| 单词 | mundane |
| 例句 | I try to hold on to as few mundane, everyday memories as possible. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Emeline never would have accepted so mundane a means of communicating news of such magnitude. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Don’t give your life rights away for free! The day has to be mundane, Valmiki. And day is a mortal’s twenty-four hours. Comply, or else you’ll face the gods’ powers.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Sarai was the only one who had no part in the mundane tasks of their days. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The entries would juxtapose the mundane thrill and confusion of being a young girl with the terror of living with Danny. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Senator’s grin deflates and he looks back at the maid to collect these mundane drinks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My gratitude for these mundane enjoyments amazes me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Goblin-made armor does not require cleaning, simple girl. Goblins’ silver repels mundane dirt, imbibing only that which strengthens it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z How could he answer all of them if he succumbed to the mundane responsibilities of married life? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z According to this story, if a Catholic priest dressed in his sacred garments solemnly said the right words at the right moment, mundane bread and wine turned into God’s flesh and blood. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She glazes over things she considers mundane, the traveling and the train, though Marco is certain they cannot be moving solely by train. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z By this time, too, astrophysics had moved on so much that few astronomers wanted to devote their lives to anything as mundane as rocky planetoids. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I was halfway through the title piece explaining how the myth of the dragon in all likelihood evolved from the much more mundane draccus when a scriv appeared at my elbow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The talk turns mundane at times, with complaints of low pay, hard hours, bratty children. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I read through pages and pages of his old entries, all of them about irrelevant, mundane things. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It's familiar and mundane, and requires just enough concentration to distract me from what happened last night. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Holding on to my hate for the Khmer Rouge also allows me to go on living the mundane details of life. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But Boori Ma preferred to think that what irritated her bed, what stole her sleep, what burned like peppers across her thinning scalp and skin, was of a less mundane origin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z That’s what a kiss is like, he thought, no matter how brief: It’s a tiny, magical story, and a miraculous interruption of the mundane. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The daylight is too bright, the surroundings too mundane and green. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But the more mundane truth is that they never faced and therefore never fully resolved all their political differences; they simply outlived them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Although a reasonable first step in many cases, scaling quantities up or down proportionally is often invalid, as more mundane examples also demonstrate. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Czerny seemed to be recharging her soul by running through a list of mundane errands. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Again, I find myself wishing for the mundane possibility of calling Rhiannon on the phone, for filling the next empty hour with the sound of her voice. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It was startling, how easily she slipped into mundane conversation. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It must have lifted people from the mundane, but also justified all sorts of evil. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It took place on what began as a mundane afternoon in her home in Tehran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Of course, they probably just say things as mundane as Restaurant or Pharmacy or Open 24 Hours. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Later on, all the dead were treated in the same mundane way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s enough to make me wonder if Kalinda is even really from the same mundane world I was born in. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Other points of interest included Sunshine Cemetery, the FISHto’s, and the many other things, mundane and strange, that made up Logan County. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was desperation because I felt so poorly, but I think the reason was more mundane: curiosity. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But to be confronted with the prejudice so blatantly, there in that temple to intellectual excellence and rational thought, by something so mundane, so ridiculous, so universal as having to go to the bathroom... Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Doctors think it’s mundane to follow guidelines,” he says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It was the kind of day when mundane tasks were needed to reduce the building tension. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Because I was alone, however, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Broaden your minds, my dears, and allow your eyes to see past the mundane!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Burnham and President Baker expected a general review but instead found themselves grilled about the most mundane expenses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She had made the same trip year after year, but always inattentively because there was someone else to worry about the mundane details while she dreamily watched the landscape out the window. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It is precisely those mundane activities of daily life that one misses most in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And every single time Mamma would be doing something mundane like rummaging in the kitchen cupboard, greeting her casually with, “Have you seen my saffron?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It’s such a mundane, ordinary observation—but that’s what stops me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Sarai cracked first, tipping into helpless laughter, and Feral followed, and mirth worked its mundane magic, leaching the tension from Sarai’s spine and relieving the cold dread that had been pressing on her all evening. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Whenever she felt this way, panic would slice into her at the slightest thing, and mundane events would become arbiters of doom. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z John got particularly wild at one point when Mr. Pignati was It and there weren’t many obstacles you could skate around on the ground floor except the kitchen table, and that got mundane after awhile. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I could look at him and see little save his movements, expressions, the mundane sounds of his eating. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a mundane unraveling that could not be reversed, and therefore offered no opportunities to the storyteller: it belonged in the realm of disorder. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “The Inner Eye,” said Professor Trelawney with dignity, straightening her shawls and many strands of glittering beads, “was fixed upon matters well outside the mundane realms of whooping voices.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Many mundane mistakes in reasoning can be traced to a shaky grasp of the notion of conditional probability. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Chief spoke with a triumphant tone, mundane observations delivered as grand discoveries, while Nneoma listened and smiled and agreed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Citizenship and Didu's other weird choices about becoming American seem mundane now, compared to this one: leaving our Bengali Hinduism behind. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I wonder if all moms do this—try to make the terrifying seem mundane. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Things which were odd, by Julian’s definition, often turned out to be amusingly mundane. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Here in the hold, everyone in the Collective is just as busy with mundane chores as they are above. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The conversation turned to other, more mundane issues. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Of course,” Raizel said sagely, before shifting to a more mundane line of questioning. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z On the mundane, factual level, though, this resonant tale is wrong: Nature has always used fire as a mallet to beat landscapes into other forms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At first glance, the dispute, which began in 1923, seemed mundane. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Still others projected their hurts and longings into more naive and mundane forms—blues, jazz, swing—and, without intellectual guidance, tried to build up a compensatory nourishment for themselves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Lazlo was more than ready for the mundane to be interrupted again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She stared at buildings and cars and signboards, all of them matte, disappointingly matte; in the landscape of her imagination, the mundane things in America were covered in a high-shine gloss. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I the most prodigal and mundane of historians. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I had always thought the time between his Before and After had been unimportant, mundane. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Gran twitters on for another five minutes, filling me in on mundane news: Heather has decided she wants to become a librarian. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Down on the ground the prairies unscroll, vast and mundane and plausible as hallucinations, dusted already with snow and scrawled with sinuous rivers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z What seemed like a mundane afternoon would go down in history as the day my world crumbled. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z "But unicorns are the deadliest, fiercest, and most bloodthirsty of all creatures, both mundane and supernatural. Their kill ratio is six times higher than a dragon's." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out “projects,” always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The mundane details of life impressed him too — the neatly made milk cartons, the spring-loaded window shades, the electric iceboxes everywhere. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z And though, over the years, his departures had become mundane, his father would always stand on the platform until the moment the train was out of sight. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dylan Thomas, with his high, ethereal voice and poetry that was, at times, incomprehensible, fulfilled that idea, whereas Hughes, writing about ordinary people and about a very mundane Harlem, did not fulfill that idea. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She was so absorbed with the problem of keeping the astronauts safe on their round trip to the Moon that she was making herself vulnerable to the most mundane kind of risk. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Over the life of the fair the hospital treated 11,602 patients, sixty-four a day, for injuries and ailments that suggest that the mundane sufferings of people have not changed very much over the ages. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It’s a treacherous, tedious undertaking, and Kelly Reichardt, the director of this tough, quiet revelation of a movie, films it in an uninflected style that makes everything feel at once mundane and mysterious. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z Driving at home is mundane; driving in Europe is memorable. How to survive a European road trip 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of filler here, too, though — mundane essays that, if you removed Hurston’s name, could have been written by anyone. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z But the real strength of Gibbons’s play is that it makes us think, not so much about science news, but about our own awareness and the mysteries of the mundane. Dancing some pleasing duets at the Contemporary American Theater Festival Mr. Stettner’s light touch is all that’s needed to draw out the journals’ delicate dance of the momentous and the mundane. Art Trek: A Critic’s Gallery Crawl Through SoHo and TriBeCa 2014-04-04T17:47:11Z Since then, “cursed” has become central in the online vernacular, and cursed content has gone from novel to mundane. How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Every day he films a combination of inspirational talk, outrageous adventures and mundane minutiae of life, a mix that in recent weeks has become social media core curriculum. For DJ Khaled, Snapchat Is a Major Key to Success 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z OK, for this European luxury house, the idea of resort - or cruise, as it is officially called by the house - is, in fact, all about getting away from anything mundane. For here or there, `resort' clothes are wearable 2012-06-22T17:16:04Z This kind of accountability reporting — along with a great deal of more mundane, but also important, local reporting — is economically threatened. Perspective | Most people think local journalism is financially healthy. Here’s the troubling reality. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z He’s certainly performed for hostile crowds, and he knows how numbingly mundane touring can be. What’s it like to live as one of the ‘worst’ comics in the world? Gregg Turkington is finally talking about it. 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Reminds me of that extraordinarily sad day in Milan several years ago when my favorite shop in the world, G. Lorenzi, closed and a mundane watch brand opened there instead. Saying Farewell to a Store That Changed Shopping 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z The memories even border on the mundane, but the feelings of belonging and excitement loom large in their hearts. Perspective | Parents, the holidays are out of control. Here’s how to rein in the excess. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Yerushalmy’s work, which includes the abstract, the mundane and the surreal, provides strong material for examination. Dance Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:25:40Z On the other hand, each of these mundane items can get us into trouble. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z They are excitable, and their talk is, like that of most teenagers, full of passion, even on subjects as mundane as school exams and pet dogs. Theater Review: ‘Lovers’ by Brian Friel at Beckett Theater 2012-09-30T21:01:17Z Tate’s work lacks any obvious effort at virtuosity, but his central obsession — that chaos, often delivered at the hands of the natural world, is forever intruding on the mundane — will shake you. New & Noteworthy 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “The Last Autumn” feels like a missive from another planet, even as it chronicles the most mundane activities of terrestrial life: eating, cooking, farming, tending to animals. ‘The Last Autumn’ Review: The Majesty of Shepherds 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z A mix of the thrilling and the mundane, they bear witness to unheralded lives caught in a sweeping historical narrative whose prejudice, racism and defiant politics reverberate today. Huntington Library sets out to decode thousands of Civil War telegrams hidden for a century: 'It's mind-boggling' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z I was disappointed by Serena Williams’s mundane documentary series, “Being Serena,” which hardly opened the curtain on one of the world’s most maddeningly enigmatic superstar athletes. LeBron James’s “The Shop” Reinvigorates the Celebrity Interview 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z “It’s an explosive move that people are not expecting in a description as mundane as a light going on.” How Is the Hottest Comic in America Still Under the Radar? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z In the opening scene, Kris calculates how many days the typical human spends doing mundane things such as eating potato chips, breaking up or feeling bored. “All These Sleepless Nights” is a chore to endure: Marczak’s drama makes viewers thankful for their age 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z For all the violence in our pop culture, as I write in the column, ordinary mundane dying is rarely dealt with in any kind of depth: Death on TV is not exactly rare. Dead Tree Alert: How TV Does, and Doesn’t, Deal With Death 2013-10-24T14:59:19Z The Dutch artist applied ultramarine to mundane scenes of ordinary people with the skill of a master and the self-restraint of a child. Now supply-chain woes have come for the color blue 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z And she tells the mundane comedies of his daily life, such as the single time he grew a mustache or the two days he spent in jail for walking barefoot down Route 100. Harry Bertoia’s Legacy Lives on in a New Book and Jewelry Exhibition 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Extra sleep, time for hobbies and retreat from mundane cares restore the body and mind and promote creativity. "Doing nothing" is all the rage — is it a form of resistance or just an indulgence for the lucky few 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z A cottage industry of possible explanations continues on the Internet, where even a partial list of the theories found in blogs, chat rooms and comments on articles ranges from the mundane to the wildly conspiratorial: He helped build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. How did he end up dead in a landfill? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z From mundane Saturday mornings to life’s milestone baptisms, quinceañeras and weddings, Selena’s music is on the soundtrack of Latino family life. The Meaning of Selena 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Even more mundane sequences, set in storage rooms or mechanic shops, look interesting in 3-D. 'Rio': A rare bird that justifies the 3-D process 2011-04-14T22:08:36Z “It shows it as a very boring, normal, mundane place — with teenagers, discos and funny neighbors,” he said. In ‘Derry Girls,’ the Lighter Side of Life in a Conflict Zone 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z “In general, America’s attitude right now is a little bit more mundane. Some people were trying not to be, ‘Hey look, we’re Hollywood,'” King said. Golden Globes fashion both unexpected and mundane 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z They also sharpen visual perception, awakening you to the mundane details of the surrounding world and expanding your understanding of the way images of all sorts imprint themselves on the visual unconscious. Art Review: A Textured Palette Without Much Paint 2011-01-27T22:58:12Z A strange mixture of the mundane and menacing, it's a compelling watch. Catch-up TV guide: from Luther to Comran's Drive-In 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z “Paul’s work is innovative, inventive and freshly imagined, while rooted in photography’s magic, that is, its ability to transform the mundane into a picture with resonance.” Paul Graham and Seizing the Everyday Moments 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Until recently, the affable, laid-back author had been mostly preoccupied with her work as a television executive, taking care of her two teenage sons and doing mundane house chores. Hundreds flock to meet '50 Shades of Grey' author 2012-04-30T01:09:08Z It’s a modern-day myth that begins with a mundane betrayal. Theater Review: ‘Brand New Ancients’ Stars Kate Tempest in a Tragic Tale 2014-01-14T23:43:02Z As for #MeToo, it’s the mundane injustices in “The Question Authority” that ultimately reignite our outrage. Review | A new novel will reignite your #MeToo rage 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z He is not someone, he tells me early on, who can give me a “simple answer” to even mundane questions. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Cain also seems to think that the larger-than-life presidential aspirant is somehow above the mundane reality of everyday life. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z Dogged by his handler from state security, unscrupulous art dealers and the woman who broke his heart, Saleh ultimately finds the battlefield a respite from life’s mundane demands. Torn Between War and Art, a Journalist Chooses Both 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z But, by this time, the grotesque has become mundane. A Movie That Dares to Humanize Jihadists 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z What of the more mundane things - those endless, richly satisfying conversations about art and philosophy and life? The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions 2010-10-23T16:16:00Z "I'm always fascinated by movies and art that takes extraordinary and difficult subjects but focuses on some of the unexpected, more mundane aspects of it," Sattler said. Unlikely friendship explores humanity in Gitmo film 'Camp X-Ray' 2014-01-18T04:05:58Z But it still feels like a letdown that the decision hangs on a matter as mundane as the success of a TV ad. ‘Better Call Saul’ Recap: Season 2, Episode 3: Lone Star State of Mind 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Lee’s “Pachinko,” with its attention to mundane detail and its harsh but not hopeless fatalism, resonated strongly with what I know of their lives. ‘Pachinko’ Review: K-Drama, American-Style 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Essential to that experience is getting swept up in the vicarious thrill of an unfamiliar team and its mundane drama. Turning Sports Statistics Into Riveting Cinema 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The scene is played for laughs and succeeds: the horror and suddenness of the event coax an appalled hilarity from viewers, exacerbated by the two hitmen’s reaction, which is to bicker about mundane practicalities. Tarantino's gruesome revenge fantasies are growing more puerile and misogynistic | Caspar Salmon 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Even when he was painting mundane domestic scenes, his eye for the subject and his painterly treatment infused them with a sly, soft-pedaled, gently melancholy wonder. Review | Artist Noah Davis died tragically at age 32. A New York show reveals a great lost talent. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Seated on a stage behind a pine desk, with a spiral notebook open in front of him, Gray spun evocative stories about sometimes mundane topics — a trip to a ski slope, for example. Perspective | A critic taken with Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ lists 10 other favorite solo shows 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “Oddly Satisfying” videos bear a resemblance to another niche genre, in which women perform mundane tasks, like whispering instructions or crinkling paper. The “Oddly Satisfying” Pleasures of Slime Porn 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The mundane and fantastic converged with uncanny, mesmerizing presence. 'Understory' is two artists' ode to the American basement, and every surface is covered in felt 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z But, as Stashower’s exploration shows, the reality of this case is far more mundane and messy, and far more fascinating. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Campbell speaks to his children in those same inspiring mantras — though, speaking as their dad, he can be a bit more pointed and his mantras can be more mundane. He’s a 6-foot-6 corrections-officer-turned-singer. And D.C.’s toddlers love him. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “So the way that my mind is now is, I will be able to write songs forever - they probably will start being about pretty mundane things because my life is getting more and more calm.” Ed Sheeran searches for new lines in movie 'Songwriter' 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z You know, strip clubs were actually a little bit mundane to me. ‘P-Valley’: How Katori Hall Made a Progressive Show About Strippers 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Through the clever re-creation of 20 meals, consumed over the centuries and in various locales, a social historian illuminates the influence of apparently mundane habits. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Definitely the books' oddly charming, often funny mix of the mundane and the absurd. A 'Sookie Stackhouse' junkie comes clean 2010-05-05T22:34:00Z Bored with her mundane existence, she decides to visit country cousins she stayed with years earlier. For the Most Complex Heroines in Animation, Look to Japan 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “The thing I remember from the book was the way in which Didion’s grief would manifest itself in the most mundane moments. Eating felt like the right thing.” David Lowery on why he made A Ghost Story: 'I was freaking out, having an existential crisis' 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Rather than operatic, these lives are fairly mundane, some sporadic violence aside. Modern life is a fragmented place in 'Carmen Disruption' at City Garage 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z For a while at least, these last few hours are going to be we all we get of this strange Lynchian version of television, where mundane Americana and consciousness-expanding avant-garde art rest side by side. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 15: The Body Electric 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z A show of quiet paintings that explore the mundane. Datebook: Paintings of serene scenes, photos of revelrous parties, feathers worn by royals 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Its objects could not be more mundane – a fork, a bottle, an apple, a loaf of bread – yet these homely realities seem threatened by a kind of hallucinogenic doom. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z “A noble temperament was slowly taking over his whole being. The prospect of leading a selfless magnanimous life, away from worldliness and beyond the mundane, permeated the atmosphere.” Review | Banned in China, Sheng Keyi’s ‘Death Fugue’ is a pungent political satire 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z He scrambles through the camp, a buzzing hive of hideous and mundane routines, in search of a rabbi. Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s impossible to be surprised by this morsel of news, merely the latest expression of Trump’s mundane, antediluvian misogyny. Why Melissa McCarthy Made a Great Sean Spicer 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z For young readers, escapism also plays a part: novels such as Cliff McNish's Doomspell trilogy offer an escape from a mundane, ordinary life into a wonderful world of magic. Why are we in love with witches? 2012-07-05T14:18:20Z Now we reveled in the exquisitely mundane experience of simply living with the person you love. Remote Work Gave Us a Life Together. Now What? 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Glover and Staples are both willing to depict violence as mundane—and to see comedy in these horrific moments. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z But if Dad’s forgeries were mundane and inexpert, what he did next was simply incredible. On the run with my dad 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z We regularly exchange lengthy, unabashedly loving emails, full of the mundane and the profound: “Did you get the tulip catalog I sent you?” Motherless, but Growing Toward the Light 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The fear of violent death was the mundane psychological backdrop to everyday existence. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor – review 2012-09-29T23:05:08Z Mr. Bell’s text is largely autobiographical, and his accounts of mundane or meandering outings rang truer than the more confessional tone that followed in “Cold March.” Dance Review: Ian Spencer Bell Marries Words and Movement 2014-03-22T02:05:21Z Scott’s nightly outings to mundane bars and rock clubs culminate in fantastical showdowns meant to evoke the frenetic pugilism of video games like Street Fighter II. Film: Cult Director Courts the Mass, Keeps the Crazy 2010-08-06T21:12:00Z After a few hours of this it was apparent to me that what we need is a companion site to this one, for the more mundane among us: fakeancestry.com. Television: Is Your Family Tree Just a Shrub? 2010-03-03T23:04:00Z He stole mundane lists of transactions and regulations, rather than valuable illuminated manuscripts. The Man Who Stole Nazi-Era History From the Streets 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The setup is flamboyantly original, but the follow-through is unfortunately mundane. SCR's 'Mr. Wolf' sharply provokes, then turns blunt 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The setting itself creates a strange combination of the mundane and the surreal that perfectly suits Sheppard’s sensibility. ‘Blood Meal’ Review: Just Us, Locked Down in a Dollhouse 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z On one level, it’s a familiar, even mundane story: Neighborhood group opposes noise and congestion at nearby institution. A mainstream journalist opposed a mosque’s expansion. Is such activism appropriate? 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Austen, for example, derives much of her signature comedy by foregrounding her heroines’ romances against the mundane frustrations and misunderstandings of ordinary social life. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Kelly said pandemic beat out routine lookups usually intended to sort more mundane matters, such as the differences between “to, two and too.” Dictionary.com picks ‘pandemic’ as its 2020 word of the year 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z “Miracles are becoming – not mundane, but pretty normal around here.” Welcome to the trip of your life: the rise of underground LSD guides 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The old cliché about selling yourself is true, but I also learned something more mundane from Ricky Roma: You can’t say no to something that isn’t there. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z Though he’s open and friendly, unspooling ideas easily in conversation, Mr. Stevens is far from mundane. Mr. Strummy-Strum Tries a Synth Sound 2010-10-15T21:14:00Z In Week 1223 we asked you to tout an actual mundane newspaper story, from The Post or elsewhere, as a sensational one with a lurid-sounding headline. Style Invitational: Celebrate ortho-diversity! A neologism contest 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Some characters are even “terrible” in more mundane ways. Why Men Should Watch Orange Is the New Black 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z They are mundane and repetitive fictions, propelled by the characters’ internal monologue and expertly acted facial expressions. Day Drinking with Japanese TV and comics creator Masayuki Qusumi 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z A man and a woman in a film having a mild, mundane disagreement as happens between people every day, but then – SLAP. Readers' reviews 2011-02-24T23:15:01Z Today, the walking memoir — in which the main character chronicles his amblings, making mundane observations and grandiose discoveries along the way — is a significant subgenre, with Kazin’s book as its keystone work. Alfred Kazin’s “A Walker in the City” charts an intellectual awakening, block by block 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The mundane is mystified and afforded an almost numinous aura. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z The place just is, extraordinary and mundane, gargantuan and invisible. The Monoliths of Bratislava 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The mundane work environment, the juddery camera work … it's not actually in mockumentary style, but it does look and sound a bit similar. Vicious, The Job Lot, Greggs: More than Meats the Pie – TV review 2013-04-30T06:00:00Z Each drop of color by itself seems mundane. Review: 'Water By the Spoonful' is vivid, human 2013-01-09T03:31:05Z More mundane exposure would be a misdemeanor meriting up to 30 days in jail,” the AP reports. North Carolina doesn’t want to see your breasts 2013-02-19T17:48:00Z His correspondence ranged from the largest subjects, like apartheid, to more mundane matters, like his requests for eye care. Liveright to Publish Nelson Mandela’s Letters From Prison 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The three-part story began with a middle-aged couple going to bed in mundane fashion. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z Quarantine revealed how appallingly lame and mundane my polyamory truly is. My pandemic epiphany: the best part of having eight partners is being alone 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Walsh says, “Isla imagines herself on a train, going into the city, having a sandwich. She highlights just how sweet the mundane is if you have no access to it.” Words Make a Room: The Plays of Enda Walsh 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z All that wondrousness and import and skill upstaged by the mundane, by us. The Acrobatic Artwork That Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z A section devoted to Aleksandra Mir presents a series of 100 seemingly mundane tourist postcards, in which cheerful lettering advertising Venice is superimposed on photographs of other locales. Art Review: ?Print/Out? and ?Printin? ?at the Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-16T23:07:07Z Even Nye’s eerie and disquieting forays into genre, “The Sins of Man” and “The Good Shepherd,” are circumscribed by the protagonists’ mundane finances. