Sentences with phrase «with banal»

Your current self deals with the banal, everyday details of living.

In one work he announced his absence with a banal white sign nailed to a brick wall.

Making and remaking the rabbit allowed me to forge a deeper connection with this banal, yet personally significant object.

Memory Ware Flat # 24 combines the chaotic, allover composition of an Abstract Expressionist painting with banal, easily recognizable objects.

The randomness of the objects both protruding from and inset in the wall gives off an air of insouciance that cuts off any possible connection to empathy or horror despite it's obvious attempt to shock, supplying the nonplussed observer with a banal and empty experience.

New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast once created a cartoon retelling Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain using Bic ballpoint pens as stand - in for the characters: this, I think, was a comment on the cartoonists» and writers» obsession with the banal writing implement.

The artists — Judie Bamber, Tom Burr, Tony Feher, Mike Kelley, Ry Rocklen, and Collier Schorr — begin with banal or familiar objects and forms, transforming them into poetic works of art through juxtaposition and subtle alteration.

Living somewhere between film, modern news media and history painting, Kahrs» work seamlessly merges the beauty and tradition of painting and portraiture with banal yet grotesque objectivity, seducing the viewer into a -LSB-.....]

Living somewhere between film, modern news media and history painting, Kahrs» work seamlessly merges the beauty and tradition of painting and portraiture with banal yet grotesque objectivity, seducing the viewer into a reductive, saturated palate only to confront them with an aggressive yet all too familiar imagery.

One of the most important painters of her generation, Nicole Eisenman has developed a distinct figurative language that combines the imaginative with the lucid, the absurd with the banal, and the stereotypical with the countercultural and queer.

One of the most important painters of her generation, Eisenman has developed a distinct figurative language that combines the imaginative with the lucid, the absurd with the banal, and the stereotypical with the countercultural and queer.

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.

While we're seeing a number of noteworthy efforts, bandwidth is also being jammed with the banal - from insignificant imported works to lackluster stories crafted domestically.

For many players the game looses its unique climate, but it is a great alternative for banal games with banal scenarios that can be found on many websites.

The similarities of these two schools eliminate many of the traditional explanations for differences in student achievement and we are left with banal descriptions of «good teaching» in one or «ineffective leadership» in the other.

That dazzling hack J.J. Abrams got saddled with the banal setup episode.

Above Average's «Your Biggest Fan» web series is a modern riff on Saturday Night Live's «The Chris Farley Show», with comedian Rob King cornering various celebrities at a water cooler to accost them with banal questions and pathetic demands.

The film revolves around the graphic but passionless sex scenes, with banal domestic discussion in - between.

It's a shame, however, that Reitman is more concerned with a banal thesis based on flattening the differences between people, than with the kind of drama that emerges from their complexity.

But the end result is, at best, a rushed mess that sees the poetic ambitions of Snyder's previous DC films replaced with the banal grinding of plot gears and obligatory character exposition.

The movie does retain its sense of self - deprecating humor, which increases its IQ, and action abounds as director Alan Taylor doesn't waste time with banal backstory and buildup.

The bookstores» shelves are creaking with the sermons of smug eminences purporting to break the spell of the «God delusion» and with banal screeds purporting to expose the dark designs of Christofascists and theocrats.

As for his own prejudiced agenda, it is summed up with the banal «cautionary aphorism» with which he concludes his review: «Dante was a Catholic; Milton was a Protestant; Shakespeare was a dramatist.»

I'll make sure not to step on any feet with my banal and gross misinterpretations.

We have completely rendered Christianity ridiculous with our banal and mawkish commodifying of this subversive homeless guy who angered every single religious and political zealot that crossed his path.

Perhaps realizing this, he completes his bait - and - switch with a banal anticlimax.

Instead he plays juvenile games and gallops around the country offending non-Xtians with his banal prattling pretending to be God's gift to (evil) angelism.

Best case scenario he addresses the crowd with banal, meaningless talking points like «We can grow the economy AND protect the climate.»

Not exact matches

Or with something else even more banal, but inescapable: the weather?

Any one of the people who gets your photo can then respond with a visual or text message, and as TechCrunch noted, «flings» aren't ephemeral, removing the frankly banal forced «disappearing message» aspect of seemingly every new network.

Even the CBC last year promoted its banal sitcom Being Erica with promises of a hot lesbian sex scene — and when the Mother Corp thinks girl - on - girl action makes acceptable prime - time viewing, it's a sure sign that sex is no longer shocking.

P.S. I suppose the equivalent pop music juxtaposition would be Annette May's lyrically stern (but musically delicious) «Vacation in Heaven,» with Blur's outrageously banal «Girls and Boys.»

Come up with a more original insult you banal dim - witted dou.che nozzle.

Such calculation is all done in a cold corporate office environment with each window, glassy surface, and video screen reflecting the banal, if ruthless, maneuvers of well educated women.

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.

But it is incompatable with the church order that takes its model from the more banal children of this world.

The quality of homily services ranges from the banal to the brilliant, with occasional slips into the heretical.

He agrees with Dalrymple that the legendary British reticence, fortitude, and good taste have been replaced by «the hug - and - confess culture» that is marked by «a banal, self - pitying, witless, and shallow emotional incontinence.»

John XXIII knew, as did his successor Paul VI, that along with goods the Church should welcome, much that was meaningless, banal, and distracting would come in through the open windows, and some that was truly evil.

Moreover, leaving aside its unfortunate opening and closing frame chapters, where the struggle to believe is treated in banal, secular - triumphalist terms from the protagonist's adult vantage, this novel persuasively represents Islam as an active, complex source of theologically framed consolation and challenge for Midwestern Muslims, who emerge as variously flawed believers at odds with each other about the nature and imperatives of their faith.

His knack for «writing» banal lyrics — strung together into incoherent whole songs — together with imitation vanilla chords and melodies somehow passes as real church music.

Again, the odds are ridiculously low that this will happen, but if you think about Tebow as a 38th - round pick with one tool, but who was paid like a 19th - round pick because he has the potential to be a PR bonanza, this is an incredibly banal, dog - bites - man move.

The minister can retort with something equally banal from his party's own phrasebook.

Again and again, your voice rising, your voice rising until you're shouting, shouting above the cheers of your audience, your audience cheering in acclaim, acclaim for your banal thoughts, your banal thoughts with the word «Britain» in them, your banal thoughts.

Owens's anger has been sparked by the banal way in which cycles of conservatism are repeating themselves, with consequent human cost.

But if you don't like banal walking around then arrange a picnic or take a badminton kit with you.

Often, Ukrainian online dating means banal sex tourism for many foreign men because a romance with a Ukrainian woman may be cheaper for them, in their opinion.

Probably my letter will seem banal and boring, but I ask you not to think, that this next identical letter from the Russian woman I think, that you receive set of letters from women, and probably you correspond with them, it was explained me by the assistant in the internet cafe.

Brooks builds eight neat instrumentals from gradually layer guitar, playing in a closed circle with himself, a dialogue that is sometimes affecting but more often banal.

(In the film's one gentle bow to humor, Lorens isn't aware of their agreement, and he's baffled when he fulsomely praises the food and wine, only to be met with scripture, or banal comments about the weather.)