Sentences with phrase «so banal»

The majority of lawyer marketing that appears on TV or online is so banal, hackneyed, and pandering it's ridiculous.

The «consensus» which the Cook et al paper supports is so banal and trivial as to scarcely be worth stating, viz:

Which is fair enough, except that nobody tends to gets het up about raw data — they're rarely the locus of controversy — so it would seem odd, to me, for a President to talk about something so banal.

Large - scale paintings of U.S.A. FOREVER stamps are in fact reproductions from the USPS website, featuring a strikethrough over the text intended to prevent counterfeiting; the works highlight the chauvinistic message espoused by something so banal as our postage.

No, it's something so banal, so dull that when people find out I've got a second persona stuffed in my closet, they scratch there heads and ask me, «Why?»

Joining the video is a surprisingly tame DD 5.1 track; of course, the song selections are so banal that they wouldn't give the speakers a workout under the best conditions, but aside from some decent low - end for the sci - fi components, the mix is as humdrum as the movie itself — although the audio on the DVD is without any serious defects.

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 main problem with this film is that they are simply so banal and nondescript that it's hard to focus on the plot.

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.

It's hard to understand how something so banal, even, stirs up such heated debate... That said, I wonder how many of the people insisting that women leave the room, or even cover up completely, would think it's ok to ask women on the street to cover up?

It always seemed so banal and out of touch, like she was telling me my pain was irrelevant.

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).

My reason for an interest in a thing so potentially banal (and trust me, some of the proclamations are beyond....

So many times I find myself getting caught up in the banal and mundane work of «service» that I miss the communion I think I have.

More «business as usual» when it comes to the banal double standards that gynocentrists so often traffic in?

Clemson, Michigan and Washington each fell for the first time yesterday in the first truly chaotic Saturday of an otherwise pretty banal season (so much for that).

A couple of bad weeks to begin the year is too banal for the Cubs and their tragic history, so just remember there is still time for a good old - fashioned North Side reckoning.

The Teller's realization that there's no reliable evidence that any of the above is true led them to an understanding of divorce that's so simple as to be banal: everyone's situation is unique and there's no easy way through it for any individual or those individual's loved ones.

However banal it may sound, those fathers who teach their sons that the skill and the joy they get from participation in various events are much more important than winning, give their children so much more.

So Vegas is reduced to the «deviance» of titty bars, drugs, alcohol, and gambling, and The Hangover offers an endless litany of pissing, vomiting, and senseless, banal brutality.

The secondary tasks are boring, and the plot itself is banal, unfortunately I can not understand where so many positive reviews

So much of what they have to say sounds banal or extraneous compared to the music heard on the soundtrack.

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.

A movie so silly and banal that it may take us a bit longer than usual to realize how actually stupid, implausible and empty it is once it is over, with an awful amount of expository dialogue, poorly - developed characters and a non-linear structure adopted for no purpose at all.

At least back in the olden days Media Ventures action scores used Backdraft as their template and so you ended up with things like The Rock which may be pretty banal but at least provided great fun, but now it's Spy Game - not an impressive musical work to begin with - that seems to be the model they all want to follow.

At its best, Real Time reminded me a little of Alexander Payne's wonderful Nebraska in the way it depicts small - town life as so unrelentingly ugly, banal, and tacky that it comes back around to being strangely beautiful.

That connection between Isaac and Portman's characters is a crucial plot point in the film, but in practice, it's half - compelling and half - restraining, simply because marital problems are so much more familiar and banal than everything else going on.

The bond growing between Charlie and Max throughout the film's second act is so clear and banal that by the time they actually start getting along, you feel like the movie has caught up with you when it should be the other way around.

Perhaps more importantly, the film is so visually banal and formally undistinguished that it feels ideally suited for the television sets where most Academy Members and Critics Group Voters end up watching films.

With so many exciting films slated for release this year, it's not surprising that a stereotypical, banal American high school teen comedy will join...

The way he so effortlessly constructs an imaginary world of quirky characters, and a visual experience so resplendent and idiosyncratic that I wonder how he can even function in this bland, banal world that the rest of us inhabit.

If you've ever found yourself playing an RPG and thinking to yourself how much you enjoy moving a character around simple maps, winning battles by pushing the fight button, and skipping through a banal trope - laden story, but wishing that it didn't take so darned much time and thinking to beat, has Kemco got the game for you.

Shocking violence has become so yawningly common, so eye - rollingly banal that its flippant depiction onscreen is often just par for the course.

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.

Tellingly, Shame starts to feel banal as McQueen explains who his characters are and where they come from; in narrative filmmaking, one can present decontextualized images for only so long.

New York Times reviewer Michiko Kakutani says the plot is «willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that The Casual Vacancy is not only disappointing — it's dull.»

The secondary tasks are boring, and the plot itself is banal, unfortunately I can not understand where so many positive reviews

If you've ever found yourself playing an RPG and thinking to yourself how much you enjoy moving a character around simple maps, winning battles by pushing the fight button, and skipping through a banal trope - laden story, but wishing that it didn't take so darned much time and thinking to beat, has Kemco got the game for you.

I honestly believe one reason art discourse is so low, so mind numbingly banal right now, is that curators, critics, and historians are not reading literature anymore.

Scenes from contemporary life, ever so slightly dated, played out in banal landscapes, both lost in time and relentlessly modern.

So you can bet that his upcoming show «What You Want» — five emerging artists creating visual pleasure with banal objects — draws from a good deal of rumination.

How an object so inherently banal and middlebrow as the grill can appear so vulnerable is a surprise.

Writer Gregory Volk notes: «The remarkable thing is how this exhaustive and systematic, yet extremely diverse anatomy of a banal backyard scene winds up so emotive and complicatedly human, suffused with longing and alienation, grace and agitation, loveliness and unease.»

Jennifer Bartlett: In the Garden (1980 - 83) catalog author Gregory Volk notes, «The remarkable thing is how this exhaustive and systematic, yet extremely diverse anatomy of a banal backyard scene winds up so emotive and complicatedly human, suffused with longing and alienation, grace and agitation, loveliness and unease.»

With the help of around a hundred or so employees in his New York studio, he deals with popular culture subjects and often creates reproductions of banal objects, elevating their status to becoming works of art.

Dalí's production after his Surrealist phase, once dismissed by scholars as banal kitsch, is now being celebrated for being so ahead of its time it looks as though it could have been made yesterday.

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.

And so, we've got New York - based artist Valerie Snobeck, whose fascination is with objects as banal and strange as reservoirs, and now this series of new works will be presented at her first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, at Simon Lee Gallery.

But it would be too easy and utterly banal to put on a Hirst show that would sell out before the ink has dried on the press release, so Blain Southern had the frankly ingenious idea of pairing him with someone with whom he has nothing, intellectually speaking, in common, but in whose work Hirst finds a glittering visual counterpart.

In some of my art, as seen in this exhibition, I attempt to bring together disparate references, often taken from banal or common - place social artifacts, behaviours, or codes of meaning that are considered so unglamorous or boringly functional as to be unworthy of notice.