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Unlike the cold fantasias of VR courtship, Bond Touch bracelets are fundamentally wholesome, and they reduce long-distance relationships to a series of mundane concerns. Bond Touch Bracelets and the New Frontiers of Digital Dating 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z It was an intimate time, so private and mundane that it barely merited a mention. Human hibernation: the restoring effects of hiding away in winter 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Britain, he notes, spent £1.5bn fighting the drug trade last year, and yet drugs – as he learns from on-the-ground reportage – are so commonplace as to be mundane. Watch this 2010-08-01T23:05:00Z It made me miss her, and it made me miss my mom, also a profoundly accomplished professional woman of the same generation who also had fun, strong opinions mundane things and different kinds of crackers. John Hodgman: By the Book 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z As the ship and narrative drift in tandem, readers can only pray that Marco will not redirect his musings to more mundane matters, such as the odds of enjoying a pigeon repast. Masters of Illustration Bring Breathtaking Art to These Seafaring Stories 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Vogt layers his laughably neurotic narration over mile-a-minute transitions in an attempt to “find something funny in a mundane situation,” as he put it. 2013 winners of the 3-Minute Masterpiece film contest 2013-05-15T22:38:53Z The book also notes that another study found that thinking about God and religion goes on in various parts of the brain, including the same areas we use to think about mundane experiences. 10 ways the brain dictates sex 2013-01-16T23:31:00Z Certainly there’s an element of the surreal in her ordinary sights and a sense of the transcendent emanating from the mundane. Photographer Julie Blackmon: Making suburbia sublime 2013-06-27T21:15:17Z “Kell on Earth,” like “The Rachel Zoe Project,” is all about personality, because the tasks the leads perform — selecting the right evening clutch or keeping track of R.S.V.P.’s to a fashion show — are so mundane. 2010-02-01T08:18:00Z It will also balance global crises with more mundane workplace politics, Hall said. Benghazi-inspired 'Madam Secretary' aims to 'pull back the curtain' on DC 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In its generous embrace of theory and practice and its range from the cosmic to the mundane it epitomized the best impulses of American democracy. Art Review: Empowering People of Spaceship Earth 2011-05-19T21:01:40Z The British diplomat on the ground is a curious choice: aging, well-traveled Kit Probyn, surprised to have been summoned after a career in mundane economic roles. John le Carré’s ‘A Delicate Truth’: a dark mix of motive and opportunity 2013-05-15T22:58:58Z The reality is mundane and recognizable to anybody who's been keeping up with the media industry's multiple mergers over the last few years. It's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but for QAnon: Film spreading child trafficking hysteria is making bank 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Yo La Tengo capture the mundane dilemmas of the performing band – "Monday matinee … So hard to choose between conceit and rock." Readers recommend songs about concerts: the results 2010-05-27T22:30:00Z Hyde shows us a few memorials, but most of the scenes are mundane and often bucolic. Review | In the galleries: The first exhibition of contemporary Portuguese works in the U.S. 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Shunning conventional reportage, the “nonfiction memoir,” as it was sometimes called, illuminated the mundane and the terrifying, as well as how service members — and fellow journalists — endured their years in a hell zone. Vietnam War reporter Michael Herr, who helped write ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Yet Slattery's first day in the North African country could not have been more mundane, he said. Moroccan road film subverts Hollywood stereotypes 2012-12-21T13:50:50Z “I feel like the clouds, having that device, let us talk about really mundane things,” Katz said. The Screening Room: “People Are Becoming Clouds” 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Director Tom DiCillo is relatively incurious about the bands' mundane professional and romantic lives, perhaps for fear of importing an injurious Spinal Tap irony. Film review: When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors 2010-07-01T22:25:00Z So, mundane or not, the crystal is literally a touchstone for Ms. Cappellazzo’s brand of materialism: the belief that, simply put, only matter matters. Possessed: Amy Cappellazzo of Christie?s Keeps a Quartz Crystal 2012-04-13T17:55:48Z I admonish myself for being theatrical about something so mundane. Dark-skinned black girls don't get married 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Walsh, a Tony winner for the book of the musical “Once,” belongs to that essential school of Irish storytellers whose characters find the epic in the everyday, and the monstrous in the mundane. Review: Dancing to Destruction in Enda Walsh’s Fierce ‘Disco Pigs’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z “One thing ‘Diaries’ pioneered was filming mundane, everyday moments, which traditionally would have been considered home movies, but as part of a film they take on a different meaning,” Mr. Ascher said. Ross McElwee’s ‘Photographic Memory’ Captures His Life 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z And I want to be a part of moving scenes, and not scenes that are mundane or pointless. Maisie Williams on 'How Game of Thrones' Treats Women 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In the middle of the century, a mundane design object was more often than not filled with political significance. When is an East German plastic eggcup a piece of communist nostalgia? 2012-07-09T15:17:32Z She’s a bracing songwriter, full of quick jabs and mundane details that end up being full of import. Review: Bully Shows Righteous Fury and Quick Jabs on ‘Feels Like’ 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z And sometimes a more mundane motive is at work: a desire to be left alone. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z In “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones,” the word “mundane” is used to refer to human beings who lack supernatural or divine powers. ‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’: Teen fantasy doesn’t fly 2013-08-20T21:57:18Z The appeal was turning something mundane like a memory device into a fashion accessory. | Beauty Spots: Turning a Bathroom Basic Into a Fashion Accessory 2011-11-30T18:24:17Z For now, however, Lee says he’s looking forward to concentrating on crafting great pinot noir rather than on the mundane work of marketing it and running a business. What’s wrong with a family selling its winery to a corporation? 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Avery’s objectives were as seemingly mundane as to “stay up past midnight” and “keep smiling even after surgery” — and as grand as raising a million dollars to fight SMA. Sheryl Crow’s tumor damage control 2012-06-06T15:40:00Z Cinema is littered with scenes in diners, burger bars and drive-throughs, their mundane, everyday setting an ideal juxtaposition to high emotional drama. Clip joint: burgers 2013-04-24T10:48:06Z Wide-eyed, curious, off-the-cuff, O'Hara drops names and jots down the most mundane experiences: buying a hamburger or a malted, wandering through Times Square. Frank O'Hara's 'Lunch Poems' -- at 50 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z He's a proper first-class comedian, with a real flair for translating seemingly mundane anecdotes into hilarious set-pieces. This week's new live comedy 2012-10-12T23:05:51Z I realized that the kitchen hierarchy I had developed possibly needed to be disrupted just a little bit, as these special ingredients can elevate the mundane into something memorable. What using up my end-of-summer-tomatoes taught me about cooking 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z You begin at the library with the mundane: New York’s street scenes. Exhibition Review: ‘Lunch Hour NYC’ Opens at the New York Public Library 2012-06-22T22:04:35Z “It shifts your mentality and adds a different layer and energy to something that might be mundane.” 5 Ways to Ring in the New Year at Home 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z These seemingly mundane memories are pressed into my brain like evocative coins stuck on the mossy ceiling of a wine cellar. Trauma-free travel with teens 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The production blends the kind of precise technological wizardry that the Wooster Group brings to its work with an unpretentiousness that pays tender homage to Warhol’s gaping adoration of the thoroughly mundane. | 'Gob Squad?s Kitchen (You?ve Never Had It So Good)': ?Gob Squad?s Kitchen,? Inspired by Warhol, at Public Theater 2012-01-24T03:01:11Z And heroic she is, even though her drama is firmly anchored in the mundane. Review: Resettling the Meaning of Home in ‘Brooklyn,’ With Saoirse Ronan 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Its aesthetic qualities seem to transcend the mundane and horrific. How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Some mundane problems will need to be resolved, namely where the first couple will reside. French first ladies: Bye Carla, bonjour Valerie 2012-05-09T20:49:09Z The crises that riddle the quartet’s first three volumes — including Brexit, climate change and corrupt politicians — seem almost mundane, compared with the catastrophe rumbling through “Summer.” Review | Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ concludes her seasonal quartet on a high note 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z McKenna’s skill as a songwriter is finding inspiration in the most mundane places, such as on the title track, “The Bird & the Rifle.” Family keeps hit songwriter Lori McKenna grounded, inspired 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The kind of love that is rooted in the mundane, born of confusion and sustained by second chances. Perspective | How Springsteen and soy sauce brought this couple together 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Papyrus 90 is one of the mundane daily life records, a receipt for a deposit of wheat in the public granary dating to 179-80 CE. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z It centres on the mundane aspects of life, with topics including harem pants, football, dental work, Carr's DIY experiences – as well as the show's tendency to follow listener input with some unfortunate song choices. Going Out with Alan Carr 2010-06-23T07:00:00Z The most mundane and predictable demise, the end of a Broadway run, receives extended soul-searching and public autopsy. Dave Attell Bids a Heartfelt (and Hilarious) Farewell to Carolines 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Perhaps all of that will remain true, but perhaps it won’t, and that is an adjustment that sears itself into our most mundane activities. Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Weeks into quarantine, New York is a strange combination of the normal and not-normal, the ordinary and the surreal, the mundane and the unnerving. Coronavirus Notebook: Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Despite a flurry of excited noise last week, the truth is a little more mundane. Ooh, Matron! Why Carry On films refuse to remain dead 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z He writes ramshackle songs with loping tempos, and hangs behind the beat while drawling quizzical lyrics that search for wisdom, epiphanies or comedy in the mundane. Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Throughout the story, mundane anxieties—always being early, tongue fungus—intermingle with larger world events, such as two bombings. This Week in Fiction: Camille Bordas on What Things Are Worth Worrying About 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Because we have so much experience with mundane tasks and events, we have evolved not to waste valuable mental space to overthink them, or even to be explicit about how we know what we know. I have developed disease models. Here's why COVID-19 projections can seem inconsistent 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z I suppose the underlying lesson here is that, because movie gross foods are fictional, it is healthy and normal to project mundane gustatory preferences onto them. These horror movie foods are supposed to be gross... but look delicious! 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z But there are also story lines about fantasy and sexual compatibility and the gap between pornified expectations and mundane reality. Review: ‘Sex Education,’ a Sweet Teen Comedy of Modern Lust 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z “Better Things” finds comedy in these mundane moments, making it at once universal in tone and intimately autobiographical. A comedy for grown women: “Better Things” nails the dance of modern female adulthood 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The cosmic elements of the story merge neatly with the sort of mundane details King has always delivered so effectively. Stephen King and Richard Chizmar put the fate of the world in a girl’s hands 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Her plan: to stop time and imprison the characters in a mundane, awful world–ours. TV Weekend: Once Upon a Time 2011-10-21T16:40:10Z Even tech that seems mundane is worth deeper scrutiny, but here that examination detracts from the possibility of more cohesive and compelling human drama. ‘Smart’ Review: A.I. in the Living Room 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z For most people, however, far more mundane situations — and ones much less immediately threatening than, say, a car rapidly bearing down on one in the street — create anxiousness. Our new era of anxiety 2012-06-02T22:00:00Z After all the plastic melodramatics on EastEnders, this was a series that revelled in mundane minor victories over an absent landlord state: dole scams, housing benefit fraud, disability swindles. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z "I started so I could escape mundane daily life," wrote another young woman, who lied about her age to get a job accompanying older men on walks, or "JK osanpo", as it is known. Japan exhibition puts child prostitution in the limelight 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The top chef thinks of celery as a “mundane” vegetable. Thomas Keller mines the past to create something new at Surf Club in Miami 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But of course the weather is no longer a mundane topic of conversation. Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z With its stripped-down aesthetic, it finds beauty in the mundane and even boring details of daily life. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z “Normally, you would think of a pillow in the same category as other mundane, innocuous objects, like toilet paper or breakfast cereal,” said Americus Reed, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. MyPillow boycott: How a product can spark an identity crisis 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s what happens sometimes when you’re feeling lost and weary from tending to all the mundane things required to put one foot in front of the other when your heart is broken. Mudslide survivors find gratitude and ways to go on 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Jesse Jan Driessen jests that a big part of coping with distance in a relationship has been accepting that being in lockdown means a lot of mundane conversation. 'I never imagined it would be so long': the couples kept apart by Covid rules 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z As the absurd becomes commonplace, Berger’s work suggests, comedy has to be found in the mundane. A Political Satirist for the Internet Election 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Throughout the dining room, all kinds of occasions were taking place — from the special to the mundane. A post-vax dinner at a Wisconsin supper club reminded me why I love restaurants 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Watching the care he took with this mundane task, I knew I wanted him. How I Fell for an ‘I’m the Man’ Man 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Until the mid-'90s, TV misdeeds were mostly bloodless and mundane. TV criminals don't have a chance against today's armchair profilers 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Raqqa’s later history largely registers as more mundane, a tale of declines and revivals that turned catastrophic when the Islamic State, or ISIS, seized it in 2014, making the city its effective capital. Review: In ‘City of Ghosts,’ Fighting ISIS With Journalism 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z He's also playing on another familiar children's literary motif – that of the portal from the mundane to a world of fantasy. William Sutcliffe: 'It was so much more brutal than I thought it could be' 2013-04-02T07:00:01Z The truth behind the matter is so mundane that it couldn’t possibly have been fabricated. Zayn Malik Would Like You to Know That He Is a Cool Adult Now 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z They allow you to photograph all things beautiful, mundane, ironic and humorous and then blast it instantly to your networks online. Mashup of technology and photography = iphoneography 2010-09-17T23:19:00Z What makes it truly shine, however, is its insistence that our workaday world might not be quite as mundane as we think. Alan Moore’s sprawling new epic, ‘Jerusalem’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The novel is so rich in detail it becomes almost mundane, but these wounded birds still make you root for them. Down but Not Out: Fiction Filled With Second Chances 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Joseph Conrad wrote indelibly about the power of the Hero with a Thousand Faces – an ur-hero who's living a mundane life when he's faced with a challenge through which he can discover his greatness. From Snow White to Brave: the evolution of the Action Princess 2012-06-26T16:21:04Z Like old body parts salvaged and used to create an all-new beast, terrifying not in spite of but because of our mutual recognition: mundane objects repurposed to much darker use. Short Stories From Joe Hill, Spiked With Mayhem and Evil 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z “Horace and Pete” is a riveting series that dares to take big dramatic risks, but what makes it frustrating is that its problems are mundane. How ‘Horace and Pete’ Made the Network Suits Look Good 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z They give mundane scenes a cartoonish flair and make historical details look decorative, cheesy and contrived. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The other is the opportunity to really study Ms. Lieber; her quiet strength and long line enrich movements as mundane as a pivot turn with equal parts power and vulnerability. Dance Review: Anna Sperber’s ‘Superseded Third,’ at Chocolate Factory 2013-04-29T20:07:27Z Mr. Serkin took an outgoing, celebratory approach to the Diabelli waltz that is the subject of these variations, letting its mundane qualities speak for themselves without stressing them. Music Review: Peter Serkin at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-11T22:25:52Z 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. A Certain Word Is Really Getting on My Nerves 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z He has a knack for combining the quirky and the mundane, the painful and ugly, and rendering something joyful and beautiful on the other side. Nick Cave Goes Underground 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z The most mundane tokens – a watch, a bottle opener, a Zippo lighter – take on a strong emotional charge. A museum devoted to the wreckage of lost love 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z But it’s also down to how Morgan, who scripted the entire season, writes episodes as self-contained morality tales, emphasizing the construction of complicated metaphors over the mundane business of building characters. ‘The Crown’ Review: Tempus Horribilis 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The case was instead about a small house and the tensions between an architect and his client, the seemingly mundane matters of ever-escalating costs and a spectacularly uncooperative roof. When Mies van der Rohe Went on Trial 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z And this has always been “True Detective”’s strength: The ability to make romance out of the mundane stuff of everyday life, the power to enact man’s struggle for meaning onto the landscape of suburbia. “True Detective” recap: “Everyone gets touched” 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z These encounters are so mundane that we rarely pay them much attention, apart from when somebody shocks the entire world by pushing someone in front of a bus or runs into the prime minister. Runners v pedestrians: who should give way to whom? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z “My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I’m making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can’t communicate otherwise.” Mr. Strummy-Strum Tries a Synth Sound 2010-10-15T21:14:00Z Thanks to a supply chain crisis that isn't going away anytime soon, formerly mundane tasks like trying to shop for groceries and get dinner on the table are enough to make the apocalypse feel near. Ina Garten advises us to "drink more large cosmos" after reading Reese Witherspoon's wellness tips 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z At the end the sound persists, alone and, it turns out, mundane: It’s a teakettle at a boil. Courtney Barnett Faces Doubts and Doubters on ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The rest of the game is filled with mundane fetch quests. 'Donkey Kong' returns with solid play 2010-12-07T20:17:00Z The images present a normal, mundane townscape turning into a warzone, with tanks running past semis and pitched battles among the terraces and tower blocks. Derry has built bridges – but its industry won't come back 2013-06-21T10:00:49Z “The Rock Eaters” by Brenda Peynado also carries that feeling of things slightly askew, of the fantastic mixing with the mundane. Review | Let’s talk about the best — and newest — science fiction and fantasy story collections 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Of course there are run-of-the-mill pieces, but mostly Mozart is too full of surprise and original invention to settle for that "mundane Viennese" rap. The full Mozart 2011-01-12T12:24:01Z Under the military dictatorship that ran Argentina from 1976 to 1983, a latent fear permeated even the most mundane aspects of life. Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Following years of institutional care, and with one new identity already revealed and imploded, Julia is desperate to live a structured, mundane life, for the benefit of her own daughter, Molly. A Young Murderer Grows Up, and Has a Child of Her Own 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Among these selections are merlot and chardonnay, seemingly the most mundane of wines, but delicious when carefully and conscientiously produced. 20 Wines Under $20: Touring the World, Familiar to Obscure 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z She even sends him back to his mundane grown-up life with a mix tape. Liberal Arts: How I Met the Inappropriately Young College Student 2012-09-12T14:00:15Z It’s up to the actors to transmit the layered emotion beneath the mundane dialogue. Theater Review | 'The Subject Was Roses': A Family Talks a Lot but Says Too Little 2010-02-27T00:53:00Z Mr. Pärt, in his Magnificat here, like his 16th-century counterparts, couldn’t be bothered with such mundane detail in his meditative state. Review: The Tallis Scholars, Hovering in a Meditative Sphere 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z But, generally, the second life of these decades-old offerings can be explained by a more mundane formula: quality plus circumstance. From The Sopranos to Twin Peaks: the best TV isn’t timeless – it’s prescient 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Her carryall bag is an Everywoman's stash of memories, mysteries and mundane items. In 'Happy Days,' character is buried in sand, wrestling with life 2012-03-14T20:22:04Z And her reasons for doing things as mundane as making lists turn out not to be mundane at all. Dealing With Anxiety, Mental Illness and Grief 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z One of the ideas in “After Life” is about how the mundane saves us. Ricky Gervais on ‘After Life’ and Life After the Golden Globes 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z “All the little details that are mundane to other people are amazing to us. When she burps, we’re like, ‘What an accomplishment!’ A couple flew home with their adopted infant. Strangers threw an impromptu baby shower on the plane. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Because, in the end, I think I’m happy with my mundane existence. Tinder matches want to drool over my hobbies. What if I don't have any? 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z In it, the mundane is rendered extraordinary through the alchemy of effortless prose. ‘The Folded Clock,’ by Heidi Julavits 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z As David Letterman used to do in his late-night monologues, Gulman savors a colloquial term, repeating it until the mundane starts to sound odd. What Happened After the Joke: A Stand-Up’s Harrowing Tale 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z I felt as Eileen did, that she was biding her time, counting the days of her life and all their morbid mundane contributions to her own hell and the hell of others around her. Ottessa Moshfegh on becoming a writer and her buzzed-about novel, 'Eileen' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z In fact, for many workers, keeping mum about even mundane personal details is essential to their personal and professional well-being. @Work Advice: Is it unusual to keep work life and personal life totally separate? But there is a penumbra about the Magna Carta, a shadow cast in which its vision of an ideal nearly eclipses the mundane circumstances of its origins. Last Chance: Magna Carta at the Morgan Library: Its Birth Was a Royal Pain 2010-05-21T22:51:00Z “For someone with anxiety, dramatic situations are, in a way, more comfortable than the mundane,” Melissa Broder wrote. The upside of chronic anxiety: being good in emergencies 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z This one is all the more unsettling for being grounded in the mundane. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z But today my tastes at breakfast are mundane, and sometimes I eat quickly and dash off. The little egg device I’ll never get rid of, because it reminds me of Dad 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z “If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.” Ray Harryhausen, Cinematic Special-Effects Innovator, Dies at 92 2013-05-07T18:31:15Z “It’s so nice to do the mundane things now,” the bride said. Finding Love on a 14-Hour Layover 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Its patient pace and poetic tone, as it follows events, mundane and poignant, in the lives of a few Black families in the county, also infuse the photographs he has made there. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z With a mundane focus on procedure and a penchant for humor, the play did not initially appear to be a substantial pitch for a musical. Broadway's 9/11 musical "Come From Away" lands on TV, offering kindness & laughter in dark times 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z That’s the sort of thing Berg is best at: Showing how extraordinary even a seemingly mundane detail can turn out to be. Review: Mark Wahlberg and Patriots Day Assay American Courage 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Do stories deserve to be told when they’re mundane and happen to lots of women? Perspective | Notes from a miscarriage 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Those who were exposed to the downward time took more sweets than those who saw time moving upward, but only when they recalled mundane events. Fast-paced digital lifestyle may contribute to our desire to eat junk food, study finds 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Berlin’s ardent, idiosyncratic techno culture, evolving amid what Schneider calls “the weirdness, perpetual incompleteness and outlandishness of Berlin,” has many roots, both momentous and mundane. Big Bang in Berlin 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z “We need to celebrate what is mundane and ordinary but beautiful,” Ms. Dolan said. Where Some See Trash, She Sees Treasure 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z And then everything changes, in an instant; a mundane episode becomes the beginning of the end. Love ages and endures in ‘Amour’ 2013-01-24T21:53:59Z There, in a seemingly mundane setting filled with fellow customers and store employees, Eric vanishes. Review | Dathan Auerbach got his start as a horror writer on Reddit. Now he’s back with ‘Bad Man.’ 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z A mundane picture of a man standing in front of palm tree on his lawn earns a single word: “Wrong.” | The Baldessari Variations 2010-10-25T20:49:00Z I like mundane reality – you could say it's my specialist subject – but there's no getting away from the fact that the second of those two examples is a shopping list. The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review 2012-10-10T12:16:01Z The music and cinematography are artful, but the props are mundane: a coffee maker, a mirror, a laptop. Review: David Oyelowo, Going Mad in ‘Nightingale’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It's real and it's a little bit more everyday and mundane, but it's just as worthy, to me at least, of being on screen. Randall Park reveals his "Shortcomings": "You never got to see Asian Americans in that context" 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z ‘Q’ ” The monologues are often serious, as when he contrasted the horror of last year’s Japanese earthquake and tidal wave with our own mundane problems. Jian Ghomeshi Brings His Show, ‘Q,’ to New York 2012-07-20T17:10:39Z Asked if she preferred the kind of heavily detailed but mundane story that “My Struggle” tells, she said: “Oh, yes. The less that happens, the better.” Knausgaard Tour Arrives in Manhattan 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Gala constructs sentences and scenes that swing easily from the mythological to the mundane, and Anna Kushner’s translation does a wonderful job of capturing his tones — and his temporal shifts. He Can See the Future, but Can’t Escape It 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z After making my documentary about doorstops, I decided to continue mining the mundane for meaning. Design: Who Made That Dental Floss? 2012-10-21T07:47:04Z Although he’s often construed as a cheeky urban ironist, much of Mr. Byrne’s music, in the Pop Art tradition of Richard Hamilton or Andy Warhol, arises from an ingenuous fascination with mundane objects. Inside David Byrne’s Cheerful Dystopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z A tale that was once implausible in its stringing together of coincidences no longer seems subject to the same mundane rules of realistic storytelling. 'Color Purple' musical on Broadway has a divine, moving spirit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The mundane side of it, overseeing the barge’s maintenance, requires constant attention and a significant chunk of the annual $1 million budget. Music: Under Peskanov, Bargemusic Keeps Evolving 2010-05-20T22:17:00Z As she assumes both parts in Lucy’s dialogue with her austere, judgmental mother, you may at first feel like you’re eavesdropping on a rather mundane conversation. How She Survives: Strategies for Women on London Stages 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z I transitioned five years ago and currently find the process both beautiful and mundane. 'I Am Cait' Premiere Recap: All About Everyone Else 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Some were mundane — telephone operators, money counting machines and a space shuttle. Rapper Kendrick Lamar performs in Miami for Art Basel party 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Classes include not only dance, but more mundane subjects like language, math and history. Boy triplets a sensation at top Cuba ballet school 2013-04-13T08:01:04Z Ms. Rethorst’s specialty is quotidian movement that, through precise repetition, theatricalizes the mundane things people do when no one is looking. Dance Review: Moving On Simply by Moving Out 2011-06-16T22:15:24Z “Last Days” became a reference point in those conversations because all Blake’s actions, no matter how mundane, seemed profound given his impending suicide. A Kurt Cobain Opera Examines the Myth, Not the Man 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z If you write about your life, as it is to yourself, every mundane detail is somehow of interest—it doesn’t have to be motivated by plot or character. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Batmanglij’s pacing is very deliberate, and marvelously, he leaves open the dueling possibilities of science fiction and a much more mundane reality. Sound of My Voice: You'll Want to Listen to This Cult Leader 2012-04-26T17:42:32Z Team will continue to mount shows at its 83 Grand Street address, where Ross Knight’s new sculptures, through Sunday, combine mundane industrial materials to create objects that look like uncanny fetishes. SoHo and TriBeCa, a Cradle of Contemporary Art 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The title might sound mundane, but this show isn’t about bookworms: It follows a group of experts in various fields who maintain and protect the secret library where the world’s magical artifacts are kept. What’s on TV Wednesday: Golden Globes History and ‘The Fake News’ 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z You summon this mundane premise and now, your job is to turn it into a play. Review | It’s a hard-knock life, but often a funny one, in August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ at Arena 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z For the artist, these mundane actions couldn’t be more poignant. An artist's imposing new monument at Echo Park Lake honors Angelenos killed in violent crimes 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “He’s talking about the mundane things of the future — all very local and real and immediate” in novels like “Martian Time-Slip” and “Dr. Bloodmoney.” Philip K. Dick?s Masterpiece Years 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z There was grotesque subject matter and mundane subject matter. Music Review: Face Paint and (Playful) Fistfighting for This Tribe in Brooklyn 2010-06-15T23:02:00Z It is often exciting; more often, though, it is fascinatingly mundane. Battle of Britain heroes show the strain of war 2010-04-22T11:36:00Z “This is my studio. I work lying down,” he explains in a deliberately mundane video footage of the genius at work that’s interspersed with the song. Decades in the Broadway biz, and still we want more of Stephen Sondheim In this unearthly landscape — where gray mud pots emit burbling bubbles, where sickly blood-orange fluids seep into otherworldly green pools, where eye-burning sulfurous mist hisses from dim crevices — Old Faithful is almost mundane. A Shrine That It Seems to Tame Old Faithful 2010-08-30T17:28:00Z And hence the Jan. 19 briefing, which morphed into a debate about a more mundane security concern: the proliferation of fake IDs. The Capitol may be ready for a terrorist attack. But is your favorite bar? