Brexit is the saddest of banalities, and sad banalities are exactly what fans of Football Manager want to escape.
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The Little Hours is a movie about the banalities of modern conversation.
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Mr Corbyn has tried to manage these contradictions by resorting to grand banalities.
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The quotes—an assortment of banalities, basically—relate to Klinsmann's performance as coach.
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And while some say the darnedest things, many kids just spit out banalities.
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Mr. Abbas must find President Trump's inconsistency and reversion to mogul banalities a relief.
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His policies veer from shopworn banalities (lifelong learning) to flights of fancy (regionally set interest rates).
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But despite these invented fictions, the banalities of stars' real lives still held sway over fans.
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There are many politicians who would mouth banalities about "the power of unification" off the cuff.
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WWDITS plays on the inherently hilarious juxtapositioning of vampires and the banalities of everyday modern life.
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What I grab at are the impressive-sounding banalities, the clichés that don't yet know they're clichés.
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Added to these banalities are a series of equally questionable ideas that are neither new nor good.
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PARIS — Insults and rumors keep coming: His speeches are too long and full of feel-good banalities.
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In Britain Theresa May, the prime minister, exudes swanlike calm, restricting her utterances on Brexit to warm banalities.
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Third, now that it's open season on social-media platforms, many banalities have been elevated to existential threats.
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Even if you just exchange banalities, the next time you can say, 'Did I see you in Istanbul?
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In doing so, it finds the soaring, suspenseful music in even the most basic banalities of the everyday.
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Evans gives these banalities deeper meaning by capturing the comfort of domestic life, while simultaneously suggesting something darker.
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So far, Democrats have come up with a tepid slogan — a "better deal" — and a bushel of banalities.
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I tend to avoid memoirs and diaries ever since they became a mere vehicle for grievances and banalities.
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I tend to avoid memoirs and diaries ever since they became a mere vehicle for grievances and banalities.
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It's an uncomfortably personal glimpse into Hval's mind, a space very separate from the predictable banalities of everyday life.
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The banalities of commitment and what it takes to stay committed is something that's interesting to capture on screen.
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Sure, India is rowdy and colorful, but Sethi's work couldn't be further from the banalities those features usually inspire.
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No one really knows what to say or how to get past the "So, what do you do?" banalities.
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Her patchwork quilt of a book interweaves occasional New Age banalities with real insight to achieve a somehow pleasing totality.
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Amid the hard-boiled banalities and mechanical improbabilities of Jacques Deval's screenplay, there are moments of jagged comedy and haunting strangeness.
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"Can You Ever Forgive Me?" is a thoughtful film even if, in the final third, it succumbs to a few Hollywood banalities.
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Mrs May is mind-bogglingly inarticulate for someone who has been in politics all her life—all formulaic phrases and woolly banalities.
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Many had thought only in the vaguest of banalities, but nonetheless insisted that paradise must somehow follow the fall of the regime.
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Her letters re-situate these poems, and others, within the stream of lived passions, banalities, and interruptions that surrounded and fed them.
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" Her friend soothes her with all the banalities detested by the lovelorn: "Sometimes these things happen when you're not looking for them.
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"Actually, it's the banalities of everyday life," Vogel said about the challenges of mobile life in a car with a roof tent.
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Some of them have leaned extra hard lately on one of their more shopworn banalities: how theirs is the city that never sleeps.
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We can't lose touch with what we, as humans, value more than the instant gratification and narcissistic sharing of photos and other banalities.
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Whatever the other failings and excesses, even banalities, of Cats, it believes in purely theatrical magic, and on that faith it unquestionably delivers.
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Kavanaugh's pleasant manner, meanwhile, seemed well suited to the content-free banalities that are the customary form of expression for Supreme Court confirmation proceedings.
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They were a preternaturally polished lot, especially Ivanka, who can deflect potentially messy questions and pivot to gauzy banalities with the best of them.
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But representation is about demanding more: more leading Asian-American actors, more films in which we are allowed the everyday banalities of our existence.
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Watching people go through the small banalities that follow a family member's death is moving, and making them compelling takes deep powers of observation.
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Jerry and company were talking about the banalities of life that we all struggle with, like regifting and double dipping, ridiculous haircuts and close talkers.
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Kropivnitsky only acknowledges his early work, which is excessively literary, contrived, overly romantic, and all riddled with banalities like the face of a pockmarked crone.
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While he could have easily achieved a similar effect digitally, his process collapses a mélange of temporalities: musings around a city, encounters with historic landmarks, banalities.
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As he summed up the incident: "I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities."
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The everyday banalities of a real relationship probably would have broken up Buffy and Angel, even if they could have sex without him going all evil.
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The two are universal, yet different enough to telegraph a multidimensional view of 30-year-old metropolitan womanhood in all of its wonderful microaggressions and banalities.
