Sentences with phrase «rather banal»

Ni No Kuni had glorious production value, but a rather banal combat system compared to what I enjoy (that's not to say it was bad, I just expected more from Level 5).

Some of these check boxes are rather banal: you'll get a tick for device hardware from the app for simply having a BlackBerry device, and for running Android.

«Dick Van Dyke Press Interview» (8:48) is a single - take Q & A between the actor and off - screen journalists whose questions are rather banal and even a little skeptical.

But if we walk away feeling Dean is still an enigmatic figure, Dennis Stock comes across as mildly sycophantic and rather banal personality, swirled up in the kind of unplanned family woes plaguing too many overzealous youths to bother mentioning.

The casting is rather banal, too.

The valence of the negative statements — «This is the all - time dumbest idea» has a stronger negative connotation than «This idea is rather banal.»

It seems rather banal to claim that the lush To the Wonder is a movie about commitment.

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.»

Throughout the week I found him to be good natured, introverted and rather banal.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

I say this just in case there was anyone left who still doesn't realise rather than the majority who probably think that that statement is as banal as saying grass is green.

Rather people laughed at banal phrases such as «I'll see you guys later!»

The specific ending of the film, which wisely avoids the worst mistakes of the book and at least cuts things mercifully short after a series of catastrophes, is not successful or convincing; in fact, it's rather clichéd and banal, but the intuition that violent, terrible acts flow inexorably in part from Americans» unawareness and incomprehension of the simplest facts of their own lives is undeniably true.

With understated fatalism rather than Titanic - size hysteria — at once slapstick and ice - cool — McKellar tracks a handful of average but bizarre Canadian earthlings as they prepare in small, banal, personal ways for extinction, then links them in a bigger human whole.

Rather, it reveals the true motivation as sadism, extending to all involved, including the family, friends and police; not the sensationalist kind, but more banal and almost every day.

Believe me, its time you rather be a blatherskite than be a proprietor of a banal and sophomoric talk about the various uses of «phenolphthalein» (What??).

Such conclusions may look obvious, even banal, but in fact it was unprecedented for the federal education research agency to treat teachers, principals, and parents as key clients, rather than targeting its products at academics and policymakers.

But I have yet to see anything in terms of promotion; that's the writer's responsibility, and some people just don't like the banal idiocy of Facebook or Twitter or are painfully shy and would rather self - immolate than venture outside the writer's cave.

I'd rather have a loud personality than someone as banal as Leo.

On top of its graphical inferiority, its environmental diversity is rather lacklustre and banal — the post-apocalyptic universe is derivative beyond belief, but Automata could've left some form of creative footprint on the formulaic setting, but alas it does not.

Using banal materials, he focuses the viewer's attention on impressions of physicality rather than distinct forms.

If Modernism had from the first been about making art into life (rather than the other way around), Abstract Expressionism had encouraged blowing the banal up to poster size.

Presented in book format, as a static archive, it's completely banal — not a series of erotic images so much as an overall picture of a particular erotic, much as Guyton's black paintings together represent an idea of the monochrome rather than a selection of monochromatic works.

BP I understand the attitude of Peter Halley's statements, but one of my first interests in contemporary American painting concerns the most Swiss of American artists, or rather the most American of Swiss artists, Olivier Mosset, and his painting: banal without aura.

Rather than treating the production of art as an exploration into all the outlying possibilities, the Chair Paintings delineate a single banal event; specifically, the making four paintings to correspond to the floral patterned cushions on four chairs in the artist's studio.

A smiley face, the contemporary emblem of banal pleasantry, in Gbur's hands reads as both vacant and malevolent; rather than serving its standard purpose of evincing happiness, the smiling hieroglyph instead reconnoiters the potential for deception and psychological violence intrinsic to pictographic communication.

Like tapping a knee to trigger a reflex, the words «World Government» always provokes outraged mockery and namecalling as if it were against the laws of physics rather than being the banal, obvious desire of a certain part of the population.

That means that when you're meditating and intense thoughts or feelings hit — not banal thoughts about picking up the dry cleaning, but rather a rush of anxiety or joy or heartache or anger — let go of the breath and open yourself to that experience.