| 单词 | banal |
| 例句 | Thus there was seldom chance for anything but banal remarks. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z There was something vacuous and stupid about it, flapping out there in the middle of nowhere, something empty, banal, brutish. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Effie makes me say a hundred banal phrases starting with a smile, while smiling, or ending with a smile. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z After that, Craig Finch asked me more banal questions, like where I lived in New Jersey and what my favorite class at Duke had been and why. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z If one wants to appraise it, it is at once heroic and banal—but who wants to do that? All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z As I exchanged banal congratulations with the climbers filing past, inwardly I was frantic: “Hurry it up, hurry it up!” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Disappointingly, it turned out to be some banal utterances about dying and cutting cloth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His confusion is so deep it can only be represented with the most banal questions. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The first thing she told Odenigbo when he got home was how banal the word kill had sounded from the child’s mouth and how guilty she had felt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "Intelligence is essentially a banal trade of sifting through huge amounts of random information in a search for a single enlightening gem or illuminating link," he wrote. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His tired voice makes strained and banal conversation with my parents. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But what hope had the West Computers of making a federal case out of something so banal as a cafeteria sign? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If one filters out banal and impersonal events, most of what’s left are astounding aberrations and coincidences, and one’s mind begins to resemble the headlines of supermarket tabloids. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This banal fact used to be one of history’s most closely guarded secrets. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He made it sound so banal, so bloodless, so common. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The speeches given to introducers and presenters were simultaneously banal and disjointed, seemingly half written; surely Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez wrote their own lines, a glorious, extended cascade of insults. Review: The Emmys Keep it Light and Forgettable 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z My mind drifted toward more banal thoughts, such as whether modern politics is suspicious or unaccommodating of friendship, of the commitment to strangers that we assume as citizens. What Jacques Derrida Understood About Friendship 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z 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 Those banal household questions have large cultural implications. The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now? 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Daniel's gnomic conversations with his dementia-ridden father are both banal and heartbreaking. Idiopathy by Sam Byers – review 2013-04-13T10:01:01Z The work often seems something of a minnow compared the magisterial compositions that preceded and followed it, while the metronomic tick-tocking of the woodwinds in the second movement can sound a little banal. Northern Sinfonia/Fischer – review 2013-03-18T17:49:30Z Unfortunately, the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that “The Casual Vacancy” is not only disappointing — it’s dull. Book Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling 2012-09-27T05:00:00Z Some of the biggest debates in the makeover involved a usually banal element: the color gray. Museums: Mus?e d'Orsay Makes a New Impression 2011-10-14T13:30:15Z In Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard,” Norma Desmond so deeply embodies this confusion that she punctuates a banal observation with a pitiful question: “Stars are ageless — aren’t they?” Review: ‘The Age of Adaline’ Coasts Through the Decades 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z "It's a very superficial, banal little song that in my opinion does not convey the complexity of what the island of Sardinia is in its entirety," he says. A few miles from the caviar coast, the 'real' Sardinia sings a sad song of lost opportunity 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z This was generous enough for a banal picture that looks like an enlarged picture postcard handled in the Pointillist style. 2010-02-07T05:26:00Z It's a banal message, but one that has its place. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z That was a lie, he later admitted, a “tiny deception operation” devised to conceal an even more banal truth: that he just couldn’t remember. The Essential John le Carré 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z It’s a nice touch to say that the bookstore, with its coffee and greeting cards, does “a brisk business in banal.” Her Husband Is Kidnapped. Then Things Start to Go Downhill. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z This strategy is especially effective in the opening sequence, which stretches, flattens and defamiliarizes an otherwise banal set of escalators. ‘Black Friday’ Shares Sophia Al-Maria’s Vision of Gulf Futurism 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z If you want the specifics: it was a banal cubicle at the back of the third floor of Vancouver general hospital Diamond building. Anakana Schofield: how to publicise a novel 2013-07-25T14:01:00Z Her anthem We're Still Standing was recorded to mark the 50th anniversary of Algerian Independence this year for good reasons beyond Warda's banal nickname of "Algeria's Rose". Warda gave us a soundtrack for the Arab spring 2012-05-21T12:40:01Z Our critic Stephen Holden writes that in the end, it “becomes a banal, formulaic pastiche of dozens of other like-minded space operas.” Holiday Movies to See (or Skip) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z But the imagery of last week’s siege offered something far more banal if no less chilling: a warped cinema verité of right-wing extremism with waving Confederate flags and white-power poses in Capitol halls. A theater of propaganda: The Capitol, cameras and selfies 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Like most such interactions, they are fairly banal. Review: ‘Kingdom Come,’ About Meeting (but Not Cute) Online 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z It's time to throw off the stifling, cliched, banal covers of dark drama and step confidently into the light. Down with dark: why screen drama needs to lighten up 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The banal truth is that, as with every age, the Victorian period was a mix of greatness and littleness. Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it 2013-05-14T17:30:01Z It’s a record that is a bit disconcerting — since so much of what resides on Facebook is so banal. What happens to a person's Facebook posts after they die? One artist is using them to build digital memorials 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The transgression itself is banal, but the sense of mutual abandonment and pain is profound. Esther Perel Lets Us Listen In on Couples’ Secrets 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Far from belittling the trauma, it’s the most realistic part of the movie, especially as it’s preceded by one banal but increasingly unsettling dialogue exchange that will give many women chills of recognition. How the 'rape-revenge movie' became a feminist weapon for the #MeToo generation 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Fiennes plays the SS officer Amon Göth, a Nazi who is an exemplar of pure evil: hypocritical, banal, smug, preening and cruel. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z In Takeshi Kata’s set design, the banal office slides forward out of the dark like a monster emerging from a swamp. Review: ‘Office Hour’ Is the Play That Goes Bang 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The only element that mars The Shape of Water is its occasional descent into cartoonishly banal views of the evil of mankind. Review: The Shape of Water Is a Poetic Love Letter to a Monster 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The channel launched by Dicky Branson in 2007 to challenge Sky 1's hegemony as the general entertainment multi-channel brand now suffers the ignominy of being known as the deeply banal Channel One. Home Movie Roadshow 2010-09-03T05:45:00Z Some writers embody Hitchens’s line about “living dyingly,” straining to remain themselves, expressing dark humor and secular defiance, downshifting from existential fears to the banal process of death. Meeting Death with Words 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Cue a shockingly banal parade of cartoon personalities determined to get a piece of Kevin's winnings. "Lottery Ticket" has no winners 2010-08-16T03:01:00Z Brief and banal though it was, I think this little interlude — more than the reams of music scholarship and journalism I’ve read and written — might hold the key to solving the paradox. Plagiarists or innovators? The Led Zeppelin paradox endures 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z “That’s the kind of evil so chillingly banal, you just don’t see it coming,” he said. John Oliver on healthcare repeal chaos: 'Good luck fixing that, Republicans' 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Like rabbits, bad writers are everywhere, bred by M.F.A. programs across the country, turning out banal, interchangeable stories. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Finn Ross' video imagery included gusts of alphabet letters that occasionally congealed into snippets of the traditional Latin Mass text, a banal depiction of order out of chaos. L.A. Phil gets theatrical with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The premise is sufficiently nifty that you can choose to overlook the banal ways in which the weekly mystery-adventures are handled. Review: In ‘Timeless,’ a Time-Traveling Trio and a High-Stakes Chase 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Instead, as if abashed by the shadow Williams casts over him, too often he undermines his own inventions, withdrawing into excesses of explanation, banal writing and self-contradiction just when he ought to go for broke. A Novelist Dares to Imagine Tennessee Williams in Love and at Work 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z If superhero fare has made even cosmic catastrophe seem banal, and you want to reconnect to the small-scale vicious potencies of real life, watch this. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Instead, Ward finds significance in events that are a bit more banal, such as the release of the film “Blackboard Jungle” and its opening song, “Rock Around the Clock,” by Bill Haley & His Comets. Once upon a time, rock-and-roll was strange, wild and dangerous 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z If someone announces something banal, like, "I think I'll go take a shower,"I like to throw out the line from the acerbic butler in "Arthur": "I'll alert the media." Patinkin: Alert the media ? I'm talking as if I belong in a movie 2011-07-05T18:37:03Z With its atmosphere of solemn quiet it conjures an era long before Dr. Drew Pinsky and his ilk turned recovery into a banal revolving-door formula. | 'Domain': ?Domain,? Written and Directed by Patric Chiha - Review 2012-01-12T22:19:40Z It’s Halloween, the annual celebration of the basic and the banal. How to Halloween on Instagram: pineapples, handmaids and coffin-shaped nails 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Because of its banal and miserable tone, given a muscular translation by Sarah Moses, “Tender Is the Flesh” — which won Argentina’s Premio Clarin de Novela — is, at least in spates, more powerful than either forebear. What if the Meat We Ate Was Human? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z But let's leave aside how badly he expressed his banal point because he also used the speech to announce a policy which, like the washing machine quandary, is a work of pure evil. Is scrapping workers' rights the Tories' idea of spreading privilege? 2012-10-13T23:06:35Z There was something I connected with in that music that made me feel like I was setting myself apart from the banal, country and western, Wrangler-wearing kids. Musicians and their obsessions 2010-12-09T21:46:00Z Yet the superfluous 80 minutes have to be padded out with excruciatingly repetitive battles, dreary meetings, banal utterances, unnecessary backstory and general flannel. Is The Hobbit simply too long? 2012-12-12T16:15:00Z It's kinder to read Philippe Claudel's The Investigation speculatively, as an interesting and timely experiment, than as what it ultimately is, a banal and rubbishy novel. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z “It’s insane how really banal the work is — I don’t feel shocked by it, and that makes me feel like, I can imagine being thrown in jail for doing absolutely nothing,” Ms. Stoner, 33, said. In New York, a Show of Solidarity for Russian Punk Band 2012-08-17T06:21:35Z Were I to vote on a future for “Block Association Project,” I would urge more precision and a more confident marriage between this community’s banal civics and campaigns with the current troubles of American society. ‘Block Association’ Review: Yes, in Your Backyard 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z They’re also decidedly not news focused, ranging from satire to movie analysis to deliberately banal gossip. 6 Podcasts to Make You Feel Good 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Savoie used to contrast the banal and the baleful, but his style has become increasingly, and powerfully, sinister. Galleries: Big Brother is watching 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Roelf also indulges in some mournful ruminations on the inevitability of death that strike banal notes. Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s ‘Train Driver,’ From Signature Theater 2012-09-10T02:17:30Z The witches are fetching, but their scene is banal and I just didn’t buy it — it felt like a retread of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” from left field. Enchanting ‘Sleepy Hollow’ awakens the best of the Washington Ballet 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Chidi was a philosophy professor obsessed with ethics but paralyzed by indecision, continuously caught between the ethical quandaries presented by life's low stakes, banal choices. "The Good Place" tenderly approaches the final answer in its midseason finale 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z This is a story about what almost happens, what might happen and what is happening under the banal surface of things. Review: ‘Digging for Fire,’ a Comedy by Joe Swanberg 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z But whereas Prokofiev marshals his with a fair degree of variety, his maverick Brazilian near-contemporary hammers away at his rhythmic figures with tedious insistence, and the result is a banal finale. SSO Chamber Series offers radiant reading of rarely-played Strauss sonata 2011-04-23T17:10:05Z The jokes veered crazily from the almost dangerously dark and pointed, to the sort of ludicrously banal stuff that has all the side-splitting mirth of a car accident. In-jokes 2010-03-08T06:14:00Z But even if all that’s required of Spears is a season’s worth of banal compliments, that will add up to more sustained speaking than Spears has ever publicly done before. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z His casual appraisal masked both his appreciation for an image, a performance, or an event — in life or one of his films — that was weird, banal and profound all at once. Robert Downey Jr. reconnects with his filmmaker dad in Netflix's poignant documentary "Sr." 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z After stewing and deliberating for some time, I walked past my boss’s empty desk to Amin’s – the next one along – and dispatched my best banal 5pm small talk. 'If cocaine's everywhere, I missed the memo': Industry as seen by a banker 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The totality is at once self-consciously banal and unexpectedly beautiful. Joe Grillo and Zane Lewis in Separate Shows at the Hole 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Charming and simple but impeccably made and acted, “The Man in the Hat” courses through with a love for stories, cinema, and above all, people — in all our random, absurd and banal glory. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Critics complained that “using puppets was making it seem banal,” she said, or they thought “it was in bad taste.” ?Kamp,? Auschwitz Tableau, Comes to St. Ann?s Warehouse 2010-05-31T22:04:00Z “They were banal and startling, full and empty of meaning. Here were the techniques of Land Art, medieval construction, marketing and promotion, architectural exhibition and the new nativism rolled uncomfortably if somehow inevitably into one.” Essential Arts & Culture: Inside the Bonaventure, along the border and a Pacific Standard Time proposal 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z It is a second world war story about something with which few war movies concern themselves: the banal and poisonous disgrace of collaboration that the Nazis visited on every corner of the Reich. Cannes 2012: In the Fog – review 2012-05-25T11:04:58Z Every once in a while, when she, usually responsive, doesn’t answer my calls and texts for some totally banal reason, my anxiety leads me to imagine the worst outcome. For Mother’s Day, a Healing Meditation on Mortality 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Season 2, which will conclude tonight, is particularly focused on the banal evil of politics and otherworldly malevolence. What’s on TV Monday: The Finale of ‘The Terror: Infamy’ and Franju’s ‘Judex’ 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z But a holiday that used to commemorate our ongoing quest for freedom has become a banal exercise in gluttony and self-congratulation. I hate the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z "More often than not, premises focus on someone's mounting anxiety — specifically the kind that stems from misunderstanding banal situation . . ." It doesn't get more relatable than that. How I made my peace with "I Think You Should Leave" – a cringe comedy I was one reluctant to watch 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z It may be something as apparently banal as the sounds from a rainstick. Awe inspiring: do moments of wonder make us nicer people? | Caspar Henderson 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s said to capture one person’s impressions of the quotidian, the banal, the everyday. Knausgaard’s Selflessness 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Candidate memoirs are banal by design; the vast majority of them are, as Casey N. Cep writes in Politico, "a yellow brick road where heartless prose, brainless policy prescription and cowardly confession meet." Wendy Davis' new memoir details the Texas candidate's abortions 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z I would say every time I read another A-list Hollywood actress doing a banal interview with one of her closest Hollywood friends in the pages of a glossy magazine. LeBron James’s “The Shop” Reinvigorates the Celebrity Interview 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z The effect of the and digital distribution on fiction, said Miéville, would not be about creating "enhanced" ebooks, which he called "a banal abomination". China Miéville: Writers should welcome a future where readers remix our books 2012-08-21T18:15:42Z However, the latest Biennial includes more than just banal cynicism and retro restyling. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z A topic like this might seem banal on the outside, but I reckon it may just prove a corker. Readers recommend: Songs about shoes 2010-04-08T23:01:00Z You're right," says Stephen, "all the conversations in prison are just banal. Wandsworth jail reading group: 'Here, they don't have to be prisoners' 2013-01-15T15:30:01Z And glorious language, artfully structured, can overpower what’s limited and banal, even venal. Even Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The unpromising setup is as banal as someone else’s shrink session. ‘The One I Love,’ With Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Even something as banal as summer heat can suck the life right out of a person. How to make an El Presidente, a Cuban drink with a rich history 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z The Comme des Garçons headquarters, which occupy several floors of a banal office building, look like design studios everywhere, and may even be drabber. Critic’s Notebook: Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Garçons, Veiled Like Mona Lisa 2012-05-30T23:34:55Z The chimeras, or hybrid creatures, that populate Veronica Barker-Barzel’s art crossbreed the banal and the fantastic. Review | In the galleries: Cutting, pasting and creating dazzling order out of chaos 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z The viewer feels no sympathy for Chip, while Galifianakis’s flair for the absurd and postmodern slapstick actually works against the verisimilitude and utterly banal Bakersfield feeling that the show works hard to create. How much Zach Galifianakis is too much? ‘Baskets’ pushes the limits. 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Shot mainly in Spain, the aerial footage transcends the banal symbolism. Roads to Nowhere and Anywhere, With Kelly Reichardt and Wim Wenders 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The question shrugs off the banal answers of self-help, designed to make us think transformation is a formula to be mastered in steps, in favor of the toughest love to accept. Heather Havrilesky asks a radical, essential question: “What If This Were Enough?” 