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Meanwhile, exposition weighs down almost every line of dialogue, chaining the show's aspiring heroes to uninspired banalities when they should be settling into their new roles.
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In a melancholic tone, he reflected on the banalities of life, his anxieties about coming out to his family, and the haunting images of his dreams.
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What she noticed about [Nazi leader Adolf] Eichmann when she went to see him [on trial] in Jerusalem was that he spoke purely in clichés, in banalities.
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Beto 1.0 was a fervent believer that the banalities of his life (visit to the dentist, pumping gas, driving a car) should be broadcast to the world.
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Yes, the usual banalities about being nice and organized are there, but they work because Mastromonaco gives so much of herself, and has clearly been there before.
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He shot to prominence in the '70s with carefully composed snapshots of parking lots, pancake breakfasts, and camping trips, beautiful banalities that future Instagrammers would try to emulate.
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Thus, meeting Guy isn't just a chance for Mulder (and The X-Files) to reflect on the banalities of human existence — it's almost life-affirming for the agent.
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The action flits between the surreal — an insatiable thirst that leaves the man with scorched, cratered skin as he crawls through a desert — and the banalities of ordinary life.
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The New York show received mixed reviews ("Whatever the other failings and excesses, even banalities, of 'Cats,' " Frank Rich wrote in The Times, "it believes in purely theatrical magic").
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The New York show received mixed reviews ("Whatever the other failings and excesses, even banalities, of 'Cats,'" Frank Rich wrote in The Times, "it believes in purely theatrical magic").
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Most of the characters in "The Chosen Ones" are one-dimensional, either grotesque villains (the Nazi doctors, mouthing banalities about duty and racial science) or passive victims (the suffering children).
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The show also doesn't shy away from the sometimes grueling banalities of being in a steady relationship, as Issa struggles to decide whether Lawrence (Jay Ellis) makes her happy anymore.
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Oh No, the Canadian vocalist and producer's second album for Hyperdub, might have been inspired by the banalities and irritants of daily life, but the resulting record is anything but commonplace.
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What they got instead was a review of TFBSO contract deliverables, and the usual SIGAR banalities on how the Task Force should have strategized, planned, coordinated, monitored and managed its operations.
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To wit, while resigned to a dreary future of suffocating banalities and unsatisfying work, even the most financially well-off Americans seemingly lurch thoughtlessly from one personal forfeiture to the next.
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Each one talked about all the training he had received and how it had all been rendered useless, whether by the psychological toll of combat or by the banalities of civilian life.
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But then again, this isn't the first time Veep has come eerily close to the hilarious banalities of leading the free world — let's not forget the greatest hits from Hillary Clinton's emails.
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If so, then, we might mimic Genet's aggressive exactitude and ask ourselves questions that go deeper than the banalities of Sunday morning chat shows or yesterday's forgotten tempests in a tea pot.
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It's a dynamic that is compounded by social media, which balkanizes under the guise of building community, rewarding the hottest takes and most photogenic banalities over the messy dispatches of a full life.
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Every narrative strand leads nowhere, with scenes fading into each other without interest in continuity or development of the ideas that are introduced, and characters deliver banalities as though they were profound dialogues.
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To me his speech seemed like a round-robin of banalities, but the Zimbabwe journalists sitting on the floor with me before the dais interpreted it in the light of what had come before.
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Despite its occasional flaws, Inspiration from Japan demonstrates how van Gogh's varied work mostly defies the long-standing banalities that have cropped up around his image as reiterated by some biographies and sentimental biopics.
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Let's review: we've got fat suits, fat people/junk food-bingeing banalities, unsafe amounts of weight loss, mouth-tethering, thin privilege, and jokes about eating-disorder recovery which are chock-full of SUPER FUNNY triggers.
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The images posted there depict the fascinating banalities of daily life in the country, from teachers and students in their classrooms, to farmers with livestock, to elites enjoying their lives of relative comfort in Pyongyang.
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" That's real, worldly wisdom, which stands in stark contrast to Bruckner's Polonius-like banalities about how wisdom "urges us to refuse to adore or to detest the base metal, and instead to calmly enjoy it.
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We go through our lives, we work jobs, we get entranced by social media and all the banalities and the mundane but it's like, when you just stop for a second, it's just so fucking weird.
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These banalities are pit stops where his storming, improvised sentences can regather and refuel; and this becomes painfully obvious when the story is banal, when the story itself is a digression from the heart of the matter.
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Every so often, a filmmaker plays with these banalities, which I imagine is why Aaron Katz opens "Gemini," a pleasurably drifty, low-wattage mystery set in Los Angeles, with an upside-down shot of a palm tree.
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In contrast, when Goodwin gets to her section on the four presidents' emergency leadership, which should be the book's pièce de résistance, she succumbs to the leadership genre's vocabulary of self-help bromides and bullet-point banalities.
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The person we pretend to be is disconnected from the person that is; the bustling lives of others we like and scroll through are nothing more than curated alternate realities masking flaws and banalities barely different than our own.
