Sentences with phrase «utterly banal»

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.

Her latest show shies away from celebrities, and from figures in general, instead presenting utterly banal objects and interiors: a bathroom door, a wooden stool, a wall of subway tiles.

Prior to crazytown, the story is utterly banal.

Metroid II was an interesting precursor to Metroid 3 in many ways, but the interesting elements of the game are married to an utterly banal level layout and incredibly tedious gameplay.

Unity is doing some great things although some may seem utterly banal unless you're intimate with the issues an AC game has.

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.

Its creepy moral underpinnings are matched only by its utterly banal storyline: you can actually feel your brain cells dying as you watch.

A cubicle drone, he tweets out utterly banal thoughts («Panini with cheese and ham #livingthedream»), but Jon's waking life is but waiting moments in between the songs he's constantly composing in his head.

Adapted from Elfriede Jelinek's novel, Der Klavierspielerin, Haneke's rendering is a kind of anti-melodrama, taking the conventions of the doomed romance familiar from Bovary and showing them up for their contradictory nature: histrionic and subdued, grotesque and utterly banal.

However, I think there is something utterly banal about the explosiion of discernment ministries.

Not exact matches

«The song and performance are banal, obvious and, to use a transport analogy, utterly pedestrian,» said the Daily Telegraph's pop critic of their jaunty sub-Kinks single Piccadilly Circus.

The subject matter — utterly contemporary, banal, and everyday — is at odds with the delicacy of the medium they are made in.

The subject matter — utterly contemporary, banal, and everyday — is...