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Doubts over the first three films resurfaced, as many noted how, in the second trilogy, the stress on increasingly assured and beautiful effects failed to mask the flat characters, banal dialogue and rather apologetic acting. The folly of Empire: how Star Wars menaced Hollywood 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Except for a banal office block clumsily attached to its inner flank in the 1950s, the hall stands as if untouched by a hard century of German history. 2010-01-19T18:11:00Z “You can flirt with the banal on the edges of a musical work” like “Picture,” Crimp said, “but ultimately, that’s done to prepare the ground to enter into a much deeper metaphysical space.” An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z The everything-matters ethos of his practice levels the banal and the beautiful. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The painter may be humbly delighted, as she writes, by “banal visual elements.” In the Galleries: Exploring Cuba via the artwork 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z As he took us through the "places of my life" around Norfolk, yet again we marvelled at how his confident asides manage to combine the shiveringly banal with the roundly offensive. Rewind TV: Veep; Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life; Line of Duty; Richard II; Walking and Talking – review 2012-06-30T23:05:43Z The results are dazzling and disarming: They restage banal indoor activities in the middle of a forest, as Lindeman’s finely calibrated facial expressions communicate a subtle sense of surrealism and unease. Climate Change Is Worsening. So the Weather Station Is Singing About It. 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z You can explore it all on this remarkable website, which somehow dissolves feelings of belatedness and nostalgia into a perpetual present that is banal, gorgeous and — always — heavily sign-posted. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Giving sitcom-style family dynamics to monsters has long been standard in big-tent animation projects, but these dynamics tend to make banal what is weird and intriguing about the characters. ‘Hotel Transylvania: Transformania’ Review: Another Monster Mash 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z But a bit of empathy might allow you to skip the banal words and focus on the intended meaning that follows. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z We spend long mornings with the apprentices, watching them wash rice, massage octopus and brush sheets of nori across a hibachi as they exchange flat, often banal bits of dialogue that rely heavily on subtext. All dressed up, but this 'fish story' goes nowhere 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z He is lethally efficient in his pursuit of the banal. Marc Quinn's giant baby sculpture infantilises art 2013-01-21T13:41:50Z It's halfway between Oasis's brand of high/fly/sky banal uplift and Coldplay's soaring tedium. New band of the day: Kodaline (No 1,365) 2012-10-04T16:42:12Z The theme remains that of a powerful outsider, paranoid about his status and manipulated because of it, rather than the banal cruelties and thoughtless traditions that blight everyday life across India. How Bollywood is starting to deal with India's caste system 2010-12-16T22:30:02Z I think this is a compensation for the little, banal degradations of everyday life. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XI 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z In a way, I think, in terms of wisdom, the most banal truisms are the most useful: "do the right thing", "whatever works", stuff like that. David Shrigley: 'More than anything else, I need to laugh at things' 2012-09-29T23:05:12Z The blurred soft tone adds to the banal everyday quality. MI5's uselessly dehumanised crop of the 7/7 bombers picture 2011-02-22T16:14:44Z The food choices are a bit banal – McDonald’s and the like – but there are a few more desirable choices. Frugal Traveler: Terminally Frugal: How to Save at Kennedy Airport 2010-12-16T18:49:43Z But to reduce them almost to a set of musical rants promoting antisemitism is simply false and banal. Richard Wagner was no ranter 2011-07-25T21:00:01Z It lacks the brilliance of the truly banal, trying hard to spoof – or celebrate – too many things without proving any mastery of one. New band of the day: The Winter Olympics (No 1,368) 2012-10-09T16:49:54Z He is, all in all, a fairly ordinary guy caught up in a drama that is equally banal and entirely of his own making. | 'Tuesday, After Christmas': Case of Romanian Realism: Regular Guy, With Wife and Girlfriend 2011-05-24T21:43:04Z While the character berates his actors for failing to appreciate his source text, Pak shows that the impulses that underlie even classical tragedies are much cruder and more banal than we might assume. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Maine is now underwater, and the humans who remain spend most of their time apologizing for the catastrophe — either that, or pursuing the same banal fixations that brought it about in the first place. After a Climate Catastrophe, These Birds Flocked to the Moon 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Yet in other passages emotionality is pushed almost to the point of hysteria, while banal language reduces the beautiful central legend to sentimentality. The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness – review 2013-04-20T10:30:01Z Almost nothing about the tale is banal or ordinary. Exhibition Review: ?Secrets of Archimedes? at Walters in Baltimore - Review 2011-10-16T23:08:04Z I would much rather imagine it than see all the banal mechanics. Movie Review: ‘On the Road,’ Directed by Walter Salles 2012-12-20T23:12:37Z Watching these shows is like reading the most banal email thread at 3am. Rob & Chyna: the saddest show on TV 