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"banal" Definitions
  1. very ordinary and containing nothing that is interesting or important

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Or maybe it's that the banal, clichéd megahit Big Bang Theory has rendered all forms of geek-rage banal and clichéd.
O'Brien sees banal details and lingers over them, viewing them in the shadow of warfare and forced emigration, so that they are no longer banal.
The result is that lots of pictures of Beto making banal campaign appearances will circulate while equally banal appearances by his rivals tend to get ignored.
The humor is based on conversation, banal experiences and lethargy.
The intro, however banal, is consistent with the overall tone.
David Cameron's friendship with Barack Obama was benign but banal.
These are controversial policy recommendations, not banal observations about psychometrics.
Officials said its "vulgar and banal" content had upset people.
On paper, this is a relatively banal experience to recount.
It's a beautiful story, and banal at the same time.
The jokes were mostly banal: How come anybody uses voicemail?
We see domestic scenes, sex scenes, banal conversations, glorious fantasies.
Not your banal, sure, but the rhythms are the same.
This might sound banal, but fuck whatever anyone else thinks.
The reality, according to a YouTube spokesperson, is more banal.
The sacred word has been made banal, its intensity dulled.
The first five counts were somewhat banal tax evasion allegations.
The reason for the hearing appears to be pretty banal.
The allergy here is to the banal, not to dust.
The world has become like an eerily banal dystopian novel.
We've long understood the utterly banal machinations of bureaucratized human
The greater threat to Uber's future, though, is more banal.
Most of the things that I've learned are relatively banal.
I think the allegations here on Menendez are more banal.
The characters of House of Cards seem almost banal by comparison!
Looking at strangeness and beauty in the banal and the isolated.
That seemingly banal word elicits a violent, visceral reaction from women.
Wallisch seemed a little disappointed that the answer was so banal.
But the fact remains that this is a fantastically banal anecdote.
Mulaney's joke is innocent enough — it's sexism at its most banal.
So what are we to make of this banal marketing melodrama?
And the paper trail of bureaucracy is also, at times, banal.
And she defends the details, both the graphic and the banal.
That community matters might seem a banal observation to non-economists.
These are, considering the show's more dramatic proclivities, pretty banal issues.
That Eichmann's actions were, in Arendt's terms, banal and bureaucratic only
Banal wood paneling and cheap white furniture appear in a haze.
Its creepiness is overwhelmed by a coating of banal, "edgy" seediness.
He described a life of banal chores rather than battlefield savagery.
Characters harbor secrets and interpret banal statements as signs of doom.
Shot mainly in Spain, the aerial footage transcends the banal symbolism.
It takes unflinching commitment to make the banal feel so extraordinary.
And the details ranged from banal to misleading to outright false.
Soldiers on leave, gamboling with girls: What could be more banal?
Now, there's a truth to that, but it's a banal one.
Marshall's love of detail, no matter how banal, animates his paintings.
But the expectations around Amazon this quarter were much more banal.
Most importantly, he marches on with his banal and peevish tweets.
What sets Steve apart is not just its charmingly banal name.
But what they really show is Trump at his most banal.
The banal boilerplate of the Independent Group's website are not that.
But these practical uses all seem banal next to AlphaGo's inhuman humanity.
It's harder to sell the banal; nobody wants, say, a light bulb.
The actual idea he was outlining in the debate is fairly banal.
The strategy of suppressing votes is so mainstream it has become banal.
Or point out banal parts of the street where kings once walked.
Let me be clear: Grande not as banal as her image suggests.
Breckenridge too has an interest in crosscutting between banal and extraordinary situations.
Even the most banal insights, like "Twitter is stupid," you'll believe it.
Mercifully, the recorded conversation was fairly banal — a chat about home renovations.
Instead, her manifesto is vague, and her public appearances have been banal.
We've seen this behavior so many times that it's become almost banal.
The banal uniformity of each shop was starting to bum me out.
"It looks like banal infighting between U.S. security services", Maria Zakharova said.
The banal explanation is fear and a relative ignorance of basic economics.
A regular old bed just sits there, inert, banal, a little sad.
The duty of remembering also involves understanding how the banal becomes brutality.
People often think of their street names and house numbers as banal.
Creating enchantment is an effective means of counteracting this depressing, banal habit.
They are flat, banal, and pristine, like any mass-produced, commercial object.
In Banal Presents the present serves as the grounds for critical intervention.
This seemingly banal, self-interested statement becomes the heart of the documentary.
Notably, most of the techniques revealed in the documents are quite banal.
I found the story fascinating because the whole thing is so banal.
"The subject is completely banal: That's what's interesting about it," she continued.
Banal Presents is the most succinct and austere of the three chapters.
Immortality is a banal given in the novels, it's a hard fact.
His proposals ignore the banal day-to-day management of the MTA.
It probes the banal content of life to the point of exhaustion.
He settled on something so banal it seems almost laughable: parenting goals.
This seems like the most banal but also the most plausible explanation.
The most banal question asked of artists after What is your favorite color?
This paints a kind of banal picture of the public's view of things.
I can now endure the hardships of an otherwise banal and meaningless existence.
Allison Crouse purposefully places herself in banal situations rendered both funny and disturbing.
These pictures are at times banal and unremarkable, but I'm OK with that.
Just as deserving of attention are her photographs of the banal and unexpected.
Image: eBayeBayEbay bidding wars for absurdly banal products have a long internet history.
The Renoir, alas, is all too typical of his banal chocolate-box works.
Here, Assayas turns one of the most banal, least cinematic elements of modern
It's not clear if this was a serious solicitation, or something more banal.
Many of those users upload relatively banal images, like animal and travel photos.
Most dreams, especially the bizarre synaptic fizzles right before waking, are banal nonsense.
I ask companies all sorts of innocuous questions, for reasons interesting and banal.
We've seen so much violence in the world that it can become banal.
However, this is hardly to say that the resulting images themselves are banal.
The scene could have come across like some banal moment of Wagnerian kumbaya.
Usually she catches banal lawbreakers — underage kids trying to smuggle a little booze.
" But of the play, he wrote, "The setups are unlikely, the payoffs banal.
Even the more banal rituals of US politics have come into the crosshairs.
This has made for banal exchanges in a year that is anything but.
Yet John's despair is not so much melodramatic as it is achingly banal.
How prepared will they be to handle daily challenges, both banal and catastrophic?
But White shows that coldness can be as banal as it is outrageous.
Conspiracy theories also serve to elevate events to be less banal: For example, it is easier to conceive of Princess Diana having been killed by some elaborate evil conspiracy than being the victim of a rather banal drunk-driving accident.
Of course, this is the type of banal universalism that Silicon Valley thrives on.
But Kramer said Cloudflare treats all clients the same, citing far more banal content.
This is a very common argument on the right, but again, it is banal.
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" According to the book, death threats were so "routine that they had become banal.
It's just a shame it's drowned out by all those banal rainbow powered unicorns.
If anything, its contents showed how banal the inner workings of Washington can be.
For DeLillo, the banal is often wielded ironically and occasionally folded into the sublime.
Amateurish and banal, it was unlikely ever to have been made into a movie.
Most of the interactions on the videos ranged from the banal to the bizarre.
In a way, they're doing damage to progressive movements by being so monumentally banal.
Extensive research into Kalimpong's history prevents his exploration from being merely banal or superficial.
To give the internet public its due, I do tweet such banal, everyman shit.
"The Idol" isn't worshipful of instant stardom, and the story is often disconcertedly banal.
It seemed like the more banal-looking the object, the more unique its story.
Some people I know are fascinated by the most banal people you can imagine.
It's utterly banal to say we must not politicize the killings; of course we
And frustratingly, it was in the most banal way possible: she became a mom.
How drugs patch-worked simple, banal thoughts into phrases that seemed filled with importance.
Some have decided to accept this fate and film videos of banal smoking sessions.
My light-switch plates, which had long been banal, now make me feel empowered.
Still, a banal choice would be a kind of statement all of its own.
These aren't extraordinary achievements; they're just the regular banal aspects of doing the job.
The scenes Mr. Hammerand presents in his series, "The New Town," are pretty banal.
Novelizing such banal evil takes a lighter touch than Marrs brings to The Passengers.
That little Instagram square has become the most ubiquitous and banal of framing devices.
He lies on autopilot, on something as banal as the size of inauguration crowds.
But the most banal details, often of a scatological nature, are the most disturbing.
Desserts like flourless chocolate cake with green tea are not the usual banal afterthoughts.
Stern wants the truth to be more complicated and less banal than it is.
And what caused this stillness was the most banal, routine activity on my part.
Normally banal encounters of checkpoints and falling asleep depict the real cost of war.
A banal episode, in other words, except in the telling, which is quietly gripping.
They couldn't have known that this banal view had been elaborately — and expensively — produced.
There is also a more banal reason to expect a lobbying boom in 2017.
Like the eclectic goods they spawn, they are banal, kitsch, and larger-than-life.
But the president of the United States making stuff up is banal at this point.
The piece navigates vulnerability, exploring a kind of banal cruelty that comes with romantic relationships.
The reality that distracts him from making music is banal, finite, and depressingly grown-up.
The conventional symbolism of bloody daggers, skulls, ploughs and hour glasses seems banal chez Picasso.
Aspects of Elliott's campaign are, in fact, banal and not worth much thought at all.
It's so difficult to talk about positive things like love without being banal and boring.
God help me but I just love watching videos of robots doing completely banal things.
That's exactly the kind of banal detail The Americans excels at making tense with subtext.
You might think it banal, but this does exhibit a Google with values and principles.
Despite the ongoing debates among music geeks — Is he an adroit drummer but banal songwriter?
The show itself will advertise a "shocking" moment that usually turns out to be banal.
Beyond that, though, it hovered in the banal-bizarre realm that Twin Peaks does best.
It was much more banal: What on earth do we do about a car seat?
An inky-black background sets off blazing-white sheets under a banal fluorescent-light fixture.
Banal mediocrity is the state to which these movies aspire — and few even manage that.
But what is cool and sassy to say in China can be remarkably banal elsewhere.
The road to spiritual redemption lies, this season insists, through the banal and the ordinary.
Residents explained that first a banal, decoy truck is sent out to scout the road.
The days of safe adolescent icons, banal beloved heroines of eras recently past, are gone.
But in Onward, the fantastical, Tolkien-lite elements are mixed with more banal workaday realities.
Each representation diminishes this complex, impressive creature to an object of our most banal imagination.
Saw in a flash of intuition the ordinary life before her, the ordinary, banal adulthood.
Spector is right: Prince's work comes across as banal and mass-produced, low-energy constructs.
Sometimes, I don't want to let a movie's banal, casual sexism ruin my good time.
He is cleareyed about what the banal anti-Semitism coursing through blighted projects has wrought.
We have someone agile at cloaking impermissible physical contact in a banal or benevolent guise.
Farhad: Let's turn to another story about Russian spies, this one not at all banal.
Indeed, both voices are, for a writer of Barker's large gifts, curiously flat and banal.
His ads, more than half a billion dollars' worth so far, are banal and generic.
The new statement is banal: It's an updated mission statement for a Washington advocacy group.
And not just their literary-flavored ordinary thoughts, but their banal, sentimental, sometimes incoherent ramblings.
The queries were usually empty, banal and directed to allies, who responded with little speeches.
The id laid bare is banal and, especially in the current political context, disappointingly tame.
"He is an independent thinker, never banal, often unexpected, always interesting," Boris Nikolsky told me.
Public statements which would once have been condemned as grossly egregious now appear entirely banal.
Thus the great tragedy of the twentieth century is trivialized, made banal, instrumentalized, and perverted.
Still, the movie falls into "a banal, formulaic pastiche," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times.
Brietbart's top three Facebook posts in November were all open discussion threads with banal questions.
To any halfway competent president, this is the most banal kind of political controversy imaginable.
Wallace-Wells avoids the "eerily banal language of climatology" in favor of lush, rolling prose.
I'm fascinated by the banal—like the act of watering your lawn in a drought.
Sometimes the world is wonderfully or scarily weird; sometimes it is just normal and banal.
Sometimes it's because the candidates fail to inspire them, but often the reasons are more banal.
Too inconspicuous to attract the people who might need it; too banal to interest anyone else.
Yet every word spoken, no matter how banal, seems to stretch your nerves closer to snapping.
The pretending-to-enjoy-it or food as some kind of fetish is banal and bleak.
This evil-talk is not just a reflex response or a banal statement of the obvious.