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The movie takes the plight of Gloria and Oscar strangely seriously, as if the banalities of their lives are the A-story here, rather than the bizarreness of their monster alter egos or the deaths of millions of Koreans.
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Meanwhile, Trump's top domestic policy staffer, Andrew Bremberg, is quoted speaking in only the vaguest banalities and broadest strokes, offering no substantive guidance whatsoever besides saying that HHS Secretary nominee Tom Price is a "compassionate" guy and a good doctor.
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And at the same time, on standouts like "Pray" or "Pale," the music and melodies burst out into colossal shimmers that grasp at something more ineffable, more cosmic, beyond the banalities of human experience of just another misspent Saturday night.
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The piece examines how different people cope with the transition from life to death, from having a home to being displaced, but casts these questions in a more everyday understanding by focusing on seemingly insignificant banalities like paperwork and bureaucracy.
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His motel was a drydocked boat whose guests endlessly watched television, exchanged banalities, had sex mainly under the covers if they had sex at all—and gave him so little to write about that sometimes he wrote nothing at all.
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Barthes saw this type of play dying out, but Lego is in many ways a synthesis of these forms, something genuinely radical: all the banalities of social life are only temporary; the Lego Buckingham Palace always contains the potential to be something else.
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Trump is truly a malevolent version of Chauncey Gardiner, the TV-addicted naif of Jerzy Kosinski's 1970s novel Being There, who ends up being elected president thanks to his ability to repeat banalities he's heard on the boob tube and in ordinary conversation.
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The subjects include such infectious banalities as pulp-fiction paperback covers, cheeseburgers, kittens, tawdry erotica, liquor bottles, over-the-counter drugs, folded shirts, the artist's family and friends, and models from mail-order catalogues—there are even a few spin-art paintings.
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The bipartisan group's aim, it says on a sleek website littered with sometimes impenetrable banalities, is to consolidate public opinion around policies that would "ensure that every single American has access to quality, affordable health care," no matter his or her station.
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In an unimaginably prophetic move, he included giant mourning candles in the initial renderings; without instruction for their placement, the organizers placed them in sand-filled beer buckets that remind me of beach pails, ashtrays, alcohol: the pleasures and banalities of life by the sea.
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The tell-as-you-go formula, interspersed with banalities—like Chivvis excitedly telling Koenig, during a drive retracing Syed's alleged route after the murder, that a local crab shack was having a sale on shrimp—was either charming or annoying, depending on your taste.
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The result is effective: Chucky inflects the banalities of talking doll-hood with sufficient creepiness from the start, and there's something perversely satisfying in watching his increasingly stringy-haired progress toward full-on serial killer as he stalks and hunts down everyone Andy hates, followed by everyone Andy loves.
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This knockout, two-venue show — D'Alvia's first solo outing in New York since 13 — demonstrates the absurdist humor, masterful craftsmanship, and elliptical thinking of an artist for whom working at apparent cross-purposes is an end in itself: embracing irresolution, the banalities of existence combine to form imponderable conundrums.
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"Day in America," released via the Sun Kil Moon website on Saturday, is a 15-minute-long track that—in a style typical of Kozelek's recent work—attempts to grapple with the massacre and its aftermath in between straightforward, stream-of-consciousness recollections of day-to-day banalities and fleeting memories.
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The next day—Wednesday—I had to go into the office and endure the usual banalities of my co-workers till I wanted to beat the walls of my cubicle in frustration, but on the way home I stopped at a pet store and picked up an eight-week-old dogcat.
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The spry opening track "Happens to the Heart" follows the classic Cohen tradition of undercutting the classically romantic with modern banalities ("There was a mist of summer kisses/Where I tried to double-park"), while the wistfully sensual "Night of Santiago" finds an aged man reflecting back on a vivid memory of passion.
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It was where I'd vent about perceived slights, update the general public on the banalities of my existence, tell jokes to varying degrees of success, or go into a fiery rage over something that didn't really matter as a way to rid myself of the bullshit feelings that come with being a person in society.
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Much of the music is quite blatant (Laura Mvula's "Father Father," Mvula and Troy Miller's "Show Me Love"), and the recorded speech, taken from interviews with former prisoners and no doubt grounded in real, brutal experience, is full of psychotherapeutic banalities: "trust factors," people "being there," or not, for other people, and so on.
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Over the past few years, and particularly the last few months, I've found it more and more difficult to enjoy the lovely little banalities of my middle-class life when members of my own family, along with approximately 37 million other Americans — about 1 in 8 households — struggle with food insecurity, in what's supposedly the greatest nation on earth.
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Here to save you from the banalities of the cheap water lilies that have been hanging on your wall since college is Electric Objects, a startup that produces the EO2, a high-definition 21-by-12-inch screen encased in simple wood frames that can hang on your wall or sit on a stand and, via a subscription service, display art from all corners of Earth and the internet.
