The outcome of this populist turn is the celebration of the ordinary and the banal. |
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The mock-heroic style of the intertitles contrasts well with the banal visuals. |
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Two moments of unintentional humor I noticed through the usual dross of banal conversation. |
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This game had all the ingredients of the banal and wonderful as it slipped from dull slow football to edge of the seat stuff. |
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No name-dropping, no technical language and don't expect the discussion to result in anything so banal as a conclusion. |
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Insofar as the European constitution mentions the free market, it is simply banal and unoriginal. |
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His bizarre word rhythm and gleeful disregard for punctuation makes even his most banal utterances sound dramatic. |
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Critics were perplexed by this seemingly perfect specimen, and swiftly termed her bland and banal. |
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In his first staged play, we see the banal existence of a boarding-house lodger ripped apart by psychological torture. |
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Dressed like a dosser, he shuffles about, teaching Caviezel how to make banal lines sound halfway decent. |
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Loosely reminiscent of the optical illusions of M. C. Escher, Paul Noble's Public Toilet was an uninhibited glorification of the banal. |
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It is banal, orotund, unmusical, and stuffed with wads of unnecessary jargon. |
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But Barnes has produced a bleak and profound meditation on love and loss from an ostensibly banal premise. |
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It is, however, perceived as pure and religious, mythical and, in a banal sense, sublime. |
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The show includes both banal objects, such as electric switches and sockets, as well as hand-formed clay objects, cast in bronze. |
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As ever for American movies, the body switcheroo is also a banal moral lesson. |
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For a truly vapid and incomprehensible waste of time, do read His Grace's fine paeons to the terminally passionless and intellectually banal. |
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No amount of attention to signs can undo the impact of cliched words or banal sentiments. |
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His choreography is banal to the point of insipidity, and the acting he requests from his dancers is utterly unconvincing. |
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Though the title of this new exhibition flirts with the idea of schism, the truth is more banal. |
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Where else can we share in our love of banal but poppy tunes that never really lived up to similar banal but poppy Wham! |
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His column is a potpourri of banal observations, some ever so slightly to the left of the American political establishment, some to the right. |
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He watches a woman chase a runaway dog and eavesdrops on conversations even more banal than his prose. |
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Never assume that other people will be interested in the banal day-to-day trivia of your mundane existence! |
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These poems and a few others tend to be prosaic, obsessed with private matters in banal terms. |
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By this time I knew her well enough to understand this gnomic, seemingly banal statement. |
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But the messages are hideously banal, more likely to comment on the new kitchen cabinets than impart any profound wisdom from beyond the grave. |
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Unfortunately, I found the film flat, banal, and dishearteningly conservative. |
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Granted, three of the bits work well, but the rest are so banal, so dull, so lifeless, that one has to wonder how this thing ever got released. |
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Occasionally, it's very good, but a lot of it, like this, is banal in concept, timid in presentation and ephemerally unmemorable. |
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In the context of the pervasive nineteenth century idealism of Hegel, Kant and their epigones, this axiomatic statement was anything but banal. |
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The banal plot is rather loosely and extraneously hung on this framework of alleged historical fact. |
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Now we'll see the difference between banal mass-market drivel and true untutored garbage. |
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Give that girl a bath, or at the very least a hair wash, some elocution lessons and the imagination to ask questions beyond the banal. |
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For a medium that thrives on ad-lib banter, trying to find appropriate words when there are none can easily sound banal. |
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A kind of Pinocchio sans magic, Petrushka dies a banal non-death, getting whacked by a blow to his empty head. |
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This tour is excruciatingly banal and juvenile, lightened only by the silly antics of his friend Joe. |
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Modern political speech is so dopey, so banal, that it's no wonder why people wish a pox on all houses. |
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Coetzee has obviously immersed himself in his adoptive hometown, and the city comes alive in all its banal, suburban Australianness. |
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The film is rich in allegorical theme and symbolic imagery, transforming the most banal of materials into miraculous epiphanies. |
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Is humour considered so base as to rank only among banal genres like romance and horror? |
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She loathes Hollywood, finds it distasteful and banal, hates the idea of her art being tainted by commerce. |
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Perhaps because the whole site was clearly on its way to becoming banal, ordinary, I felt a rush of sadness for the victims. |
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The overall story, with its sometimes ludicrously banal dialogue, is solely to blame for this. |
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The Brits have always been awake to the criminal life's mixture of the savage, canny and banal. |
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It was a rather banal response, but then I guess Labour's press office is used to dealing with awkward questions. |
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The next cut finds him waiting for the second hand on the clock to mark 5.00 pm and thus the banal end to his career. |
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The real opposite of the sublime is, of course, the intransigently banal and commonsensical. |
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The banal and obvious truth is that life and a country are largely what you make of them. |
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The play pokes fun at these dialogues through characters having banal conversations. |
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The album avoids being banal and predictable because he is not afraid to fully use his voice to emote. |
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Her comments are so threadbare and banal, that her role smacks of the worst kind of tokenism. |
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What followed was flagrant musical bankruptcy and the insufferable drone of banal music. |