Until Trump, Lewandowski had led a rather banal political career as far as Republican operatives go.
Compared to the horror of this banal, risk-free attempt at banter, their suffering is nul.
She could find merit in an extraordinary range of artistic styles without seeming banal or gushing.
Not prejudice thinly disguised as an "opinion," not political discourse, just genuinely a banal unpopular opinion.
Summer activities have the tendency to throw off your usually banal schedule in the best way.
It causes you always to shirk your issues, and find a banal resolution at the end.
But this time, the reason for the frustration appears to be much more unsettling and banal.
Joe Biden launched his campaign with a claim that is, on some level, almost strikingly banal.
It's part of a sea change in what Americans consider banal, invisible, or even tolerable violence.
During dinner, it was like America's least favorite chiropractor was whispering banal platitudes to a corpse.
It becomes really banal when you start to articulate your personal vision for any particular project.
All that was entrusted to us neighborhood kids were various odd jobs, banal errands, small annoyances.
That's what two California sociologists wondered after discovering something disturbing buried in a banal government study.
In many ways, the show is a meta version of Springer's TV program: banal and titillating.
Even before "Looking" was canceled, much was made of its banal portrayal of the gay experience.
As a filmmaker, Lynch is known for injecting the uncanny into the most banal, innocent settings.
We also see what other formative, critical and banal events unfold in the world around us.
This week, we want to acknowledge the banal rituals we follow day in and day out.
And they're self-serious, filled with banal observations about the experiences that characterize American political life.
This is an easy way out resulting in a banal explanation of the world as terrifying.
Banal Presents stages a conversation between the artists Carolyn Lazard, Cameron Rowland, and Sable Elyse Smith.
Before Trump, Lewandowski had led a rather banal political career as far as Republican operatives go.
Aside from affording glimpses into the artist's private life, some of these pieces are quite banal.
The work includes a startling array of scenes, most of them banal, but others rather poetic.
In fact, I have grown two mustaches in my life, for equally banal, emotionally transparent reasons.
Ordinary objects (doorknobs, soap) seem transformed, banal activities — biting a nail, buying milk — freighted with danger.
His work with experimental drugs never seemed to involve anything as banal as protocols or controls.
His message is optimistic — we need to talk more, and understand each other's humanity — and banal.
Warhol in his endless repetitions found a poetry, a certain beauty, a balance in the banal.
After this banal realization, they became the first pair to get engaged and escape their pods.
Its watery lo-fi reads like "moments" circulating on social media, the banal beside the significant.
Buttigieg's post-college career might not be as admirable as some, but it was utterly banal.
For a movement to have universal appeal, you argue, it has to become banal or toothless.
His (banal) comment on infrastructure went completely uncovered in the furor that followed his press conference.
There's the banal championing of an "undivided London," which obscures the city's many divisions and miseries.
These everyday things that are almost banal in some ways [...] are what really make [diversity] work.
Their world is remarkably like ours: the sims go to cafes, hangout with friends, work banal jobs.
The unexpected beauty exposes the limitations of the normal, banal streetscape I take for granted every day.
Until working for Trump, Lewandowski had a rather banal political career as far as Republican operatives go.
Though the items themselves are banal, listening to these sounds of a bygone age is strangely addictive.
But as I'll explain below, it's not — people were misinterpreting a banal discussion about Democrats' internal polling.
Middle-aged football men casually throw around the word "rape" to illustrate banal points about a match.
What's striking, as my colleague Sarah Wildman notes, is that the speech was utterly and totally banal.
The top 10 videos watched by the nation during the year were heavily American and heavily banal.
You can overhear a lot here, ranging from the banal to the indecipherable but vaguely juicy-sounding.
Yes, teens should be aware of the impact that words and seemingly banal actions have on others.
And it's good to consider healthy, non-banal breakfast alternatives, like breakfast tacos or high-protein muffins.
In this eastern city, home to some of China's boldest risk-takers, such tales are almost banal.
But one of the banal cruelties of the E.U. is that it has a rule for everything.
It's a marvel and a menace, a banal fact of life and a force for incalculable change.
While this might appear a banal argument, it is so much more than just selective word choice.
Books of The Times Terrorism may involve dramatic, unspeakable acts, but its logistics can be positively banal.
But on some level almost everyone knows the banal big-picture truths about the economic path forward.
On the surface, these seem like banal and even mainstream positions, especially compared with Trump's other statements.
But if shopping in general can be banal, repetitive, and dehumanizing, why do we enjoy it so?
Sometimes it just sounds like the banal accretion of unrelated snippets, moving in place but going nowhere.
Solo removes that tension, and lowers Han's self-mythologizing banter into the carbon freeze of banal literalism.
He turned every brief, banal excursion — to Dairy Queen, Quiznos, a porn shop — into a teachable moment.
Elsewhere, an iridescent illuminated manuscript of Latin psalters sits across a banal display of plastic BIC pens.
"The egg, banal as it may seem, is a cooking ingredient with infinite possibilities," Mr. Savoy said.
What they got was a more idiosyncratic and, in some ways, banal film than anybody had imagined.
This practical truth, for reasons existential, moral, and extremely banal, becomes more true with each passing year.
Consider the case of Miuccia Prada, a designer whose sometimes banal efforts come dressed in big ideas.
It's hard to identify precedents for Christopher Wilmarth's sculpture, which uses its banal modern materials purely abstractly.
But it's hard to identify precedents for Wilmarth's sculpture, which uses its banal modern materials purely abstractly.
Gay Pride Month came and went without even a banal word of recognition from the White House.
Every post on Botnet receives hundreds of thousands of likes, no matter how banal the subject matter.
Mr. Buffett, meanwhile, sat for hours on Saturday answering investor questions that ranged from punchy to banal.
One of the most consistent takeaways from this anthology is just how banal extraterrestrial life might be.
As Arendt famously noted, people following orders in a thoughtless and banal way often carry it out.
The common thread in all of this is that it's incredibly tedious, regular, boring, banal partisan politics.
Sometimes the reasons that stories get left out of mainstream historical narratives are banal, Ms. Linden said.
Back in the pressroom, a mob of local and foreign journalists batter Issei with mostly banal questions.
At the time, terror attacks had become an almost banal part of daily life in the city.
Even banal things like making a cup of tea or reading a particular newspaper headline seem familiar.
"It's very banal and very basic, it's very well-understood technology, and … there's really nothing new," he says.
Often couched within the context of local disputes or bouts of brief rage, they seem isolated and banal.
In fact, death could not be more banal, as the one common thing that happens to us all.
Greengrass's script takes pains to unpack not only Breivik's ethnic nationalism but the monstrous, banal narcissism behind it.
The snippets of tapes we see are grainy and often soothingly banal, the textured stuff of the past.
But as I'll explain below, it's not — people were misinterpreting a banal discussion about the campaign's internal polling.
Every banal occurrence doesn't simply subtract from the sum-total of events, but rather alters its composition altogether.
One particularly banal activity I've personally wondered about is whether or not royals are "allowed to" work out.
In "The Beauty of the Banal" (2018), photographer Götz Diergarten traces the architecture of miners' settlements in Duisburg.
Suddenly, something banal, a very simple exchange between two people, is fraught with all kinds of tragic meaning.
Happy End is all brushstrokes, snippets of ordinary lives that seem banal and even insignificant on their own.
Common sense is the enemy of Dada, and its fierce individuality formed as a resistance to banal suffering.
Working under these extreme self-imposed restraints, Larsen focuses attention on a wide range of banal human gestures.
Artists and visitors roam the space, peeking through screens, watching the workers complete banal, ubiquitous office-related activities.
Maybe it will be the most banal, anticlimactic series finale of all time: game night at Carrie's house.
Their decisiveness, sacrifice, and forgiveness are not simply banal tropes, but are envisioned anew as truly meaningful acts.
The word "fear" has many shades of meaning, from the everyday and banal to the mysterious and existential.
She is a whirlwind of rage and erudition, and she almost makes everyone else look timid and banal.
Back in the turbolift, Number One made the banal observation that people were reluctant to talk in elevators.
Others might respond by "stonewalling, sending out a banal press release and trying to quiet protest," he said.
"The simplest things, the most seemingly banal, have an interesting character; they must be represented," he once said.
Now she hears the ticking menace latent in the most banal arrangements of weathers and objects and personalities.
Schur has in essence taken his otherworldly show and shrunk it back down to a banal workplace comedy.
Well, what's so stunning about this director is that he truly understands the universal appeal of the banal.
War is like that: Most of it is banal, and then it's punctuated by these extremely tense moments.
So much so in fact that even the most banal moments present a vast platter of nonsensical dimensions.
She's the film equivalent of an IG user like TheBalancedBlonde or any number of other banal wellness-peddlers.
" Quotable "Some people try really hard to separate their writing from various other banal requirements of their lives.
"It is unclear how long a boycott would last, and how strong it would be," Banal-Estañol said.
It's the most banal problem in sports, really, and it explains a great deal, across the NBA landscape.
We are wrapped back into the beginning sequence once again, where the mysterious is embedded in the banal.
The result is that fairly banal aspects of the business world have gotten enmeshed in the political process.
When she's looking for something to shoot, photographer Michelle Groskopf goes after the everyday, the banal, the suburban.
That being said, no matter how banal the depiction onscreen, the players will likely endure plenty of criticism.
Seemingly banal and safe in space, one's home in one's kingdom becomes a minefield of anxiety and terror.
That an observation so banal could generate so much controversy speaks to how deep the individualist ethos goes.
But also here is Hanson's hefty, exultantly banal "Housewife," slouching in her housecoat among cigarette stubs and magazines.
She is more invested in banal and shallow provocation than engaging with sociopolitical issues in a thoughtful manner.
I overheard banal conversations about everyday interests: traffic, the nearest gas station with the lowest prices, the weather.
This is the most banal of questions, but also one of the most difficult for physicists to answer.
Her first destination was a bit more banal: the McDonald's a five-minute drive from her front door.
She regarded all of them as banal, even "A Star Is Born," which was nominated for an Oscar.
Season 2, which will conclude tonight, is particularly focused on the banal evil of politics and otherworldly malevolence.
Of course, watching an Eichmann possessed of evil that was not banal would be an altogether different movie.
The footage is at once banal and remarkable, for it captures the couple's very first meeting and conversations.
In his dreamy, impressionistic world, his artistic choices can seem banal and tossed off, or pointed and profound.
Over the years, Trump's foundation certainly has given money to a grab-bag of basically banal uncontroversial charities.
She unearths what's wise in absurdity and shows how something that might appear banal can suddenly become luminous.
Even when the poet is focusing on something banal and familiar, the oddness of his perception becomes apparent.
Below are screenshots that include some of the lewd and banal extremes of what is posted on there.
In its place was an afternoon more like a dysfunctional family Thanksgiving than a banal party building event.
Clapping hand emojis have entered the Pumpkin Spice Latte Danger Zone: basic, banal and stripped of their Blackness.
Urban shootings might seem low-grade and banal to some Americans, but by the standards of many places in Europe, they're all exceptionally bloody—and the fact that such attacks could even become banal, shifting our definitions of tragedy toward something like the Piketon massacre, should be cause for national reflection.
That's what Drexler does that no other artist associated with Pop Art was able to do — she brought a lively imagination to bear on the banal and absurd images that dominate our lives, and especially the banal imagery emanating from the art world, and made them into something to contemplate.
It was folk noir but without the pagan streak, and also indie folk, but not the banal, mainstream kind.
Its existence turns the banal into a potential conflict of interest, and shutting it down is the right call.
ANONYMOUS What a monstrous disappointment that such a fascinating yarn should end in a banal question about wedding gifts.
It seems only right it be accompanied by the most banal of content: The badly-shot Facebook Live video.
But often their proposals are banal demands for share buy-backs, which do not alter a firm's underlying value.
The power of that kiss and that scene, as Davis herself has pointed out, is in its banal domesticity.
Nikki Haley's appointment as UN secretary was largely welcomed on the basis of her banal, conventional foreign policy views.
He has a way of spinning ideas out of minor, banal details and blowing them up in universal ways.
Everyone seems to be proud of having no go, no oomph, keeping everything as ugly and banal as possible.
Like the penis, lying on the stand suddenly becomes shockingly banal — just another day in the criminal justice system.
Putting these findings in context is difficult, as trackers are endemic across the web, and many have banal applications.
Once this rather banal thought occurred to me (about three months ago), people only started using the meme more.