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To declare, "I am a feminist," is to inevitably associate yourself with infuriating banalities: Disney princesses inserted into increasingly ludicrous situations in hopes of attracting more followers; finger wagging against body shaming the fascist president or mocking his glitchy fembot of a mouthpiece; the idea that Hillary Clinton only lost the 2016 election because of sexism (which Solnit gestures towards in her January 2017 LRB essay "From Lying to Leering: Penis Power").
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For Wolf, time is fugitive ("History often seems to me like a funnel, down which our lives swirl, never to be seen again"), but her book is a sieve, a way to snare what can be caught, those strings of seeming banalities — that gherkin, an odd detail from a dream, how her husband learns to roll up her surgical stockings for her when she falls asleep in front of the television, that she suddenly needs surgical stockings in the first place.
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Strange sayings and uncouth banalities are printed upon the screen, pretending to be your utterances in situations that may wall drive a heroine to excruciating cacoepy.
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Later in life, he clarified that he quickly found this direction of research limiting, having realized that unstructured work frequently elicits banalities and cultural cliché from participants.
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The Operating Room (Mother and Son), 1994; 79. The Artist's Despair or the Conspiracy of the Untalented, 1994; 80. The Corridor of Two Banalities, 1994; 81. In the Apartment of Viktor Nikolaevich, 1994; 82.
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Gould's memoir, Spirals, received a rave review in the New York Times. The reviewer, Bob Greene, called the book "unlike anything I have ever read before," and praised its honest representation of life's banalities: Spirals was selected a New York Times Editor's Choice the week of July 24, 1988.
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Throughout the album, there are moments that demonstrate Lil Peep's relationship with self-expression and self-destruction. His songwriting touches on intimacy and codependency in relationships as well as issues with substance abuse, with lyrics that are often wry, deadpan and emphatic. He places banalities alongside poignant observations, emulating the dynamics of actual conversation.
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231 The album closer, "Life Is Wild", is the only track which had not been played live before. Its chorus, stylistically akin to the punk subgenre Oi!,Knowles (2003), p. 123 was described by Popoff as a "curious thumping party rocker that makes little sense" and begged the question why a songwriter of Strummer's ability would write "such banalities".
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Some of the nueva trova musicians were also influenced by rock and pop of that time. Nueva trova is defined by its connection with Castro's revolution, and by its lyrics, which tried to escape the banalities of life by concentrating on socialism, injustice, sexism, colonialism, racism and similar 'serious' issues. Haydée Santamaría was the creator and sponsor of this movement.Orovio, Helio 2004.
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In 1992, Kosuth designed the album cover for Fragments of a Rainy Season by John Cale. Two years later, Kosuth collaborated with Ilya Kabakov to produce The Corridor of Two Banalities, shown at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw. This installation included 120 tables in a row to present text somewhat symptomatic of the cultures of which they both came from.
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145 "In producing movement away from fixed fantasy systems, commonplace statements are often necessary because the more fixed and extensive the fantasy system, the fewer the transitional opportunities offered; there is little conflicting material to ride. Banalities may be the only resource",L. Havens/L. L. Havens, Participant Observation (1993) p. 44 as anything more complex may be used to feed back into the fantasy system itself.
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Jurnal Periodic Eclesiastic, Nr. 5–6/1939, p. 371 According to literary historian Mircea Popa, the series contains little of artistic value, featuring characters with unclear psychological states and plots not always sufficiently endowed with motive. His actor friend Livescu nevertheless recalled that they enjoyed success at the National Theater, in particular Quarta, which starred Aristide Demetriade and "included no banalities or filler".Livescu, p.
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John Teti has written that, "Tessitore is a merchant of schmaltz...Clichés are a given in football announcing, but few commentators imbue NFL banalities with the portentous sentimentality that Tessitore brings to bear." While The Guardian reported that, "Tessitore sounds like a condescending try-hard." The unpopularity of Tessitore and McFarland by viewers and critics alike led to their removal from Monday Night Football before the 2020 season.
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"Shine, Jesus, Shine" is regularly highly placed in hymn popularity polls. Fellow songwriter and former Kendrick bandmember Stuart Townend has said, "I have no doubt that in 100 years time the name of Kendrick will be alongside Watts and Wesley in the list of the UK's greatest hymnwriters". Kendrick also has his critics, among them the journalist Quentin Letts, who has described him as "king of the happy-clappy banalities".
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11 f. For him the medium of photography was the artistic means of expression in order to weave together real worlds with the own internal images. From his mostly biographical photo expeditions, picture essays arose about essential questions of human existence. Over a decade of creating images, an ever-evolving picture library came together in which, as the photographer said, "everything is important: Cultural events, disasters, clichés, banalities, Political things"vgh.