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “A sense of heaviness, gloom and complete disappointment settles in during the second half, as the mundane setup pays no dramatic or sensory dividends whatsoever.” “Fantastic Four is an unmitigated garbage fire,” and 15 other terrible reviews director Josh Trank is not responsible for 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z But Mr. LaChiusa has the courage of his audacity, and he cannily balances grandeur against triviality, the eternal against the mundane. Review: In ‘First Daughter Suite’: Unelected but Still Under a Microscope 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z A “mundane” task becomes peculiar when you choose to perform it in front of Paul McCartney’s face as he tries to write “Let It Be.” The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The exhibition focuses on Dutch painters’ ability to render mundane activities, like washing up, working and chopping vegetables. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Parr has a way of revealing the absurd in the mundane. Real Food, No Filter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Corporate sponsors are now being sought to donate $35 million for a series of restoration projects at the site, as well as more mundane necessities, like an improved lighting system. ArtsBeat: Colosseum Rennovations Opening to the Public 2010-10-15T19:50:00Z Casting shadows on the wall of the gallery, the installation conveys the sense of watching a romantic encounter, achieved almost magically with minimal, mundane materials. Chinese Cultural Nomads Find an Oasis 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z I had been to Gaziantep four years ago on a mundane but wonderful mission to write about pistachios. A Crash Course in Armenian History 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Instead, that fall, he attached himself to a more mundane endeavor, as the author of a series of advice columns for the New York Atlas on the topic of men’s health. Lessons on Male Insecurity (and Indigestion) from Walt Whitman’s Men’s-Health Column 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The level is mundane, and even the voiceovers, which reproduce the conversations of the plane's crew, are banal; war is boring, and most importantly not on the ground, but mediated through a screen. Depicting war 2010-09-18T23:02:00Z “In these works that reflect everyday practices that might seem mundane, the public will discover pleasures and surprises with a depth few expected,” the museum writes. Women's Naked Intimacy: A Paris Exhibit To Make You Blush 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The terse exchanges, the sly banter, even the lighthearted quips dance over the mundane drudgery of workplace interactions like mean-spirited sprites. "Mad Men": Stillbirth of the American dream 2010-07-17T23:01:00Z But within the mundane, you find those moments that are mistakes, or you find something that was misheard, something that was misread or misinterpreted, or just a bad print. Michael Stipe on Working While He Sleeps and Savoring Mistakes 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z "Don't Breathe a Word" is an intensely feminine tale, from its intriguing opening to a resolution that's as seemingly mundane yet grubbily creepy as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's yellow wallpaper. New in sci fi, fantasy and horror: titles by Joan Aiken, Jennifer McMahon and Tin House 2011-08-20T18:05:54Z But as a fan, I don’t always want to stay in the mundane work space where a song originated. Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z I had never thought to appreciate the sensation of coasting unthinkingly down the supermarket aisles, luxuriating in the mundane array of differentiated food brands. The Grocery Store of the Mind 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “Stomp,” the long-running show that repurposed mundane items like brooms and metal garbage can lids to create a gritty percussive stage spectacle, will close in New York on Jan. 8, the show announced on Tuesday. ‘Stomp’ to Close in New York in January 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z A stray dead chipmunk or two aside, "everything in this museum is documented, even the most mundane objects," Goldman said. Inside the Field Museum's hidden flesh-eating beetle room 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z As with the original, this sequel works because it remains grounded in the mundane rhythms of a longtime marriage. Adam Sandler Grows Up (Mostly) 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z I love to discuss science, especially mathematics and physics, in their most abstract forms, far removed from mundane human concerns. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z This was part of the Beatniks’ famed approach to extemporization—the way Kerouac and his contemporaries transmuted the mundane. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z After all, we wouldn’t tune in to “The Good Wife” if Alicia’s life was mundane and predictable. In ‘Betrayed,’ Lisa Scottoline has created a modern Nancy Drew Like painters from centuries past, they enable us to look at the mundane from fresh perspectives or disorientate and reorientate banalities to form new image hybrids. This week's new exhibitions 2012-07-06T23:05:00Z For centuries, writers have sung the virtues of staying connected to the routine and the mundane. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z “The process of growing up,” he writes, “is, sadly, a process of turning the mysterious into the mundane.” An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z If Eno's "Music for Airports" traded in pleasurably mundane tones and arrangements, Lustmord's work on Saturday, and throughout his career, felt culled from ancient catacombs and designed for maximum psychic disturbance. Lustmord, Grouper explore noise and texture in deep Masonic Lodge set 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z In British terms, she is Henry Mayhew and Mass-Observation rolled into one — a stellar observer of the day-to-day and the mundane, a social historian of extraordinary talent. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Working frequently in silver, brass, gold, leather and ebony, Cooke often incorporated seemingly mundane materials to great effect. At 97, preeminent jewelry designer Betty Cooke is still inspired to create 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Her men’s wear, available at the boutiques Machine-A in London and L’Eppoche in Japan, offers a playful twist on the mundane. Brand to Know: An Emerging Line That Explores Black Masculinity 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “The results are much wilder and funnier than this mundane material should have allowed.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ and ‘Strangers’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The thing about my heroin experience is that I did heroin when I did the most mundane things. My year of heroin and acne 2013-01-05T00:30:00Z The novel becomes a beautiful, intricate web of narratives that show just how wondrous being human is, even in the very heart of the mundane. Three sci-fi books to rattle your October And in this cool, verging-on-chilly exploration of perception and fantasy, which won a best screenplay award at the Sundance Film Festival, life, as Ingrid experiences it, is considerably more fraught than mundane reality would indicate. Review: In ‘Blind,’ Perception and Fantasy Converge in a Writer’s Mind 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z These tiny pieces are like a bunch of seemingly candid photos that actually add up to a manifesto: the ineffable doesn't excuse one from the mundane; nothing does. In 'Shallcross,' C.D. Wright was at the height of her powers 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Instead, the title card, “Four months later,” introduced a series of rather mundane housekeeping details. The TV Watch: Shock but No Awe in ‘Homeland’ Season’s End 2013-12-16T23:02:44Z Other sections feature shorter, tighter pieces that highlight some of his interests — opera, French poetry, the artist Henry Darger — and demonstrate Ashbery’s tremendous range as a poet who masterfully combined the mundane and the dreamlike. A new collection of John Ashbery’s work and other best poetry for September 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z In this sequel to their 2013 “Evolution of Mom Dancing” performance, the duo — donning matching pink cardigans and capri slacks — danced choreographed routines based on mundane chores such as the… Watch Michelle Obama and Jimmy Fallon Dance Like Moms 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Every time he started talking, he fell out of the frame, his mundane narration complementing shots of the ceiling. Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The lobby — conceived as a gathering space with seating areas, a bar and furnishings so mundane they must have been designed to be unintimidating — bustled with audience members and laptop users. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The 22 stories in this collection range from the surreal to the mundane — and all maintain a sense of righteous rage at society’s sexism. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z From then until now, she has been afflicted with a voracious appetite for humanity in all its mundane glory and glorious mundanity. Jennifer Venditti Will See You Now 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Instead, what “Abundance” captures is how mundane poverty is, and how psychologically punishing. Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Among them are works that put us in a celebratory mood, or at least get our minds off more mundane and/or troubling matters. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Do we want to talk about chemical weapons and why their use is such a distinct and separate act from the more mundane horrors of modern warfare? Motherlode Blog: Teaching Children the ‘Easy’ Lesson of Syria 2013-09-12T19:06:33Z And it is a lot of fun - there's no shame, we're all friends here - but it's also more substantial than you might expect, and more mundane. Review: Substance, sex appeal mix in `Magic Mike' 2012-06-26T19:37:15Z “She taught us the importance of preparation, discipline, hard work and living boldly from the mundane to the stage. For opportunities wouldn’t come to us readily — but when they did, they were to be seized.” Tina Ramirez, Founder of a Leading Hispanic Dance Troupe, Dies at 92 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement If they run to “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life,” debuting the same night on Fox, they’ll find a less offensive but more mundane sitcom masquerading as an inventive one. Review: ‘Bordertown’ and ‘Cooper Barrett’ Debut 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Another band Chatten likes that fixates on Irish things is Girl Band, he said, a Dublin quartet whose song “Um Bongo” revolves around a mundane local street snack. Irish Band Channels the Spirit of Punk, and James Joyce 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Sometimes small and mundane, sometimes dangerous and overt, it is these acts that most illuminate Pheby’s particular care and resourcefulness. Review | Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z When he mocks a waiter at a fancy restaurant — an utterly mundane target — his language adjusts to suit the character. Norm Macdonald, Comic Nonpareil. (That’s a Word He Might Use.) 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Burstein's style brings out the humor and humanity in her subjects via interviews and interspersing mundane moments in the subject's life with polished frames that keep the conversation moving and vivid. "Hillary" review: Scorching contempt is this trailblazer's lot in Hulu's candid Clinton docuseries 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z After emailing the final manuscript to my editor, I set about the mundane job of clearing out a cupboard. J.K. Rowling on the Magic of ‘Things’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z This frustration, Ms. Rudolph said, was less irksome than her sometimes unfulfilled desire to play more mundane characters. Maya Rudolph Appears in the Series ?Up All Night? 2011-09-11T03:30:07Z It is precision work — obsessive micro-editing goes into the videos — that draws on a forager’s instinct for finding beauty in the ephemeral and mundane. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z An absorbing study of politics at its most mundane, and most important. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z Innovation and purpose, to entrepreneurs like him, don’t always have to involve gadgets and leaps in science – sometimes it starts with a thing as mundane as the food we eat. Kimbal Musk takes the tech entrepreneur ethos and applies it to food 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z I was thrilled by the way Knausgaard dared to explore the absolutely mundane, while also being unembarrassed about considering the utterly transcendent. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Discussing the genetic mutation pattern of the virus now feels as mundane as talking about the weather. Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Brand paints on patchwork canvases, collaged or edged with more mundane lengths and scraps of fabric, a tactic reminiscent of relatively Minimalist works by Michael Krebber, who was Mr. Brand’s teacher, and Sergej Jensen. Art In Review: MAX BRAND: ‘no solid footing — (trained) duck fighting a crow’ 2012-09-06T20:08:47Z Spread between several big rooms, his often huge digital prints show a world both mundane and dramatic, familiar and alien. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013 – review 2013-07-06T23:07:32Z Sometimes his singing devolves into exaggerated talking, and his lyrics move toward the mundane and slurry, but his tone remains unmistakable. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Kiss Land’ is the Weeknd’s New Album 2013-09-08T21:45:10Z Sometimes the most rewarding romance is the kind that throws the most mundane life into beautiful chaos. ‘Earl Takes All,’ ‘Magnate,’ ‘CEO’: Sarah MacLean picks the best new romance novels 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z In a similar vein, the quirky “Yes-People,” about the mundane goings on of a group of eclectic residents living their lives together in one apartment building, is a delightful offering from Iceland. ‘The 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Major Issues in Brief 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z This Bess has the breath of divinity in a world that feels entirely too mundane to keep her. | 'The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess': Audra McDonald in ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? - Review 2012-01-13T03:01:13Z Sandra is an ordinary person in mundane circumstances, but her story, plainly and deliberately told, is suspenseful, sobering and, in the original, fear-of-God sense of the word, tremendous. ‘Two Days, One Night,’ From Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Brought up against this backdrop of normality and the mundane, she gives as good as she gets. Family life 2013-01-12T08:15:01Z “I think we overlook how much mundane moments can shape creative discoveries and directions,” the curator, Veronica Roberts, told me. Why Is a Day Job Seen as the Mark of an Artist’s Failure? 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z But for JoAnn and Sue, from New Jersey, Mr. Springfield’s shows are simply a refuge from the mundane stresses of suburban parenthood. Movie Review: Rick Springfield Is the Subject of ‘An Affair of the Heart’ 2012-10-09T22:44:45Z Whereas the brilliant documentary “O. J.: Made in America” traces a history of race relations through the football player’s life, Mr. Chappelle locates his own fears through those mundane encounters with Mr. Simpson. In Netflix Specials, Dave Chappelle Challenges His Audience 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Again, going counter to mainstream Hollywood and franchise moviemaking, that those who are heroes among us are very ordinary and in many ways quite mundane people. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Yet don't be fooled by such mundane trappings. Forever goth: Elders not about to lighten up 2012-02-15T19:29:02Z The gorgeous “Snowflake” laments that the mundane, everyday world she longs to escape “is so loud.” Album review: Kate Bush, '50 Words for Snow' 2011-11-18T17:35:00Z Instead, it relies on the accretive power of the mundane. ‘Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry’ Review: Fame and Family 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z And now this series, which had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is the latest exploration of how smart design is in fashion, technology and even the mundane facets of daily life. What’s on TV Saturday: Alec Baldwin Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z But this is Mr. Murakami, whose intensely popular fiction plays at the boundary between the real and the surreal, the mundane and the fantastical, regular life and irregular happenings. Haruki Murakami Says He Doesn’t Dream. He Writes. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z She’s agoraphobic, unnerved by social interactions, and struggles with mundane tasks like going to appointments. “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” and the False Dream That Art Will Fulfill You 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z She also underscores the point that mundane reality is transformed by their active imaginations. Swallows and Amazons ? review 2010-12-08T21:30:00Z And it was a five-second microcosm of a growing, ebullient force in rock, of nonwhite female songwriters who derive power from the small and mundane. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z But having come full circle with the O’Neill, his work became increasingly mundane. Bradford Dillman obituary 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z That very simple, mundane visual quality really influenced the choreography. Justin Peck and Collaborators Combine Gravitational Universes 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z All Demy's dialogue, even the most mundane, is sung, putting the film in a genre of its own. Michel Legrand puts his Umbrellas up indoors 2011-03-17T22:10:01Z He is not a character so much as an absence of one, an abstraction in the middle of a mundane slice of suburban life. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z In between these mundane family scenes are flashbacks to a cabin in the woods housing a solitary figure. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The happiest children speak about enjoying the supposedly mundane things in life with their families: going shopping, cooking dinner, tidying up even! Are the school summer holidays just too long? 2011-07-23T23:07:00Z With each exciting or mundane story from the girls’ upbringings, Turner makes the reader feel that he or she is the only observer in the world at that spot in Bronzeville. Review | ‘Three Girls from Bronzeville’ is a story about growing up on Chicago’s South Side — and so much more 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Instead, the picnic goers find allure in creating a style moment in an otherwise mundane time. The Power Picnic Is Spreading 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z The ingredients here are often mundane, but their arrangements are harsh and unexpected. A Norwegian Artist’s Memory Disturbances 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z What is happening is that connectedness is becoming a relatively mundane part of people's lives. Yet another Facebook revolution: why are we so surprised? 2011-01-23T00:05:58Z “Oblivion,” a group tango created by Ms. Fajar with Mr. Cornejo, takes a stab at a lyrical side of tango, but the result is little more than mundane posturing. Dance Review: A Shoe and Fake Punches (but Few Sparks) Fly in a Night of Argentine Tango 2011-01-12T22:02:27Z Two takes on a single object: That is how complicated the history of something as mundane as tea is. Ah, Tea. So Relaxing. But Its History Is Another Story. 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z All the mundane stuff about directing, he loved it. Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The dream of this adventure was one thing; what Buck experiences proves “tiresome, mundane and repetitive.” Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z This familiar premise leads to a twist: Instead of adrenaline rush suspense scenes, this plot languishes in mundane melancholia. Review: In ‘The Night Eats the World,’ Zombie Apocalypse Now, Again 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z In between are more mundane events, from the 1990s, say, or the 1770s, and nearly every decade in between: games, parties, conversations, kisses, television news broadcasts, nuzzled babies, arguments, funerals. ‘Here,' Richard McGuire’s New Graphic Novel 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Thirty-five carved, polished, assembled, adorned and otherwise fabricated upright totems by Kenzi Shiokava coax a keen intensity from mundane material substances — wood, glass, bamboo, cord, etc. 'Made in L.A. 2016': Hammer Museum biennial proves a thoughtful place to ponder the possibilities 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z While it may now be synonymous with the retro glamour of 1950s compact kitchens and roadside diners, the origins of the miracle material are much more mundane. Formica turns 100 2013-01-17T10:18:40Z The inspiration for panels was more mundane: to avoid cutting "Curb" to fit into a half-hour slot with commercials that weren't part of the original HBO telecast. `Curb Your Enthusiasm' sparks debate in encore run 2010-06-02T01:16:00Z Together, they elevated even the most mundane purchase to the level of so-called experience and entertainment, concepts discussed today as a breakthrough in retail thinking. New York’s Lost Department Stores 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z If once or twice the poetry obfuscates rather than clarifies, it's to be forgiven; as with love, the exceptional is preferable to the mundane. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The ex-secret agent usually finds some mundane job and sticks out like a sore thumb — so much so that you wonder how she ever expected to fit in. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Most show predictable, even mundane meals: a hamburger and fries, enchiladas, steak and baked potatoes. ‘The Last Supper,’ by Julie Green, at Arts Center in Oregon 2013-01-25T23:50:40Z It’s almost surprising that after that year, Bad Bunny would release something as mundane as an album. Bad Bunny Broke Boundaries in 2018. His Debut, ‘X 100PRE,’ Demolishes More. 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z But feeling relieved after my abortion didn’t make me part of some radical vanguard, it made me utterly mundane. After my abortion I felt relieved — and I’m in the majority 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z In her review, Suzanne Berne wrote, “Mr. Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller’s most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary.” 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z While most of the T-shirts are fairly mundane, some of the other items for sale are deeply upsetting. Pizza Hut introduces 'Hut Swag' clothing line: fashion with extra cheese 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Anyway, after all that excellence, talking about silhouettes seems a bit mundane. Fashion Review: Calvin Klein, L?Wren Scott, Proenza Schouler, Ralph Lauren, Ralph Rucci, Reed Krakoff - Review 2012-02-17T01:13:22Z The final 14 minutes of the season premiere constituted a stand-alone action sequence, if you could refer to something that dreary, mundane and silent as action. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 1: New Wigs, New Family 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Yet the quiet story remains engrossing, by turns gently humorous and pathetic, mundane and poignant. Portrait of the Artist as a Complete Jerk 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The highlighter flourish screams scandal even if the content is stultifyingly mundane, or just plain wrong. Memes, Myself and I: The Internet Lets Us All Run the Campaign 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Similarly, anti-depressants and stimulants make us satisfied with mundane or superficial work that does nothing to change the status quo. A Reckoning With an Imperfect Science in ‘Blue Dreams’ 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z But in other ways, the family’s life together was touchingly mundane. The Man Who Made Working Out Cool 2011-04-27T23:27:25Z I learned this odd assortment of mundane facts from Timehop, an app that claims to be “reinventing reminiscing for the digital era.” The Seductiveness of Insta-Nostalgia 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z And that's pretty much what we got, but what raised it above the mundane was Wood herself. Mad Men; Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea; 24 Hours in A&E – TV review 2013-04-11T06:00:00Z The obvious point is that said baby geniuses are too busy thinking great and disruptive thoughts, and coding through the night, to spare a moment to worry about as mundane an issue as image. For Tim Cook of Apple, The Fashion of No Fashion 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z This collection of 36 flash stories centers on one unnamed neighborhood in Japan, blending fable and the mundane. New in Paperback: ‘Wild Minds’ and ‘People From My Neighborhood’ 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z But we also felt something else, almost a life force: These old forms retained elements of extraordinary vigor, even in their most mundane aspects. ‘Echoes of the Borscht Belt,’ Photos at Yeshiva University 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Its vocabulary is a combination of mundane gesture with ballet movement mooshed into a trio for men. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z These feelings, in 2020, are brought about by any number of mundane, horrid activities: Seeing your neighbor cough. The power of Purell compels you! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Its central joke is the incongruity of a heightened mob and crime story juxtaposed with a mundane narrative of suburban parents ordering their grown kids to leave home. Why New TV Comedies Are Choosing Plot Over Jokes 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z From belly button fluff to diamond rings, seemingly mundane objects, sentimental items, letters and photographs are annotated and become emotionally charged. 20 of the world’s creepiest museums 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z On its face, this Japanese reality show couldn’t seem more mundane. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘All-Star Flip’ and ‘Terrace House’ 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Somehow the actors and writers throw equal parts of mundane reality into a bowl of bizarre and whipped the combination of reality and fantasy into a cream thick enough to hold up. Smart Watch: “David Makes Man” and “Lodge 49,” where fantasy and reality collide 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z For all the speculation on the reasons for the leather scene’s decline, however, there is a much more mundane truth. Why is the gay leather scene dying? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Others experienced more mundane but no less pressing problems. Exile on Main St 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z The conversations range from mundane topics - movies and bike-riding - to wider subjects - literature and religion - and even touch on the possibility of alien life in the universe. New book gives intimate portrait of convicted Knox 2010-10-17T22:46:00Z Today, backbench MPs and some ministers may tweet and blog, but their outpourings rarely rise above the mundane. Events, Dear Boy, Events edited by Ruth Winstone - review 2012-12-26T07:00:04Z Lily didn't want the fame any more, she wanted to be like everyone else, she sought the mundane. TV review: Lily Allen ? From Riches to Rags 2011-03-15T23:05:00Z He swiftly began to introduce his trademark qualities: a debt to American abstract art and an equally strong emphasis on the mundane and banal. Raoul de Keyser obituary 2012-10-14T15:40:33Z In the "success yet to be determined" category is "Emergence," also debuting Tuesday at 10 p.m. on ABC, another series about strange occurrences in a mundane place. Fifteen years after "Lost," which drama most successfully carries its legacy? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z In this song — in this murderous world — a completely mundane domestic future is something that needs to be wished for, then fought for. Perspective | Rappers keep dying fast and young. How should we manage our grief? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z He’s an artist who considers himself to be a visual storyteller, revealing everything Seattle from the mundane to the marvelous. ‘Seattle Sketcher’ Gabriel Campanario’s work at MOHAI 2014-01-09T21:06:32Z He compellingly blurs lines between the mundane and grander visions of our origins, but haphazardly sprinkles religious imagery and scientific theory into the dialogue. Review: In ‘Field of Mars,’ a March Toward Oblivion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z O’Connor once predicted that interest in her life story, which she considered mundane, would be scant, because “lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.” University Acquires Flannery O’Connor’s Papers and Effects 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Is Toru Okada just experiencing one more loss – the loss of his mind – or is he finally waking up to the world around him as he turns psychic detective on his own apparently mundane life? The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ? review 2011-08-21T17:32:01Z Full of forced rhymes and clunky couplets, and all the better for it, Cheryl Tweedy captures the mundane depression of being forced reflect on a life stuck in the doldrums. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-05-30T10:35:02Z O'Rourke is an award-winning poet, but here she keeps lyricism in its place: death, after all, is at once extraordinary and horribly mundane. The Long Goodbye: A Memoir of Grief by Meghan O'Rourke ? review 2011-08-12T11:15:01Z Mr. Lorenz’s cartoons found humor in the most mundane slices of life: Lee Lorenz, 90, Cartoonist and Gatekeeper at The New Yorker, Dies 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z In evaluating a wine, one ought to account for a winemaker’s intention, as well as more mundane factors, like the price. Finding the Right Words for the Red Wines of Languedoc 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z My story is fairly mundane, and primarily a case of imbalanced chemicals. My year of anxiety: How my worries took control, and how I’m taking it back 2014-01-26T21:00:00Z Why are our mundane adventures not so wittily encapsulated? Tweets from underground: How Dostoevsky anticipated social media 2014-03-18T12:00:00Z “I am speaking from the past,” his voice intones, a joke that is both a mundane fact and a momentous bit of dramatizing. Theater Review: Daniel Kitson’s ‘Analog.Ue,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2013-12-05T03:00:01Z It’s an effort that doesn’t rank high on most parents’ list of remarkable accomplishments, but for Stossel, performing this mundane microwave task borders on heroic. Scott Stossel’s secret: Atlantic editor revealed his raging anxiety. The reaction surprised him Although such craft is far from mundane, the artists usually do depict the everyday. Review | In the galleries: Posters as a medium for serious but jubilant communication 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z From the mundane to the fundamental, every day we ask our courts to interpret legal documents, legislation and the Constitution itself. Scalia’s shameless political agenda 2012-10-01T19:53:00Z Unlike so many Studio Ghibli escapes, which liberate the viewer from the confines of reality, Arrietty brings the same magic to the mundane, elevating the ordinary confines of everyday life into sumptuous surprises. The Secret World of Arrietty: Little Heroes, But Big Emotions, In Another Studio Ghibli Triumph 2012-02-16T18:12:26Z On your page, you insist that your life is very ordinary and mundane. Paula Sutton Answers Our Hill House Questions 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The solution to this most mundane of problems is not your exalted, famous person; in fact, it’s not personal at all. In Knausgaard’s ‘Spring,’ a Man Considers How Best to Help His Sick Wife 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z It has that sense of the mundane becoming macabre or strange. The best science fiction and fantasy of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z But in fact "what will survive of us" is just as likely to be a nit-comb or a door hinge: some mundane object which we never intended to represent us. Jo Bell's poetry workshop 2011-08-09T11:34:20Z Like his second feature, Take Shelter, Midnight Special is grounded in a mundane and clearly defined reality that the director slowly but thoroughly undermines. Midnight Special: the gritty road movie that takes a Spielbergian twist 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Most of all, charming cafes, along with every other public space, have gone from feeling like the setting of a Nancy Meyers movie to a Jordan Peele creation, and everything mundane is now malevolent. ‘Edith Piaf sneezed on my cheesecake’ and other coronavirus dreams 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The brilliance of “Cameraperson” is that it invites and rewards such speculation even as its gaze remains fixed on the concrete, deceptively mundane details of the visible, physical world. Review: In ‘Cameraperson,’ a Found Poem Filtered Through an Intent Eye 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z In fact, I wondered if all the scenes were improvised because of the often-stilted dialogue and the mundane situations that were being portrayed. Readers respond after 'Boyhood' fails to impress critic Kenneth Turan 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Written by farmers, ministers, whalers and housewives between the 1660s and 1810s, the pages record infant deaths and Revolutionary troop movements as well as mundane land and livestock transactions. Newly Discovered Copy of Declaration of Independence Will be Auctioned 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The choice of lightly blanched green beans, endive spears, red peppers and tomatoes focuses the colors and flavors away from the mundane “carrots and celery” crudites. Ellie Krieger’s popular party vegetables 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z From interviewing caregivers to monitoring bodily functions, much of the day-to-day responsibilities involve the mundane grammar of getting them dressed, fed, medicated and bathed. This Life: The Father Is Child of the Man 2012-07-27T21:43:38Z But what would such a process even look like in the case of these couples who have clearly bypassed the more mundane, and perhaps comforting, aspects of domesticity? The Insta-Celebrity Engagement Is Somehow Very 2018 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z It was comfortable, because, they were really – like you see in the film – very mundane. ArtsBeat: Marie Losier on ?The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye? 2011-04-25T14:00:08Z Its shocks are well-timed, giving us enough reason to fear what’s on the other side of various doors while nodding to the time-honored horror tradition of turning a mundane object into a malevolent one. ‘The Ring’ Told Us in 2002 That the Medium Is the Monster 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Yet archaeologists and other specialists are still piecing together the mundane details of everyday life in classical Greece and Italy. The Surprise Message on a Priceless Ancient Artifact 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Meyerowitz, who was raised in a working-class family in the Bronx, was working as an art director at an advertising firm when he was assigned to accompany Robert Frank on a mundane commercial assignment. Joel Meyerowitz in New Book and at Howard Greenberg Gallery 2012-11-18T03:49:04Z I’m better suited to searching for answers than to the mundane facts of participatory worship. Can a thinking person still have faith? My skeptical, honest quest for religious answers 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z I realised belatedly that the mundane rules apply and that is where you have to keep your attention. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z Unfortunately, in the UK, private detectives largely do mundane work – serving court papers, for example, or ferreting out marital infidelity. How not to pitch a crime novel 2010-07-27T12:34:00Z All it asks is that you be quiet enough to hear the music in the murmurs, whispers and silences of human existence at its most mundane — and transcendent. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z But in my experience — and for many others, as revealed by the parents I spoke to for this article — this period of heightened emotion can transform even mundane experiences into ecstatic ones. Those first post-birth meals are the most special — 6 parents explain why 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z At once trippy and pointedly mundane, “Atlanta” played in the space where the indignities of being black and poor meet the indignities of striving to get rich. The Cast of ‘Atlanta’ on Trump, Race and Fame 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Other clashes in the new free-speech wars over comedy involve attempts to close down more mundane comedians who simply don’t conform to the changed rules. It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z A character walking alone, or going about some mundane task like packing a bag, might not have anyone watching. Calling on the audience to live the dream 2010-08-21T06:00:00Z Even the more mundane policing tasks, like where officers are sent to patrol, are now dictated by computer programs that identify high-crime blocks. The Author Who Tased Himself to Reveal the Failures of High-Tech Policing 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Yet her stories are instantly gripping and highly evocative, conjuring scenarios at once weird, mundane, melancholy and comical. Diane Williams is at her unconventional best in 'Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine' 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z He painted the necessary, mundane components of our metropolis and imbued them with majesty. Christopher Martin Hoff show a reminder of talent, loss 2012-08-15T18:57:06Z The truth about baseball and its slow accumulations is more mundane than any of the stories—of failure, or of misunderstanding, or of redemption—that attached themselves to Buckner. Saying Goodbye to Bill Buckner, and the Myths We Attached to Him 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z His “Indivisible From the Sheen of Plastic,” at Civilian Art Projects, gazes intently at architectural minutiae, often mundane and graceless. Review | In the galleries: Where have all the people gone? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The mementos range from the mundane — such as a pair of white dress shoes, which came with a note reading, “She tried to impose her fashion sensibilities on me” — to the emotionally fraught. When Relationships Fail, This Museum Keeps the Stuff Left Behind 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z They range in tone from delirious to grim, and exhibit various attitudes toward the marvelous intrusions into the mundane which they recount: embarrassed and regretful, slyly ambiguous, reluctantly accepting, prosaic. 'Three Messages': Mexican stories of the fantastic 2012-02-01T19:23:08Z We’re supposed to see something profound in the mundane details of kitchen, office, bar and bedroom, and to nod knowingly as the designated sympathetic characters endure the hell of after-hours volleyball and bridal showers. | 'Audrey the Trainwreck': A Slice of Midwestern Mumblecore 2010-07-22T23:34:00Z Sometimes the ordinary, the routine, the mundane can be more frightening than an arsenal of chain saws and axes. In Horror Movies This Fall, Three Faces to Watch 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z For a breakout star, it was a fairly mundane audition. The ‘Captain Marvel’ Cat Was Actually Four Cats. Here’s How That Worked. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Not just holidays, but even mundane matters like taking care of the car. For Many Widows, the Hardest Part Is Mealtime 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Snoop Dogg’s vision of wine is akin to its role in the Last Supper — it’s redemptive, lifting us up from the mundane, all for $13 a bottle. Snoop Dogg’s for-the-people label and an exclusive club mark extreme poles of the wine world 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z “They dive into the mundane and ordinary and reveal the extraordinary in it,” said James Houghton, the Signature’s founding artistic director, who selected Ms. Baker as one of the Signature’s Residency Five Playwrights. Sam Gold and Annie Baker Are an Artistic Pairing Destined to Succeed 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The archives depict the mundane details of commissioning, scheduling, auditioning, hiring and ego massaging that go into running a symphony orchestra. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z His is a mundane life of little achievement, yet in his wildest imagination he would often be fighting wars or performing life-saving surgery. I'm a real Walter Mitty type 2012-05-27T19:00:04Z Many died in the war, and some traumatized survivors switched to mundane careers as shopkeepers. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z The murder was lurid; the motive seems mundane and not fully explained, and Liannetto’s relationship with a police assistant a little too neat. A Louche Life Set to a Show-Tunes Score 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z He recognizes, like the brightest civil rights trailblazers, that true progress is made not only in grand gestures, but in mundane moments that almost imperceptibly telegraph the many versions of normal we should all embrace. Motherlode Blog: Coming Out by Christmas Card 2012-11-18T13:30:32Z I haven’t been nearly as excited by the emails, which are mostly full of mundane correspondence. Perspective | Only in our anti-truth hellscape could Anthony Fauci become a supervillain 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps it is the way that the show wafts between the sinister and the mundane, the everyday and the bizarre, the dreamy and the all too real, that alienates me. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z You know, the thing I think both of us said: life is mundane, it’s truly you get up, you put your clothes on, you have your breakfast, you read the paper, you clean the house. Table For Three: The Mother of All ‘Housewives’ 2013-06-14T15:47:28Z Some are what you’d expect – abuse, trauma and deprivation – but many are much more mundane. How to parent without limitations| Trevor Silvester 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z And the themes of loss and the meaning of mundane objects was explored movingly in “Gone Missing,” a more fully realized docudrama by the Civilians several years ago. | 'Locker No. 4173b': One Person?s Detritus Is Someone Else?s Play 2011-05-10T21:40:15Z Vann's famously clipped language creates tension in the most mundane situations, as when Galen's mom serves him tea early in the story. 'Dirt': A loner's twisted family unravels in David Vann's novel 2012-06-13T20:35:05Z On this occasion he has made art from such mundane items as bricks, I-beams, colored yarn, rolls of toilet paper and light bulbs, rarely using more than one material or kind of object per work. Last Chance: Martin Creed’s Solo Shows at Gavin Brown and Hauser & Wirth 2013-12-17T22:13:14Z The sense of purity and eagerness radiating through Cootie bounces off the technicolor surroundings throughout Riley's Oakland, an absurdist wonderland where the mundane dissolves into animation and folks levitate in their bliss. "I'm a Virgo": Boots Riley's incredible, ungentle giant swing at late capitalism 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z The comedy here usually offers new spins on classic territory: sportscasters providing color commentary on mundane events, or spoofs of vampires, zombies and marginal figures from the time of Christ. ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Has the Most Exciting Comics (and the Silliest) 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z His comedy finds madness in the mundane – an outlook best typified by a sketch in which a bus journey to the Glasgow district of Yoker escalates into an epic odyssey. Limmy's Show!: why is this fine sitcom broadcast only in Scotland? 2012-11-23T12:14:46Z Much of Moore’s appeal rests in bathos: his gods are fallen, at once numinous and mundane. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The first few issues were edited by a fellow who was pretty mundane in his view of the world and they were not very interesting graphically. Pamela Fiori on ‘The Best Travel Magazine That Ever Was’ 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z James Ward is the co-founder of the annual Boring Conference, a “one-day celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked.” A curious tour of office supplies in ‘The Perfection of the Paper Clip’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z We stepped lightly around conversation, kept talk to the kids, work and the mundane. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z As Pam–the muralist of the mundane–says, “There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things,” but that doesn’t mean you should get complacent. The Office Watch: That’s What She Said 2013-05-17T13:18:33Z Enchanting stuff, playing at the age-old art of making magic of the mundane. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z While their activities are mundane in nearly every case, they are almost all seemingly viewed through dreamily romantic, vaguely erotic lenses. Art Review: Danish Paintings Show at Scandinavia House 2013-12-05T22:25:09Z “The genius of ‘Lincoln,’ finally, lies in its vision of politics as a noble, sometimes clumsy dialectic of the exalted and the mundane,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s On Sunday 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Their conversations are by turns personal, practical and philosophical, and they revolve around the fundamental issues of civic order, which are shown to be at once mundane and grand. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z But over the past few years, my mowing has strayed far from the mundane up and down — back and forth — that I often found so fulfilling and meditative. He liked to mow his own lawn. Until the ‘helpful’ neighbor came along In any case, Caine’s interest was piqued by more mundane matters: it was the first time he had been asked to play a conductor. Paolo Sorrentino: ‘I never use a crude approach to showing the naked bodies of older people’ 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s a great mood-setter, a spark to turn a mundane day into a celebration, or even a nice base for a sparkling wine cocktail. Review | At just $12, this exciting South African wine is one to stock up on 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z And imagine this mundane/surreal epic spanning the first decade of the 21st century. In 'El pasado,' the stage spins, and so do the characters' lives 2012-02-11T20:42:03Z I think there’s something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z And you start with the really mundane, like eight-o’clock bedtime, all that kind of stuff. Ethan Hawke Explains His Thing for Knights 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The paranormal and the mundane mingle in this sci-fi horror film by Scott Stewart. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Out 1’ and ‘Penn and Teller: Fool Us’ 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z For a long time, race threatened to wreck our relationship, combined with the stresses of being poor and the more mundane familial resentments; but we survived and, after many, many struggles, flourished. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The show, presented by Dutch Kills Theater Company, tries to mix mundane office tasks and metaphysics. When the Critic Is Also the Star. And the Audience. 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z She moved briskly to other, more mundane memories, like how she had a face-lift at 50 and was instructed to keep her features immobile for a time. The Past Lives of Shirley MacLaine 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Her pent-up frustration boils over, and she begins speaking in the voices of other women, some living, some dead, the one moment where the story tips from the mundane into the slightly surreal. The Heroine of This Korean Best Seller Is Extremely Ordinary. That’s the Point. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Yet tension on the series typically stems from the more mundane emotional landscape of Lucy’s phone. In Australia, Television ‘Content’ Designed for Your Phone 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z I was to fill the most mundane of roles — umbrella holder. Wing tips: Bird-watching adventures high in the Andes Mountains 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Since live music in the UK entered suspended animation on 16 March, even the most mundane aspects of gig-going have acquired an exotic tang. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z The piece Ms. Uematsu encountered was “Japanese Kitchen,” Tabaimo’s first student work, whose mundane setting suddenly erupts into matter-of-fact savagery: after the housewife decapitates her laid-off husband, his headless body rises and shoots her dead. Tabaimo Video Show at James Cohan Gallery 2011-10-16T04:15:07Z Mind you, the completely mundane reason that "Supernatural" lasted as long as it has is that many of its devoted fans grew up with Sam and Dean. How "Supernatural" reflects the American spirit and the monstrous darkness lurking underneath 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z The film is peppered with fanciful sequences in which Aidan is some sort of fantasy hero with a robot sidekick, which contrasts sharply with the drab routines of mundane struggle that is his actual life. 'Wish I Was Here' should have wished for insight 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Although the performance was titled “Transformation,” much of it appeared mundane. Can a Dance Class Free Men’s Bodies in a Place Meant to Contain Them? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Despite their consummate skill and musicianship they couldn’t elevate the unmemorable sonata much beyond the mundane. Music Review: Handel Players Make Their New York Debut at the Frick 2012-01-30T23:38:11Z These are lofty comparisons for paintings of what are essentially casual snapshots, but the charm of Chowdhury’s work is that it imbues mundane scenes with a romantic, almost religious awe. Srijon Chowdhury paintings pull you in for a closer look 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It seems mundane until you realise Michael is speaking from a detention centre in Nevada, where he is being held for the attempted assassination of the man who is now US president. 'He never even watched the news' – the Brit who tried to kill Trump 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Originally designed in the 1930s to welcome audiences attending RCA radio shows, the space had been demolished in the late 1970s to make way for more mundane functions. Rockefeller Center Reconstructs its Spectacular Art Deco Mezzanine and Rotunda 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But it’s his inscrutability that has allowed him to achieve a sort of clarified, immaculate superstardom, one that exists almost entirely in the movies, uncontaminated by mundane concerns. What Becomes a Star Most? For Tom Cruise, It’s Control. 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z No, his greatest enemy is something much more mundane: namely, a simple lack of respect. Why Superman Deserves More Respect 2013-02-21T17:39:34Z Pieces made between 2004 and 2009 use frayed steel, wire and other industrial materials to evoke dangers either catastrophic or mundane. How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z In its unabashed union of worldly and mundane, finished and unfinished, East and West, the Mure property endures as Noguchi’s greatest legacy. 2010-02-01T05:00:00Z The Thai-born artist’s photographs and videos contrast reveries with mundane physical reality: passport visa stamps and international consumer products flitter past in montage. Review | In the galleries: Transfer lettering becomes a medium with a message 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Firm in the belief that an entertaining lie is preferable to a mundane truth, they then told reporters that they planned to invest their winnings in research into telepathy. Klaxons: Surfing the Void 2010-08-19T14:29:00Z Our neurotic worries and genuine fears, our mundane and existential anxieties, our daydreams, nightmares, insecurities and guilty regrets. Books of The Times: A Memoir by Roz Chast, in Words and Cartoons 2014-05-05T21:26:43Z When I was a teenager it seemed dreadfully mundane to me; not nearly exciting enough. Wilko Johnson gives fans a last shot of the blues 2013-07-13T23:06:00Z The absolute anonymity she granted her subjects elicited honest interviews, ranging from the beautiful through the mundane to the painful. United front: breasts without the airbrush 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z And yet, “Riverdale” was able to craft a completely mundane yet moving story this time around, aided by how closely Fred Andrews is associated with Perry. How “Riverdale” gave Luke Perry the heartfelt sendoff the “90210” revival could not 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z As performed with dexterous felicity by the reliably excellent Mr. Birney, this seemingly mundane half-conversation offers us a devastating glimpse of the submerged desperation beneath Joseph’s veneer of chipper carrying on. | 'Tigers Be Still': Escaped Predator? What Else Is New? 2010-10-07T02:01:00Z Just as horror movies make their currency in creepy children and dolls, there’s a sense of betrayal, then fear, that accompanies the perversion of the innocent, mundane elements of our lives. Horror Masks Are Never Just About the Monster 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z But the reality for attendees was more mundane. How Wittgenstein and Other Thinkers Dealt With a Decade of Crisis 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z They meet an old knight, Sir Gawain, who’s on his own quixotic quest and becomes their protector from a host of mundane and supernatural threats. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The answers she gets to her questions are both glib and profound, mundane and weird, ridiculous and inspiring — as unique as each of the artists featured. '33 Artists' paints behind-the-scene picture of the art world 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Children are still being kidnapped and brutalised into making the horrific and unthinkable mundane at a far higher rate than they are being rescued. TV review: Kids With Guns: Stacey Dooley Investigates 2010-10-08T05:45:00Z They, in turn, fill their allocated fridge shelf with an array of intriguing, peculiar, often mundane, but sometimes astonishing foodstuffs. Global leftovers: what Airbnb guests bring to your fridge 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z She wrote the pilot and directed the first two episodes, and her style is both beautiful and delicate, rooting the action in struggles that might otherwise seem mundane. Queen Sugar: Oprah’s latest drama is a sweet success 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z It’s worth bringing a little joy to even a mundane task such as pill-taking. Are you storing your pills in the wrong place? 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The essential thing on the very first “Mad Max” was something very mundane. SXSW 2015: George Miller on the Evolution of 'Mad Max' 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Yet the chapter also narrates the more mundane sadness of surrendering your fantasies. “Is There Still Sex in the City?” and the Decline of a Particular Fantasy Life 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The effect is at once mundane and magical. ‘Amélie’ musical's creators bring to the stage a ‘love letter to imagination’ 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Most disconcerting is “Backyard,” a thoroughly mundane patch of grass flanked by a cheaply shingled garage and concrete steps leading up to a house. Thomas Demand undercuts what we think photographs show us 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z His show is an improbable hit, as listeners around the world tune in to follow “the mundane details of Bernard’s strange subterranean existence.” A 500-Story Tower Has Collapsed. Can Humanity Be Rescued From the Rubble? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Maybe there’s something in the water over there that makes even the most mundane things funny. The Boorish, Comic Life of an Exquisitely Awful Dentist 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z There’s nothing more mundane and conversely more taboo than money. My partner lives in my home - but what is fair financially? | Mariella Frostrup 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z And yet the tidbit that struck me most was a fairly mundane one. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z But today, trauma as a universal motivator has worked its way so deeply into the architecture of many novels that it threatens to become mundane. Misfits, Stalkers and Kiddie Sociopaths: The Latest Thrillers 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Gaiman imagines a fantasy underworld beneath the mundane reality of London, built around the names of stops on the tube map. London: fantasy's capital city 2012-11-21T11:51:44Z Some of the scenes they captured are comfortingly mundane: family meals, sessions recording the Greens’ voices for use in the game. A Father’s Video Game About His Son’s Terminal Cancer 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Nothing satisfies me more than someone in a cape arguing about something really mundane. Florence Welch Thrives on Horror. And She Still Wants to Smell You. 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z “They anticipated what would happen with social media platforms,” Ms. Paul said of the now common sharing of mundane activities on blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Illuminating the ‘Dark’ Web and Content Monitoring 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z But it's hard to take your eyes off Hoffman as he turns the seemingly mundane, unsympathetic and rather prickly character of Bachmann into a complex individual who struggles with his own empathy. No one wears a white hat in the uncomfortably real 'A Most Wanted Man' 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z What reads as a mundane mess is actually a metaphor. Jeff Colson, wizard of illusion, at Maloney Fine Art 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z These are the years most biographers linger on, extracting all the juices, because they’re when an unusual life begins to diverge from the mundane ones that surround it. The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Its mix of 24-karat gold leaf and mundane nylon drolly comments on which materials we do or don’t value in the arts. Pushing limits: Bellevue Arts Museum’s ‘Atoms + Bytes’ combines digital, traditional 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z They are accounts of things both remarkable and mundane. Maharam Stories by Rizzoli Documents Designers’ Favorite Things 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z We’ve talked since about mundane things, but this is clearly lingering. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Struggling to mend a strained friendship 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z And she is a wicked observer, a woman who relishes the cracks in mundane reality through which all kinds of bizarre madness can flourish. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z The intent is not simply to recite mundane tales of woe. Bad Trip: Travel’s Misadventures 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z But most just stare, smile and walk on, this vision of the ’20s brightening a mundane, modern New Jersey day. Living in the Past Is a Full-Time Gig 2012-06-14T15:14:08Z In one of the fleeting interludes of mundane world-building, we see an aged sculptor instructing an apprentice in carving a delicate figure. Review: In ‘The Bastard Executioner,’ a Warrior Switches Blades 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z In one of the play’s typically abrupt descents from the mundane — the subject is salad dressing — to the penetrating, the narrator interrupts his churning thoughts to address us directly. Theater Review: ?Title and Deed,? by Will Eno, With Conor Lovett 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z Joy is in the mundane — it doesn’t come from Cannes, although Cannes is fabulous. Boy George Loves His Deeply Flawed Heroes 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z But not everything our invisible guide sees is so mundane. ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The list of behaviors associated with a sexual addict is so mundane, practically anyone can tick off at least a couple. Seven signs your dating a sex addict 2012-09-07T14:31:00Z He proceeds to describe each in mundane and hilarious detail. Comedian Julio Torres Changes His Hair Color (Again) 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z These works perfectly illustrate Hay’s insistence that his art arises from circumstances of an unusually mundane sort. Alex Hay, Comeback Painter 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z There are loads of mundane photographs too, mind, but even more than the arresting ones, they may reveal much about the nature of this election to social historians of the future. Simon Roberts puts political England in the frame 2010-04-12T15:49:00Z Grainy and clear, mundane and epic, abstract and straightforward, the snapshots run the gamut of textures, moods and experiences. Photographer Chase Jarvis aims to make artists of us all 2010-07-19T18:58:00Z This blog captures the mundane and makes it entertainment. On the Runway Blog: Style Tumblrs We're Loving 2012-06-04T11:50:21Z And once again, readers are reminded how easily events can snowball out of control, how everything mundane and taken for granted can vanish in an instant. Books of The Times: ‘Canada,’ a Novel by Richard Ford 2012-05-21T21:59:38Z Such transcendence, he maintained, had been rendered largely inaccessible by the mundane grind of daily life. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z Much of her material is rooted in her supposedly mundane background, but she mixes things up with some sharp contemporary observations and the odd deliberately silly joke. This week's new live comedy 2013-01-12T06:00:17Z Suddenly, the mundane seems hilarious, and ordinary foods taste delicious. Is recreational pot use safe? 2013-05-23T12:18:00Z He was scheduled to arrive at a storage unit at the precise moment of departure, lest anything mundane threaten our good behavior. Ari Graynor: The First Time I Road-Tripped With My Dad 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z For instance, lighting the menorah turns the mundane act of lighting a candle into something sacred. Light the candles, strike a pose for Hanukkah yoga 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Today, I understand that growing as a professional requires acknowledging that the everyday job of teaching entails embracing the mundane duties of grading papers, attending curriculum meetings and supervising recess. Heartbreak becomes burnout for teachers when work is turbulent 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Of course, every shooting saddens me and makes me fear the mundane public spaces that could so quickly become sites of horror. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z “Better Things” is known for finding poignancy in life’s mundane moments, and shining a light on minor characters, and its last episodes provide growth and resolution for many. ‘Magical’ ending for ‘Better Things’ fifth and final season 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s a bit heavy-handed but the way it takes the mundane and twists it into something strange is very clever. Colony: sci-fi show realistically depicts America under occupation – by aliens 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z While "business travel" might seem like one of life's more humdrum contradictions--a necessary marriage of the exotic and the mundane--experience teaches that it is among the richest. Rewards Of The Road 2011-02-02T23:00:00Z But for me, what resonates about this list is how mundane parts of it are, how recognizable — not specialized but common, titles we might discover on our own shelves. Osama bin Laden's bookshelf revealed: What you can learn from his reading list 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The most mundane tasks — the morning shave, or hanging up your hat and coat in a cafe — become drawn-out rituals that fill out the hours lying heavy in your hands. Theater Review: ‘In Paris’ Stars Mikhail Baryshnikov 2012-08-03T22:57:36Z The new Emma navigated a more mundane Audi, but with 32 satellites at her disposal, she was a whiz at directions. Modern Love: Competing With Another Woman, or at Least a Voice 2012-09-28T18:17:37Z It might be mundane or dramatic, involve great sacrifice or great relief. The abortion I didn’t want 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z It is not the mundane object that you might expect of such a utilitarian item. Spring breakers import Cuban rum, cigars and racist curios 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z “The last thing you want to do is fall for someone and find out their art is bad. We don’t have mundane conversations. We get bored, both of us, with the mundane.” Drawn to a Jazzwoman and Her Trumpet’s Clarion Call 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z I complain that sex is not communicative except in the most mundane ways. Why sex and love don’t belong in the same bed 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Other companies are hiding the handles on more mundane models. Design: Some Handles Go Into Hiding; Others Make Grand Entrance 2011-07-03T03:27:01Z These ingredients align the film and novel with magical realism, a catchall label for a branch of Latin American and world literature, in which mundane events merge with otherworldly occurrences. It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z She walks back home as the man’s figure recedes, dispassionately narrating the mundane psychosis familiar to anyone who has ever spent too much time alone. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Suitably, for a play that seeks the wonderful in the mundane, scenic designer J.D. NextStop Theatre’s ‘Middletown’ ponders the potentially monumental 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Q. What’s the passion for watches that attracts people as an escape from the mundane instead of visiting, say, a travel website? Special Report: Watches: Hodinkee, Watch Cheerleader 2014-03-27T12:01:18Z The solo stuff allows me to do more vulnerable and maybe more personal, more relatable things; maybe reflect on the mundane a little bit more. Craig Finn keeps the faith: “We live in divided times, but I do believe that people are inherently good” 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Just as Gervais drew from his own experience to create the mundane life depicted in the original "The Office" in 2001, he also mined his past for the sequel. Ricky Gervais' shtick gets tricky in Trump and Brexit era 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z But it’s often the most mundane entries that garner the most heated criticism. Money Diaries, Where Millennial Women Go to Judge One Another’s Spending Habits 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z And because nearly every minute of their lives can be recorded, their most mundane or traumatic moments are fodder for the world to endlessly consume and condemn. What We Can Learn From Women Who Break the Rules 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Americans are prone to preserving such mundane and fragile — yet powerful — oddities, and then giving them to museums for public enjoyment, Mr. Bird said in a phone interview. Antiques: Cakes for Celebrities, Coveted by Collectors 2013-05-09T19:36:12Z Ms Keegan takes on the meaningful and mundane with wit and grace. Tangible traces 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z In the historical exhibition, we are led from early mechanical calculators to an advance that shaped computing for decades but relied on mundane material: paper cards with holes punched in them. Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. 2012-09-28T17:20:02Z What struck me most – and I've tried to get this across in my paintings – is the intriguing interface between the mundane and the totally unexpected. The artist who spied on MI6 2011-02-14T08:00:02Z “We call it ‘the digital mundane’, the idea that the digital is entering into your life even when you’re not asking for it. ‘You can track everything’: the parents who digitise their babies’ lives 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine a place like the Vertical operating now, in an era where mundane celebrity interactions are chronicled on anonymously run Instagram accounts. The Way We Worked Out 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Since perspective is so powerful, maybe merely appreciating the mundane is “making the most of it.” Searching for meaning in a midlife crisis 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z One, relatively mundane, is an inventory of all the works, tools and materials from Valadier’s workshop, compiled after his death by his son Giuseppe, who collaborated with his father on some of the objects here. With a Centerpiece Like This, Who Needed Cake? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Pottery, silver coins, iron arrowheads, limestone pitchers, scraps of parchment — such are the seemingly mundane yields of many archaeological excavations, and they are prevalent here as well. Exhibition Review: ?The Dead Sea Scrolls? at Discovery Times Square - Review 2011-10-28T22:51:17Z And it may be something mundane, like losing interest in her for any of the common, often impersonal reasons people lose interest in each other. Carolyn Hax: Coping with a husband uninterested in sex The threats they all face are also more mundane than in the average frontier tale: roving bandits, tainted drinking water, the perils of a rushing river. ‘Yellowstone’ Gets a Prequel in ‘1883,’ but It Wasn’t Easy 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z There’s little sense of how stunt people actually execute their seemingly impossible feats and without this sense of work, these scenes seem mundane, even unexciting. ‘Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story’ Review: A Woman’s Right to Fight 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z “Garner,” writes Knight, “has an ear for life’s mundane madness.” Essential Arts & Culture: Sneak peek of the new Marciano, Obama's library, Tennessee Williams in dance 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z But you quickly got drawn into this beautifully naive world Chris had created, where Frank's blind ambition for fame contrasted markedly with his mundane daily duties – "shopping for me mum" and so on. I can't believe Frank's gone 2010-06-22T08:45:00Z “We just automated that process, allowing them to remove the mundane jobs, because it just gets boring after a while,” Sean Cooper, a Didimo developer, said. A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z There is also something moving and emotional about Mary Katrantzou ’s absolute commitment to color, pattern, embellishment and the concept of turning the mundane — a telephone, a typewriter or a pencil — into the sublime. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z And although much of “This Beautiful Life” has a mundane air of rehashed news and an inside-baseball view of New York’s insular prep-school world, there are isolated moments when the writing takes flight. Books Of the Times: No Vaccine for Agony From Viral E-Mail 2011-07-24T22:22:40Z The letters are appearing a year after the publication of Orwell’s diaries, which focused on the concrete and often mundane details of his daily life, including the number of eggs laid by his hens. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z Boring was not just an irony-fest, she said, but a way of seeing beauty in the mundane. Boring festival brings unexpected intrigue 2012-11-25T19:53:11Z He appeared as a member of the Frightened family, each of whose members had a hairpiece that flipped up in horror at the most mundane occurrence. Buck Henry, Who Helped Create ‘Get Smart’ and Adapt ‘The Graduate,’ Dies at 89 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Ono, also a producer on the series, tweeted an article without comment that claims she is merely performing “mundane tasks” as the band gets to work. The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z But outside the spotlight and the enchantment of our collective worship, there are other artists, who turn mundane actions into magic, who approach humble tasks with perfect artistry. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z “I walked by this sort of mundane bank on the corner of 6th Avenue, and its ghostly presence struck me,” he said of mural. Trying to Save a 1950s Mural of 1800s Chelsea From Demolition 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z There seems to be no situation, however awkward or mundane, in which Kennedy can’t discover humor and humanity. A Parable About Good, Evil and the Inevitable 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z As I wrote in my original review, Pamela Adlon’s series, which she co-created with Louis C.K., “finds comedy in. . . mundane moments, making it at once universal in tone and intimately autobiographical.” Best of 2016: From “The Crown” to “Superstore,” here are the 15 best series of the year 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Wide-open and freewheeling, with no particular end in sight, the pleasurable if mundane world simply unfolds. Ricardo Valverde at Vincent Price museum: Fresh look at a probing eye 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The process part gets a bit mired in self-help talk, but the cinematic product transcends the mundane through its setting: the Grand Canyon. The Dance on Camera Festival Turns 50, Embracing Its Niche 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The work was mundane, but it placed him in the middle of a bird paradise. A special reunion at the National Arboretum 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But the pictures are so strong, the vision so sustained that mundane curiosity seems almost irreverent. Robert Gardner Dies at 88; Filmed Cultural Practices 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s to keep our daily, mundane problems in perspective. 10 ways to manage stress, according to mental health experts 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z And yet now here we have a London FemC whose very Englishness works for her, who appeals precisely because she is so rooted in the maddening or mundane minutiae of British life. New band of the day: Lady Lykez )No 1,509) 2013-05-09T15:02:23Z It's a frustratingly mundane reason for a great band to fall short, but on this occasion the idea of Hercules & Love Affair proves more potent than the delivery. Hercules & Love Affair – review 2012-08-08T16:44:23Z These actions, while seemingly mundane, in Mr. Carter’s weathered hands are like sacred moves. Dance Review: ?Paradance? at the French Institute - Review 2011-10-11T20:46:43Z Our new pope has that kind of mundane secular side and, ever since he was a kid, he’s had an inclination to meet celebrities. Paolo Sorrentino: ‘My characters’ struggles are the struggles I have’ 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Here, the subtle use of incidental music occasionally augments the action, but otherwise you're left to watch people going through this universal, at times mundane, yet utterly incredible experience, unprodded. One Born Every Minute: labours of love 2011-01-10T14:35:11Z But his tendency is to demystify, likening hypnosis to mundane moments of extreme focus, like watching a horror movie or daydreaming. You Are Getting Sleepy. When You Wake Up, You Will Be an Improv Star. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z In precise yet modest photographs, he pictured the archipelago as a string of mundane details in awkward suspension that crystallized the everyday into ghostly portraits of self and nation. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z They tend to be about teenage girls on the tipping point: from childhood into adulthood, but also from a very real, mundane world into somewhere far stranger and more magical. Top 10 Fiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Soon enough, he gets pulled out of his mundane job to look into the suspicious deaths of international students from a private college. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Jack Irish’ and ‘Swiped’ 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z My god, I thought when I read it, my hurt was so mundane. Perspective | Notes from a miscarriage 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z They face some prejudice, but their love is about the mundane and the ordinary. 'Poster boys for love in old age' 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z But far from any kind of scene or fad, on the streets of New York and Los Angeles, seeing women cruising down the streets has become something mundane rather than an oddity to point at. A guide to a hopeful 2016: a Guardian list of things to look forward to 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The postal museum, by contrast, takes mundane objects you might pass by and brings them closer to you. We now know that the Postal Service can change history. This museum has argued that for decades. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z A mundane sound interrupts the contemplative mood; the next shot is of a cleaner steering a floor polisher across a shining floor. Frederick Wiseman Turns to National Gallery in London for His Latest Documentary 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Yet they also pose a rather mundane question: how on earth did that get in here? Henry Moore sculpture makes epic journey 2012-05-21T15:01:50Z “Sometimes it’s fun, but it can get mundane, too,” he said of maintaining his wife’s digital empire, a full-time job. Coco Rocha, Expanding Her Efforts To Be a Role Model 2012-08-31T21:17:25Z His 2,250-page diary was discovered in the 1930s, and Burns uses it to counter the horror of battle with mundane facts of urban life away from the front. Ken Burns's The Civil War: America's greatest documentary rides again 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The mundane jobs run seven hours a day. Snipes will find activities, low pay in Pa. prison 2010-12-09T14:46:00Z The lockdown drew us closer and we grew to appreciate our compatibility in both the mundane and the extreme. I live in Tokyo. He lives in D.C. Omicron forced us to marry if we ever wanted to see each other. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Most of my students were Japanese businessmen in expensive suits who said mundane things like, “My hobby is watching movies.” He Saved His Last Lesson for Me 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z I’m always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to. It Was Justin Peck’s First ‘Rodeo,’ and He Turned It on Its Head 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Whether it’s the mundane absence of a thank-you note or the highly charged presence of a Confederate flag, a calm and humble approach — one friend to another — is nearly always worth it. What Can I Say to the ‘QAnon Mom’ Next Door? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Once again, thank you Ms. Clark for a tempting and inviting spin on a dish that is usually mundane and/or unappreciated. Mac and Cheese Eats Its Vegetables 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The story positioned Roderick as a hardheaded parent deriving some pleasure in making his increasingly frustrated kid learn a mundane task the unnecessarily hard way as a life lesson of sorts. Seattle’s John Roderick, aka ‘Bean Dad,’ apologizes after social media backlash 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z And anybody who knows anything about families knows a lot of what you say and do is totally mundane and totally boring. Table For Three: The Mother of All ‘Housewives’ 2013-06-14T15:47:28Z The bead curtain might transform an ordinary, even kitschy element from Gonzalez-Torres' Cuban heritage into an obvious experiential symbol for passage between mundane realms. Loss permeates Jim Hodges' art; prepare for heartbreak 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z On the show, the Fishers lived in the rooms above their funeral parlor and mortuary, but taking in and sending off bodies never grew mundane. The lesson of "Six Feet Under," 20 years later: "We're not really as in control as we all think" 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z From the mundane - wedding champagne flutes covered in sequins and bows - to the more spectacular - a life-sized Dracula and flashing neon crucifixes - Bucharest's Kitsch Museum celebrates questionable taste of the past and present. Romanian museum celebrates the creativity of kitsch 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The concerns extend from the mortal to the mundane. Trying to make sense of the world of ubiquitous surveillance 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The title captures the collection’s breadth, its mixture of the strange and the mundane. Stories of Everyday Strangeness, in the Midwest and Beyond 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z As it turns out, the object of more men’s fantasies than any other woman in history left a paper trail that is utterly mundane. T Magazine: Hello Again, Norma Jeane 2011-03-01T18:40:52Z Misrepresentations of paternity and identity are engineered right alongside the more mundane deceits that spring from infidelity and murder. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z To watch these mundane, culturally specific details exposed on the big screen—the very things that I and many Asian-American kids once wanted to hide—felt quietly radical. What “Always Be My Maybe” Gets About Making an Asian-American Rom-Com 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z All are connected to specific memories in which the mundane transforms into the visionary. 2010-01-20T05:20:00Z Around it lie mundane bric-a-brac: pens, markers, a notepad, a Rubik's cube. No Man's Sky Is Becoming Delightfully Mysterious and Weird 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Where the mundane meets the million-dollar, and the familiar meets the fabulous. Five hours at the unofficial Starbucks of New York Fashion Week 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z It’s easy to let words paint pictures if what’s in front of you is mundane. Beckett’s ‘Embers,’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But Ms. Angelos’s text captures the inquisitive, sometimes self-lacerating tone of Sontag’s writing, as well as the daily patterns of her life, through mundane details like the lists of books she intends to read. | 'Sontag: Reborn': Moe Angelos?s ?Sontag: Reborn? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-08T21:53:50Z The West Indies and the Spanish Main By Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope, on the way to the West Indies, does complain rather a lot about such mundane troubles as seasickness and so on. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z He understood that life was political on every level, however mundane. What Ernest Cole’s Hidden Camera Revealed 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z "Miller knows very well that small, simple, mundane grudges can turn people into monsters," van Hove said. Meet Ivo van Hove, the most provocatively illuminating theater director right now 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z This has the effect of universalizing Johan and Marianne, whose shared history is as mundane and fraught as that of any long-term relationship. ‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ Adapted From Ingmar Bergman 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z But, she complains, “My life couldn’t be more mundane.” Review: ‘Shadowhunters,’ a Teenage Fantasyland Roamed by Demon Killers 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The photos all show seemingly mundane moments of family life: A parent bathing an infant in a kitchen sink, another wrangling toddlers into a stroller, or coaxing a forkful of food into a daughter’s mouth. What would parenting be like if fathers took six months of parental leave? Take a look. 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z We have a long walk ahead, but he keeps making us stop to talk to strangers and watch completely mundane rodents, and I start to give in to this spry older man and his trail. A 17-Mile Hike to Unite San Francisco 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z But the Old City resists that mundane vision. For a week, Jerusalem's Old City lightens up 2011-06-16T15:18:17Z And why not notice that a youngish couple’s apparently mundane quandaries and decisions — about work, sex, adopting a pet, becoming parents — are local instances of the mysteries that define the human condition? Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z Thomson notes that Muybridge's photo series of animals in motion, or of naked men and women walking or running or performing mundane tasks, have no intrinsic dramatic tension, tell no story. The Big Screen by David Thomson – review 2012-10-12T21:55:01Z Israel operates the tour year-round — rainy winter days have an especially “Twin Peaks” vibe, particularly for those seeking the thrill of the terror beneath the mundane while wearing plaid flannel. It’s happening again: Inside Western Washington’s ‘Twin Peaks’ tourism 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s just curious how a man–period–adjusts to mundane life after 19 years of being brutalized and powerless, deserved or not. TV Tonight: Rectify 2013-04-22T17:09:03Z These are sharp points along the conch shell of a narrative, poking at and drawing the reader inward until the most mundane elements of the story become off-kilter and sinister. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z But the show also had a remarkable ability to mythologize utterly mundane parts of that sun-baked city, like “The Sopranos” did for northern New Jersey. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2, Episode 2: What’s Hoboken Got to Do With It? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z "The book is crucial, too - and this show's connect-the-dots story line is so simplistic that the extravagantly talented King's life emerges as a mundane version of the long-suffering little woman," it added. 'Beautiful: The Carole King Musical' star wins critical praise 2014-01-13T19:28:19Z Q. A mundane but common problem: What should you do if you lose your passport? Q&A: Going Abroad? How the State Department Can Help 2013-01-30T15:06:35Z But the material is resolutely safe, a comedy of the mundane. From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The material features a wide collection of topics: heartbreak, the mundane, race, gender, heartbreak, religion, more heartbreak. Inside the Brutal World of Comedy Open Mikes 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z How can one make it comfortingly familiar but not mundane, thrilling without losing its simplicity? At Chicks Isan in Downtown Brooklyn, the Grilled Chicken Stands Above 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The pages of fashion magazines are vellum-thin panes dividing the mundane reality of skin problems and unruly body hair and an unattainable realm where everyone has thigh gaps and lacks pores. “The Bold Type,” “Dietland” and fashion: The feminist army is assembling (literally) in t... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z What makes the marital dissonance on screen so gripping is the subtle ambiguity of interactions between the couple, which appear mundane but are freighted with significance. Gemma Arterton: ‘Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z But that mundane point of overlap tells you something about each group. Music Review: E. J. Strickland Project and Olatuja Project at 92Y Tribeca 2012-01-19T23:32:37Z He makes the most mundane language caper and dance, revealing how absurd attempts at communication can be. Theater Review: ‘Realistic Joneses’ Stars Toni Collette and Michael C. Hall 2014-04-07T02:00:12Z Her style mixes straightforward language and confessional frankness with sudden disjunctures and imagines mundane scenes into which strange images intercede. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Even something as "mundane" as the humble Radish tastes different grown at different part of the year and in different places and by different growing practices. Wines That Resound in Memory 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Such images were not simply tokens of his endlessly inventive mind, but testaments to his all-embracing artistic vision, which recognized the extraordinary in the mundane, the familiar in the fantastic. An Appraisal: The Work of Gabriel García Márquez 2014-04-18T01:44:10Z In other words, it’s time for her and everyone else to face the tougher realities of the adult world, one whose mundane elements don’t reflect actual reality and don't outwardly comment upon it. "Stranger Things" wants to be everybody's memory and nobody's parable 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The store sells all of life’s mundane items, which in the end get trashed, recycled or flushed. Closing Up Shop on a Marriage 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In a film of mostly mixed merits, such mysterious highs sustain the mundane lows. Review: Los Angeles Through a Stranger’s Eyes in ‘No Light and No Land Anywhere’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Sex, for Heyman’s characters, can be isolating, tender, exciting, infuriating; sometimes satisfying, sometimes not; sometimes passionately spontaneous, sometimes sweetly mundane, “a little like brushing and flossing, something almost hygienic, good for you.” The Erotic Truths of “Scary Old Sex” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Even as they traveled the world advocating to abolish the death penalty, basic human interactions and mundane activities like grocery-shopping triggered panic attacks. Against all odds: the most incredible love story you'll read today 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z The image of longing, in the form of reaching arms, was a frequent sight, but the dead-serious faces of the dancers made such actions mundane. Dance Review: Resistance and Desire, With a Little Mud Wrestling 2011-05-15T21:34:05Z The genius of the song, aside from its towering musical architecture, is that basic lyrical sentiment, a kind of pure pop poetry that lends intense drama to even the most mundane crisis. We’re all livin’ on a prayer: How a hair band anthem from the least cool ’80s rockers became a classic 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z “It was important to me to associate colors with one every day, mundane item,” Ms. Katrantzou said, revealing that there was method in her madness. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z Saturday 29 December Like all William Trevor stories with a deceivingly quiet, perhaps even mundane façade, "Three People" reveals the danger, sometimes dark, sometimes fatalistic, sometimes inexplicable, underneath the surface. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z It is also full of Beckettian shifts in register, from the mundane to the metaphysical, as well as bits of business that have the jaunty rhythms of vaudeville routines. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z Demetri Martin reflects on the mundane in his new stand-up special. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Overthinker’ and ‘Ronny Chieng: International Student’ 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The cartoonist has an uncanny gift for dramatizing mundane realities and the absurd anxieties that accompany them. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But as governor, he made his name with more mundane initiatives such as an overhaul of the property-tax system. When former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura became Minnesota governor 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z With Wu-Tang Clan, I'm a fan of their occulted view of the mundane and everyday, specifically seeing the trials of streetlife through the prism of martial arts and Oriental philosophy. 'I have a tattoo of Bruce Springsteen wearing 3D glasses on my leg' 2011-02-08T11:56:00Z They gathered material as mundane as Vivien Leigh’s thank-you letters on hotel stationery and Walt Disney’s insurance paperwork. Antiques: Tennessee Williams: Life Is All Memory 2011-04-14T22:13:19Z Eric’s jokes are about the mundane details of our everyday lives together that he somehow twists, shimmies and polishes into hilarious anecdotes. When Your Love Life Is a Punch Line 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z When he was in Iraq, I bet he never thought he’d deal with something as mundane as car trouble again.” Homeland Watch: The Expendables 2012-10-15T12:00:23Z The trailers are as colorful perhaps, but mundane in their too-close-to-reality approach. Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z And if you allow yourself to get intoxicated by the pleasures of formulaic romantic comedy, you might even forget just how mundane the material really is. | 'Phoenix': A Flash in the Pan Carries Complications at TBG Studio Theater 2010-04-21T20:19:00Z In the study, researchers monitored the brains of participants doing a mundane, repetitive task and interrupted them occasionally to see what they were thinking about. Focus is important to productivity. But it’s daydreaming that makes us happy. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z At the time, I was struggling to overcome the feeling that my life felt mundane. Photographer Clare Gallagher's best shot 2012-02-08T22:30:00Z These are the jumping-off points for a succession of scenes, mundane and extraordinary, comic and sad, nearly all of which are narrated as well as dramatized. | 'The Past Is a Grotesque Animal': ?El Pasado Es un Animal Grotesco? at the Public Theater 2012-01-10T21:45:50Z Theirs is mostly a backstage job, dealing with the mundane: contracts and equipment, schedules and security, advertising and accounting. In Trippy Times, Bill Graham Took Care of Reality 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z On its own, this would have made good comedy, as there were also sideswipes at Bear Grylls' and Dan Snow's annoying presentational tics of adding drama to the tediously mundane. TV review: Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life; Veep; Walking and Talking 2012-06-25T22:00:01Z These renderings of her peripatetic adventures are periodically interrupted by diary-like accounts of her rather mundane retired life on a Scottish island. ‘Sweet Caress’ review: A portrait of a photographer’s tumultuous career 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z If we presume that human cloning may one day become a mundane, everyday reality, then maybe it's time to start thinking more positively about our soon-to-arrive genetically engineered pseudo-siblings. Could Never Let Me Go give human clones a good name? 2011-02-05T00:06:01Z By the time it ended, "Suffering, Inc." had melded the surreal and the mundane, Chekhov's world and our own. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z Suddenly, a witty analysis of the quotidian was edgeless and mundane. How late-night political comedy needs to evolve: Be more subversive 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z "I find Larry David talking about what he did today less mundane than him talking about 'Seinfeld,'" he said in an interview. ArtsBeat: Jeff Garlin Joins the Podcast Fray 2013-01-08T18:15:08Z The accident’s cause is mundane — a technician dropped a wrench — and yet it led to an emergency in which experts thought a nuclear explosion was imminent. There are two Washingtons, and this week you can see both of them on screen 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z I don’t want to give anything away, but I highly recommend this series to anyone who likes magic, fantasy or the existential search for meaning in our mundane lives! Jason Segel: By the Book 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z He grew up in Grays; an Essex town on the northern side of the Thames estuary which he describes as "ordinary mundane suburbia". Brand designs 2010-04-06T07:00:00Z The Electro encounter is dark and murky, with a flat, mundane style familiar from television. The Spell ‘Doctor Strange’ Is Missing: Sam Raimi’s Macabre Vision 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Richards would have you believe that he doesn't pay attention to such mundane monetary matters, but nor is he much for routine. What's the ideal Rolling Stones set list? 2013-05-23T22:14:00Z Jennings is back as Bennett in the hour-long Cocktail Sticks, in which the middle-aged writer regrets the uneventful ordinariness of his Leeds childhood, only to realise belatedly that the apparently mundane contains its own mystery. Hymn/Cocktail Sticks – review 2012-12-17T17:49:48Z Happily, with high fashion once again appropriating the mundane sweatshirt, there are plenty of cool options. Shopping Snapshots: July 26 2012-07-24T21:44:26Z After the young man in the movie finds an appropriate place for the lost thing, he fades back into workaday life, his sense of wonder eclipsed by mundane experience. Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z Still living in penury and haunted by his debts, he settled for a time in Balham, where he forced himself to submit to "a mundane routine of working, thinking and writing". 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z He expressed disappointment over the publisher’s move, and disputed the idea that you could divide Marx’s work into the important and the mundane. Claiming a Copyright on Marx? How Uncomradely 2014-05-01T02:53:35Z If that doesn’t sound scary to you, then you don’t know Mr. McDonagh, who understands that the most profound shock effects are often rooted in life’s most mundane elements. Review: A Criminally Enjoyable ‘Hangmen’ from Martin McDonagh 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The work I tended to like was abstract — difficult, often impenetrable pieces whose formal complexity seemed to elevate the art to something more than the mundane. Oskar Eustis: The First Time I Burned Money (and Found My Calling) 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The confessions and tensions are commonplace, but “The Humans” is never less than high on the terrible power of the mundane. ‘The Humans’ Review: Reasons (Not) to Be Cheerful 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Views that linger on the mundane slices of Denise and Alicia's day-to-day lives show us what that means instead of explaining it. "Master of None" returns for an unexpected third season with "Moments in Love" 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s so mundane and unvarnished that it’s surprising. The sneaky power of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”: How Jerry Seinfeld cracks celebrities open 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z If it all sounds mundane, it sort of is, but I like How to Make It in America less for what it is than for what it isn't: a dirty, rotten reality show. 2010-02-16T17:53:00Z Though inconsequential things were what Mr. Mindel said he was seeking, he understood that expectations ran high for even such mundane stuff as the logo ashtrays generations of restaurant guests slipped into their pockets. Four Seasons Restaurant Auction Tops $4.1 Million 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z At this price, we should always have some bubbly on hand to turn a mundane day into a celebration. Sip this $13 prosecco to turn an ordinary day into a celebration 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z As a cancer drama, “After Everything” is refreshingly mundane, focusing less on the high stakes of illness than on how two young people talk to each other in sickness and in health. Review: In ‘After Everything,’ a Young Love Blooms in Crisis 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The events of the episode were mostly mundane, if charged with emotion. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 4: Is Alison O.K.? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Mr. David shares Mr. Seinfeld’s love of obsessing over the mundane details of life, but he also seems willing to go anywhere for a big laugh. Critic’s Notebook: Jerry Seinfeld Is Still at Home Doing Stand-Up 2012-10-14T21:56:07Z The stars who’ve succeeded in the genre understand its deglamourizing potential; to really do well on reality TV, one needs to be willing to seem mundane and gross. Review: Mariah's World Tarnishes a Perfect Image 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z That it doesn’t aim higher is clear enough from the fact that narration is provided not by a reserved voice of authority but by Jeff Foxworthy, comedian of the rural mundane. Television Review: ‘The Week the Women Went,’ on Lifetime 2012-08-13T22:24:20Z In many cases, a journalist’s mundane day suddenly turned into one of the most impactful of their career and all skills are brought to bear. Podcast revisits how the biggest stories unfolded on TV news 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z “The look on people’s faces when they hear classical voices in such a mundane place is very exciting,” Ferguson added. Arias in open air as opera singers surprise Washington D.C. area park goers 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Instead, drawing on a prodigious memory, Cope spun memorable tales from mundane training incidents and absurd and wondrous encounters in battle-scarred European towns. 'How the World Was' a vivid tale of a 20th century California boyhood 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z He gets super enthusiastic about a "new" thing, spends a lot of time and money doing the fun and exciting part, but loses interest when the tough, mundane reality of running a business hits. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Seeking a middle ground when one spouse works and the other plays 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z I’ve taken that theme of the preciousness of time, which in its mundane sense is measuring someone overdue in their car park spot, and the value of that. ‘Sgt. Pepper at 50’ Artists on How the Beatles’ Album Inspired Them 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z It is cast as a love letter, perhaps as much to their friendship as to a food whose very name screams mundane. Binding the Nation in Its Love of Meatloaf 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z And the more mundane the better, because those are the tasks that add up. This Life: ?You Look Great? and Other Lies 2011-06-10T17:10:41Z The conceptual photographer Uta Barth won her award for photographing the same mundane objects in nondescript surroundings that we all do. How to win one of the MacArthur Foundation's 'genius grants' 2012-10-02T15:35:54Z But this show has always been good at letting small moments do a lot of work, and even though this feels like a more mundane sphere than usual, Balfe and Menzies create their own shorthand. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 1: All That Was Me Is Gone 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z I've had great desert sunsets and great beach sunsets," he says, "but one of my favorites is regular and mundane: from the roof of my office in the industrial Melbourne suburb of Footscray. The World's Most Beautiful Sunsets 2010-06-18T19:00:00Z The more mundane me is a “Hopeful Maybe” — so don’t add me to the catering count.’ The Aspirational R.S.V.P.: Saying Yes When You Mean No 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Layman's gift, in part, is in making the mundane look monumental and in imbuing unimpressive sights — an ice-cube tray, an accumulation of used Kleenex — with strangely universal meanings. Photographer captures curious power of common items 2012-01-13T18:22:42Z Working with grace and patience, Mr. Fernández makes the mundane captivating. ‘The Empty Hours,’ Directed by Aarón Fernández 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z You may think wonderingly of how momentousness emerges from mundane moments. | 'The Mountaintop': ?The Mountaintop,? With Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett 2011-10-14T02:01:03Z Much like Papers, Please, the designer Lucas Pope’s previous game, in which you played as an agent at an Eastern European border checkpoint, the story is told through the lens of a mundane vocation. The Best Video Games of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Each individual, she wrote, is “made from divine and mundane ingredients available to us all.” The Wild Woman Awakens 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The middle bit — all the stuff about how one copes with the mundane reality of one’s fate — is less travelled territory. When Barack met Michelle: the presidential biopic as love story 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z One person's deviant behaviour is another's mundane activity. 