Everything you do, however benign or banal, is viewed as a covert attempt to privatise the National Health Service.
And famously, the traditionally banal "moral decisions" you need to make regarding your assassination targets are dark as hell.
There's also the more banal option that a human error could result in the release of a super-pathogen.
The episode—banal, surface-level, but most importantly price-obsessed—already reflects how some investors and speculators view Bitcoin.
"I love the idea of being able to bring some magic into something banal," Jones said of the collection.
No, they would plod along, dwelling on the banal details of the intersecting lives of four women in Kobe.
This incredibly banal victory of a powerful, rich, aimless man charged with the illusion of superiority is a tragedy.
When you give a banal platitude, you're really telling me that I'm not allowed to feel how I feel.
But that's far more banal than Facebook asking for the login information used on third-party services, like Google.
This is Taylor Swift at her best: creating lurid imagery about a banal relationship somewhere in upstate New York.
" Marianne replies with a banality that she acknowledges as banal: "you can never know another person, and so on.
For Banal-Estañol, this is not a deal-breaker as boycotts have been circumvented by Catalonia in the past.
But the vast majority disclosed either banal stuff, like Podesta giving advice on cooking risotto, or normal campaign activity.
By showing what's inside the somewhat banal embassy, it reveals the bigger problem–what's directly outside of the embassy.
Nail-biting is something most of us do idly, instinctively, in the most banal and stress-free of moments.
The works are thoroughly contemporary still lifes, showing familiar and banal objects that form the detritus of a relationship.
Instead the list outlined government backing for industrial upgrading and "technological transformation," a more banal-sounding if similar plan.
Their rise in the 1960s perfectly echoed the banal consumer society that exploded as the post-war economy prospered.
Its finale, an anthem called "Bring On the Monsters," would be laughably banal if it weren't so aggressively false.
Odes to banal America, the paintings feel like Caravaggio or Georges de La Tour for the '21972s recession era.
Some of those stories can include themes of violence, sex, and any number of horrors both supernatural and banal.
She grapples with exposure, with the price of silence, with the fact that her story is horrifying yet banal.
Meanwhile those banal acts of racism that don't get caught in a photo or a tweet go by unremarked.
Yet through often banal conversations about hookups and hanging out, Ms. Gage remains alert to each telling, throwaway remark.
My genes are in mice, and not in the banal way that Man's old genes are in the Beasts.
These photos project X-rated counter lives into banal domestic backdrops, and suggest the rift between fantasy and reality.
The Pepsi story is something older, more banal, more difficult, and, in its way, more trouble — it's a mistake.
The frames on Kelley's works play an important role, by alluding to a banal form of American modern furniture.
Though seemingly banal and unobtrusive enough to be forgotten after use, bathrooms are simultaneously sites of danger for some.
It's bolstered by the perfectly banal, human-voiced phone messages for these organizations that play out on the soundtrack.
But it's also a little darker and a little more grounded in the real world and all its banal disappointments.
He's a big man with big, tenacious, preposterous dreams stuck in a life that feels too banal, empty, and small.
It's the kind of thing that should be banal — and probably would be if the characters were in their 20s.
The aim of Backstory is to take the headlines of history, both banal and historic, and make them into stories.
"The archives look very banal, just like a bunch of boring file holders with a bunch of paper," he says.
MMC's report found that when companies do deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning, the use-cases are often quite banal.
I find in the morning you have to center yourself before anything you do, even it's just a banal task.
To prove that celebrities can be just like us (!), we've rounded up some truly banal, even basic, social media interactions.
If he can't prove himself worthy of ascension, he'll remain in this banal posting for the rest of his life.
So effective was his performance, so pleasingly banal, that many Republicans will be calling for the ticket to be switched.
But they also offer the most granular look ever at a banal reality that's long been hiding in plain sight.
A funny tweet can be banal; it can also be a reaction to the horrors that regularly populate our feeds.
"Harassment against women happens everywhere, to varying degrees; what happened to me was so common it's almost banal," she says.
It's banal, sure, and it doesn't precisely mean anything, but what else can anyone possibly say when faced with death?
"Every year a little bit cheesier, sweeter, cracklier, never banal but smooth as always," Frahm says about his annual mix.
This is what the consumer side of facial recognition technology is doing: making it seem banal and unworthy of concern.
Assigning blame for bad news and claiming credit for good is among the most banal but potent tactics in politics.
But for those with "urinary frequency"—the unsatisfyingly banal medical term for peeing a lot—the number is much higher.
But in a way, it's scarier to imagine how quickly the affronts will pile up simply by doing banal things.
In an interview with the NME, however, Misty says that he'll defend the banal quartet any day of the week.
It's a cool, funny idea, one that ends up highlighting how bone-deep banal Khaled's keys to success really are.
The money laundering stuff is likely bunk, but it's thrilling to imagine seedy behavior lurking in such a banal business.
" He also, she wrote, "had an uncanny ability to complicate the obvious and sanctify the banal — just like a poet.
But the drama of what some scholars call "banal nationalism" is no less important to the modern future of nationhood.
This strategy is especially effective in the opening sequence, which stretches, flattens and defamiliarizes an otherwise banal set of escalators.
During these calls, I talk about successes, mistakes, dilemmas, conundrums, politics, the banal, the serious, the vapid, the deep—everything.
The banal egg account was started by Kylie Jenner to create artificial competition and raise more awareness of Kylie Jenner.
For all the attention he gets for his stumbles on Twitter, the majority of his messages are banal and unremarkable.
I quote it to such a degree that it almost borders on banal; it's like having inside jokes with myself.
While parents, journalists, and psychologists were mulling the attitudinal implications of the fad, a far more banal Pokédanger was emerging.
"This recording is banal, I say the same thing in all the interviews I give to journalists," he told GloboNews.
Like the city itself, it's ours, and yet it is bigger than us — both familiar and strange, mythic and banal.
Something is troubling Lena, whose personal life comes into focus over a series of flashbacks that are entirely too banal.
It's a truism of American politics so obvious that it's treated as banal: Elections are decided by who shows up.
By refusing to step back and show us where we are, Linn defines a space that is bizarre and banal.
This quite old book of essays originally published in House Beautiful is all about mundane, often banal memories or events.
She's the typical age for a presidential aspirant, has the typical qualifications, and has somewhat banal Democratic Party policy views.
Her insistence on this seemingly banal detail — that he died on an empty stomach — received little attention at the time.
Colored People Time: Banal Presents continues at the Institute of Contemporary Art (118 S 36th Street, Philadelphia) through December 22.
He made his name first as an art critic, railing against naturalism and Impressionism, both of which he considered banal.
Instead, there's space dedicated to grindingly banal details like how morning and afternoon meetings were crucial to the show's success.
Indeed, what's often terrific about these characters is the ease with which the banal and the horrifying resides within them.
But more important, MBNA was headquartered in Delaware, and it's banal for senators to carry water for home-state companies.
In the bravura opening sequence, "Three Friends," we are presented with a banal street tableau: mailbox, parking meter, trash bin.
When the workings of a new technology is too obvious, too easy to explain, it can feel banal and uninteresting.
"Wallace-Wells avoids the 'eerily banal language of climatology' in favor of lush, rolling prose," our critic Jennifer Szalai writes.
A central drama arrives at its anticlimax when Mark's sympathy for a cancer-ridden student devolves into banal administrative frustration.
These videos consisted of banal moments in day to day life to better accustom the machine to normal human interactions.
Meanwhile, reporters delving into his past have been stymied by his family and friends' refusal to answer even banal questions.
The sex clubs, as subject matter, echo these delicious contradictions in terms — they are playful, malevolent, superficially banal, and elusive.
It's a banal detail but perceptive, pointing towards a corporate coercion that governs healthcare and energy supply in the States.
I'd been trying to avoid the fact that it was a problem, but also, it's a problem that seems so banal.
Even when they are scaled up and includes depictions horrific injuries and casualties, he leads our eye to banal, relatable detail.
Each city is excessively noted through photos, and no single photo holds the reins — dense repetition lets banal scenes become otherworldly.
"It's total banal," he explained—the most extreme version of the beauty and boringness that help people think differently about weapons.
"[Avicii and Omar S] both use these really simple melodies, almost banal—try to recreate that, and you can't," Kovács continues.
Some of his scribblings in felt-tip pen are banal ("You beauty") or crude ("Get your burger-flipping ass outta here").
VW: Nine times out of ten it is something banal but sometimes it's not as polite an interaction I would say.
Sometimes the plaintive string slices through scenes to punctuate banal terrors, springing from the insecurity and paranoia engulfing its central characters.
Last month the Financial Times quoted Bloomberg as saying he found the campaign discussions "distressingly banal" and considering running for president.
"What's so impressive to me is you can make so much money out of something so… no offense, banal," he says.
Far more than The Birth of a Nation, it gave his banal star image the lovable texture it so desperately needed.
"I find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal and an outrage and an insult to the voters," Bloomberg said.
So enjoy your setup time of shuffling banal apps like the Theme Store, Usage Tips, and Game Space around home screens.
But some experts point to the most banal explanation: In 1986, when he was 40, Mr. DeAngelo may have aged out.
He spends an hour and a half huddled with his political advisers, crafting the most banal five-minute concession speech imaginable.
We're also starting to see a lot more banal, conversational names, like Hello Fresh or a convenience store called Yes Way.
Email was a frequent topic of conversation, in addition to less banal activities like skimming academic papers and brainstorming with colleagues.
Games are now something to be done casually and alone, while photographs, once precious, are taken haphazardly to document the banal.
Despite being blessed with a marvelous setting and a promising premise, it quickly tosses it aside for something far more banal.
It's all utterly banal — except for the slight tremor in his right hand, and the fact that his cough has vanished.
Still, Adrienne Campbell-Holt, directing for the Colt Coeur company ("Dry Land"), infuses seemingly banal scenes with an anxiety-making mood.
The scene clocks in at about eight minutes and never once gets banal — it even throws in a complimentary spit swap.
There are balloon drops, banal but peppy music from the mid-1970s and polite white people not dancing in their seats.
"I think it's fun at dinner parties to pour my own wine for friends instead of something banal," Mr. Boucraut explained.
You know, something as banal or as humble as the gaming mouse, that's what we kind of conceived it to be.
I find the backstory banal; there's no rule that says you can't be a real rapper if you've already become famous.
With this, there's a different feeling—it's much more a re-packaging of banal, everyday life with a whistle-able melody.
One sometimes got the sense that she despised the banal fact of gravity, couldn't bear the dull thud of material reality.
The trip is banal but comes with the customary perils, including the unavoidable loser (Théodore Pellerin) who's always on the make.
I don't love Billy Joel because he's stupid, but rather because he knows how to sell even the most banal lyrics.
Most important, after years of receiving shattering news by phone, should I not revel in the banal glory of a "Gm"?
In light of what happened in Pogba's absence against Liverpool, it is tempting to wonder if the reality is more banal.
In contrast, the political essays she includes in Feel Free (they comprise four of the total 31 essays) can seem banal.
They drew much of their appeal from mixing the fantastic with the banal — the first movie was a "found footage" affair.
The shows that run at the TCC gallery range from brutal to the banal, with works featured in almost every medium.
In Takeshi Kata's set design, the banal office slides forward out of the dark like a monster emerging from a swamp.
"Suddenly I found myself living through the most banal of stories, as the neglected wife of a faithless husband," she writes.
While the study may tempt you to cut asparagus from your diet, the truth is a bit more complicated — and banal.
These efforts — carried out in at least 2200 countries — range from capture-or-kill commando raids to more banal training missions.
One suspects that jumbled structure was used because a linear account of Gotti's criminal career would reveal little beyond banal tawdriness.
Mentioning this, according to the conventional national narratives in Arab countries, might make the epic of war and occupation seem banal.
The series reaches an apotheosis of banal profundity with an image of Snoopy reclining on his master's disembodied, planet-like head.
On the other hand, one hardly has to rack up this many frequent-flier miles to reach such a banal conclusion.
But he offers another explanation, too, one that is as bleak as it is banal: he killed for cars and clothes.
Even a banal conversation was a relief from a masterpiece staring back in silence, and she was ready to be saved.
"Pet owners with banal, for instance flu-like, symptoms should urgently seek medical advice when symptoms are unusual," wrote the doctors.
But I came away from that piece with a thought that initially seemed banal, but ended up feeling profound: niceness works.
"It's fairly banal," said Representative David Schweikert, Republican of Arizona and a member of the caucus, said of Mr. Trump's attack.