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Ray's comments swerved from the banal, to the solid and sober, like all good reporters. |
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A song which can appeal to non-native speakers is obviously going to have relatively banal lyrics. |
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As long as domesticated TV reigns supreme, our fascination with the banal will surely continue. |
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This outcome has become a banal tautology repeated in every pharmaceutical marketing article. |
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It doesn't really say anything new and tells its story in the most banal and predictable manner possible. |
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I find most New Age spiritual music to be boring and banal but I've met a lot of people that find great use for it. |
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I suspect that he thinks he is one, which is why we are occasionally treated to comments that to most people appear banal. |
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I made a long list of quite banal and boring questions that I went through and asked this man. |
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No one can get excited about the most boring and banal of road stops like this guy. |
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The seemingly banal ramblings of this loveable loser are beautifully scripted. |
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Anyone who believed such a thing was by definition clueless and delusional, and the lyrical contributions are matchlessly banal. |
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Within this latter group lies cutlery, perhaps the most banal and uninteresting of eating-related subject matters. |
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So instead of being a film about a mouse trying to fit in with humans, we get a far more banal film about a middle brother's loneliness. |
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He then began photographing what had become banal suburbia, complete with tract housing, strip malls and gas stations. |
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A polite tongue provided a shield of tactful silence and banal pleasantries that staved off needless provocation and harm. |
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What won't be unusual to many is the banal content of Warhol's utterances, his obsession with trivialities, and his seeming shallowness. |
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He looked a little older than me, and he wasn't unhandsome, and his features avoided the banal good looks Rochelle picked for all of her own boy toys. |
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In the fullness of time, ninety-nine percent of the bad, ugly, stupid, obtuse, and banal remains so, and remains so unmemorable that it sinks into oblivion. |
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Neumeier's work is self-indulgently long, banal, unmusical both in its choice of scores and in its response to them, intermittently pretentious and uncertain in tone. |
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The lawyers, often personal injury lawyers, are jolted out of their parasitic and banal existence by the novelty of an innocent and deserving client. |
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A self-made insurance millionaire, he wrote orchestral music that veered from the banal to the unplayably complex and kept much of it in a drawer, fearing rejection. |
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One of the reasons is that at this time of so many banal remakes and artificial movies made from TV shows, reviewers are thankful for an uncompromising effort. |
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Utterly predictable, full of wooden acting and ringing with hollow family-values thematics, this is thoroughly banal and barely worth looking back on. |
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She seems banal and unreasonably submissive to her boorish husband. |
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A good editor would have ensured that these characters did not have as much time to maunder on endlessly and indulge in the most banal conversation. |
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Though it gives a further twist to the themes of illusion, desire and so forth, the novel has a reality of its own that doesn't need banal topicality tacked on. |
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All these touches seem as woefully accurate as they always did, set against that banal English netherworld of market towns and motorway service stations. |
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The sublime landscape of the American South West is being slowly corroded by a tide of faux Spanish Colonial dream homes and equally banal commercial development. |
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In it, he criticized the unity of place and time imposed by the classical theatre, which confined all the action to a banal peristyle and expelled all drama to the wings. |
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While some of the book's guidelines are common sense, others are banal. |
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A blog will thrive, live a banal life or just die from inattention. |
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The final fifteen minutes in particular, which theoretically contain the showdown between Stray Cat and Hundred Eyes, is a banal barrage of stagy and pretentious imagery. |
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She was an actress with an opera singer's voice and vocal skills, which enabled her to lift her performances out of the banal into the realms of realism. |
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The way she clasped the stalks, her slouchy but upright posture, even her incessant munching were all banal facts of her life that instantly became bewitching to me. |
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Is there anything more banal than the expostulations of Derrida, Foucault, and their countless epigones and progeny? |
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The script I felt was banal and 'who cares' and 'why bother' and all of that. |
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For all its upbeat exuberance and whacked-out visual pyrotechnics, Kertess' Biennial can easily he characterized as banal. |
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It's a banal fact but, in the context of distortionary charity flows, important to recognise. |
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Perhaps any more glamorous treatment of the corrida might be as banal in Mexico as a postcard of Mount Rushmore would be here. |
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Yet there's nothing in Bartolini's work of the uncritical enthusiasm of the neophyte or the banal syncretism of the New Ager. |
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In short, homing in on the banal thwarts the fulsomeness that is an essential property of oral storytelling. |
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Seeking to subjectify the beautiful, by making it accessible to the least denominator under the banner of equality, renders it common, banal. |
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It figures that the evil queen of the banal power-ballad would have a hand in all this money-spinning glitz. |
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The banal anticomposition of the painting, the unrhythmic congregation of figures breaks with the pictorial music of art. |
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Woolf admired Chekhov for his stories of ordinary people living their lives, doing banal things and plots that had no neat endings. |
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This mourning oneupmanship isn't just banal, it insults the British Legion. |
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The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary. |
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No surprise aftertastes, but fairly banal and lacks flavour. |
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