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A fourth power, called the banvin, the right to compel subjects to buy the lord's wine during prescribed periods, was described as ad bannum. These "banalities" were not uniform throughout France. Banal mills, for example, were more common in the north and ovens more common in the south. Payment for the use of the banal mill, oven and press was usually in kind and proportional to use, e.g.
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"'The Games' Brings Four Marathon Runners Into Sharp Focus". The New York Times. 13. Arthur D. Murphy of Variety opined that "with the outdated polemics of director Michael Winner, the banalities of Erich Segal's adaptation of a Hugh Atkinson novel, and a rather lifeless and cardboard cast, the 20th-Fox release amounts to a dull Frank Merriwell yarn, hyped a bit to the level of high-school mentality."Murphy, Arthur D. (April 8, 1970).
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Madame Bovary (; ), originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners ( ), is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. When the novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious.
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Douglas Coupland writes, "Anybody can describe a pre-moistened towelette to you, but it takes a good observational comedian to tell you what, exactly is the 'deal' with them." He adds that observational comedy first of all depends on a "lone noble comedian adrift in the modern world, observing the unobservable-those banalities and fragments of minutiae lurking just below the threshold of perception: Cineplex candy; remote control units." Observational comedy has been compared to sociology.
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Snakish is a studio album by jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith recorded with Walter Quintus, Katya Quintus, Miroslav Tadić , and Mark Nauseef. The record was released on August 23, 2005 via Leo label. The album contains 15 short compositions written by bandmembers. The official catalogue explains that this music can be a hint of what Miles Devis might have achieved in his later years had he been able to rise above the banalities of rock and jazz fusion.
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The president exchanges stilted greetings with the Chinese premier, Chou En-lai, who heads the welcoming party. Nixon speaks of the historical significance of the visit, and of his hopes and fears for the encounter ("News has a kind of mystery"). The scene changes to Chairman Mao's study, where the Chairman awaits the arrival of the presidential party. Nixon and Kissinger enter with Chou, and Mao and the president converse in banalities as photographers record the scene.
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Vianu, Vol. II, p.421 His memoirs also provided detail on Macedonski's interest in visual arts, indicating that the older poet had always wished to become a painter, and that his determination had instead shaped the artistic career of his son Alexis.Vianu, Vol. II, p.409 At times, Demetrescu was contradicting himself. Călinescu noted that Tradem initially described Florile Bosforului ("The Flowers of the Bosphorus"), a book of poems by the Bolintineanu, with enthusiasm, but later considered them "banalities [and] light-hearted fantasies".
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Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that some parts were "well done", including the Greek descent from the Trojan horse which "has the air of great adventure that one expects from this tale", but "the human drama in the legend ... is completely lost or never realized in the utter banalities of the script, in the clumsiness of the English dialogue and in the inexcusable acting cliches."Crowther, Bosley (January 27, 1956). "Screen: 'Iliad' Revisited". The New York Times. 21.
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"[For the heroine] to leave the city means to abandon the thought of an egotistic existence... of life's banalities and join the shiny road of selfless labour," Maximilian Voloshin wrote in Kiyevskiye Otkliki. He compared Nadya favourably to Turgenev's girls, noting that while the latter were engaged mostly in the quest for love, Chekhov's heroines were longing for the meaning of life. Positive reviews came from Mir Bozhy (Angel Bogdanovich, writing in the January 1904 issue), Pravda magazine (I. Johnson, May 1904) and Rus.
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Dennison began performing poetry in Dunedin, New Zealand, during his time there in 2003–2007. He performed his distinct yet Baxteresque performance poetry at all of the local poetry performance venues: the Arc Café, the Port Chalmers Hotel (The Tunnel), and the Dunedin Public Library. While preferring the orality of performance, a few poems were published in student magazine, The Critic. His poems frequently interlace the gravity of biblical imagery with the banalities of modern existence, forcing their confrontation and overcoming any simple binary interpretations.
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The musical is written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson- Lopez.Fullerton, Krissie. "First Shots of Betsy Wolfe and Matthew Bittner in 'Up Here', the New Musical by Frozen Songwriters" Playbill, August 7, 2015 The Variety reviewer noted that Wolfe "is charming in her role and even sings the hell out of such banalities as 'I feel like I've always known you.' "Berkshire, Geoff. "Regional Theater Review: ‘Up Here,’ By the Songwriters of ‘Frozen’ " Variety, August 11, 2015 In May 2016, Wolfe played Elsa in the lab production of Disney's Frozen.
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The song has received mixed to positive reviews from music critics. David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave the song a "D+" rating, he remarked "The lyrics are generalized banalities (I never lived before your love/I never felt before your touch), the melodies destined to endure as wedding songs or florist ads. A choir at the end of "A Moment Like This" is meant to indicate earthiness; the gentle acoustic guitar throughout "Before Your Love," sensitivity." Rito Asilo of the Philippine Daily Inquirer remarked that the song's lyrics were "corny," but praised Clarkson's voice.