"Oddly enough, I think it's fairly banal," said Representative David Schweikert, Republican of Arizona and a member of the Freedom Caucus.
When the movie opens, everything seems ordinary, banal: There's a woman in bed and a man fussing elsewhere in the room.
The popularity of Scandi noir rests on the contrast between the banal surface of Nordic societies and the nefarious activities underneath.
The men you describe in this article are doing the utterly banal work of parenting — this is not newsworthy or interesting.
My tweets are literally what I'm thinking at the moment, not carefully crafted corporate bs, which is really just banal propaganda.
These characters interact with one another in dramatic and mundane ways, sharing moments that can be either banal or surprisingly real.
The songs that Trump has chosen couldn't be more banal, yet it's precisely their banality that makes them so in­cred­ibly effective.
Again, I think the banal answer is that we're swayed by social circumstances in ways that might be good or bad.
Marx's vision of a post-capitalist future is both banal and dangerous: banal because it presents a picture of people essentially loafing about (hunting in the morning, fishing in the afternoon, raising cattle in the evening and criticising after dinner); dangerous because it provides a licence for the self-anointed vanguard to impose its vision on the masses.
"No question was too extraordinary or too banal" for the pair, Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim's chief curator, writes in the show's catalog.
It might seem banal, but it was a form of content creation that, while previously technically possible, was practically infeasible before deepfakes.
"It looks like banal infighting between U.S. security services," Maria Zakharova, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman, wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
Objects once prized, colonized, and killed for — such as silks and cowrie shells used for currency — have become banal and easily available.
I'm not personally hankering for a third party to vote for, as I have some fairly banal Democratic Party views these days.
But when everything can be seen to seemingly fit into the grotesque 1984 scenario, the comparisons start to become banal and unoriginal.
Tim Stanley: Pence delivers pleasingly banal performance Now, that was the kind of polite and intelligent debate we used not to watch.
The key to having a good fake name is having a banal fake name — something too boring to set off any alarms.
The true horror of dating a demon is that it's usually just as banal as your typical, garden-variety subpar online date.
Compared to the murder theory, these theories are a bit more banal and tend to crop up around most SpaceX/NASA launches.
" He tells The Creators Project,"At first glance, the pieces of broken glass, mirrors and strewn plastic appeared banal, unappealing and unremarkable.
Therapists work to highlight the emotional experience couples have when discussing even the most banal subjects, which can turn into heated arguments.
In any given episode, you're likely to encounter at least one segment that reinvests a banal household object with wonder and surprise.
The premise is sufficiently nifty that you can choose to overlook the banal ways in which the weekly mystery-adventures are handled.
With the inauguration drawn behind us like an iron curtain, the banal weight of fascism has begun bearing down on our generation.
Before couples go their separate ways, they often invest meaning in seemingly banal items simply because they're connected to their lost love.
This is what Knausgaard and Greenwold share: a refusal to differentiate between the important and the commonplace, the banal and the special.
Under other circumstances, public art might be thought of as decorative or banal, rather than an active promotional tool for community values.
There's an arresting sequence of extracting caviar from sturgeon in China and some fairly banal chitchat with François Hollande, France's former president.
In relatively peaceful times, this approach could seem banal, as if the films are arguing for pieties that everyone already agrees on.
"I know that there are people who have paid millions of dollars for my work who might find this banal," he said.
In ''The New Normal,'', Alexander Fury argues that there is something intentionally recessive — radically banal, even — about the current men's wear collections.
It's the discrepancy between banal content and lyrical form that draws tears from the specially susceptible among us (which would include me).
Nothing could be more bourgeois than an affair, or more banal than being the other woman, as Frances is all too aware.
It is also what led some critics to write that McCullers was "before her time," that most banal and patronizing of descriptors.
"'Bombshell' fails to be either smart satire or incisive political drama, which makes it just offensively banal," wrote Joel Mayward for Cinemayward.
The best podcasts to fall asleep to have two common factors: soothing host voices, and relatively banal or meandering topics and narratives.
Which is to say, by memory as it actually is and not as a neat, banal narrative or a huge baroque melodrama.
Perhaps seafood is the way to go: A substantial veal chop was not flattered by a banal medley of vegetables, mostly peppers.
The banal injustice of snow removal is a fitting start to journalist and social activist Caroline Criado Perez's second book, Invisible Women.
Artificiality is what makes reality television enjoyable, even though these same shows, if advertised as fiction, would appear banal, repetitive and undramatic.
The show evokes what social scientist Michael Billig has called "banal nationalism" — the little, seemingly apolitical things that make up national identity.
Seldom are the banal logistics of child rearing — does Joan risk a trip to the vending machines to avert a hunger meltdown?
It was the perfect moment for Darden to introduce a challenging line of questioning, but instead, the conversation retreated to the banal.
So to resist all what is happening negatively in humanity or technology is to develop the — O.K., this banal word, spiritual aspect.
" There's a parody meme on Twitter to break any banal statement or quote into short lowercase lines and sign it "- rupi kaur.
He used emotionally incongruent language — much of it humorous, irreverent or banal — to underscore the tragic nature of many of his compositions.
Sapkowski is an entertaining, charismatic guy with the sort of disregard of the banal that a person can only develop with age.
Or is it a way for people with hazy but heartfelt anti-capitalist convictions to be converted to banal welfare state liberalism?
This record lacks that, but even in a more banal sense there's nothing you could dance around in your socks to, either.
A few rooms over, Yashar Azar Emdadian's "Disintegration" makes a banal act a public, implicitly political sentiment that I couldn't stop watching.
And in the context of that void — and of Rubio's imitation of a typical Trump answer — his most shopworn, banal phrases stood out.
"National Internet blackouts are so routine and banal that they are now becoming a common tactic to prevent cheating among youth," Madory wrote.
Picking a bushel of bananas at the grocery store or throwing your trash in the nearest bin are banal tasks for most people.
The tsar records banal details of his daily routine—breakfasts, meetings, walks—like a 17th-century monarch trying to inhabit the modernist age.
The curator, Koyo Kouoh, of Raw Material Company, has turned what might seem obvious, invisible, or banal into a quandary of infinite possibilities.
Moreover, the method described is so banal that even Star Trek had managed to come up with the invention years before My Health.
The details were extracted from hundreds of leaked screen shots of multiple chat threads on topics ranging from the banal to the brutish.
It is hardly possible to walk into a Whole Foods without feeling reduced to the most banal parody of your tastes and habits.
"Horrible... unspeakable... ugly... wrenching... banal... evil..." They moaned continually, but no one knew whether they were referring to the carnage or its perpetrators.
It's only in retrospect that they have come to realize that contacts and relationships they considered banal were unethical, scandalous, and perhaps criminal.
" Less appalling but not much more appealing are Faulks's renderings of Hendricks's banal and dilatory discourses with Pereira about "the layers of memory.
Despite its title, the bulk of the novel is devoted to these secondary characters as they navigate the banal side of violent strife.
While you might see these polls as a banal tool your friends uses to justify a blatant thirst trap, I see something else.
Then, on social media, the producers will get coy about "announcements" that turn out to be equally banal — or not announcements at all.
Originally designed by Ralph Gilles, now design chief for the FCA group, it reintroduced attitude to the banal sedan back in the day.
An alternate approach, well-suited to a president of more modest means like Barack Obama, is to simply hold very banal diversified investments.
I learned to listen to tiny, banal, scary stories, and I learned that there can be many differences — cultural, racial, religious — between people.
This proposition is so uncontroversial nowadays that it is regarded not with a sense of shock or tragedy but as a banal fact.
For that reason, blockchain—banal, technical, deeply unsexy—has become an ideological rallying point, especially among those looking to subvert the reigning order.
With a bit of whiplash, she finds herself thrust into a banal "French farce", assuming a role she had never imagined for herself.
Something I once thought was banal and shallow has become an invigorating and powerful part of my life, keeping me informed and positive.
The ignorant bigoted things they say about my writing, narrow-minded and banal, they'd say of the prose poetry of Rimbaud, or Rilke.
Hunt lingers over such moments just long enough to suggest that the phantasmagorical can be found in any situation, no matter how banal.
It could sound somewhat banal, but I believe that our life experience has changed because of the incorporation of technology in our lives.
It seems the banal world of baby monitors and webcams is all it takes to bring down our most popular websites these days.
"Stone later told Business Insider that the interaction he had with the hacker was so "brief and banal" that he "had forgotten it.
On one level, his message is pretty banal — the right would make more progress in budget negotiations if Congress had even more Republicans.
Schumer may be able to wriggle out of the trap this time with a banal resolution, but Democrats can't play this game forever.
Of course, there are the mainstays that we've come to expect: tangy, spicy cheese queso; the always banal spinach dip; and jalapeño poppers.
Mr. Richter's pictures of his wife, Sabine, and his daughters, Betty and Ella, are usually treated by curators as intentionally, almost sarcastically banal.
Rather, it is concerned with locating the precise boundary between the banal and the extraordinary, between routine and violence, between complacency and courage.
But the gap between what such language conjures up and the banal reality of the student associations known as C.S.S.A.s is fairly vast.
First, the Clinton emails that have been publicly released have tended to be banal or even pathetic rather than corrupt or scandal-worthy.
But it's also a bizarre reminder that at any moment, our banal, everyday lives could be thrust into a divisive national political conversation.
Like much else in "Love Actually," you almost buy this moment of banal sentiment, because it is so prettily shot and smartly spoken.
In doing so, he has distracted attention from all the banal and familiar ways that US politics has become a tedious, empty grind.
It may seem banal, but how much energy a household used at a particular time is actually intimate information concerning someone's private life.
"Once You Lose Your Heart," a ballad for Sally, is a lovely tune (with banal words); the title number has an infectious lilt.
Adding insult to painted-injury, Mr. Smith's cheerily banal subjects and electric palette unmistakably conjure emoji and other icons of the digital age.
The premise — one woman's attempt to go on summer vacation — is almost laughably banal, something like a satire on the French vacation obsession.
Despite this terrible context, the words are flat, banal, their tone almost numb; Mr. Abraham's choreography has a lot of expressing to do.
It is really a wonderful thing to contemplate, especially in today's age, which seems pretty safe and pretty banal most of the time.
They range from admonitions of North Korea for mistreating an American prisoner to banal statements about her plans to speak at a conference.
This is the paradox: the average photograph has never been more banal or irrelevant, yet photography as a medium has never mattered more.
Our critic Stephen Holden writes that in the end, it "becomes a banal, formulaic pastiche of dozens of other like-minded space operas."
Kelley once described how the job granted him access to "hidden underbellies," like the boiler rooms and maintenance closets of banal public buildings.
Who controls such banal details as air-conditioning, or the aural and visual atmosphere of a world saturated in manipulative media and advertising?
Snatched is banal and lightweight enough — and Linda and Emily are obviously the target of its jokes — that it hardly seems to matter.
Or maybe the information is banal but it was later wrapped into a report or document that is itself classified for different reasons.
We learn of the boundless resilience of the human spirit, along with the depressing capacity for evil — even the banal variety — of humankind.
Everything that made my heart swell into my throat was totally banal: foliage in Central Park, or dollar pizza slices when I was broke.
On closer inspection, however, the object's true identify is something considerably more banal: It's just a stupid rock that fell from a nearby mountain.
The work is neither overtly critical nor praiseful, but focuses on the forms — at times beautiful, banal, and bizarre — seen from the car window.
Screenshot: LinkedIn and CircaTech Jobs Box has an anemic LinkedIn page with banal stock art and a link to a website that doesn't exist.
Given the current political climate, it's not surprising designers are looking at the roles women have traditionally occupied, and finding inspiration in the banal.
The show attempts to mine humor from the most banal (kids swearing is high-larious) and offensive (gay panic is high-larious) subject matter.
We naturally fetishize secrets, as the opening of even banal aspects of Hillary Clinton's closed world by hackers showed; open communications preemptively neutralize them.
On this narrow ledge where violence met banal normality, I could feel life as pure upon me as the first warm rain of spring.
"I find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal and an outrage and an insult to the voters," Mr. Bloomberg told the paper.
The irony is that among climate policy wonks, the call to reduce building emissions is one of the more banal elements of the resolution.
Yet out of the entire fairly vast field of more or less banal Republican Party elected officials, only Pence really seemed to want it.
Side plots about Donald Trump's irresponsible Twitter habits and culture's focus on dramatic problems over banal, but often more dire ones hit their mark.
