspects of the urban landscape with a keen eye for telling details that otherwise would be overlooked or dismissed.

And as a photographer, her eye for poetic detail in the most banal of settings rivals that of Wolfgang Tillmans; something that has garnered this thoughtful, 54 - year - old artist the privilege -LRB-!)

When people say his name, I tend to think only of incredible but somewhat predictable color photographs of America, those very Shore-esque lyrical presentations of our most banal shades of red, white and blue.

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.

Yet it seems to lose all pretense of this when, like clockwork, the game is reminded that it needs to pander to your most banal and primitive instincts, in a way that foregoes any amount of taste or even build - up.

while she announces «THIS IS THE MOST BANAL QUESTION EVER», even when it's just been asked by her Choice of Games editor.

Here on the days when a cruise ship is in port you will find the widest array of tourist souvenirs - from the most banal plastic to exotic unique local handicrafts.

When found objects are removed from the environment in which they exists, they becomes transformative, the most banal object transcends itself to become exotic.

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.

As the narrator moves from married woman to the mother of six children, she struggles to find her identity even in the most banal things, such as the daily wash for example: There was a young woman from Moscow Who bought laundry detergent at Costco.

Knowing I was supposed to be laughing but finding myself not was like watching one of those over-eager sitcoms where the laugh track punctuates the actors» most banal lines, killing whatever residue of humor might have been found.

Even when featuing in some of the most banal of tv drama's, such as Consuming Passion, she herself never fails to deliver.

I love the disruption of this flow when the most banal moment transpires - when a giant boulder that becomes a swimming pool ornament narrowly misses our main guy.

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.

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.

Possibly the biggest danger leading to the incident is the most banal: the bottlenecks and «traffic jams» caused by having dozens of climbers competing for a narrow window of opportunity on the mountain at one time.

Unfortunately, the film lacks even the most banal of structures, meaning that it's a hodgepodge collection of scenes that don't flow well at all.

Even the most banal dialogue is designed to be read as deadpan.

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.

Here's where the film really plummets in ambition: All of this bizarritude comes in service of the most banal, if - only - I'd - talked to her pining.

The idea has its roots in Día de los Muertos, but it's reduced to its most banal and palliative form.

Good actors are wasted, sets dominate storytelling, and it's all based on the most banal and artificial of children's tales.

«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.

Public information, even of the most banal sort, has become harder and harder to obtain under his leadership.

Having my dream of the perfect escape was preferable to having that dream come true and still be stuck here in a life most banal.

I appreciate Richard Bushman's attention to my article, but I'm afraid he leaves me with the most banal of author's responses: His critique seems to refer to some article other than the one I wrote.

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

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.

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

At the most banal level, this is a question of math.

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

Not exact matches

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).

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.

Barthes also added that interpretations claiming to be the most historical are not necessarily the most objective, but may rather be the more timid or banal.

TN: And not something banal and meaningless like reporting that a meeting was «productive», which is by - and - large most of what's broadcast from diplomatic and political Twitter accounts.

The frenzied hatred on even the most minor issues, the banal idiocy of those who pretend every event is a conspiracy against their online tribe, the lack of humanity or humour: these things tire you out after a while.