Sentences with word «mundanity»

There is but the day - to - day mundanity of life, which when you're a hulking, waxed and tanned mass of muscle takes on different but still identifiably human proportions.

Are you unhappy because you feel trapped in mundanity?

Still, this focus on mundanity displaces any plot the movie seemed to be working towards.

These features put Defiance on the edge of an addicting, stat - obsessed experience, but the poorly implemented menu system and slower - than - you - expect influx of new items makes for mundanity, not pleasurable compulsion.

The system not only handles such mundanities as HVAC settings and seat controls, it also replaces Land Rover's traditional Terrain Response 2 control knob.

After finishing University, I made that terribly scary step into real life and began the slow but steady descent into mundanity... But when the old society gang texted me to pop back out, it would have been nothing but rude to say no.

is the sort of film that sneaks up on you, its quality unfolding in a stately manner within the perceived mundanity of its early movements.

It's his hope (and mine) that the Aston Martin DB11 keeps the dream of driving alive and keeps the fear of mundanity at bay.

Let's talk about how games handle mundanity of everyday life, and what constitutes normality in game worlds.

The Baader - Meinhof Complex tries to get into the heads of the members and show the viewer the frightening mundanity of the subject and how easy it is for things to escalate.

There's nothing wrong with history, in fact this film is a celebration of its nuances, of the occasional mundanity of big things, but we're too often left intellectually stirred but emotionally cold.

However, this is not the case and while the game is definitely played for laughs, these soon run out when mundanity sets in.

Sure, E!'s red carpet special was excruciating to watch, whiplashing terribly from genuinely exciting interviews with real - life activists standing alongside movie stars to witless mundanity, garishly worthless and out of step.

But in terms of realism, closely observed mundanity helps counter the idea that black lives in Trump - era America should be neatly categorized as either simply a case or a cause.

A large part of what makes this vampire mockumentary from Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi so hilarious is the duo's ability to find humor in both over-the-top situations and small mundanities.

The combination of nailbiting tension and suffocating stillness that characterised A Hijacking (Kapringen)(from which key cast members return) inflects the life - and - death mundanity of the war - zone sequences, while later stages echo the communal paranoia of The Hunt (Jagten), which Lindholm co-wrote with Thomas Vinterberg.

But as selfish, bitter, or defeated as these two characters may appear, Theron ensures they're painted as warriors against their own mundanity.

Gillespie treats Gillooly's alleged spousal abuse with chilling mundanity; Gillooly will be sweet or goofy with Harding in one moment, and furious or abusive in the next.

Lady Bird rages against the seeming mundanity of her city: it's boring!

Ultimately what is fascinating about Compliance is its suggestion of the near - universality, and ultimate mundanity, of the totalitarian reflex.

What makes Midnight Special so authentically special is the way that, like Spielberg in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Nichols contrasts his story's cosmic dimension with gritty - realist mundanity — all those grim motel rooms, gas station forecourts and back roads, their drabness vividly captured in Adam Stone's widescreen photography.

I travelled to Bangkok first in 2003 to escape mundanity and bad weather in the UK.

The lasting mundanity of a game with such epic moments is unfortunate, and seems to have affected the series overall.

Weird and very Japanese title aside, 7th Dragon III Code: VFD is a game that borderline sits on compelling gameplay and weird mundanity.

The distinctive cutesy Animal Crossing aesthetic is suited perfectly to a mobile game, allowing you to pull out your phone and escape to another more adorable world during those brief periods of time when the dreary mundanity of life seeps in.

What happens when a game embraces mundanity, like Gone Home or Firewatch?

Combine the complete reluctance to adhere to what you're doing with the pad with the sheer mundanity of archaeology and you'll discover what it truly is to hate a video game.

His latest site - specific installation, Suburban Past Time, 2012, a work in three «sites,» seems to expand the scenes depicted by Miller's ongoing series «Middle of the Day,» 1994 — , in three - dimensional space and scale by presenting familiar landscapes whose jarring mundanity disarms viewers.

Carol Bove, like Koons, introduces a bit of commercial mundanity in her Third White Sweater Painting (2016) by recasting the repetitive monochrome structure favored by Minimalist icons Agnes Martin and Robert Ryman, both of whom appear here, as the design of a cheap sweater.

Themes of macabre mundanity continue in David's Living Room Revisited, 2014, a black - and - scarlet muraled room designed by Kuitca inspired by a drawing David Lynch made for «The Air Is on Fire,» a retrospective of the auteur's paintings, drawings, and photographs organized at the Fondation Cartier in 2007.

Commodities promise transcendence but deliver mundanity — that's the fundamental con — whereas art can operate by other means.

She pushes the boundaries between abstraction and representation, drawing on imagery as wide - ranging as found - in - suburbia mundanities, manmade bodies of water, and sci - fi imagery, all the while referencing the great American tradition of Color Field Painting, to create a fresh language all her own.

The recipe for solving the legal problems of human beings has five parts mundanity and four parts psychology for every one part formal law; and

Even if self - help materials are available a person may fail to take action due to anxiety (leading to paralysis), a feeling of being overwhelmed («overtaxed bandwidth») or an unfamiliarity with «legal mundanity» (what we insiders know instinctively but are foreign and intimidating to outsiders, such as when to stand up and when to sit in a courtroom).

Pulling ideas from disparate subjects, pop culture, mythic figures and current events, Schutz takes us from mundanity — showering, waiting for a taxi, sleepwalking, sneezing — to a unique blend of (mythical) science fiction — getting dressed all at once, amalgamations of God, being and rendering an octopus at the same time — boasting a «give me anything and I'll make it work for me» narrative abstraction.

Don't waste space on mundanities or the things that all books have in common.

Still, in retrospect the thing I appreciate most about boarding school wasn't so much a decent education (I wasn't much of a student, to be honest), or the day - to - day mundanity of Latin, Shakespeare, Rugby, «Jerusalem», fist fights, ink - stained hankies, cold showers and horrible food, but the horizons.

With echoes of David Lynch, Michael Haneke and even Stanley Kubrick, Yorgos Lanthimos eschews the fantastical to present a world in which horror is grounded in mundanity.

Aided by Yorick Le Saux's stark but dreamlike cinematography and an enjoyable supporting turn from Chloe Grace Moretz, Clouds of Sils Maria is the sort of film that sneaks up on you, its quality unfolding in a stately manner within the perceived mundanity of its early movements.

The daily mundanity of Los Angeles (or any other city) can not be appreciated while riding in a car.

A virtual assistant is a great way to eliminate huge amounts of mundanity.

I simply don't understand why you people want to take something as seemingly wonderful as faith and reduce it to the mundanity of mere fact.

For some, this «mundanity» has been cause for stumbling.

Normally we wouldn't say anything about something as mundane as an iPad cover... but this one transcends the mundanity.

Like the series itself, the Christmas shows got increasingly absurd and unrelateable as the premise dragged on, but season 2's «Christmas Party» was everything that was great about the show: Steve Carell was at his peak Michael Scott - ness while pouting about an oven mitt he'd received as a gift; the mundanity of office life getting broken up by an even more mundane party; Jim and Pam at the height of their pre-dating romantic tension.

(Video) Celtic TV drops a Kieran Tierney special to save everyone from the mundanity of int» l break