However, he did tweet a banal, "Talk is talk" earlier in the week after Jones called him "just a guy" to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Like ankle sprains, tooth decay, or heart attacks, reproductive health should be a banal medical thing that a lot of people know something about.
The result was a fairly banal commercial collection of biker jackets with quilted arms, tweed tailored coats, paisley and flash-tattoo patterns, tropical prints.
On the contrary, the series deals with banal situations that the majority of the adult populations of developed countries have endured at some point.
If in the very first pages I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be able to get inside the story.
Integration is one of ADAPT's original, enduring aims, which means they hope to create a world that treats disabilities as if they are banal.
His current paintings are like washed-out photorealist vignettes: tough, banal and perhaps a little bad in their refusal to celebrate painting — or life.
It has to take all kinds of things into account, from the ratios of machines and operating systems to banal things like naming conventions.
What is new about Pokémon Go is both momentous and banal: It is proof that millennials, for years the young generation, are getting old.
Alex Da Corte's three-hour "Easternsports," an elaborate surround of four videos, adds robotic performers to his over-the-top arrangements of banal products.
Luke is able to turn back time, while Freya has a supernatural power so banal that she doesn't even want to talk about it.
My first response was a banal one, which is that the number of candidates really isn't so unusual for an election like this one.
In truth, Frank's has always had a "type," but the profile was not built using banal criteria like sex, race, religion, education or income.
Even if you are being judged, she argues, it does not mean that you should fall back on the safety net of banal dressing.
I was stuck in John F. Kennedy Airport listening to one banal sort after another defend the president's right to savage whomever he likes.
What does Cartier-Bresson's legacy represent in an age in which photography has become banal, digitalized and universally undertaken by everybody with a cellphone?
The entirety of the game takes place within the Oldest House, a massive brutalist structure that seamlessly transitions between the banal and the bizarre.
He is, appropriately, showing what has become of race relations in this country, but the result feels banal, a coda to an unfinishable story.
Like all of us, he is hungering for a brush with the sublime, but he understands that life is more likely to be banal.
When doctors do talk about weight issues, they often seem to assume patients simply aren't trying to address their weight, and offer "banal" advice.
During my weeks of Facebook group immersion, I was reminded of how much early 2000s message-board chatter was banal, off-topic or argumentative.
This cheerful self-awareness reduces the sexuality of his images, allowing them to be read as honest or even banal, not salacious or voyeuristic.
But the story first came to my attention in the most banal form imaginable: in the dry bureaucratese of legal documents and company reports.
In the abstract this approach — minimize bureaucracy, start out with small experiments, expand them if they're successful — sounds so good that it's almost banal.
I suspect most people feel un-fun if they don't inject some kind of witticism or silliness into what is an otherwise banal transaction.
In fact, the production was unanimously panned when it premiered: It was called derivative, banal, derisory, inartistic, of poor taste, and, above all, kitschy.
This may seem obvious and almost banal, but to a minimalist like me who favors converging things as much as possible, this convenience is worthwhile.
But I've also seen a horror extending from the screen and filling the packed theatre spaces; the banal laughter and obliviousness of white progressive liberals.
Usually, in my dreams texting or emailing have the same banal quality as any other chore you have on your mind as you fall asleep.
Even my most banal future, straightforward Easy PGD, might seem politically and practically impossible—a brave new world that people and their governments will reject.
Using arduously intricate glass beadwork, Lou has recreated a bottle of cleaning fluid at scale, making an elaborately decorative object of a banal domestic product.
" He derided Bezos's Instagram post as a "wonderfully banal passive aggressive post from the would-be author of 'Zen and the Art of Counterfeit Trafficking.
"The Spoils of War," ironically got spoiled for many this week when a banal mistake by an HBO distribution partner led to its leaking online.
That's what a banal person does: decides to follow Adolf Hitler wherever he leads and, having no moral compass, takes up that of his icon.
But something about Cumberbatch's banal delivery coupled with the incongruous image of a tall statue of an eagle wearing a business suit made me giggle.
I would feel homesick for family, the food, and that banal, day-to-day luxury of being seen and understood, at least on the surface.
It is, it wants to be, a moral novel, not merely unfolding but inventing itself through its hero's minute choices — some banal, some life-changing.
The questionnaire included many banal questions (What's mommy's favorite color?) and I was enjoying my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter's sweet answers immensely.
Documentary historian Ken Burns delivered an urgent message to Stanford's class of 2016 on Sunday: Forget the banal life advice that commencement speakers usually give.
Taking the human voice away from a genre that's largely dependent upon it can result in the most banal café soundtrack music, like instrumental metal.
In 11's tumultuous political climate, it seems most English speakers wanted to learn more about relaxingly banal matters, like their favorite show on Netflix.
And this may sound banal and trivial today but this was certainly not the way people were talking about technology and Silicon Valley in 2000.
It's good to know a show like Glow, that gives us complex women in complex friendships, wouldn't reduce its youngest woman to any banal tropes.
But many astronauts and other experts suggest the biggest impediments to making this (and moon missions in general) a reality are banal and somewhat depressing.
In licking these rather banal, mass-produced objects, the artist creates a conduit between himself, his art, and the random objects he chooses to lick.
The world she inhabits — a banal, familiar world of meetings, PowerPoint presentations and awkward collegial socializing — seems designed to strip away personal autonomy and integrity.
At the same time, their hypnotic cadence sounds uncannily like some of the novel's more banal descriptions of life as a zombie under late capitalism.
Being a warrior one minute, on guard at all times, and minutes later answering the most banal questions: You know a good restaurant around here?
If you want evidence, just check the total retweets and favorites that the above tweets—then compare that to this single, banal Hugh Jackman tweet.
The banal truth is that his administration has been content to ride a tailwind that began many years ago during the administration of Barack Obama.
There shouldn't be any trivializing over how upsetting it is to think about blinking, or swallowing, or a mole, even if those things seem banal.
True, even though the prose could not be more banal, the book also includes useful advice and information on, for example, food safety and exercise.
The acid humor of her earlier works continues to seethe, but the Trump paintings, in keeping with the man himself, are more atrocious and banal.
At the center of the painting is the banal-looking Ugland House office building, where more than 19,000 companies are registered to facilitate tax avoidance.
Are we living in the post-communication age, all destined to just bark one banal phrase at each other and for that to be enough?
Her descent is marked by the usual signs of addiction: an eroding sense of limits, a stream of banal lies, a metabolic incapacity for contentment.
I assume my own Alexa resents a lot of my banal requests for weather updates and would not hesitate to wreak havoc on my life.
It was as if whatever I said, however banal, was surely worth that strain of a neck, or the hurried quieting of all other thoughts.
Dermatology — a specialty built not on flashy, leading edge medicine but on thousands of small, often banal procedures — has become increasingly lucrative in recent years.
These are enacted in dialogue that, by Mr. Bartlett's standards, often feels surprisingly banal, as if recycled from a century's worth of country house dramas.
Photography inspired 19th-century European painters like Gustave Courbet and Edgar Degas, who were fascinated by the banal posing, flattening, and cropping in technical images.
Worse yet: I still halfway believe it's too soon, that what I saw was too banal, that I have no right to the word trauma.
When I find out somebody's sexual orientation, I feel like I've found out one of the more banal things I could find out about them.
The greater disappointment comes with Adobe Guadalupe's dinners, which feature the banal sort of beef-and-asparagus fare one encounters at Middle American country clubs.
Hosted by a man who goes by Harris, these meandering meditations on banal subjects (usually with a scientific bent) are spoken entirely in breathy murmurs.
Yang's scenes of alienated urban structures are frequently staggering; throughout his body of work, he had a real knack for making the banal look uncanny.
Curiously, it is the banal textual footprint of these pictures, rather than their gleaming visual selves, that make them unique in this sea of moons.
Vietnam's forests shelter two dozen species of primates — gibbons, macaques, lorises and langurs, often in colors that make the human tribe look banal by contrast.
The Gregorian calendar, with its intricate dance of leap days and leap years, seems utterly banal to those of us in the Western world today.
At the core of Miao's work is the notion of alchemy, which is the ability to transform the banal into something more perfect and desirable.
He may have been inspired by John Ashbery's attention to clichés and banal chatter, but he's the one who wrote/heard it where he did.
He's generous with his laughter, the type of guy who makes you feel like any story you tell — no matter how banal — is fucking hilarious.
Others are more banal deconstructions of the media as entertainment, including a line of TVs looping silent, surveillance-like footage of the artist simply eating.
And they have the joy-inspiring, banal, and affordable appeal to unite us—at least for the next three weeks, until some new craze comes along.
Being able to drop a continuous stream of interesting, or banal, photos into one continuous loop was fascinating at the time that the company released it.
As it became increasingly clear that Clinton was the more popular Democratic candidate with the voters, Sanders reverted to banal process arguments about minor rules squabbles.
It turned otherwise banal videos of the grocery store into cinematic masterpieces starring the hot dog, surmounting the refrigerated Oscar Mayers like a pile of carnage.
And even the banal idea that we only ever sleep with people that we are attracted to reveals a gross misunderstanding about human sexuality and interaction.
"Then I had this really banal but vivid dream of a place I'd never been," she says of a vision that came to her one night.
Built from scratch in 1967 as an experiment in centralized town planning, Milton Keynes is often ridiculed in the UK as an uninspired and banal settlement.
Another thing that fascinates me is that their videos are so long and banal; it's comforting viewing to be in the boringness of someone else's life.
It seems the charismatic qualities of a president you are excited about drive turnout far ahead of where the banal realities of congressional politics put it.
Best of all, you get to skip the banal task of going to the grocery and walking aisle after aisle through stuff you don't actually need.
But what makes The Idiot shine is the way the novel meticulously documents the banal situations and observations Selin has in her day-to-day life.
In the end, the incessant documentation of Syrian life has overexposed it — as well as daily deaths — turning the everyday into a banal, uninteresting, repetitive thing.
Instinctively, it struck me as uptight that a word as banal as "weed"—akin, in my mind, to describing alcohol as "booze"—is now considered offensive.
While his hat-trick only served to increase the hype, he remained obliging, graciously answering the same banal questions about his father that follow him everywhere.
"It never ceases to amaze me how successful you have been making yourself so small, petty, and banal with your tweets," Brennan said at the time.
" Photography is a favorite pastime of his, and he was thrilled when the magazine GQ Russia recently recommended his Instagram account as "enticing and not banal.
Slyly turning natural verbal rhythms into eccentric choral numbers, Mr. Cork creates a serial-killer opera whose genius is to transform the banal into something exceptional.
The cliché of American fiction is being about Long Island and idle housewives, and I realized, We are allowed that now— we can write banal shit!
"The extraordinary thing about Trump is the way his conduct makes banal, standard-issue American civic patriotism...come across as an attack on him," Yglesias tweeted.
At every turn, Ruff has great fun pitting mid-20th-­century horror and sci-fi clichés against the banal and ever-present bigotry of the era.
And while the egg is obviously some kind of statement on the banal nature of celebrity and social media, I can't help wondering what comes next.
For Gay, her body is at once a jagged emotional wound and a banal but ever-present inconvenience brought on by the small-mindedness of others.
Some animals are bigger than others — and that incredibly banal fact can have some important ramifications for the ethics of meat eating, a recent study suggests.
It's not easy to be eloquent or original with teenage classroom frustrations, but Let's Eat Grandma are bold enough to turn the banal into the ethereal.
Among Middle East and national security experts, it is considered a self-evident and banal truth to say that ISIS's threat falls far short of existential.
Most of the websites seem pretty banal, such as the site of the state-owned Air Koryo airline, or that of the Kim Il Sung University.
I think in terms of Ed and Crofton's work there are definite parallels—that interest in the stuff that goes on in these seemingly banal settings.
We need more art like Faith Ringgold's "American People Series #20: Die" (1967) and less art like Jeff Koons' banal "Bouquet of Tulips" (2016) for Paris.
But his arrogance followed from the strangulating tension between who and what he was: blackness was limiting, oppressive, banal, a boorish hurdle in his brilliant path.
In the wake of her artist statement, it was easy to imagine Walker giving up her traumatic, triggering tableaux for something more banal, like naturalistic landscapes.
A shorthand, enigmatic quality permeates the whole of Kiefer's notebooks, often leading to confusion about otherwise banal, this-worldly events in the artist's day-to-day.
Morning show anchors are inherently campy, having dedicated their lives to sprucing up news — information that is by nature alarming or, on a good day, banal.