50 Shades of Grey matter: the psychology of sexual arousal 2012-08-08T12:01:00Z No news of the death of a loved one, no report of a dire medical prognosis — just a mundane note of spousal disappointment. The text from Eve Rodsky's husband that made her say "I'm done" with their division of labor 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z James Fenton’s “Kunstler” set looks mundane at first: stage; lectern; small table bearing coffee, water and snacks; a basic desk and chair. | Westchester: A Review of ‘Kunstler,’ at Hudson Stage 2013-05-04T00:09:05Z I always hate it when famous actors take on mundane characters. Why Reggie Watts learned to be funny 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z And one of his gifts as a writer is his ability to slip so easily between the profound and the mundane. David Sedaris Leaves His Audiences Weeping. And Still Wanting More. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Waters is a famous control freak, scheduling even the most mundane aspects of his life in appointments. John Waters on hitchhiking across the US: 'I wanted something I couldn't control, something I couldn't plan' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z For an artist as successful as Mr. Richter, work also means the more mundane business of nurturing a career. Movie Review: ?Gerhard Richter Painting,? a Documentary 2012-03-13T22:50:54Z Ben Aroya is fond of capturing people in mundane moments: walking dogs, watching internet videos, listening to music. ‘All Eyes Off Me’ Review: Scenes of Seduction 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Fortunately, Ichabbie doesn’t have to do any of those mundane things because they still have "holy"/unholy battles to fight. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Angels and demons 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Feminism pervades everything here, both the fantastic and the mundane. Review | The appeal of ‘And I Do Not Forgive You’ is hard to articulate but impossible to resist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z It is not developmentally appropriate for him to sit and do mundane tasks. Perspective | When a 5-year-old has trouble transitioning from playing to learning 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The poems often spring from mundane items — a button, feet, a spoon — then develop into rich, sprawling narratives. The National Book Award finalists in poetry 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z “Frank” is the rare film in which the hero’s origin seems mundane. 'Frank' Riffs on the Pop Curiosity Frank Sidebottom 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z In the book’s opening, Dorfman muses: “If we talked about heartbreak more, would we feel as bad about it? Or would it kind of be more mundane in a less painful way.” Post-‘Bachelorette,’ Andi Dorfman finds happiness in a ‘Single State of Mind’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z It is unique: a mundane and gloomily worthy Victorian novel called A Human Document, recreated, reinvented and retold, page by page, into the adventures of a man named Toge. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z This sudden leap from the mundane to the existential—from caloric intake to inner serenity—is signature @SoSadToday; there really is no distance between the two things, Broder seems to be saying. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The dissolution months ago of our usual routines, modest and mundane as they may have been, has left many of us unmoored. Perspective | As time loses its meaning, the music of Morton Feldman gains new resonance 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Their movies didn’t seem particularly hung up on what it meant to be Asian-American, at least not in any explicit terms; they were alternately mystical and mundane, anguished and breezy. “Crazy Rich Asians” and the End Point of Representation 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z With the exception of the dramatic bombing and rescue that open the book, the materials with which Bernard Ashley builds this picture are generally the mundane, the small, the commonplace. Ronnie's War by Bernard Ashley 2010-08-13T23:07:00Z In each of nine silver gelatin prints, he holds out some mundane object — a bouquet of flowers, a carton of milk, or a plank of wood that extends out of frame. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Somehow, Ed was able to document life in the truest way, always finding beauty and staying connected to the otherwise mundane. Photographing as a Need 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The setup was mundane: A woman in a van with a mask and a dash cam. Break Out the Chewbacca Mask and You Won’t Laugh Alone 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, April 24: our contest to write lurid headlines for mundane news. Style Invitational: We beg you to differ — it’s our compare/contrast contest 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z While seeming mundane, the large patchwork of squares and rectangles of fabric that constitutes another piece has the painstaking proportional sensitivity of a field of tiny squares painted by Paul Klee, or a Schwitters collage. Art Review: A Textured Palette Without Much Paint 2011-01-27T22:58:12Z Between these mundane characters and what Auden requires of them stretches a dizzying gulf. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z He’s changed my view of even very mundane spaces, and it’s not too dramatic to say that he often creates the same effect with his nonfiction as J.G. How to be a better burglar: Creeping around in buildings with Geoff Manaugh and Jeff VanderMeer 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Life, Gold says, “is most often a series of mundane, unlikely events.” Review | With his mother chasing men and money, a boy learns to grow up on his own 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Xavier’s addiction isn’t to anything so mundane as alcohol or heroin, but instead to moth eating. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Subsequent audio files then move you from bedroom to bathroom to kitchen and back, exploring alimentation, purgation and other mundane aspects of the day-to-day. Seeking Pandemic Theater? Your Call Will Be Answered Shortly 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Caravaggio's elevation of the mundane and degenerate is what makes him unique for his time. Caravaggio and me 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z Of course, it also symbolizes a more mundane commonality. A Brief History of Oaths and Books 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z One factor in his Ellington preparation seems mundane, yet he referred to it both in his speech and during a tour of the building, as if it might be key: the long hours. The education of Dave Chappelle: How a D.C. arts school prepared him for stardom 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z But adding a layer of observation can transform mundane moments. From stationery fiends to hand dryer enthusiasts… who are you calling boring? 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z “The fantasy of authoritarianism distracts Americans from the mundane ways in which the mechanisms of political competition and checks and balances can erode,” Pepinsky argues. The quiet alarm of "Years and Years": A slow slide into dystopia, with cozy family dinners intact 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z A cantankerous character who worked mundane jobs before opening the gallery, Woodside had an outsize personality and flair for publicity, especially in the early days. John Braseth, steward of Woodside/Braseth's decades in the art business 2011-04-04T00:31:06Z With all the praise there's also been the perhaps inevitable backlash that the film is too mundane, that things like the stepfather subplots are too pedestrian. Ethan Hawke on life, films and experimenting 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z But making narrative sense of all these events, which involves establishing cause-and-effect relationships, a sensible timeline and a good pace, is the mundane but essential work of a good storyteller. 'Narcos' Episode 5 Recap: There Will Be a Future 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Like his new show, these early shorts would purport to offer viewers insight into mundane tasks, inspired by the YouTube explainers that fascinated the filmmaker. John Wilson Reveals the Absurd Poetry of New York 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z But now he's 100, living a mundane life in a nursing home. On the lam with 'The 100-Year-Old Man' 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Stacy Schiff may encapsulate the thrill of having been an American in Paris best: “It did what a foreign adventure is supposed to do — it made the mundane thrilling.” Newly Released Books 2011-02-16T22:45:21Z Broadly — and with plenty of exceptions — Lovecraft’s stories suggest huge and unfathomable horrors lurking just beneath the surface of the mundane world. Gods, Monsters and H.P. Lovecraft’s Uncanny Legacy 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z I both require silence during critical dialogue and scenes, and save my discussion until “downtime” where the mundane or relatively little is happening. How Quiet Should You Be During ‘Game of Thrones’? Fans Disagree 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z When classical music becomes part of our lives, we risk letting it become mundane and overlooking its wonders. Under Eschenbach, NSO pays dutiful homage to greatness 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “Get the laundry in, water the plants, walk the dog. Sometimes the mundane can be a mindful break, too.” The golden hour: 15 ways to change your life in a work-from-home lunch break 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The big irony in this attitude is that even in many mundane situations, fashion is a factor of power.” T Magazine: Speak Softly and Wear Big Shoulder Pads 2011-01-20T14:00:23Z Perhaps the true gift of Las Vegas is how it renders the extraordinary as mundane. U2 Returns, in Las Vegas Limbo 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z One good line amid the mundane improvisation: when Andy declares that the south rim of the canyon is so beautiful that he wants to live there, April wonders whether there’s a good school district. ArtsBeat Blog: WatchList: A "Parks and Recreation" Road Trip 2011-11-04T17:49:10Z But over the decades, the shopping cart has evolved from its mundane existence as the centerpiece of every grocery store run. Everyone Has a Theory About Shopping Carts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z The mundane — a series of weather reports, dryly delivered — bumps up against the violent and strange. 2 Batsheva-Bred Choreographers, Speaking in Their Own Tongues 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z While Mr. Oldenburg’s work is most often linked to the Pop Art of the 1960s, he saw his monumental versions of humble objects as more than just celebrations of the mundane. Claes Oldenburg Dies at 93; Pop Artist Made the Everyday Monumental 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z In a black-and-white 1974 photograph both ethereal and mundane, Frank Gohlke shows a man in profile lightly bundled up in warm clothes and standing in a grassy field among barren trees. Frank Gohlke photographs vernacular truths in 'Texas Memories' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z “The reason I love what I do is that it’s not decadent for the sake of it. There’s something very convivial about elevating the mundane by setting a tray or table.” ‘Napkins are the new fashion’: the improbable rise of tablescaping 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Today it is an art library, and its form is still an anomaly, but one of a different sort, as taller, more mundane buildings encroach. Cultured Traveler: The Paris That Awoke to Atget?s Lens 2010-10-01T14:14:00Z With two young children to support, she was found work as a waitress, and began to hate her mundane life. The Mummers: 'We're honouring his spirit completely' 2011-01-20T22:18:01Z Indeed, the book is largely dedicated to revealing that the quantum is ordinary, that there is magic in the mundane. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Here she focuses on Basquiat’s life before he was an art world superstar and bohemian idol, when street art and the mundane pressures of everyday life were his focus. New York Art Guide: How to Navigate Museums This Holiday 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Thursday at a slightly more mundane club, Michael Benjamin Lerner debuted new material from his Seattle band Telekenesis. SXSW Day 3: Indians, Telekenesis, Angel Haze 2013-03-15T13:47:00Z It is the look of violence that has become mundane, officious versus malicious. The Bourne Masculinity: Matt Damon’s hyper-aggressive, emotionally fragile “good guy with a gun” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z “The mundane pattern of work and dinner and putting the kids to bed,” Ms. Evanguelidi said, “it’s not my existence. The traditional family setup is just so passé.” The ‘Kidbutz’ of Topanga Canyon 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Their very slightness gives these details power — life’s small pleasures, ripped away before time could make them mundane. ‘Next Life Might Be Kinder’: Howard Norman’s riveting exploration of grief, loss and truth When I was in full-time clinical practice, and some of the most unusual cases seemed to find me, these bizarre cases that made Oliver Sacks’s look mundane. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The Mind of God’ 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z The group stumbles through mundane suburban life, unwittingly creating fiascoes at amusement parks, nursing homes and trailer parks. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Back’ and ‘Project Runway’ 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Topics ranged from the mundane to the metaphysical – which clothes they wore to go shopping to their thoughts on the nature of happiness. The way we were: Mass Observation at the Photographers' Gallery 2013-07-20T23:05:48Z War was a constant backdrop to daily life, more mundane than frightening at times. Shehan Karunatilaka Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z It inscribes in the viewer’s mind an arc from the mundane fact of burnt paper to imagined reaches of the earth and the cosmos. Art in Review: Chris McCaw: ‘Marking Time’ 2012-12-27T22:03:05Z Humans need to find meaning in the mundane, patterns in random coincidence. Motherlode Blog: Loving Your Child's Differences 2011-10-04T16:05:35Z It’s all about how circumstances can make mundane life an overwhelming challenge. TV Tonight: Rectify 2013-04-22T17:09:03Z This compact study of apocalyptic dreams, directed by James Macdonald and seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, portrayed four anxious, chatty women considering fears both present and future, and mundane and cosmic. The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z He was “Miles from Nowhere” but taking his time, an appealing philosophy for anyone trying to escape the mundane. Yusuf Islam at the Chicago Theatre: Cat Stevens songs and more 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Because a lot of creation is work — it’s the mundane. Michael Stipe on Working While He Sleeps and Savoring Mistakes 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Translated from the profane to the mundane, he said he was going to beat up Mr. McPherson next time he saw him. Is He Mellower? Ask the Guy Missing a Hand 2010-03-03T00:02:00Z His material is anchored in his bizarre everyday life, and his serial failure to cope with the most mundane situations. This week's new comedy 2011-03-05T00:07:44Z The magic resides in DiCamillo’s trademark ability to find the odd beauty and amazing possibilities in the mundane. Kate DiCamillo’s ‘Raymie Nightingale’ is a fairy tale for our times 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps part of what is so appealing, so fascinating about “Mad Men” is the refusal of bourgeois ordinariness, the struggle against it, in all of its poetic and mundane and tragic forms. Cultural Studies: On ?Mad Men,? The Allure of Messy Lives 2010-07-30T21:05:00Z Like Lydia Davis, Bennett, who is from the southwest of England, takes a state of mind closely associated with madness and places it in settings that are utterly domestic, mundane. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Some are dramatic, asking to pray for a neighbor’s death; most are mundane but no less important. Nostalgia: the yearning that will continue to carry the Trump message forward 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z She creates unique installations, often of a large scale, that put mundane objects next to machine parts and old tools. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z By amplifying this mundane detail, Waters takes an event that’s been mythified in our national imagination and brings it back to reality. We took John Waters to a John Waters art exhibit in Baltimore 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Lamar’s mother was an audible presence on “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City,” her voice mails scattered between songs, calling her son away from the hustle and back into the domestic mundane. Kendrick Lamar’s Capacious New Record 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z And a music video from the band Scattered Trees, called "Love and Leave," takes a look at the more mundane activities performed by lovesick Stormtroopers. The rise of the Stormtrooper 2011-03-08T16:40:00Z But the real impact of Oprah stretches far beyond the mundane operations of her business. Oprah Winfrey: will the US still worship the high priestess of the talkshow? 2010-12-26T11:08:01Z Such erasures are mundane and monumental all at once. Perspective | My mother has forgotten everything, including me. But her love is still here. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z They range from the mundane to the enigmatic: mud-encrusted traffic cones and swirling seaweed to the carcass of a pigeon lying next to a rose on the sand. London's river and its secrets 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Webb’s project is deliberately detached from society and urban life, but its playfulness and its paean to the mundane redeem it from mere retrograde rebellion. Critic's Notebook: The Art of Collecting Collections 2011-05-19T21:00:31Z There are mundane explanations and less fantastical crises available. A Kraken is loose in America 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z As Seierstad weaves the stories of Utoya’s campers with her central narrative about Breivik — revealing the mundane details of their family lives, their youthful ambitions, idealism and naïveté — the book attains an almost unbearable weight. Book Review Podcast: 'One of Us' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z “These places are beautiful. People are always looking to escape the mundane.” | Paying Tribute to the Mad Genius of Buckminster Fuller 2013-12-17T22:47:48Z Because their relationship is recounted through Dezi’s memories, which are themselves refracted through a prism of pain caused by heartbreak and the most mundane of ailments: a tooth ache. ‘Learn to Swim’ Review: A Tooth Ache and All This Jazz 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Even the title is an ironic allusion to the inertial power of the mundane—leftovers, tonight’s dinner as tomorrow’s lunch. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z They read more like memoirs, or a series of lightly fictionalized journal entries, recounting the mundane lives and off-kilter ruminations of their first-person narrators, who are either postgraduate students or blocked writers. Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z For one long weekend in early October, Lorde and I walked as one, me living a mundane life, Lorde chanting, "They used to shout my name, now they whisper it" like a skipping record. Tortured by music: The year's most insidious, relentless earworms 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z As to what that meant, she and Mr. Batmanglij agreed that instead of anything resembling formal dance, it would be “kind of impolite and raw, mixing the mundane and the extraordinary.” Netflix’s ‘The OA’ and the Transformative Power of Dance 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But both institutions denied this, stating a mundane scheduling conflict as the issue. The ‘Roe v. Wade’ movie has an all-star conservative cast and a bone to pick with the media 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z It was the sublime Heath – the Heath of imagination, conviction and passion – who took Britain into the European Community, but all too often Ziegler allows the mundane Heath to dominate the proceedings. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z Works from the past few years — "Tools," "Bookcase," "Sink with Lettuce," etc. — apply this close scrutiny to objects that are as mundane as can be. Kitchen cabinet as a glassware labyrinth: Isaac Layman's digital trickery lets you see more than the naked eye can 2010-07-08T20:44:00Z And the process is reversible: Film also changes reality, injecting new meanings and dimensions into its mute, mundane manifestations. How Abbas Kiarostami Had Me Thinking in Persian 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z In his early 20s, he had an insight: that photographs that juxtaposed the mundane and the exotic could transform an ordinary object into something desirable — and salable. Hiro, Fashion Photographer Who Captured the Surreal, Dies at 90 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z And so Shauf pushes this mundane Saturday night toward the metaphysical — the direction that life is always pushing us in if we loosen up and let ourselves be pushed. Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z This conflation of the high and the low — biblical morality juxtaposed with the mundane details of domesticity — is key to Smith’s frisky and irreverent comic attack. Review: ‘White Teeth,’ by Zadie Smith 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Not always artful art, but that matters less than the elevation of the mundane into something worth exploding. Music: ?Born to Die,? Lana Del Rey?s Debut Album 2012-01-25T15:42:22Z On a more mundane level, it was a foolhardy exercise in trying to duplicate the musical textures of a carefully mixed recording, using under-rehearsed musicians who often seemed to be feeling their way. Betty Buckley Sings From ‘Ghostlight’ at Joe’s Pub 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z She’d been conditioned to think of her own stories and the stories of other new parents as mundane, as niche, but she knew that they weren’t. Mom-Coms Latch On to the Raw Reality of New Motherhood 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Many of those lines are the background chatter of characters that help simulate a living world; one mundane interaction may require a dozen or more variations. A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z As the latest step in Channel 4's big plan to become the channel that documents every single mundane thing on earth in real time, it can't be faulted. Not even Noel Edmonds acknowledged that Easter was happening in TV land 2013-04-02T11:39:24Z Despite the gruesome imagery cemented in the public imagination by “Jaws,” most shark encounters are mundane. How to Survive in the ‘Shark Attack Capital of the World’ 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Dylan’s voice toggles between agitated rasp and measured narrative, the images meld the horrific into the mundane and back again. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z I felt that the film, with all this violence, and people trying to survive, and all the things that are actually happening, I wanted to have specific moments that were mundane, absurd. In "Whether the Weather Is Fine," typhoon survivors "transform from being zombies to becoming human" 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Our enchantment with annihilation, be it from exotic astronomical event or mundane villainy, is powerful, and kaleidoscopic. Disaster Films Plague the Box Office 2013-07-19T18:26:49Z These coping styles — and many far more mundane ones — pop up over the course of “The Fall to Earth,” which opened on Wednesday night at 59E59 Theaters. | 'The Fall to Earth': ?The Fall to Earth? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2012-01-19T22:40:42Z But every now and again – and the Porter's speech is an example – you can see Shakespeare exploiting mundane local references for dramatic effect. What Macbeth tells us about the digital world 2012-10-29T13:22:38Z “Things that seem the most mundane can be the most interesting,” she said. Librarian finds love notes, doodles in books and shares them with a grateful public 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z “Drill also incorporates a lot of mundane movements into the choreography,” she said, “like fanning your nails or punching or a group pointing at someone.” ‘The Fits’: It’s All in the Footwork for a Girl Who Boxes, Then Dances 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Fantasy allows the child to master the mundane, like Max’s taming of the monsters in Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are.” Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z "The Social Network" - Facebook was created to allow people to share mundane updates and observations immediately. Capsule reviews: 'The Social Network,' 'Let Me In' 2010-09-30T22:39:00Z But as inflation mounts, Americans are increasingly turning to them to finance something much more mundane and essential: what they eat. Would You Take Out a Loan to Buy This Week’s Groceries? 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Because foreground and background are rendered with the same mute colors in the same flat style — think of the comic artist Chris Ware — what could be mundane nature scenes become windows into the timeless uncanny. Two Critics, 13 Favorite Booths at The Armory Show 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Along with the actual artwork, the exhibit includes vintage photographs that evoke the flavor of the Warhol era, with its celebrity obsessions, aestheticization of the mundane, and focus on the instantaneous and ephemeral. Tacoma’s missed chance at Warhol’s flower power 2012-12-20T22:02:29Z From the exterior, it looks like a mundane warehouse attached to a huge parking lot. In St. Paul, Great Deals and Ethnic Diversity 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The visuals in this new season are mundane comparison to the season 1’s rapturous galactic tapestries and color saturated reveries. Neil Gaiman wishes "American Gods" wasn't so "nightmarishly timely" 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Less than four years ago, all those mundane qualities applied to Huff's career. After 'A Steady Rain,' instant success for Keith Huff 2011-05-27T18:57:00Z These were people’s opinions regarding mundane issues, like whether coffee is better than tea. How our desires shape our beliefs | Tali Sharot 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Watch Jay-Z chatting with a subway passenger on YouTube Have you ever encountered any famous pop stars, rappers, or musicians while in a similarly mundane location? Have you met any famous musicians? 2012-12-05T15:22:44Z Wiles — an architecture journalist — does an incredible job of picking up little details and the mundane horror of modern life. Perspective | Beyond ‘The Shining’: Let’s talk about our favorite scary stories that take us inside unusual hauntings 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z It sometimes seems that way, given how he’s made a level of excellence rarely seen on the television quiz show appear almost mundane. Man or cyborg? ‘Jeopardy!’ champ passes $1 million mark 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “The West Covina song pays homage to the suburbs. It’s taking something mundane and treating it like it’s the Garden of Eden, because that’s where the person she loves lives,” explained Bloom. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: 'The songs are the heart of the show' 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z In addition to flat visuals, logy pacing and lots of first-draft dialogue, "Bridge" plays host to such an uninspired — and uninspiring — circle of friends and lovers it's hard to invest in their mundane journeys. 'Bridge and Tunnel' leads nowhere 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It's an environment that can make the mundane pleasures of a silly sitcom or murder-of-the-week procedural seem too ridiculous to be enjoyed. At New York Comic Con, horror TV shows strength and stamina 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z With electric guitars that shimmer and drone, the two women sing in close harmony about concerns both mundane and mystical. Making Merry With Music 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z It is a concise premise, but it is also, at first glance, a little mundane: Serial killers are hardly an underrepresented demographic in contemporary fiction and nonfiction. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Instead, Morrow serves as the bulwark of the mundane against the unimaginable. Denise Mina’s ‘Blood, Salt, Water’: An atmospheric, chilling thriller 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z When she speaks to her mom on the phone from the lab, their conversations are limited to the mundane, like what’s for dinner and how Pia’s career is advancing. Review: In ‘What You Are Now,’ Memory Is a Dangerous Thing 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z They satisfy this secret hope we all have that someone or something will show up and rescue us from our mundane lives. Jason Segel: By the Book 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z And that if enough of us do our part to at least open up conversations about sex, to make it almost mundane, that at least we might help remove some of the taboos. Making sex “normal” 2013-03-20T00:01:00Z In Week 1244, we once again asked for funny reviews of particular mundane products listed on Amazon.com. Style Invitational Week 1248: Fess up! 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z It is a way of being in the world, a gala twist we add to our mundane routines. Why Won’t Anyone Help Me in This Sex Shop? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z With observational talent in his genes, Dury relates semi-autobiographical tales of doomed holiday romances and unwanted children, set in the deliberately mundane settings of "cheesy discos" and seaside towns filled with "undesirables". Baxter Dury: Happy Soup - review 2011-08-11T21:45:01Z Living alone is still so novel that Gevinson is excited by the mundane chores of housekeeping. Tavi Gevinson: A Power Teen's New Direction 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z At the recent rehearsal, the pair’s love of incorporating the mundane was pronounced. A Kurt Cobain Opera Examines the Myth, Not the Man 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Driving, shopping, banking, showering — every mundane task is primed for failure, which Greenside draws out in cringe-inducing detail. A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Any readers frustrated by the mundane suburban detail of Meyer's previous Twilight books – vampires who play baseball, drive Volvos and give each other tasteful, thoughtful gifts – might be tempted to perk up. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer 2010-06-05T13:05:00Z He tried to explain how his immersion in magick was making it increasingly difficult to engage with the mundane realities of day-to-day life, including dinner party chitchat. Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Mundane detail, yes, but so much about prison is mundane, and boring. TV review: Everyday 2012-11-15T23:00:02Z But you’d just end up making a point about how mundane and humorless this sort of project can be. Watch List: ‘H+,’ a Web series, Imagines a Human Extinction 2012-08-07T21:49:58Z It's a travelogue comprising both the exotic and the mundane, and throughout we are treated to Trondheim's curmudgeonly reactions. Comics: 'Batman: Noel' a dream for Christmas present 2011-11-11T20:50:04Z In the meantime, the bride said, “I am most excited by having the monotony of a relationship. I want to do mundane things with Mark. I’m excited to have our own little life together.” In Their Different Cultures, They Found Common Denominators 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Video images of mundane scenes from Rabat, mostly of people working, are projected onto the pyramids, becoming abstracted and psychedelic. Meriem Bennani’s ‘Gradual Kingdom’ Focuses on Morocco 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z His mundane professional life as a lawyer saw no exotic departures like his father’s. An Old Man’s Youthful Fascinations Animate Cynthia Ozick’s New Novel 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z But in the realm of reality rather than myth, we have mostly enhanced our bodies to compensate for the lack of more mundane abilities. Superhuman: are we the greatest design project of the century? 2012-07-17T12:38:33Z If you’re looking for time investment advice, though, this dark comedy might make you feel better about your anonymity and the sanity of being aware of mundane bothers like the electrical bill. Binge the rich! Window-shopping the lives of rich folks, this week on TV 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Here was the war in all its mundane evil, the men who reduced death to a pencil-pushing exercise. Avedon at Large 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z And the genius of “Lincoln,” finally, lies in its vision of politics as a noble, sometimes clumsy dialectic of the exalted and the mundane. Movie Review: ‘Lincoln,’ by Steven Spielberg, Stars Daniel Day-Lewis 2012-11-08T13:00:00Z They take something we know — food, which is tangible and often mundane — and make it mysterious. Sensational Sweets of the Imagination 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z It's just observation, it's just what's around you on the most mundane level. Van Morrison: 'Singing is my profession – there is no plan B' 2012-10-01T13:58:00Z Mr. DeSana is best known for his neo-surreal, staged photographs, which he made by juxtaposing nude bodies and mundane objects — shoes, cardboard, cheap costumes — in eerily hued settings. Revisiting an Artist’s Provocative Photographs 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z This was no impediment, however, to him publishing a "critique" of Dwyer's piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, in which he lambasted a performance he did not attend as "indulgent and mundane". Who's afraid of the art boogie monster? 