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Osborne began a relationship with Ure shortly after meeting her when she was cast as Alison in Look Back in Anger in 1956. The affair swiftly progressed; and the two moved in together in Woodfall Road, Chelsea. He wrote later: Contentment, in Osborne's case, grew into a jealousy and slight contempt for Ure's stable family background and the banalities of her communication with them and a somewhat withering regard for her acting abilities. There was infidelity on both sides; and, after an affair with Robert Webber, Ure eventually left Osborne for Robert Shaw.
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This gave the Lippe farmers and their families a noticeable improvement of their previously modest social status. However, the Lippe variant of serfdom was by no means comparable with the Prussian or the Russian serfdom. It was only a mild obligation and its abolition posed no particular event and sparked no celebrations among those affected. The farmers were more hindered by the numerous banalities and payments in cash and in kind they were required to make, which would only be abolished by law in Lippe in the 1830.
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A local musical house, Casa de la Trova, at Santiago de Cuba Paralleling nueva canción in Latin America is the Cuban Nueva trova, which dates from about 1967/68, after the Cuban Revolution. It differed from the traditional trova, not because the musicians were younger, but because the content was, in the widest sense, political. Nueva trova is defined by its connection with Castro's revolution, and by its lyrics, which attempt to escape the banalities of life by concentrating on socialism, injustice, sexism, colonialism, racism and similar issues.Orovio, Helio 2004.
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The third dimension comprises the transmission of behavioural traditions. There are for example documented cases of food preferences being passed on, by social learning, in several animal species, which remain stable from generation to generation while conditions permit. The fourth dimension is symbolic inheritance, which is unique to humans, and in which traditions are passed on “through our capacity for language, and culture, our representations of how to behave, communicated by speech and writing.” In their treatment of the higher levels, Jablonka and Lamb distinguish their approach from the banalities of evolutionary psychology, of "memes", and even from Chomskyian ideas of universal grammar.
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The author, Knausgård My Struggle is a six- book autobiographical series by Karl Ove Knausgård outlining the "banalities and humiliations of his life", his private pleasures, and his dark thoughts; the first of the series was published in 2009. It has sold nearly 500,000 copies in Norway, or one copy for every nine Norwegian adults, and is published in 22 languages. The series is 3,600 pages long, and was finished when Knausgård was in his forties. Though categorized as fiction, the books situate Knausgård as the protagonist and his actual relatives as the cast, with their names mostly unchanged.
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A book-length cricism of Virilio's work to 2004 was written by Steve Redhead.Steve Redhead (2004) Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture, Edinburgh University Press He observed: :His scattergun writing style is not always easy to follow, often provoking disorientation and dislocation at the very least. Insights, personal memories, detailed histories, major theoretical leaps and banalities sit side by side. He also notes that Virilio does not pass the grade in academic studies: :Reading Virilio thoroughly does leave the reader with the feeling of many dislocated, undeveloped ideas swirling around often at the level of great generality.
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The New York Times called it "one of those ponderous costumed tabloids that's trampled history to death and turned what's left of its fragments into boring banalities."The Screen: 'Constantine' Tramples History to Death The Cast By BOSLEY CROWTHER Special to The New York Times 14 Mar 1963: 8. The Monthly Film Bulletin said "the familiar ingredients of this tired spectacle - lions, fair haired Christian girls, torture chambers, battles, assassination attempts, intrigue - fail to arouse any noticeable excitement in the director or the cast." The movie was one of Belinda Lee's more widely seen European films.
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The document proposes an absolutist theory of monarchy, by which a king may impose new laws by royal prerogative but must also pay heed to tradition and to God, who would "stirre up such scourges as pleaseth him, for punishment of wicked kings".Croft, pp 131–133. Basilikon Doron, written as a book of instruction for the four-year-old Prince Henry, provides a more practical guide to kingship.Willson, p 133. Despite banalities and sanctimonious advice,A king, James advised, should not look like "a deboshed waster" (Croft, p135) and should avoid the company of women, "which are no other thing else but irritamenta libidinis" (Willson, p 135).
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The Observer reported, "A neat production, coupled with one first-rate song, 'You Were There,' whose tune is one of the best in the tender line that Mr Coward has ever given us, carries this fantasy with a dancing motion past the banalities on which it might easily stumble." The Manchester Guardian called the play "warmed with human feeling", though doubting the durability of the couple's reconciliation.The Manchester Guardian, 19 October 1935, p. 15 The drama critic Kenneth Tynan later remarked that Coward's "Small talk, small talk with other thoughts going on behind" in this play and others were an influence on Harold Pinter.
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" Despite this, he stated that "part of Eddie Van Halen's cheeky genius [...] lies in his ability to think in terms of both complex orchestration and rock banalities". He also said that "Eddie can still split the atom with his axe, and he knows it. It's a Van Halen world with or without David Lee Roth, and 5150 shoots off all the bombastic fireworks of a band at the peak of its powers." He concluded that "ultimately, it is Eddie Van Halen's uncanny and intuitive ability to orchestrate these contradictions that gives the Van Halen machinery its velocity and amplitude, the qualities that blast the roof off the garage.