In both of these installations, banal images of people in extreme situations — often verging on cartoon-cute — sanitize the violence and traumatic nature of the stories.
It sat empty while the banal Terminal 5, scaled to the jumbo-sized misery of contemporary air travel, was constructed around it, landlocking the Flight Center.
She is capable of forgiving everyone and seeing something compelling, even numinous, in things that the rest of the world might otherwise pass over as banal.
At this recurring event, the "Jeopardy!" runner-up Raj Sivaraman invites comedians and storytellers to share their obsessions, and the more banal the topic the better.
Her prose — densely though never overly descriptive, rich and bursting, verdantly Appalachian — puts you vividly in this world, where the banal is rendered strangely and tenderly.
Quizzes like "Which One of My Garbage Sons Are You?" or its running series of fake banal quotes from celebrities earned it a loyal, independent following.
Cuomo had come to embody the very archetype that made him mad to begin with: stone-faced, tight-lipped and quickly enraged over something seemingly banal.
I await the day when a themeless is filled with purposely banal entries, yet the clues are the prize, and by themselves make the puzzle sexy.
Following season after season of increasingly clever answers to increasingly clever mysteries, seeing the banal reality of a giant drain stopper was something of a letdown.
You pretend to be riveted by this banal banter, which Alex mistakenly interprets as an invitation to put a hand on your knee under the table.
Years pass, the dead accumulate, and Sher and Rogers drive home "Oslo" 's ultimately banal point: that tolerance sometimes, just sometimes, begins with the nicest people.
It wasn't a flattering analogy — we are the house cats — but that was Trinkaus's point: "I think a lot of this is basically banal," he says.
When conversations did occur, patients said doctors offered "banal" or "flippant" advice, which assumed the patient didn't eat well, exercise or try to address weight problems.
This could range from the relatively banal—say, an overheard conversation about two teens ditching school—to more serious issues, like abusive relationships and substance use.
Despite its aspiration to topical relevance and the trendy allusion to Baldwin, this collage of dance theater is as thin as most postcards, and as banal.
Silly and banal objects, from a kitsch sculpture of Mozart to an old television console, create profound and provocative connections with art, technology and everyday experience.
What's more, liberals have more internal disagreement than conservatives over the state of American greatness, which likely helps explain why the DNC's banal riposte proved controversial.
It may not have any lessons to teach — except maybe to love your mom and watch out for strangers when you travel — but it's banal enough.
The nine-channel video installation is a mass of wires and screens, each one displaying banal and often sterile scenes from major airports around the world.
He has tried to say it's not an existential threat, which is so banal it's a no-brainer, and he can't even get that to go down.
It's the kind of banal scandal that might rock a normal White House, or at least raise fresh questions about the character of the person leading it.
Sending out push notifications for banal celebrity streaming filler may not be quite as aggressive as the first, but it definitely has some echoes of the latter.
Last night's red carpet felt different, because the underlying assumption that red carpet questions had to be banal was dashed — but not everyone knew how to deal.
We know, we know: By now, it's downright banal to call for the rotting heap of garbage that has been 2016 to hurry up and end already.
The message was just two letters—"lo"—as the full and rather more banal instruction ("login") did not get through because the receiving computer in Stanford crashed.
How both banal and messy and realistic it all was, and how it wasn't all just ... it didn't have to have all the nostalgic gloss on it.
Lacking landmarks, and also the option to place waypoints on an in-game map, Grand Theft Auto III encourages us to form subjective connections to banal details.
As they make jokes about genitals and sex on "Daddy Ding Dong" or else plod through the banal "ROBOT", one wonders who is meant to be laughing.
And it turns out that the true horror of dating a demon is that it's usually just as banal as your typical, garden-variety subpar online date.
And I am here to tell you the real danger there lies in the banal: weeks of eating, sitting, staring, talking and worst of all, not talking.
Many people are surprised when I suggest that something as banal as software testing can have a tremendous impact on our ability to scale and accelerate innovation.
That's just a simple example of how unknowns, both banal and dire, multiply — I'm sure you could add a few questions of your own to the list.
Like idiotic diets and self-help books and aspirational lifestyle blogs, junk psychology commodifies and sells the most banal corners of our own minds back to us.
In a later segment, burly men build barricades by stacking car tires into giant piles, doing the banal grunt work that gets edited out of news reports.
Images of sex acts and female bodies in seductive poses are placed on top of pictures of banal objects like a toilet or a patch of roses.
Sagging did begin in prison, but for a more banal reason: Prisoners were often issued clothing that was too large for them and they couldn't wear belts.
Or a piece of information that is banal on its own might later be referred to in a classified report, making that piece of information also classified.
But where Mr. Jarmusch is a connoisseur of bleakness, Ms. Reichardt makes her artfully banal terrain of laundromats, convenience stores and cloverleaf highways seem brain-numbingly oppressive.
This juxtaposition of the exotic and the banal — and the evidence of sad human longings within it — is clearly meant to elicit strong emotions for the audience.
What if "Gasolina" is exactly the song we need to hear this summer, at a time when [insert banal and unnecessary statement about Trump and America here]?
For most men, the donation, which took place in Washington, DC, would have been perfectly banal, but for Jay, it was the end of a long journey.
At the heart of Padgett's writing is an innocence: he sees everything — no matter how banal or how curious or strange — with the same attentive, innocent eye.
At the heart of Padgett's writing is an innocence: he sees everything — no matter how banal or how curious or strange — with the same attentive, innocent eye.
I thought it was so cool that you couldn't tell between someone who spent their whole life virtuosically perfecting their instrument and the most banal electronic sound.
But while this relationship afforded me the privilege of banal nonconformity, I lost a piece of myself when I got together with my once-gym buddy, James.
As increasingly banal devices come online as the latest additions to the internet of things, it was inevitable that sex toys would get added into the mix.
But if the first few hours you spend listening to it are more banal, going about your business types of things, then you have a different impression.
Of the 57 executive orders and 92 presidential memoranda Donald Trump has issued since his inauguration one year ago, a shocking number have been banal or inconsequential.
The final exhibition chapter, Banal Presents, will feature new and recent work by Sable Elyse Smith and Cameron Rowland and a newly commissioned work by Carolyn Lazard.
A man posting about his wife on the internet is usually banal, so it is almost impressive when he has managed to make it appear, instead, ludicrous.
The banal reality that the median member of both parties is a middle-aged, middle-class heterosexual white person gets obscured not by ignorance but by knowledge.
It's a noisy, dull, thoroughly soulless affair built on banal dialogue, flat acting, and slapdash computer-generated imagery that barely looks better than your average Playstation game.
Perhaps one photographs the sun seeking to mark a special day, calling the sun to bear witness, but the repeated photographic act renders the spectacular as banal.
All of which is just to say that Trump is, in a very literal, very practical, very banal sense, entirely the fault of the Republican Party leadership.
"Doing something really banal like reaching for the remote can put my back out and leave me wailing like a child for a day," one friend wrote.
"And we live in a media system of telling stories in a way that makes sexual and sexist violence banal, makes excuses for it and eroticizes it."
Note also that while "So, what do you do?" is a pretty common and acceptable question in America, in Europe it's as banal as watching paint dry.
When it turns to the past, though, a sense of duty creeps in; the more it tries to "entertain," the more banal and less entertaining it gets.
But you also gain a kind of ecstatic anthropological insight into rituals that are both banal and outlandish, and an initiation into the mysteries of human psychology.
He's given us this completely banal chord for the word "sepulcher": It's both extremely familiar and very strange, because this sepulcher is going to set things up.
I thought it was interesting to give them what are essentially super powers, but have them use those powers for incredibly banal purposes, like robbing convenience stores.
The exhibition implores a constant shifting of attention and switching of gears, in a way mimicking the complex and banal experience of navigating the contemporary urban environment.
Its performers' mystifying actions were utterly banal and self-absorbed, but the hazy yet sterile setting felt cinematic, otherworldly, and somehow unplaceable along any spectrum of time.
With Dumbo, Burton seems to have taken a relatively banal script retelling the classic 1941 children's film and imagined it as a prescient and pointed critique of Disney.
Kia's hamsters started as a play on the banal existence of nine-to-fivers in the rat race, but evolved over the years into fun-loving cartoonish partiers.
Doubly so for Civil War analogies, which give an air of drama and world-historical import to more banal survey data suggesting rising partisan and regional political polarization.
Later, she'd tell me she kicked herself for saying something so banal, for not catching me before I left and encouraging me to stick around for a while.
I walked around with this almost Terminator-esque tally of expenditures in the corner of my vision, the numbers clicking over with every necessary, banal thing I bought.
Somehow, even the most banal possibilities — an empty hole in the ground, a trove of worthless junk, a find worth fighting over — are weighted with dread and suspense.
The tour guides, reading banal scripts in a flat monotone, list off numbers and figures about how many people were killed, but their language is impersonal and blank.
The Academy tends to reward the bland and banal, despite the occasional outlier, which has remained true even as the industry has absorbed some salable indie-film talents.
As Max Fisher wrote for Vox in January, the US government has an absurd overclassification system in which seemingly banal emails can be retroactively designated as top secret.
While this week's Instagram hoax is banal in comparison, it is a symptom of the same problems at the heart of Big Tech — unconstrained scale and missing accountability.
Queer YouTubers in particular have perennially found that their otherwise perfectly banal content has been demonetized, seemingly because it featured words like "gay" or "lesbian" in the headline.
"When I look back on my memories of Meredith, what I find are beautiful, banal moments we shared in the weeks we lived side-by-side," Knox wrote.
Something as vague and banal-sounding as "gameplay data" is not as obviously salacious as the types of personal data collection we know we should be scandalized by.
You take a loaded topic and dissect it until it's innocuous, whereas, historically, comedy tends to take something banal, like airline peanuts, and make it into something flammable.
Accompanying these works is "Pool" (2011), a silver painting on canvas, made with spray paint and enamel, which functions, just as its title suggests, as a banal puddle.
The Archive calls it the Military Industrial PowerPoint Complex and it's as bad as you'd expect a mix of high technology, bloody wars, and banal graphics to be.
Evans' Street Arrows polaroids (1973-74), one of his last series before his death in 1975, forces us to reconsider the banal uniformity of these turn-lane arrows.
If the tweet is popular or controversial enough, the traffic will increase the view count of fancams attached to even the most banal comments, heightening your fave's popularity.
They document the mayhem spawned by the most banal of offenses: a push in a bar, a Facebook taunt, the wrong choice of music at a house party.
Set largely in an upscale yet banal Cincinnati hotel, Anomalisa immerses us into an oddly comic dark night of the soul, as played by stop-motion animated puppets.
And it offers insight into how a powerful industry draws out seemingly banal disputes with regular people who rarely have the money, willpower, or time to fight back.
What does matter, and something Fagan handles with deceptively effortless prose, is the way in which ordinary, even banal, life dramas unfold while the existential noose is tightening.
"In terms of trade, if Catalonia were to remain as part of the EU, nothing would change," Albert Banal-Estañol, an economics professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, said.
Seeing horrifying footage of the Syrian Civil War, to many, is less shocking than it is banal, like traces of distant suffering within a foreign, almost invisible conflict.
And it takes Schuyler's life's work seriously, as few critics have done, and makes useful points about his embracing of the banal and homespun along with the extraordinary.
I am Ben Simmons, I am the young man at the center of the future for the Sixers, and I have destroyed the banal Bradleys of the world.
In what is typically a banal passage of exposition among supernumeraries, two sentinels use iPhones to peck out their dialogue as text messages — and deliver a huge laugh.
The banal flourishes with which she combines aspects of academic/illustrational painting and drawing with whole-cloth outtakes from other artists (Cy Twombly backgrounds, for example) continue unabated.
Just down the street, at 58, rue Tiquetonne, is G. Detou, an épicerie that will make even the most banal cook dream of becoming an artisanal pastry chef.
Apparently, the people who make "The Bachelorette" could envision marrying off a black bachelorette only if in the process it risked a race war, even a banal one.
While "Banal Presents" marks the end of Colored People Time as an exhibition, the project re-commences in the form of a reader to be released in 2020.
Chekhov gets under our skin because he locates the banal emptiness and solipsism of our self-soothing rhetoric (to "be in the moment," to "tend your own garden").
Indeed, it's the obviousness of each man's agenda, and Mr. Trump's obliviousness to that obviousness, that makes the scene so banal as stagecraft — and so startling as statecraft.