2013-06-13T05:07:38Z There's comfort to be taken in the everyday, mundane efficiency with which the staff dispatch what, for those over the counter, are generally pivotal, once-in-a-lifetime experiences. TV highlights 21/05/2013 2013-05-21T05:59:01Z The miraculous and the mundane are always bumping elbows in “Reservation Dogs.” The Remarkable ‘Reservation Dogs’ Runs Away Toward Home 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Dylan wrote: “I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life’s mundane matters. ‘Who are the best musicians for these songs?’ Bob Dylan Sends Warm Words but Skips Nobel Prize Ceremonies 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z They stack it on a soft French roll with the most mundane of dressings — pickles, lettuce, tomato, mayo — and somehow the simple becomes singular. One America, but so many different roast beef sandwiches 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z In this translation from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright, Saadawi blends the unearthly, the horrific and the mundane to terrific effect. In ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad,’ a Fantastical Manifestation of War’s Cruelties 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s a quiet, albeit melancholy life that, at first, is interrupted only by incidents of mundane racism. Review | Joe Ide’s IQ series continues with the idiosyncratic marvel ‘Smoke’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z He was raised in central California, in a city he recalls as mundane and obsessed with real estate. Stephen Malkmus Doesn’t Think He Was a Jerk 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Others might correlate them to the ordinary problems of this mundane world: an aging, 87-year-old building and a cutthroat real estate market. Their Family Business? The Other Dimension. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z “I think you’ll enjoy the way Rod Serling laid a hint of the paranormal over the ordinary world to show that humanity lives its entire existence on the border between the mundane and the miraculous.” Hey, Dad, Get With the (3-D) Program 2010-09-05T00:14:00Z Almost every relationship with every famous person she’s dated has become grist for her one-sided ballad-writing mill, regardless of how mundane the actual details of those breakups were. With her tough testimony, did we just meet the real Taylor Swift? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Rather than an Essex vicar's litany of mundane chores, it is revealed to be a goldmine of self-definition in the face of God, social change, and evolving print technology. TV highlights 17/04/2013 2013-04-17T06:00:03Z Yet, in his hands, the mundane takes on a cast of something special — and often, quite charged. Last chance: John Outterbridge assemblages of dreadlocks, twigs, an American flag at Art + Practice 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z And because of that discipline – that attention to technical and mundane detail, and that belief in people – nearly 3,000 people didn't die. Heart of a Soldier: capturing 9/11 in an opera 2011-08-25T22:14:01Z What if the tools we use to retrieve mundane pieces of information are instead delivering oppressive ideas and hateful ideologies — even swaying elections? Why your search results are sexist and racist: A conversation about Google’s blind spots 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Even the most mundane details became charged with unbearable import. The tsunami survivor who lost her whole family 2013-03-09T23:00:01Z Names are supplied very late in the game, and identities — the mundane facts of work, life, family and friends — are left behind. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z McKellar — a librarian at the Oakland Public Library — marvels at each memento, no matter how mundane. Librarian finds love notes, doodles in books and shares them with a grateful public 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The seer that he was, peered into our psyche even in such a "mundane" thing as our stamina as a people. Chinua Achebe peered deep into the Nigerian psyche 2013-03-22T16:43:31Z Showing up to a stranger’s house for sex may seem provocative to some, but it’s become a mundane interaction among gay men who use apps like Grindr. ‘The Gold Room’ Review: Gay Sexuality on Shuffle Mode 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z In these ashes, we see the dire extremes of a delirium that produced fabled revelry and mundane wonders of fellowship. Brett Kavanaugh’s Ignominious Place in the Long Tradition of Ivy League Carousing 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z By plastering the walls with imagery as grandiose as Westminster Abbey and as mundane as fading green wallpaper, these projections spoon-feed scene setting that should be left to the set design and audiences’ imaginations. Review | ‘The King’s Speech’ amounts to a stale retelling 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z From there, it’s an onslaught of attempts at psychedelic imagery, which often land closer to the mundane or vaguely offensive. Review: Momix’s ‘Alice’ Is a Rabbit Hole (or 22) Too Far 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist Nina Katchadourian, 52, specializes in works that find a kind of majesty in the mundane, relying on overlooked materials and finding big ideas in curious details. Perspective | Artists are struggling to find inspiration in isolation 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Much remains unresolved in Mr. Talbott’s play, written in brief scenes of mostly mundane interactions that leave lingering mysteries behind. Review: ‘Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait,’ as Grim as It Is Cryptic 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z It is a short, soulful, often mundane and overall gorgeous book. ArtsBeat: The Art of Writing About Listening 2013-05-30T16:41:33Z But here, their biographies are exposed throughout: We learn about their childhoods, the pressures they face, the mundane and profound details about their stuff. The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z I find myself going through elaborate verbal gymnastics to avoid using the word “hang,” even in the most mundane and innocent of contexts. “Mad Men” and Mom’s suicide 2012-06-12T00:00:00Z But what appears at first like a mundane exercise in remedial discipline sours into something more sinister. Review: In ‘Exception to the Rule,’ Detention Is Sinister 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Although board members often bring considerable business expertise to the table, the attitude often prevails that they don’t really understand art and shouldn’t sully it with mundane business considerations. The real motor of the performing arts isn’t vision. It’s the board, stupid. 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z She doesn’t traffic in the mundane at all. How to Summon the Comic (!) Spirit of Martha Graham 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z So they decided to make a film investing the mundane British coming-of-age story with some of the glamour that's always seemed to envelop its American counterpart. Cemetery Junction may be joyous, but Brits were born to be glum 2010-04-19T10:03:00Z But the mundane disappears after Lacy and Hugo get a mysterious summons from a source. Review: In John Grisham’s ‘The Whistler,’ a Serious Woman and Serious Crime 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The reality of our lives in cities, even cities as full of character and life as London, is often rather mundane. London: fantasy's capital city 2012-11-21T11:51:44Z The ways in which these people — who also include our narrator in an assortment of roles — intersect are meant to evoke a cosmic pattern, a sense of the invisible connective tissue that underlies the mundane. ‘Fly by Night,’ a Metaphysical Musical 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z No one asks to see the ring or wonders how you met, supposing, rightfully, that you’ve moved on to more mundane matters. Why the Word ‘Fiancé’ Is Falling Out of Fashion 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z It referred to Mr. Lewis’s marginalized position by casting him as an unemployed circus clown who finds fulfillment in a mundane job with the post office. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z They sound to me in a lot of places kind of mundane. Destroyer builds anew on 'Kaputt' 2011-03-24T16:27:47Z The show was interactive before interactivity became mundane; those built-in silences left open for child participation. ‘Blue’s Clues’ Returns, and Silence Is Still the Star 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Like the novel, it skips around through time and space and blurs the border between reality and a more fantastical realm, lurking just below mundane American landscapes. ‘American Gods’: Why a Story About Ancient Deities Is Timely 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Instead, it plays to Ms. Semple’s strengths as someone who can practice ventriloquism in many voices, skip over the mundane and utterly refute the notion that mixed-media fiction is bloggy, slack or lazy. Books of The Times: ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette,’ a Maria Semple Novel 2012-08-06T18:53:15Z It’s the type of action that seems mundane in a crime series, but in fact separates the mediocre from the transcendent. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 5: Seeing Naz in a New Light 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Sorting through the more than 375 images in “Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album” at Michael Kohn Gallery, mundane if sometimes useful documents of their time and place are peppered with photographs that sing. 'Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album' buoyed by photos with cinematic insight 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z In these moments, the details are sarcastic and eerie, disturbingly mundane. The Eerie, Mundane Thrill of Being Watched on the Internet 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z The book argues that the mundane moments are what make a life. And Now, a Case for the Ordinary 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Azuma, the manga’s creator, turns the most mundane happenings, such as ordering pizza or making pancakes, into entertaining adventures as seen through the eyes of the always energetic and unpredictable Yotsuba. 7 Manga Titles Perfect for Any Young Adult Reading List 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z It's like with a magic trick: you're desperate to know how it's done but, when you find out, the mundane truth usually disappoints and undermines your enjoyment of the illusion. JK Rowling should remember that less means more in the Potterverse 2011-08-20T23:05:38Z It is in these mundane moments that the director and writer Paul Shoulberg finds a story. Review: No Right Way to Keep the Faith in ‘The Good Catholic’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z So it was almost preposterous to watch Ms. Lopez doing something as mundane as performing a concert Wednesday night, and also a relative rarity. Review: Jennifer Lopez Back in the Bronx 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s a book of deep reckoning — of the meaningful and mundane — but written with an airy, even whimsical touch. ‘Ordesa’ Is a Meditation on Yearning, Solitude and Family 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z This may sound mundane, but it seems obvious that if you can’t see where you’re going in a game like this, nothing else matters. Video Game Review: Mickey Moves Onto Yet Another Screen 2010-12-13T16:32:00Z In much of New York, such mundane intimacies happen all the time, but for Hasan the men’s lack of shame and fear came as a revelation. Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z This is partly a good thing – thanks to this new developmental leap, we’ve seen that our baby is active and curious and able to find joy in every mundane discovery. Who thought babyproofing a home was easy? 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z At first, Natasha’s antipathy toward parenthood feels refreshingly specific, with its focus on the mundane degradations that can haunt the imaginations of the happily childless. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z There is no story in a life that is made up of short burst of mundane activity; it is not flowing and engaging but stilted and of little consequence. "Generation X": Its tales about McJobs and information overload feel as poignant now as in 1990s 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z That enables you to explore a reality that is more intense than the mundane. "She Will" star Alice Krige is haunted and haunting: "There must be something a bit odd about me" 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z He plays the pastor like a naïve child stuck in a grown man’s body, equally uncertain of his place in the play’s offbeat and mundane moments. ‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Most of the dialogue consists of mundane exchanges between the characters, and mundane action, too. Debate Society's ‘Jacuzzi,' With Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z They must have thought I was crazy rattling off the mundane details of my days. Modern Love: In a Divorce, the Clicks of a Mouse - Modern Love 2011-11-04T18:48:01Z I mentioned that I was going on a date with this guy, something as mundane as that. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z After such transcendence, the mundane act of clapping almost seemed inappropriate. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Frises’ Gets Double Exposure at Miller Theater 2014-02-07T21:47:00Z The photograph captures the mundane and the precious: the dirty radiator and kitchen bin, but also my connection with my son. Photographer Clare Gallagher's best shot 2012-02-08T22:30:00Z In the normal world, he says, people are prisoners to life's variables like plumbing issues and other mundane annoyances. "Made For Love" and the twist ending that asks what we'll compromise for technology 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The game’s strengths are its narrative, the character writing and the mundane modernity of its real-world setting. Video Game Reviews: Reviews: Thomas Was Alone, NCAA Football 13, The Secret World, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Fieldrunners 2, Dyad 2012-08-07T16:20:18Z Half of the people in each group were asked to remember instances when they felt like they had sufficient resources, while the other half recalled mundane, everyday events in their lives. Fast-paced digital lifestyle may contribute to our desire to eat junk food, study finds 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Hjorth’s latest novel to appear in English, “Long Live the Post Horn!,” is a brilliant study of the mundane, full of unexpected detours and driving prose. The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Such fraught moments of complex emotion — sometimes mundane, sometimes muted — are a refrain throughout the book. Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z I was trying to get an extended street perspective while keeping the subject mundane and undramatic. Pascal Campion’s “Twilight Avenue” 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Might it be, especially in America, something more mundane? The Deadpan Laureate of American Art 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z This Australian singer-songwriter trades in loquacious tales about the mundane, waxing wry and sarcastic about everyday life. Your week in Seattle music: Steely Dan, New Order, Lauryn Hill and more 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z “While she portrays a mundane shape like a vessel or a cup, she treats it like a pure object. There is a spiritual connection there.” This Thai Artist Marries the Sacred and the Sensual 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Newly Released Books New novels feature the mundane and the fantastic. Neil Gaiman’s ‘Ocean at the End of the Lane,’ and More 2013-06-26T18:50:28Z And I think the more vocal people are about it, the more this becomes a really mundane sort of footnote in their bio — as opposed to the only thing that people want to talk about. Anna Paquin on Bad Behavior and Keeping the Drama Onscreen 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z As food has acquired cultural capital, cooking well at home, formerly mundane women’s work, has become nearly as prestigious as cooking well in a good restaurant. Books of The Times: The Manly Art of Cooking Has Its Bards 2011-05-31T23:55:18Z They sell blankets, jewelry and prints, as well as more mundane objects like socks and mugs. Where to see music, theater and art at Pike Place Market 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Writers tend to have adventurous inner lives but pretty mundane histories. Ian Rankin: By the Book 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Herron’s spies bicker in the office kitchen and worry about money — a mundane existence periodically interrupted by traumatic events. Writer Mick Herron’s ‘Slow Horses’ are spies for our times 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Given Barragán’s lifelong interest in vernacular structures and indigenous crafts, folk adornment both enriched the work and continued to serve as a lesson to take note of the mundane. Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The story Fabre tells is that of every one of us: looking for meaning in the mundane, moving through our lives, our interactions, as if through the fabric of a dream. Dominique Fabre and the literature of nothing (and everything) 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z This brilliantly observed office comedy focuses on the mundane travails of an awful real estate agent and his sister. Best Comedy of 2020 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z You can feel the urgency of the everyday — the mundane little details that demand attention — pressing in on a list the dealer Leo Castelli drew up for himself sometime in 1968. 1. Make List; 2. Do Stuff 2011-06-02T22:04:11Z By comparison, Anomalisa sounds altogether mundane: a depressed, middle-aged motivational speaker spends a night in a Cincinnati hotel where he has an affair with a gauche young woman. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Through a close look at mundane life, the drama argues for how dates like 1948 and 1967 haunt this family’s present, articulating the corrosive impact of being “permanently impermanent.” | 'Urge for Going': Political Conflicts, Family-Style 2011-04-12T22:33:25Z The criminals have returned to New Orleans, and you never know when a seemingly mundane conversation is going to interrupted by a carjacking, a mugging or random gunfire. How "Treme" untangles the lessons of trauma 2011-04-25T13:26:00Z The dumbwaiter interrupts the hit men’s mundane chatter but doesn’t veer the production off course from its clear road map to the conclusion. Review: Serving Murder in ‘The Dumb Waiter’ 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z That same ability to find beauty in flaws and glamour in the mundane was woven through Jacobs’s fall 2019 collection. Marc Jacobs marks a poetic end to a fashion season of reassuring upheaval 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z "They were about our lives, our childhoods and relationships, talking about ourselves as mothers - everything from the mundane to the extraordinary," she told the BBC. Witherspoon role 'hardest' of career 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Still, by making this special quickly, he captures an urgent brand of observational humor, a resonant portrait of the bizarre way we are living now, turning a mirror on our current mundane neuroses. A Vital Stand-Up Special for the Social Distancing Era 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Her book “The Principles of Uncertainty,” which began as a New York Times column, is a pictorial journal, reflecting her delight in the curious and the mundane. Between Birth and Death, Some Dancing and a Little Mystery 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z When she asked him the next day, on the final stretch of the Hurtigruten liner as our week together drew to a close, his answer was more mundane than my mom expected. Frugal Traveler Blog: In the Fjords of Norway, a Family Reunion 2012-07-03T18:22:02Z In his avidity for the mundane, he uses food to profound effect. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z In one recent session Ben Lillie, a physics Ph.D., nervously explained how quantum theory always intrudes on the mundane tasks of his day. Getting a Little Help to Go Out All Alone 2010-02-26T05:21:00Z While on the surface, the topics seemed bland or scattered, Wilson ended up creating a shockingly vulnerable meditation on the inherent loneliness of urban living through the inventive use of seemingly mundane footage. No happy trees here – HBO's "Painting With John" is a dark and dreamy contemplation of artistry 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z “For me, it’s so normal and mundane,” he said. 'Secrets will eat you up' – inside the shocking Michael Jackson documentary 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The truth is a bit more complicated — and, sad to say, a bit more mundane. Noticed: Men?s Fragrances Turn to Blue 2010-07-28T22:23:00Z It’s what Mills does with such mundane materials and pedestrian gestures that makes his paintings so entrancing. John Mills seems positively giddy 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The Goods Mart was founded by Rachel Krupa, 38, a publicist who saw social opportunity in mundane shopping. Goods Mart: A 7-Eleven for All You Organic People 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z It was the vital but mundane stuff of good campaigns. This group trains women to run for office. Here’s how one outraged, post-Trump class fared. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The difficulty, for those with artistic ambitions, of clearing mental space in the face of mundane worries about paying the rent and making supper for the children. Review: Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ the Finale in a Quartet 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Yet the show is still torn between its long story arc and the more mundane case-of-the-week stuff, which tends to get in the way a bit. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z And the pleasures of Partridge are still most intense at their most mundane: lip-syncing in the motor, boring on about bovine gynaecology. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa – first look review 2013-07-24T14:26:31Z Just as important, Flint captures the mundane yet mythic horror of the case that has memorialized it in the annals of New York City crime. Still unsolved, a child-murder case inspires a gripping new novel 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z While Mr. King is best known for his horror novels featuring terrifying clowns and serial killers, his own particular fear is much more mundane. What Stephen King Can’t Travel Without (It’s Not a Mystery) 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z She was drawn in by the way mundane activities like cooking and cleaning were given a cinematic treatment. Lessons From a Homebody 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z “Each handbag consists of recognizable everyday mundane objects that we find in the house, in the kitchen,” Chu said. Fashion for the future: London students present sustainable designs 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Fanatical reporting and occasional invention did not seem contradictory to Mitchell; each was a means of finding beauty in the mundane. The grammar of hard facts 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z It is easy to mistake Joy as their most mundane movie, maybe because Lawrence dials it down from the nutty heights of Playbook and American Hustle. David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The cooking, under Mr. McBride, has become utterly mundane, a pretty but flavorless imitation of French food of the kind found at any generic fake bistro. Restaurant Review: Keith McNally’s Cherche Midi 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Later performances might be different; the one I saw felt like an exploration of the mundane, which, however purposeful, didn’t reveal an authentic-movement experience as real or as roughly hewn as the practice itself. Review: Katie Workum Presents ‘Black Lakes’ at Danspace Project 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z They are used for mundane chores like slicing bread, but the sense of simmering tension Ms. Harris so cannily stokes also keeps us uneasily aware that these handy household tools are also potentially deadly weapons. In ‘Our New Girl,’ a Household Is Under Stress 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Maybe it’ll add a bit of excitement to our newly mundane existence. Love in the time of corona: 'This wasn't how I planned it, but she said yes' 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z “I’ve fallen in love with artists who figured out how to make the mundane parts of life extremely interesting,” he told me. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Yet China’s appreciation for status symbols like Broadway and Mr. Hwang did not translate into understanding more mundane aspects of American life. Theater: David Henry Hwang?s ?Chinglish? 2011-10-23T03:27:21Z In “Creatures of Passage,” a cosmic lexicon describes mundane, earthbound life. A Cabdriver Who Also Ferries Souls and Ghosts? Just Another Day on the Job. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z It achieves, like its English title, a disconcerting juxtaposition of the mundane and the primeval. Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Everything was sublimely mundane: simple tasks, pleasant ambient music and unhurried group chatter. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z These references resurface in a short film on gallery view shot at Johnson’s home in Bridgehampton that captures some of the monotonous, surreal, fearful, mundane qualities of quarantine life. In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The changing customs of society and the increasing prosperity of the family become table talk, though mundane conversation riffs keep turning up. Two-Course Feast of Stage and Song 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z With so little on the line, wouldn't it be nicer to exult in the mystery than to dwell on the mundane? 'Killing Bigfoot': Sad days for poor Sasquatch 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z No mundane tortilla chips here: a wire basket holds brittle tostadas seasoned with chili powder, spices and salt. The party's on at Kirkland's Milagro Cantina 2011-03-10T22:31:07Z A fairy tale, an act of collective creation and, as Third Rail describes it, “an offering, for dark nights,” “Return the Moon” begins in the most mundane place imaginable: a Zoom waiting room. Review: In ‘Return the Moon,’ Theater Between Phases 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z “Kids in Boy Scout and Girl Scout uniforms, and weddings and bakeries. The most mundane and ordinary kind of life things,” Painter remembers. Through art, creating a dialogue between Palestinians and others Saturday night is a time of mythic potential and mundane reality. Our Favorite Arts Pictures of 2020 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z I can indulge my attraction to mundane, domestic details: the landscape painted across a dining room wall, the way voile is draped across an 18th-century bed in a historic house in Harlem. Essay: Through a Lens Sharply 2014-04-09T18:16:12Z Just in Black expression, Black mundane expression around the block is gorgeous. The Creators of ‘On Sugarland’ Build a Site of Mourning and Repair 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z But there were other stories told too, incidentally, of the crowd, the context, the business of the church and the mundane, if awful, business of the day. Webcams in Ferguson offer noncurated views distinct from TV news 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The show is at its best in long, lingering silences that allow actors like Ms. Falco and Mr. Buscemi to find a sonnet’s worth of emotion in mundane physical tasks. How ‘Horace and Pete’ Made the Network Suits Look Good 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z These often apparently mundane photographs were returned alongside extensive written descriptions of daily life by ordinary people who responded to topics such as "The Garden and Gardening", "Your Home" and "Present Giving and Receiving". The way we were: Mass Observation at the Photographers' Gallery 2013-07-20T23:05:48Z In his shots of his fireplace, his sink and other household realities, he seems continually to teeter between the mundane and the menacing, the banal and the sublime. Photographer captures curious power of common items 2012-01-13T18:22:42Z “As our regular, mundane lives become ever more sedentary,” he says, “we have a need for something more.” When 26 miles just isn't enough – the phenomenal rise of the ultramarathon 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Yet in interviews the young dancers didn’t dwell on those exceptional moments — they reveled in the seemingly more mundane aspects of corps life. Feet Still, but Hearts Leaping 2010-08-31T18:39:00Z Because, here’s the thing: It’s all about perspective, and finding a smarter way to deal with the mundane stuff. 10 Tips For Being Happier at Work 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z And the film’s smart narrative choices imbue the mundane act of typing with potent drama. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z And on Super Bowl day, even mundane events feel momentous. The Super Bowl's bloated, chaotic spectacle 2011-02-07T13:45:00Z It invites us to look closely, and with forensic determination, at the mundane, trivial and functional. Perspective | Will our migrant detention cages be studied in tomorrow’s museums? 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z He liked to depict ordinary folks encountering some kind of anxious terror, or experiencing the unthinkable in mundane places. The Beautifully Macabre Cartoons of Gahan Wilson 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z To you, the most mundane activity is a wonder. Tiny Love Stories: ‘With You, I Can Be a New Person’ 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z For Harman, such a passage draws us away from trying to recreate the creature in the terms of our loathsome, mundane world of Euclidean time and space. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z As an American entertainment — with Steven Spielberg attached as executive producer yet — it not surprisingly shies away from the mundane indignities of hospital life and the less-picturesque symptoms of disease. 'Red Band Society' implants 'Breakfast Club' into 'House' 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Instead, director Belinda Sallin opts to paint this portrait primarily with his psychological profile, the contemplation of his legacy and his unremarkably mundane autumn years. 'Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World' lacks the artist's process 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “Our dear Jiri, the bravest of the brave. Your body left our mundane world in our arms last night,” she wrote on Facebook. Jiri Menzel, Oscar-winning Czech film director, dies at 82 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z It is both completely mundane and completely terrifying. “The American Meme” Records the Angst of Social-Media Influencers 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Ware is a master at signaling the presence of evil at the most mundane moments. Review | Think you’ve read every twist on the nanny-in-distress novel? Ruth Ware adds a new wrinkle. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The less sensational and the more mundane then the weirder it is. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The director David Gleeson bridges the gap between reality and dreaming by keeping the visual realm of Ben’s subconscious relatively mundane while his regular life is prone to dramatic lighting and spectacular scenery. Review: In ‘Don’t Go,’ Will a Dad’s Dreams Change Reality? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The author may mean to de-glamorise the fairy world, but instead makes it boringly mundane; after a certain point, Hiero ought to wear a T-shirt reading "The numinous doesn't live here any more". Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce – review 2012-07-04T07:00:02Z The things we are passionate about are fueled by mundane tasks. Valerie June: The First Time I Lost a Parent 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Arguments are about more mundane issues, the sort of things that all couples argue about, I suppose, that sometimes stray into areas of work ... Family romances: When relatives write together 2010-09-24T12:02:00Z Many attest to Mr. Linklater’s gift for blending the seemingly mundane with humor, rich dialogue and a persistent philosophical curiosity. ‘21 Years: Richard Linklater,’ a Documentary 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The English-language dialogue is a mix of the mundane and the outrageous, which the three main actors recite with an exaggerated Southern twang. At a Berlin Festival, Avant-Garde Theater from Europe and New York 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z What I found was the fantasy of the life she would have led, had she been able, compared with the mundane one she ended up with. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z The idea was to glean the essence of things by closely observing one’s own experience of them, preferably in mundane settings. Smokey and the bandits 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The near-monochrome finish requires the viewer to move their body to apprehend quiet scenes of forest floors and mundane white picket fences. A Photographer Looks Deep Into America’s Past 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z This mundane department store position created a connection — with Munir as the unwitting middleman — that would lead to his brother acquiring a gun. What is it like to be the brother of Robert Kennedy’s assassin? The life of the other Sirhan. 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Her presence still haunts these spectacularly mundane rooms, where the light is filtered through fading net curtains. How Margaret Thatcher's HQ turned into Chateau Despair 2013-02-28T17:24:00Z “Instead of attention-seeking with extraordinary luxury, they went for the mundane.” Perspective | Fanny packs. Prairie dresses. Luxury shower shoes: Is fashion trolling us or what? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Shrek Forever After, the fourth and allegedly final Shrek movie, finds our ogre hero living in 3-D but frustrated with his mundane existence as husband, father of three and living legend. Shrek Forever After Review: An Ogre in Midlife Crisis 2010-05-20T22:00:00Z Mr. Geier has mundane tricks and limited physical comedy skills; his special effect is a textured voice laced with melancholy. The Tears (and Fears) of a Clown 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z It was urban violence as mundane, culminating in an ad hoc shrine, a gathering of local people, floral tributes, shiny balloons, messages in txt spk. Rewind TV: The Man Who Crossed Hitler; Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant; Random; American: The Bill Hicks Story; The Hour ? review 2011-08-27T23:05:58Z The real magic is how its characters see grandeur in the mundane, like the Shamroxx employees holding medieval jousts atop shopping carts in the restaurant parking lot. Review: ‘Lodge 49,’ Where Beautiful Losers Join the Club 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Neither Dyer nor Prose bother with mundane biographical trivia. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The more compact Evoque is more reflective of how a small SUV is used for the mundane activities in life, outside of raucous rock crawl. Car of the Week: 2012 Range Rover Evoque 2012-02-28T20:39:55Z Instead, what to expect is fairly mundane: the bill has already been publicly heard by a house committee, who will now advise on whether the bill should be passed or not. Should we ban the word 'bitch'? The strange proposal perplexing a US state 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z My working relationship with Jim, my growing friendship with him, was nourished by even the mundane details of his life. Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z In his presence, the mundane disappears and reality explodes with new meaning. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Even within the realm of mundane fictional scenarios, the Beyond of it all created a sense of possibility. Bed Bath and the great Beyond 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Alley-Barnes uses film, text, design, installations and visual art to ponder “the resonance of genetic cultural memory through the mystical and the mundane.” Cornish announces 2014 Neddy winners 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z This all began with paintings such as the one at top: a skeleton, sitting quietly in a comfortable domestic setting, reminding us that even in the most mundane activities, we aren't free of ourselves. Object Lesson: When James Ensor turned to skeletons and satire 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z "It's no coincidence... that most selfies are shot in pretty exotic locations, on holiday when people are experiencing things that are away from their humdrum, mundane lives," he told Reuters. London exhibition elevates selfies as an art form 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s ardent, and deferential to the colloquial and the mundane, like Jepsen herself. Carly Rae Jepsen’s Ecstatic Hymns to Love 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Later he writes that the true Heath lay somewhere "between the sublime and the mundane". Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z “It’s a memoir that’s about so much more than an ailment. Things that are mundane and things that are sublime,” she added. Sarah Ruhl, the Celebrated Playwright, Will Publish a Memoir 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of detail — mundane, yet giving off a whiff of tension — that lodges. Mingling Fact and Fiction, Jo Ann Beard Bares Her Subjects’ Souls 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The film’s most dramatic scenes take place in the kind of circumstances one might consider too mundane to include at all: a meeting of the board of directors and a company assembly. The Power Plays at the Bolshoi, On Film 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Yet the language of desire never stops vibrating off the page; Baltasar pans the mundane for gold, and offers those nuggets — these morsels of intimacy — in a way that grips and sates. She Is a Rock; She Is an Island 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z The switch from mundane monologuing to brutal murder is made all the more harsh by the song’s playful tones. Mood music: how a jaunty pop song can ramp up movie terror 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Read enough of “Aliens,” and you realize that the search for life is just as much about the most mundane aspects of biology as about the trippier questions of cosmology. ‘Aliens’ Asks: If the Universe Is So Vast, Where Is Everybody? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z "It seems strange to us that these mundane images would be edited in, but to Dog, an image of white-collar workers circled around a xerox machine is still a bit foreign and exciting," Glasspiegel explains. Scene and heard: Shangaan electro 2010-08-03T15:54:00Z They were lifted from the mundane partly by being given planetary names, but mainly by the neon’s afterglow. Museum Review: The Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2013-02-02T01:43:04Z With “Avalon,” it’s as though Zink glanced at the mundane little formula that recurs throughout her press clippings and filched it for a plot. In Nell Zink’s ‘Avalon,’ a Young Woman Is Too Busy for Revenge 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z It is a curious novel to describe, for much of the plot involves excavating the profound from the mundane. Jeremy O. Harris: Brandon Taylor ‘Subjugates Us With the Deft Hand of a Dom’ 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Our world is dangerously inflamed and imperiled — literally, politically and always metaphorically — yet nothing remains as fascinating as another person’s travails, the next-door drama that’s threaded in with the mundane. Perspective | All those reality shows you loved about people’s weight, marriage and kids? They’re back — and nicer. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Next comes a mundane task: repeatedly refreshing the commission’s website to get the report in hand. The Most Sought After Manuscript in Publishing? The Jan. 6 Report. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z He registers the astonishing beauty of the Aegean landscape next to the mundane details that have regrettably come to represent Greece — “the Heineken and moussakas, the ouzo and sardines.” Greece’s Fear and Yearning Crystallized in Fiction 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In her definition, a dork is someone who is curious about every arcane and mundane aspect of a subject some may think isn’t exactly cool. Up Close: Yoga Blogger Covers the Lighter Side 2010-07-28T22:58:00Z The life of a globe-trotting dinosaur smuggler might bring to mind Thomas Crown meets Tintin, but one of the revelations of the book is just how mundane the skulduggery of Prokopi’s crime actually was. The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z In Davis’s stories, the mundane and the fathomless appear together on the same street, and calamity is always close at hand. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z And perhaps that is the key point: it is perfectly possible to pursue one's creative ambitions in tandem with a bit of mundane wage-slavery. Noises off: Pros and cons in the job of theatre 2010-08-26T10:35:00Z Until then, though, I'm quite happy with Linklater's film, which is funny and sad, mundane and outlandish; a movie that looks just a little like life. Time and motion pictures: from Boyhood to old age, Everyday 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z It was in an effort to get that more brutally mundane version of mafia life on screen that Scorsese first called Pileggi, out of the blue. Nicholas Pileggi: the mob, Nora Epron's death and Vegas 2013-02-03T07:02:31Z As games become ubiquitous, they are not only content but also context, context for mundane human relationships among people who don’t even consider themselves gamers. Critic?s Notebook: The Electronic Games That Now Connect Us 2012-01-05T00:00:54Z Despite its mundane origins, however, Gant reportedly still felt nauseous by the disgusting thing, and nearly vomited during the take as a result. These horror movie foods are supposed to be gross... but look delicious! 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z The 10 orbiting astronauts quickly turned their attention to more mundane matters, hauling things back and forth a day after their single spacewalk on Tuesday - the last of NASA's 30-year shuttle era. Astronauts saluted by Elton 'Rocket Man' John 2011-07-13T19:12:13Z In their new form, even the most mundane leftovers can "suddenly seem kind of exciting," Woo says. 5 quick tricks to make school lunches so much better 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Rule of thumb for filmmakers: If it's mundane in real life, it will be mundane on-screen. 'Two Night Stand' a one-act sex comedy that grows cold too soon 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “So for these characters and singers it’s like different clouds of thoughts, inner monologues about very mundane and simple things.” Operatic day at the beach evokes climate crisis 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z It didn't take long after North's release for Darkstar to once again become disillusioned with dance, feeling that "a lot of what was going on felt like it had slipped into the mundane". News From Nowhere puts Darkstar on the map 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z The authors of these two fine books help us understand the socially transformative power of a defiant dedication to something greater than our mundane human predicament. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s usually the mundane — like how I must look to others — that creates discord between my mom and me. License to Not Drive 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z But the danger out there is both more mundane and more terrible:you’re more likely to be hurt or killed by someone you know or love. Home: America’s most dangerous place 2013-04-18T15:23:00Z The more mundane aspects faded into the background as my game improved. Experience: I’m a 13-time world champion at real tennis 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z He transforms the mundane into magic in front of our eyes. Can Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone’s La La Land help us handle the Trump era? 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z “I can’t wait to have the exciting days, the mundane days, and the quarantine days that we hopefully never have to do again,” Ms. Peak added. A Restaurant Recommendation Closed the Distance 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z “So the way that my mind is now is, I will be able to write songs forever - they probably will start being about pretty mundane things because my life is getting more and more calm.” Ed Sheeran searches for new lines in movie 'Songwriter' 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Now we're faced with the grey reality of our mundane lives. TV review: The Great British Bake Off; Accused; Bad Education 2012-08-14T21:29:01Z In a room full of magnificent bronze and marble sculptures, he instilled this mundane architectural detail with equal weight. Review: ‘SILENT dialogue,’ From Dia Jian, Dances From Room to Room at the Met 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z "Home" evokes comfort or claustrophobia, connection or entanglement, while "bodies" is variously carnal, mundane, clownish and transcendent. Home is where the toaster, couch and gymnastic tussles are, in UMAMI performance's 'home | bodies' 2010-08-05T21:58:00Z For me, Pop Art highlighted what was exaggerated in the mundane. Sins of a good Mormon boy 2012-09-14T23:30:00Z The photographic portraits in Goethe-Institut Washington’s “40 Out of One Million” are almost mundane. Review | In the galleries: Putting flat art into perspective 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z “Nowadays, no one needs a mechanical timepiece, and especially not to indicate such mundane information as given by chronographs, perpetual calendars or minute repeaters,” he said. Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: The Triumph of Unnecessary Beauty 2011-03-23T15:28:24Z Designers also strive to sell at Ikram for more mundane reasons. Ikram Goldman, High Fashion’s Ambassador From the Midwest 2013-05-02T09:00:02Z And thus plays out what might be the most mundane — and yet quietly empowering — depiction of gender transition in popular culture I’ve ever seen. Elliot Page, From Shame to Self-Acceptance, in Hollywood’s Glare 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z But the plum is Janet Baker's Sea Pictures, magical orchestral settings of mostly mundane poems. Sea Pictures, Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic/Handley, Janet Baker 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z It is this hilarious focus on the seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life that makes Seinfeld a work of comedic genius. Seinfeld and chill: why the classic sitcom can help beat lockdown anxiety 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Zapruder’s verse — a learned, attentive everyman’s train of thought — couches subtle profundities among mundane observations. Music Review: Gabriel Kahane at Zankel Hall 2012-10-28T21:31:37Z In the “Derry Girls” universe, the mundane and the profound sit side by side. In ‘Derry Girls,’ the Lighter Side of Life in a Conflict Zone 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z His figures are engaged in the mundane but touched by the weird. Datebook: Suburban strangeness, a master of noir, skewering the powerful 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z That's the black icing on a cake that's already rich with satire, twisted romance and gruesome violence, as our caravanning couple carve a murderous swathe through our nation's more mundane tourist attractions. This week's new films 2012-12-01T00:05:52Z What Gore Verbinski does so well in The Ring is imbuing the most mundane objects with menace. 'I didn't sleep well for months': the films that terrified our writers as kids 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z This happens to sound people all time, you’re doing something mundane one day and you hear this great sound. The Carpetbagger: 'War Horse' Sound Tricks: Otters Stand in for Horses and Other Trade Secrets 2012-01-03T19:51:11Z In more mundane terms this is a breach of a contract the venue/performer has entered into with the purchaser. Allman Brothers Band, at Beacon Theater, Plays Final Concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z This is Mr. Hynes’s New York, elegant and mundane all at once. Dev Hynes: New York’s Last Bohemian on the City and His New Album 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Taken together, the plays elevate those once ubiquitous moments from the mundane trials of a daily commute that bind the city’s collective DNA. Miss the N.Y.C. Subway? These Radio Plays Bring It Back to Life 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z But though the play has its ups and downs, the emotional journey is relatively mundane. Thrasher – review 2013-03-19T18:12:35Z What remains is an empty landscape in which a blanket or bag or an item of clothing lies, mundane and innocent. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 – review 2012-07-07T23:06:03Z The characters are all normal people and the settings are mundane. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: 'Game of Thrones' and the Avengers 2012-04-06T20:16:59Z At the moment, what's upsetting her equilibrium is more mundane — the sudden appearance in her house of a scurrying black rat. 'Dreams' lulls young and old through life with grace and truth 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z One of the few was greygran, who thought that: Him and Her has terrific supporting characters, all gruesome and believable, while amid the mess, our romantic pair live out their mundane lives placidly and nobly. Frankie Boyle gets satirical – and Two and A Half Men star says: stop watching 2012-11-27T15:18:44Z Even in the age of the high-quality limited series, it’s rare to come this close to the feeling of reading a book — immersive, compulsive and unpredictable, but also exhausting and sometimes mundane and repetitive. Review: ‘Making a Murderer,’ True Crime on Netflix 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Maybe, but mundane doesn’t necessarily make for good television. Post-‘Bachelorette,’ Andi Dorfman finds happiness in a ‘Single State of Mind’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Gauguin kept pressuring him to be more contemporary — to represent the contents of his imagination rather than recording the mundane wheat fields and other visual facts. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Still, he and the others did not dwell on mundane matters like flying harnesses. ?Spider-Man? Starts to Emerge From Web of Secrecy 2010-11-23T23:22:00Z Tóibín's gift is to demonstrate how extraordinary the mundane can be – or at least, how special an individual life is to the individual who is living it. Guardian book club: Brooklyn by Colm T?ib?n 2010-09-07T09:32:00Z “But that purse takes something away. It makes you more mundane, less delightful. I want to see you walk through the room giving off an aura of freedom.” “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Lee’s enjoyably fanciful script nicely meshes the grandiose and the mundane, but it’s messier than it ought to be. ‘War Lesbian’ Gives Ellen DeGeneres a Demonic Twist 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The mundane, in Updike's own formulation, is given its beautiful due – in unambitious, comic terms. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z I find humor in the most mundane things. Taylour Paige on ‘Zola,’ Grace and Being Kinder to Herself 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z I distinctly remember leaving the theater feeling as if I had witnessed a work that successfully established a dialogue between the sacred and the mundane, between the invisible and what we grasp with our senses. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z It's the most mundane set of circumstances imaginable, which is both its genius and its charm. David L. Ulin's best books of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “Financially well-off, socially privileged” women are “among the most likely to call the authorities over perceived neglect as mundane as a child walking home alone.” Review | ‘Hood Feminism’ makes a convincing — and urgent — case about how race and class divide women 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z It is humbling when I reflect on my own mundane complaints. Perspective | Tearful 10-month-old might give deployed dad a hostile homecoming 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Most of us are preoccupied with a slew of mundane tasks on a daily basis, responding to email and social media. Showtime's "The One and Only Dick Gregory" pays tribute to the legend who left comedy for activism 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z With wit and irony, Ms. Ham pilloried this tradition by stealing hundreds of mundane objects from museums around the world, including forks, saucers, knives, vases, salt and pepper shakers. An Artist Unites North and South Korea, Stitch by Stitch 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Sock sculptures on the wall resemble ecstatic figures; painted shoes strung with bells repurpose mundane objects. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Some people find that they are chronic procrastinators, unable to complete any mundane task no matter how vital it may be to their daily functioning. The surprising reason we procrastinate 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z These bits and bobs highlight “the feeling of daily life,” but their mundane silhouettes are backlit by something more like a nuclear explosion. Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’ Is Emotional, Planetary and Very Turbulent 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Even the more mundane scenes of daily life captured the imagination as we passed through residential areas and caught momentary glimpses into backyards. What it’s like to take a 35-hour ride on the Coast Starlight train from L.A. to Seattle 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z My consolation prize: the park’s weekly flea market, which offered earrings made of Legos, bulky Soviet 8-millimeter camcorders and many other stylish if more mundane items. Frugal Traveler Blog: After the Thaw: Outdoor Fun in Berlin 2013-05-28T18:26:48Z No, she did not make me cry, but her meticulous handling of a mundane kitchen task left a lasting impression, one that informs my own cooking. What My Mother’s Cooking Taught Me 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z “In the end, we traced it back to Hughes Aircraft, which had been burying toxic waste—mostly really mundane stuff, like airplane degreasers—in unlined pits in the ground since the Korean War.” Are Disability Rights and Animal Rights Connected? 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z There’s also profoundness in the mundane and commonplace. This Week in Fiction: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z More mundane glitches, such as a gliding stag with its antler caught on the set, offered brief distractions, too. Siegfried – review 2012-09-30T16:15:01Z And some were starkly mundane: two peanut butter cups and a Dr Pepper. Julie Green, Artist Who Memorialized Inmates’ Last Suppers, Dies at 60 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z That said, at least the show moves; Lorin Latarro’s choreography animates even the most mundane scenes, say, in a classroom or on a New York City street. Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z This was once the promise of “the country,” the mundane merging with the mythic, a Forest of Arden bristling to life. The Failed Dream of the Easy Commute 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Here was the founder and artistic director of a world-famous company tending to the mundane but essential tasks of making art. Downtown?s Pioneering Stage Mama 2011-01-23T02:30:16Z A lone shooter at the White House seems nearly mundane once you’ve already seen the Capitol blown to bits. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 6: Walk, Talk ... Duck! 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Like mine, most lives are filled with a sort of mundane, unremarkable level of skill and success. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z Wally Koval, the author of the photograph book “Accidentally Wes Anderson,” said that in making these videos, “people are finding this beauty in the mundane.” How to Make Your Life Into a Wes Anderson Film 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z “Up to now I’ve never thought, and I’ve never felt the need,” He gripes, annoyed to be participating in such mundane activity. In This Novel, God Is Annoyed and in Love 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z We see in “Young Rock” how with the wrestlers of your father’s era, their lives in the ring are glamorous and exciting, but their lives at home are more mundane, even a bit meager. Dwayne Johnson Finds Room to Grow in ‘Young Rock’ 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z The symphonies are just abstract enough and just specific enough, just mundane enough and just spiritual enough, to offer the experience of a pilgrim's progress through troubles and into transcendence. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Plenty of marriages coast along on seas of mundane unhappiness. With joyless prose about joyless people, Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Here I Am' is kitsch at best 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The great U-turn was not sublime, exactly, but neither was it mundane. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z Therefore, over the course of three decades, I stubbornly refused to consider spending precious vacation time renting anything as mundane as someone else’s home. On Mexico’s coast, skip the resort and rent a house for an immersive vacation experience 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z So when news broke of the thaw in relations between the U.S. and Cuba, it struck Sáez as surprising and, in a way, mundane. Cuba's Malpaso troupe steps into SoCal for the first time at Laguna Dance Festival 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z But when viewed in more mundane circumstances — namely, a movie theater — Hanna's buzz isn't as pure. In Hanna, Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett Put a Feminine Twist on the Bourne Formula 2011-04-07T09:20:00Z What we can hope for is this: that with showrunners like her in charge, such a revolutionary concept will become perfectly mundane. Mindy Kaling: 'I wasn't considered attractive or funny enough to play myself' 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z The show has an exquisite eye and ear for terror, wit and mundane interactions, so that it manages to be both otherworldly and eerily familiar. 10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The clone is supposed to help Dany handle the mundane task of finishing her homework while also working to raise her social status. Mastering Middle School Friendship Drama 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Of course, making the case about the primacy of daily life depends on the quality of the writing, how well the novelist captures the poetry of the mundane. ‘Among the Ten Thousand Things’: A family torn apart by infidelity 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z It is there not just in the seemingly mundane subject matter, but in the almost realist style, a style that, in lesser hands, could teeter into kitsch or even folk art. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z But the overwhelming feeling is a very mundane existence, and that’s the point: to be a portrait of a community of people seen through stereotypes, and not generally seen as ordinary human beings,” Harris said. | The PG Lives of X-Rated Stars 2013-05-16T21:05:59Z But the wide lower hall, which is roofed with undulating steel ribs, is a beguiling space, with sight lines unobscured by anything so mundane as supporting pillars. The Best Part of Calatrava’s Oculus 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z She wrote in the introduction: “It is the well-thought-out and skillfully crafted details in a garden that distinguish a mundane design from one that sparks the imagination and pleases the senses.” A new compendium of garden elements “A big shift in this idea of treats is approaching mundane, everyday tasks and seeing it in a way that makes it feel like a treat,” she said. Yes, You Do Deserve a Little Treat 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z This is clearly a peculiar piece, one in which a kind of theatrical naiveté becomes deception, the dark soul to be searched out from the mundane. REDCAT opens new work festival with a theme of displacement 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The mundane sights of tourists obscure the history of the camps, and scenes of crowds at ease today are a reminder that similar crowds were massacred there 70 years ago. Sergei Loznitsa’s Movie ‘Austerlitz’ Observes Tourists in Concentration Camps 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z So they plan an elaborate heist that may let them escape their mundane lives. Review: Cops in ‘The Trust’ Spice Up Deadly Dull Jobs 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Seen through the wellness filter, every mundane act is now an expression of self-love and presence of mind. “Wellness” is making us sick: How corporate America’s favorite mantra leaves us all feeling inadequate 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z From there, the story continues in a series of small, almost mundane events — a first date, a minor accident, a companionable evening with a grown son — flavored by a constant stream of memories. 'The Lake Shore Limited': Sue Miller's novel of 4 lives shaped by loss 2010-03-31T21:17:00Z One only wishes her stories were a bit stranger, or even more mundane, that Horrocks might dive deep in one direction, as the people of Bounty did, diving into sleep. Stories of Everyday Strangeness, in the Midwest and Beyond 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Activewear is far from a mundane clothing choice. Sure they’re comfortable, but those leggings and sports bras are also redefining modern femininity 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Their tragedies and life-and-death decisions are folded into the creases of thoroughly mundane activities. 'Curve of Departure' at South Coast Rep: The dad, the ex, her son and his lover. Let the drama begin 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z As for the people, they are an uncompromising sort, delivered in less lyrical terms that suggest just how mundane their lives are. 'Nightwoods' evokes a sense of (a scary) place 2011-11-02T21:12:03Z Like a magic brew thinned into bouillon, “Come Away” folds spellbinding storybook tales into a mundane melodrama. ‘Come Away’ Review: Escaping Grief Through Fantasy 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Whether that moment was captured on Ms. Kardashian’s side by E!’s cameras remains to be seen; the first episode covers more mundane ground, including a blowup over the family Christmas card. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Succession’ and ‘Like Father’ 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z For Tim, hand dryers represent the opportunity of discovery: a world of diversity hidden within the mundane. From stationery fiends to hand dryer enthusiasts… who are you calling boring? 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Full of mundane activities and subterranean anxieties, it’s a chilling representation of what it means to live in an era transformed by 9/11. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Even harder to believe that the film manages to render a multidimensional portrait of a flawed man from this otherwise mundane subject matter. 6 Movies That Take Place in a Single Location (Mostly) 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Yiyun Lee, praised the book, calling Levy “an astute observer of both the mundane and the inexplicable.” New in Paperback: ‘Bowlaway’ and ‘Heart’ 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Too often, these sorts of clubs offer mundane wine selections with little to attract curious consumers. So You’re Thinking About Joining a Wine Club ... 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z And once you surrender to it, the insane gradually becomes normal, even mundane. | 'The Bee': ?The Bee? at Japan Society - Review 2012-01-10T21:16:48Z Their children are thriving in the absence of activities, tight schedules, rushed mornings, mundane homework assignments and long days. Perspective | My kids seem happier since the pandemic slowed life down. Should I be worried? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z For thousands of years the great civilisations / considered manual and mundane labour / a punishment. / Bevel by William Letford – review 2012-08-28T11:30:01Z "The mundane activity of eating popcorn made participants immune to the pervasive effects of advertising," said Sascha Topolinski, one of the researchers. Eating popcorn 'disrupts adverts' 2013-10-14T09:41:21Z Some people also think of “simple” as mundane, contrasting it with complex, which, we all know, carries a positive connotation with wine. In Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, the Gifts of Simplicity 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z I’ve never been much of a ballplayer, so I marvel at athletes who make eye-popping physical feats seem mundane. New & Noteworthy, From Bob Dylan to the Bay Area 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z At its most mundane, synonymous with “fun,” the word frequents a zone where personal responsibility falls away, fleeting pleasures reign, and the future will take care of itself. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z But the circumstances that led to the artist’s new collaboration with the French furniture company Roche Bobois arose from more mundane circumstances. New Ways to Take a Seat at Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In this week’s episode, Maeve wakes up to an instrumental version “Fake Plastic Trees,” which continues as she walks to work, unfazed by the mundane spectacle of a bloody shootout on the streets behind her. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Tipping Point 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z They cannot bear the mundane and the accepted and the conventional, nor can they bear the phoniness and inauthenticity of the people around them. 5 life lessons from J.D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey” 2013-09-12T13:40:00Z It’s a cutting denouncement of the contestant’s mundane vision. | 'Hair Battle Spectacular': Battle of the Stylists on Oxygen 2010-08-09T21:08:00Z “Heroes” was all about surprise and the big moment — the twists and reveals that kept you interested, despite the show’s mundane writing, helter-skelter plotting, uneven performances and painfully cosmic narration. Review: ‘Heroes Reborn’ Finds Its Superhumans Again Fighting to Save the World and Themselves 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Records previously released to The Post show Hoover’s agency surveilled and kept meticulous files on the mundane aspects of the life of novelist Norman Mailer. Love in the time of surveillance: FBI agents tracked Gabriel García Márquez 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z It was the same mundane stuff that Schmieding was wading through in late 2019, just before she was hired as a writer on the show. Hollywood typically depicts Native American stories as sad and one-note. The ‘Rutherford Falls’ creators had other ideas. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Characters backbite, bellyache, reluctantly pitch in and commit mundane acts of heroism in a largely believable manner, and there’s blessedly little inspirational speechmaking. ‘War of the Worlds’ Review: Dystopia à la Française 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z But this arduous, mundane work is a key part of the process; without it, the story is just a myth. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z This epic is also a tale of mundane places: lunch counters, buses, motels, schoolrooms. Museum Review: National Civil Rights Museum to Reopen After Reconstruction 2014-04-01T20:53:41Z The Museum of Innocence vindicates those compulsive keepers of a history too mundane to qualify for the marble halls of national institutions. | Orhan Pamuk 2012-10-04T15:00:21Z A good concert “takes you to another place,” Ms. Kruvand said, a spiritual realm outside of “mundane life.” Cheers and Claps at Classical Performances 2012-06-08T21:33:37Z What makes it not mundane are the last two lines. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Following the announcement of the designer’s death on Sunday, many of his friends, colleagues and mentees used social media to proudly, somberly share screenshots of their exchanges with Mr. Abloh — ranging from mundane to profound. Texts From Virgil 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Refusing to allow sex to become a memory, no matter how mundane the mechanics, is how we learn to marry wisdom to maturity. Women and desire: the six ages of sex 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z |
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