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The New Indian Express said, "The first half had a tangible script to back all the sound and fury of the musical score. There are some ably choreographed chase scenes [..] In the latter part, the situations loose out on conviction, the logic lop-sides and the motivation and behaviour of the characters are confusing". S. R. Ashok Kumar of The Hindu wrote, "the director has gone wrong with the measure of essential cinematic ingredients". Behindwoods.com rated the film 1.5 out 5 and stated, "The movie has a decent script but if only it hadn’t trailed away to other banalities, it would have sustained the grip and been a better one".
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He concluded that "tonally and narratively the result [is] a mess". James Walton, also of The Telegraph, was a little more generous but also complained of the weaknesses in the screenplay, labelling the narration as an "unignorable flaw", something that "diminishes [the action] to a series of staggering banalities" and lamenting that "after one of these interruptions is over, it’s possible to forget how painful it was". Nevertheless, he noted the drama's positive qualities, including the "sheer interest of the subject matter and the sheer generosity of the storytelling", which was full of "sympathy and warmth". He also praised the cast, noting how "performances were generally strong enough to compensate for the script".
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Born in the U.S.A. received positive reviews from critics. In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, Dave Marsh called it Springsteen's most accessible listen since Born to Run (1975) and said that he knew how to incorporate "technopop elements without succumbing to the genre's banalities". The magazine's Debby Miller wrote that Springsteen has set songs that were as well thought-out as Nebraska to more sophisticated production and spirited music, and that the four story-driven songs that end each side of the album give it an "extraordinary depth" because of his world-beating lyrics. Robert Hilburn from the Los Angeles Times felt that, with the album's "richer" musical settings, Springsteen had succeeded in articulating his message to a wider audience.
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Brătescu, p.318 In 1979, at Editura Eminescu, Brătescu and Mihai Neagu Basarab published Rainer's diaries and letters, which were received with great interest by the intellectual community, including Geo Bogza, Constantin Noica and Nicolae Steinhardt,Brătescu, pp.343, 365 but less enthusiastically by the general public. As later noted by Brătescu, regular readers found Rainer's thoughts on "the coherence of the Cosmos" to be "pretentious banalities".Brătescu, p.344 Rainer continued to be held in high regard after the Revolution, when light was shed on various other aspects of his work. A 2001 exhibit of his skulls collection at Galeria Catacomba made a point of reintroducing his work to the cultural circles of the day. Pavel Șușară, "Un patrimoniu de scăfîrlii", in România Literară, n.
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Soon after, Macedonski, the herald of Romanian Symbolism, publicized his praise for the young poet: > "This young man, at an age when I was still prattling verses, with an > audacity that knows no boundaries, but not yet crowned by the most > glittering success, parts with the entire old versification technique, with > all banalities in images in ideas that have for long been judged, here and > elsewhere, as a summit of poetry and art."Macedonski, 1896, in Vianu, p.477 He began stating his admiration for Symbolism and other trends pertaining to it (such as the Vienna Secession) in his articles of the time, while polemicizing with Junimea's George Panu over the latter's critique of modernist literature.Arghezi, Vers și poezie, 1904, in Din presa... (1900–1918), pp.
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In 1994, Searle argued that the ideas upon which deconstruction is founded are essentially a consequence of a series of conceptual confusions made by Derrida as a result of his outdated knowledge or are merely banalities. He insisted that Derrida's conception of iterability and its alleged "corrupting" effect on meaning stems from Derrida's ignorance of the type–token distinction that exists in current linguistics and philosophy of language. As Searle explains, "Most importantly, from the fact that different tokens of a sentence type can be uttered on different occasions with different intentions, that is, different speaker meanings, nothing of any significance follows about the original speaker meaning of the original utterance token." In 1995, Searle gave a brief reply to Derrida in The Construction of Social Reality.
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Part of the charm of his account is the way he drops little moments into the story with no preamble and then moves on with no follow-through." The New York Times Alan Light reviewed: "At its best, I Am Brian Wilson has an odd, unpredictable rhythm, ... it does offer some fascinating glimpses under the hood." Telegraphs Helen Brown characterizes Love's book as "more credible but – as his book goes on – also more tedious ... Wilson’s book has more sadness ... and more moments of magic." She surmised that it "must have been torture" for Greenman to "drag anything out of Wilson ... [who] admits to memory problems and to making things up to 'test' people. ... Whatever Greenman’s pain, the torture was probably greater for Wilson, who prefers to evade his traumatic past when questioned and speaks mostly in banalities – when he speaks at all.