A live microphone picked up unfiltered comments in which he blended banal conversation about birthday gifts and his preference for Diet Coke with matters of war and peace.
"This tale of 'hacks' resembles a banal brawl between American security officials over spheres of influence," Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, wrote on Facebook.
She refers to painters who leave "secret messages" for the viewer in seemingly simple, even banal paintings — an element left on a table, an item on the wall.
It sounds a little banal, but getting into a routine where you get settled in, and then wake up in the morning and immediately start a workout routine.
Shyamalan has been celebrated for his twisty stories, but his truer strength is his gifts for infusing outwardly banal moments with dread and for his work with actors.
But the platitudes Russell offers her — that she has smart eyes, that she seems sad — are so banal that even sheltered, naive Evie isn't really impressed by them.
" A work containing "Marilyn Monroe" and "appropriated text" is described as "peculiar and banal," deploying "violence as a rupture or distortion as suggesting innumerable idiosyncrasies of human relations.
Because somehow, even in 2017—the year that yielded RompHims and lace shorts for men—we're somehow still debating something as banal as whether shorts are appropriate workplace attire.
" The left-leaning Guardian, on its editorial pages, called the speech "by turns bitter, blowhard and banal" and noted that "in 1933, Roosevelt challenged the world to overcome fear.
Once a year, the American Museum of Natural History in New York performs a banal yet oddly fascinating ritual: It cleans its life-size model of a blue whale.
They range from the banal to the absurd, and have become a prime source for internet memes, since they must be generic enough to be appropriate for multiple situations.
The episode then spent approximately 84.67 percent of its time trying to work through the racism and sexism of Lee Garrett, despite how banal and obvious his prejudice is.
But there were, in fact, a number of stereotype-fulfilling boomer TERFs on board the cruise — and plenty of lesbians whose policing of gender norms took more banal forms.
Not only do they make the banal act of moisturizing sunburned limbs a helluva lot more enjoyable (even fun!), but these lightweight products never feel heavy on the skin.
And most UFOs do often turn out to have banal explanations: Venus shifting colors through the thick atmosphere, planes coming your direction head-on, satellite, ball lightning, military projects.
In the case of California's sequoias, the discoverers would gaze in awe at a tree, then spend three weeks cutting it down, sometimes turning it to banal human use.
This album is, in many ways, reminiscent of Charles Burnett's classic cult film Killer of Sheep (1977), a striking, musically rich meditation on black love rendered through the banal.
We all eyeroll about selfie culture and, you know, [say] 'Gosh, how banal narrative has become, how we spend our times watching individuals and what they wear that day.
Facebook believes that the bots are part of a large-scale spam operation that likes fairly banal news in an effort to appear to be an average user account.
In the 590 images posted to the account, Sherman dabbles with some standard, banal Instagram behaviors like food photography, short videos of wild animals, and throwback Mother's Day pics.
And he throws in too many banal bromides about "fixing the economy", as if there were no difficult trade-offs between, say, raising productivity levels and destroying stable jobs.
Knowing when you turn on your lights or whether you do so with a switch or through a voice assistant might sound like pretty banal data to give up.
With email, no matter how banal our messages seemed, the stories detailing the consequences executives and employees alike faced for their emails, changed the way we used email, too.
Again, she doesn't let the repetitive slog get her down, demonstrating years of carefully honed talent: Take after take, she delivers her one banal line differently. Every. Single. Time.
Under these conditions, deleting Facebook seems like a laughably small gesture; luckily, Odell knows it's both tired and banal to devote a book to urging readers to do so.
I soon wondered whether the goal shouldn't be mimicry, but to convey the true threat Bin Laden posed, to add a menacing tone to his banal voice of evil.
It described Silver as "a new kind of political superstar," and lingered lovingly over many of the same banal details as Silver's other puff pieces (he really likes burritos!).
Of course, a man so undone by his past that he chooses to stumble through life as a banal and destructive hedonist doesn't make for the most compelling television.
This is the world where any banal activity in public -- selling water, playing golf, napping -- can literally end up with someone facing the barrel of a police officer's gun.
The firm's pretty banal sounding name belies the hot market it is entering — advising companies on how to engage with their shareholders, particularly big institutional investors and mutual funds.
" The New Republic's longtime literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, a professional lowerer of the boom, said it was "the worst, last gasp of Reaganite, grasping, materialistic, narcissistic, banal self-absorption.
What was once reserved for the best, the most awe-inspiring and the wondrous is now routinely deployed for the mundane, the banal and the taste of fro-yo.
When I hang with my women friends, however, we talk about movies, ideas for businesses, and relationship stuff — because we've moved on from such banal talk as body image.
I couldn't help but think of the relatively banal ending to Champlain's storied career as I watched residents of Plattsburgh fill the city council chamber to capacity Thursday night.
A "lone wolf," propelled by the malignancy of thought, can inflict the most damage with the most banal of weapons: a rented Home Depot truck and a paintball gun.
You see this particularly in "Cat and Potato Chips" (2017), in which the different-colored outlines amplify the spooky presence of a black cat and the banal (toxic?) food.
I think Sanders supported the dairy industry for the banal reason that most legislators think it's beneficial to their constituents to support the growth and prosperity of local industries.
On the other hand, taxes and health care don't feed into the narrative of Trump as being uniquely harmful in world history, rather than a banal standard-issue Republican.
The speech itself, if you read it, is rather banal and unremarkable, but the turn of phrase came to be a powerful icon of the politics of the era.
Our attention is restless; we see disorder and order merge as Lewis lifts a banal scene into a highly concentrated domain of particulars, all while painting wet into wet.
Anaïs Mitchell's folk opera catches the ear from the first notes and leaves you eager for a second or third listen, even when the lyrics descend toward the banal.
Whatever the reason, however, her descent into banal harmlessness operates as a cautionary tale to all women: You will have to be likable if you want to go mainstream.
Beyond the issue of smart toys, updated FTC guidance also represents larger regulatory convergence around the need to apply privacy safeguards to connected objects, even the most seemingly banal.
Dense with colorful lines and text, the paintings record information both banal—airline routes, Zip Codes—and subtly charged, such as the median real-estate prices across the country.
And no doubt the results will strike some readers as banal: Who cares about the fight with your mom, the class you ditched, the friend who hurt your feelings?
And yes, the $110.5 million painting is in the building: a ferocious "Untitled" (1982) skull made with black and colored spray paint and oilstick against a banal blue background.
But the brilliance of Please Like Me comes from knowing that embracing the banal details of everyday life also means embracing the joys and pains of living everyday life.
Rather than finding the reality of Sanders's long career as a fairly banal, fairly pragmatic, reasonably effective public servant reassuring, many establishment-minded Democrats I speak to find it enraging.
For example, I have never felt so seen as when the film introduces Psyduck, a perpetually anxious Pokémon who's always one banal stressor away from inducing a brain-wave earthquake.
Which is why she always cautioned against banal or clichéd speech; this was a sign that people had stopped thinking for themselves, and once that happens, totalitarianism isn't far behind.
Duchamp wanted "to put art back in the service of the mind," but Vautier moves to surpass mindful art with life by dumbing art down to habitual, unmindful, banal events.
Unlike most "classic marble nudes," which tended to idealize not just the human body but its soul, too, the boy looks to be growing into a kind of banal evil.
For a generation that didn't see Brokeback Mountain in theaters, and never had to suffer Brüno (2009), why should the banal tenderness of Love, Simon be something worthy of criticism?
Now, it seems, the embargo has lifted — the investigations are closed, Bachelor In Paradise is back to banal beachy antics, and Olympios and Jackson are fine posing together for photographers.
Still, the contents of the secret papers confiscated in Rome seemed relatively "banal" for a Russian spy to expose himself to possible capture, an Italian national security official told ProPublica.
When Mnuchin emerged during the 2016 campaign as a major Trump bundler, it struck many people acquainted with his record as a banal Wall Street free marketer as somewhat bizarre.
It sounds banal to say something like that, but it's shocking how rarely a basic and universal feature of the human anatomy is disregarded by companies supposedly producing ergonomic products.
By The Economist's count, the session's leader advocates at least five vote-rigging methods, couching them in banal terms such as "strategy" and "technique" and interspersing them with legitimate advice.
When her story went viral, big media outlets picked it up, and the retellings brought a significantly more banal showdown — this one between journalists, sex-worker advocates and Twitter commentators.
That it seems banal from Trump itself is perhaps understandable given how flagrantly and constantly he reminds us that he doesn't care about anyone outside his narrow circle of support.
He says that Britain's cultural institutions remember a neutered version of punk, ignoring the truth and telling a safe, banal lie they can market to the tourists and the squares.
But it could also simply include the stuff of routine banal scandal — Trump presumably derives some of his income from wealthy individuals who have various interests in public policy matters.
I can see their value as part of a political campaign or meme — like, #oscarsowhite or #blacklivesmatter — but I hate when people add useless hashtags to their most banal posts.
"Calories in, calories out" is more than a banal restatement of the Law of Conservation of Energy: it is a metaphor casting the metabolism as akin to a current account.
This talent for finding the surreal in the banal is one of the many ways in which Iturbide is influenced by Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002), her teacher and mentor.
In the hands of Gibney, the rise and fall of Theranos is reduced to a sort of personality puzzle, driven by the banal questions like: What was Elizabeth Holmes thinking?
In the public imagination, the American astronauts who landed on the moon five decades ago were square-jawed superhumans, not the types to worry about something as banal as housekeeping.
And so, a Friendly Fires comeback could have easily fallen into the latter two camps—a thing that happened ten years ago that won't go away / is banal and retrograde.
Rarely, if ever, has a cursory scan of a year's news made it seem to banal, so empty, so much like nothing more than another pointless revolution around the sun.
His musical output has now delved into topics of occult spirituality, and let there be no doubt, he believes in magic's pervasive and almost banal existence in our daily lives.
The images can be difficult to interpret on first viewing due to their everydayness — they're beautiful but banal, simple but intriguing, but as always, the power comes in the amalgamation.
Nick Heath began posting these videos, which have him enthusiastically calling banal, everyday events — which, in this age of coronavirus and stay-at-home orders, feel more special than usual.
Colored People Time: Banal Presents is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (118 S. 36th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104) through December 22, 2019.
She plays Celeste, a drug-snorting, booze-chugging pop star, a banal narcissist who's having a bad run personally and professionally, partly because she has sacrificed one for the other.
He experienced a totally normal, totally banal American politics gaffe cycle in which he said something politically awkward but totally defensible and then wound up spinning away from it furiously.
Since all possible presidents will be constrained in similar ways by the legislative process, it's worth paying attention to the more banal real world ways in which presidential leadership matters.
In pretty much any other moment, it would be heard as a banal speech — a respectful but expected statement from a former president on the life of a longtime senator.
Back in the 1980s and '90s things were different: Y.A. was a tiny slice of publishing, and the so-called adult-entertainment industry, far from being banal, polarized the nation.
Instead, check the "attic" and its stacked and piled-up multitude of reasons a person might refer to his home as "not being presentable," from the banal to the bizarre.
The small talk, the insipid jokes, the banal daily existence in the same cubicle one day after the next — this seemed so far removed from the professional life I'd imagined.
It is this quality of "everydayness," the banal flow of day-to-day life, that pervades all of human existence, We are so absorbed in it that it is forgotten.
We are inundated with the banal (cat videos) and the horrific (atrocity imagery); we are flooded with a nonstop visual stream that I think of as the 24/7 movie.
Between 2454 and 2006, Trump gave $5.4 million to his foundation with the vast majority of the money going out the door quickly to a range of fairly banal nonprofits.
The instinct to distance oneself from emotions with irony is not always useful or constructive, and to engage with emotions — to practice empathy — is not always to practice banal sentimentality.
In it, Isou put forth his model of human understanding in contrast to what he saw as a banal world of mere copyists caught in a state of general vulgarization.
As in Gomorrah, drugs flow through Dogman as an inevitable, if banal, form of social currency — Marcello's esteem among his soccer pals hardly stems from his footwork on the field.
The text itself is banal and, with the exception of a stray proper noun, could come from virtually any administrative speaker in any context — which is, of course, the point.
In the spirit of Beckmann's 1919 lithography portfolio Hell, Traeger's Wien 1932 is particularly chilling for its portrayal of these scenes, if not the nightmarish figures, as banal and commonplace.
It paints a picture of lines blurring and solidifying and blurring again, a situation so banal that calling it sexual assault would mean that sexual assault is deeply, inescapably omnipresent.
And a handsome chunk of that time, especially when it comes to Facebook, is spent on nothing but banal administration—duty, if you like, to keep our online persona breathing.
America in 2018 is a bleak and hopeless hellscape of a country, one in which the banal horror of everyday life is marked intermittently by periods of senseless cruelty and violence.
This banal framing elides some of the more complicated — and frankly, dramatically effective — realities of coming to terms with queer sexuality as a public figure, which are ignored in the film.
H.S. Philip Montgomery's images on the opioid crisis in Ohio have been rightly praised — the photos are intimate and evocative of the sadness and banal grief of a generation in suffering.
It's a bit of a foregone conclusion now, since in the time since the hack the notion of Russian interference with the election has gone from unnerving possibility to banal fact.
We checked out every story we could check, not just the terrible stories, but the good stories and the banal stories and you know, everything we could check out checked, out.
The most banal, and likely, answer is that he is ramping up tension with Brussels to help secure the greatest possible freedom to pump cash into the economy and stimulate growth.
Multicolored, banal, and offensively tacky they might be, but people are actively making purchases on the basis of whether a case fan does or does not have lights built into it.
Some have distasteful if utterly banal goals; one man was in love with his female friend and wanted her to feel the same way; another wanted to date "higher-value" women.
An offhanded joke, but one that pokes at the unease that comes with seeing a banal task that typically requires a human carried out by a computer pretending to be one.
A smorgasbord of religious and political signifiers, with a few seemingly random symbols thrown in for good measure, it's become its own symbol of a banal, graphically incoherent 21st-century hippie.
I haven't seen so much positive political energy since Barack Obama fired up the Democratic base in 2008 with his (retrospectively banal) slogans about "hope and change" and "yes we can".
The show closes, fittingly, with a series of his invented jungle scenes inspired by the flora of Parisian public gardens, places where dawdlers go to daydream and escape banal daily realities.
I went from a banal conference room at the Los Angeles Auto Show to looking at the big desert sky up above me through the glass on the Lucid Motors prototype.
She begins to grow tired of her banal and repetitive work life until she and her co-worker Zelda, played by Octavia Spencer, happen upon the tank of the mysterious merman.
On the surface, it may seem like a banal and easy concept to replicate, but ask anyone on the border, and they'll tell you there's no nacho like a Tap nacho.
And, if those worried about hackers knew which traffic was banal and could be separated from the targeted, worrying stuff, maybe they could filter out some of the more benign attacks.
In addition to the banal chaos that the Trump administration is likely to unleash, we're facing a moment that threatens equal protection, due process, free expression, democracy—not just press freedom.
At the beginning of the school year, students participated in a reading and writing exercise intended to instill a basic, almost banal message to help them manage tension: People can change.
A provocative headline—"Teflon Don Confounds Democrats"—obscures what's basically a banal argument: No election is a sure thing and revving up the base sometimes backfires when making a broader appeal.
Your best bet is to shower them with compliments and pepper even the most banal sexual encounter with small romantic gestures, like giving a neck kiss during an extremely rushed nooner.
At the end of the day, there is literally nothing more banal in American political history than the president having a proposal he can't get the opposition party to agree to.
Startlingly enough, some of the photographs by this dada-driven demon are rather banal, cliché, and even conventional, while others are typical of odd, avant-garde compositional ideas and outré experiences.
It's easy to identify the figures standing in for Jesus and Mary, but the meta-theatrical frame, with a filmmaker struggling to make a Jesus movie, is both ludicrous and banal.
The apps would pose as legitimate and banal pieces of software, such as a backup application, and once installed would download more malicious software and jailbreak the device with known exploits.
Against these forces — the banal and the diabolical alike — "It" assembles a squad of early and preadolescent ghostbusters as varied as an infantry platoon in a World War II combat picture.
While conversation throughout Germany, as elsewhere, has been dominated by discussions of the virus, the contestants' discussions have focused on more banal topics, like dating, household chores and their sexual interests.
Every piece of subtext has been dredged up so that it can be turned into banal commentary on the benighted attitudes of the provincial patriarchy toward gender, race, class and sexuality.
How banal these depictions of girl power — innocuous, young, charming — and preferably wearing a camisole; how hard-fought, and how unrewarded, the reality of women exercising their rights and bodily autonomy.
This whole frame is an illuminating if somewhat banal point, and if that was all this story offered, it would be an interesting meditation on a classic question if fairly unremarkable.
Jang has an affinity for taking what would normally be banal subject matter and turning it into a visual treat — whether depicting family, politicians, performers or everyday people on the streets.
Like Szalay, Knausgaard is often artless, prosy, clichéd, embarrassingly banal; like Szalay, he wants to explode the novel form; and like the British author he is interested in many ordinary things.
That shadow you can barely make out in the dark is a hundred times more terrifying than whatever banal object it turns out to be when you turn the lights on.
They were pretty easy for art critics to dismiss as banal, yet they had a warmth and wit that reflected a side of Mr. Bush his political critics had never acknowledged.
Hybrid warfare is by now routine, and the senseless mantras equating the IOC's decision to the outbreak of World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union simply sound banal.
But it's worth recalling that any presidency also features a range of more or less banal crises in which the fate of the nation and the world is nonetheless at stake.
Employing raw materials such as soil, cacti, wool, coal, cotton, fire, and — in "Untitled (Tragedia civile)" (1975), gold leaf contrasting with black clothing, Kounellis revealed the poetry of absolutely banal artifacts.
Returning to the city after a 30-year stint in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, the American Kennel Club's Museum of the Dog toes the line between brilliant and banal.
The appalling becomes excusable, the heinous becomes debatable, the outrageous becomes comical, lies become fibs, spite becomes banal, and hymns to American might become cause for giddy chants of national greatness.
Of all the ways for someone to describe their job, when that job entails orbiting more Earth than 200 miles above the surface, "I'm just an astronaut" might be the most banal.
It speaks much of the work put in by the developers of self-driving vehicles that the concept has gone from science fiction to banal reality in the space of a decade.
We wanted to take the style of these typically banal images and use them to tell a story of sorts, instead of just whacking them up on the club's official Facebook page.
Arguments ranged from the banal to the bizarre with a good portion of the proceedings taken up by a fairly lengthy explanation of Google's security measures (quite extensive as one would assume).
The product we built, Twitter Moments, prioritizes trustworthiness and quality, and for the most part delivers fake-news-free content — both banal and serious — using skilled human moderators in a scalable fashion.
Bennett sternly let me know I had to quiet down or be escorted out, and I sat down for a couple banal questions about bear-trap policy (it is Maine, after all).
I'll be reading just the most horrible stuff that is happening in our world right now on Twitter, and it is interspersed with the most banal comments about life, or self-promotion.
The story of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and his Family (both literal and figurative) has become so ubiquitous to our culture that it feels both banal and daunting to first-time viewers.
When your friends post 106 updates to their stories answering banal queries about their favorite movie or color or food, they aren't even pretending to cater to an audience outside of themselves.
This primarily takes the form not of a militarized border or of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents dragging people out of their homes, but through the banal functioning of American employment law.
Of course, patriotism and unity weren't exactly what Colin Kaepernick was concerned with in the fall of 2016 when he helped make the seemingly banal recitation of the national song so contentious.
Miniature cones placed around street trash follow a similar train of thought, while placards identifying banal moments in an area's history remind us of all the stories contantly playing out around us.
"Small things can effect our emotional state and talking about the weather is seen as this kinda banal thing, but its actually quite meaningful and linked to our psychological condition," she added.
This is just another banal piece of news from the White House reminding us that Trump is a reality TV buffoon behind the scenes as well as in front of the cameras.
Togetherness, as well as their understated movie Jeff, Who Lives at Home, lend a voice to the banal aspects of life — you know, the ones you'd rather not always see on screen.
"I'm a little concerned by this climate of confrontation, these heightened expectations about something that may be totally banal," the judge said at a public event on Monday, regarding this week's hearing.
Handcuffed and hooded men sit in a dirty, concrete room while interrogators repetitively question them about information so banal that any broader relevance to the "war on terror" is hard to imagine.
After 11 conventions, I can say that they are truly life pressed into four days: They have the highs and the lows, the majestic and the banal, the laughs and the tears.
Otherwise, it is hard to explain the Mexican government's chronic inability to keep organized crime from dominating so many legal businesses, like casino gambling, cigarettes and even something as banal as mining.
He documents the activities of the Force Research Unit, the banal name for an arm of the British government that helped front-line terrorists murder Catholics and republicans during the Dirty War.
Making a Murderer Part Two doesn't place a higher value on one woman's approach, but instead shows both the banal paperwork and canny tricks required to get through the American justice system.
This melding of comedy and drama makes Flowers an unusual series, in that it doesn't fit easily into any of the banal strait jackets TV often likes to force its shows into.
Like most scams, the reason for the company's ascent is far more banal, and doesn't take the mind of a genius—just a crew of powerful people not above falling for imposters.
With sharp writing, acting, and some gorgeous directing on their side, everyone on Insecure feels like a fully formed person, making everything the characters do — no matter how seemingly banal — endlessly compelling.
To the surprise of Mr. Schulman and Ms. Halkin, milestone events like graduations or fancy holiday gatherings were far from the only occasions people commemorated — many recurrent themes were actually quite banal.
The contemporary art world is one of the most insular and self-satisfied subcultures in history, a milieu we think of as unplagued by anything so banal as paperwork or bodily functions.
The White House press secretary is tasked with shedding light and context on the activities of the White House -- no matter how banal -- for the public, using the media as a conduit.
I wish my favorite line from the book, "It's okay to put a fish in your hair," could replace the banal phrase, "It takes all kinds," as an offbeat expression of acceptance.
Hanging above these makeshift frescoes of banal objects — columns, a dresser, a telephone, a toilet — are a series of collages that mix the artist's old photographs with plastic, crystals, and other ephemera.
Decades later, Pop Art provoked amusement by using banal everyday items as a subject, like Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, Jeff Koons's vacuum cleaners, and Claes Oldenburg's giant sculpture of a hamburger.
In particular, "Music in a Corner" is a wonderfully charming piece that seems to indicate a life within its banal, dusty material — something suggestive of panpsychism as much as vitalism or animism.
Billed as a scientific method for sorting pukka Indians from a suspected mass of unwanted Bangladeshi intruders, the seemingly banal administrative procedure has instead encoiled millions of people in a cruelly absurdist game.
In a blog post published on Wednesday, Sven Carlsen from cybersecurity company Avira wrote that while researching a piece of Locky, he was presented with something much more banal than a malicious payload.
It is a banal, trivial, relatively uninformative thing, with lame visual trickery, concluding with a ride on Leonardo's flying machine across the painting's landscape, which has miraculously opened out at La Gioconda's back.
Trump's actual execution of the politics of racial demagoguery is often not so deft, but the basic concept of elevating racial conflict and downplaying banal public policy debates makes perfect sense for him.
"Rape is considered banal by a lot of people, they claim sex is an obligatory rite of passage for every woman," said Jean Claude Kobena of the Abidjan-based group SOS Violences Sexuelles.
" As he disclosed at the re-opening of the Rose, in front of our Brandeis trustees, faculty, alumni, students and friends, he wanted to make a "mystery out of the most banal materials.
In truth, whatever gamesmanship and spin that Democrats used to pass the ACA was a sideshow to a banal, tortuous effort to make the text of the law match a few simple goals.
At the risk of being banal, it has to be said that the DNC might have had their thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton, but that is not collusion—it is favoritism.
The soul searching is happening with a special urgency in Washington, where email accounts burst with strategies, delicate political proposals, gossipy whispers and banal details of girlfriends, husbands, bank accounts and shopping lists.
In less murderous forms, you can see nihilism at work in the banal iconoclasm that exults in anything outrageous, provocative, or "transgressive," that sees no qualitative difference between the offensive and the genuine.
The whole point of VR, of course, is to immerse yourself in a detailed alternative universe, whether that's something as banal as a virtual office or outlandish as a game set in space.
It was an ethical statement of course, but there was also a more banal and pressing motivation: I was completely broke after Christmas, so I needed to save up every way I could.
But from the perspective of women across the Soviet Union and Europe, the disaster had an intimate dimension that played out in more banal and familiar locations—doctors' offices, kitchen tables, and playgrounds.
While the narrator worries over the "banal story line tracing the alienation of the individual in late capitalism," and Eleanor travels to Addis Ababa, Moschovakis considers the vagaries of the decisions we make.

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