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While conceding Gutović's glitzy populist approach to hosting managed to infuse some energy into the show, Politika's television critic Branka Otašević felt the problem with Oralno doba "isn't so much its concept, but rather the overambitious decision to make it a daily programme". The imposed frequency of daily airings, she continued, "makes it impossible for the writing staff to come up with enough witty aphorisms, sketches, and one-liners for every show, all of which leads to cranking out banalities garnered with mild wittiness and observations lacking in point". She finally reproached the host for "conducting his interviews in a monotonous manner with stereotypical questions always prefaced with 'You once said in an interview...', 'it was written somewhere...', you once answered...'. In September 2013 as guest on Veče sa Ivanom Ivanovićem, Gutović talked about his experiences hosting Oralno doba: "Doing that show was very difficult for many reasons.
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Secondly, at the epigenetic level involving variation in the "meaning" of given DNA strands, in which variations in DNA translation during developmental processes are subsequently transmitted during reproduction, which can then feed back into sequence modification of DNA itself. The third dimension is one of particular interest to Jablonka, comprising the transmission of behavioural traditions. There are for example documented cases of food preferences being passed on, by social learning, in several animal species, which remain stable from generation to generation while conditions permit. The fourth dimension is symbolic inheritance, which is unique to humans, and in which traditions are passed on “through our capacity for language, and culture, our representations of how to behave, communicated by speech and writing.” In their treatment of the higher levels, Jablonka and Lamb distinguish their approach from the banalities of evolutionary psychology, of "memes", and even from Chomskian ideas of universal grammar.
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Ever since Godard's 1963 short film Le Nouveau Monde, Beethoven's Große Fuge and final quartet had provided a lasting challenge to the moral compromises and the empty banalities of the moment. In King Lear, Godard slowed the music down and electronically manipulated it so that the only easily identifiable extract is from the second movement (in 3/4 time, from around bar 120). At the very start of the film the music is heard playing at about half speed, but most of the time it is played back even slower as a low background dirge. The passage only reaches the proper pitch two or three times, with a swift accelerando at crucial moments of NO THING and then collapses again as swiftly: when Cordelia sinks down on the balcony with Learo (wearing red) uncomfortably close behind her (00:30:40), and when the goblins snatch the empty film can from Edgar's hands beside the river (00:46:50).
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An evocative maelstrom of great power emerges in the course of nearly two hours.” Der Tagesspiegel, 15.02.2011 “Thomas Imbachʼs Day is Done answers its questions in large-format, brillianty, persuasively, humorously, gently and, above all, cinematically. Itʼs an autobiographical movie, a documentary about Zurich; itʼs a study of the weather in Switzerland; itʼs a love letter to the answering machine - itʼs simply marvelous.” Film und Kritik, Blog, 15.02.2011 “A captivating movie of tantalizing visual appeal that transcends the personal and embraces the universal flow of time.” Der Landbote, 16.02.2011 “Thomas Imbach has set the world on fire in Day Is Done; constantly shifting between closeness and distance, his personal approach transforms the banalities of everyday life into a larger-than-life picture of his protagonist.” Negativ Film, 13.02.2011 “Thomas Imbach, ,movie designer’ of urban and unconventional beauty has hypnotized the sophisticated and demanding audiences of this yearʼs Berlinale with his film Day Is Done.
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At the time of the original publication of the novel Stead told The Australian Women's Weekly: "The Seven Poor Men are not actually drawn from life; they are like most characters, crystallisations of various types of men and women; they do not express in their conversations my view of life, but, I hope (or rather, intended) various views of life, according to their temperaments. "Naturally, this is not always successful. Conversation is diffuse, disjointed, full of popular sayings and banalities local in time and place which do not express character at all, or very little. My purpose, in making characters somewhat eloquent, is the expression of two psychological truths; first, that everyone has a wit superior to his everyday wit, when discussing his personal problems, and the most depressed housewife, for example, can talk like Medea about her troubles; second, that everyone, to a greater or lesser extent, is a fountain of passion, which is turned by circumstances of birth or upbringing into conventional channels – as, ambition, love, money-grubbing, politics, but which could be as well applied to other objects and with less waste of energy.
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Good-Bye to All That is an autobiography by Robert Graves which first appeared in 1929, when the author was 34 years old. "It was my bitter leave-taking of England," he wrote in a prologue to the revised second edition of 1957, "where I had recently broken a good many conventions". The title may also point to the passing of an old order following the cataclysm of the First World War; the supposed inadequacies of patriotism, the interest of some in atheism, feminism, socialism and pacifism, the changes to traditional married life, and not least the emergence of new styles of literary expression, are all treated in the work, bearing as they did directly on Graves' life. The unsentimental and frequently comic treatment of the banalities and intensities of the life of a British army officer in the First World War gave Graves fame, notoriety and financial security, but the book's subject is also his family history, childhood, schooling and, immediately following the war, early married life; all phases bearing witness to the "particular mode of living and thinking" that constitute a poetic sensibility.
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