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z He does this quite a lot, and even fairly banal details about his personal life are injuncted the moment they're out of his mouth, which is frustrating but unsurprising, given his publicity-shy reputation. Robbie Coltrane: 'I take no nonsense' 2012-11-09T22:59:00Z The song is utterly banal, of course, and could even come over a bit – to coin a phrase – phoney baloney. Foxygen, Bastille, Misty Miller: this week's new tracks 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z To see Doña Mari and Doña Lilia in the kitchen, frying eggs and checking the consomme, was a comfort offered not by bloodline but by the everyday peregrinations of habit and tiny, banal ritual. The enduring comfort of comida corrida 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Todd McCarthy at The Hollywood Reporter criticized the "dirge-like" pacing and "banal" script. "Breaking Dawn" sees its stars looking to new horizons 2011-11-15T13:18:51Z Divergent voices and memories can be meaningfully deployed; they can also just be fun or showy or banal. ‘Only the Animals’ Review: A Missing Woman, a Cruel World 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z There’s an arresting sequence of extracting caviar from sturgeon in China and some fairly banal chitchat with François Hollande, France’s former president. Documentary Follows Alain Ducasse on a Quest for Perfection 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Understood as a self-help book, “The Price You Pay for College” represents an extraordinary achievement: It is comprehensive and detailed without being tedious, practical without being banal, impeccably well judged and unusually rigorous. How to Pay for College (and Not Lose Your Shirt) 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The words she chooses hardly matter—they are just the banal small talk we make, filler to get us to the pauses. A Little Theatre That Might 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z As a point of comparison, Mr. Ball often looks to the smartphone era, which changed our relationship with technology in ways that were as profound and shocking as they now seem banal. Are You Missing Out on the Metaverse? 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z From the banal, to the horrifying, to the deadly . . . it's all on the table. Author Max Brooks on America's poor pandemic response and why Donald Trump is "a homicidal buffoon" 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z War is like that: Most of it is banal, and then it’s punctuated by these extremely tense moments. These Artists Refuse to Forget the Wars in Iraq 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z It is a postmodern vivisection of Modernism, analysing the dream and the machine, war as the old lie and a new liberation, and rituals sacred, profane and banal. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z Artists like to disorientate their viewers, to shift the position and scale of otherwise banal subjects so they appear strangely unfamiliar. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-08T23:08:45Z Atkinson elegantly executes these chronological loop-de-loops, leaving a reader to marvel at that most banal of epiphanies: how fast life goes by. ‘A God in Ruins,’ by Kate Atkinson 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Kazantsev hammered so mercilessly at the next banal theme that it lost all its shape and irony. Do Russian musicians play Russian music better? 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z To some, he is a genius who elevates the banal into work powerful enough to alter our imagination and to rekindle childhood wonderment. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z “I’m trying to play with how we ascribe value to history, how we build the story of history, how we perceive art by glamorizing banal locations and things from around the city,” Mr. Hudson said. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z Wallace couldn’t return to conventional realism, though, suspecting it to be the most banal and uninteresting of shams. David Foster Wallace vs. Jonathan Franzen: Finding truth and authenticity in an age of irony 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Making no tonal distinction between the banal and the outrageous, it conveys the impression that nothing is safe. ‘Fest’ and ‘Bear/Skin’ at American Realness Festival 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z His message is optimistic — we need to talk more, and understand each other’s humanity — and banal. Colum McCann’s New Novel Makes a Good-Intentioned Collage Out of Real Tragedy 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Asked one or two awkward and banal questions. My belated thank you to Liz Lochhead 2012-08-17T13:00:01Z We hear it in relatively banal complaints about America not being “ready” for a black president, too. “Democracy in Black”: A conversation about race in America with Eddie Glaude Jr. 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z It was after midnight in a sweaty, crowded nightclub, and Riff Raff, wearing a pink neon windbreaker, mostly took banal questions from the crowd: Will Riff Raff bring the rice out? Music Review: Riff Raff at Santos Party House 2012-09-02T21:09:52Z The proposal looks banal and inelegant, extruding the library and the 70th street facade. The Case Against a Mammoth Frick Collection Addition 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z How could this be, on banal, heavily trafficked Long Island in a suburban village near New York City? | '3 Backyards': What?s Really Beneath Those Manicured Lawns (and Suburban Smiles) 2011-03-11T02:00:47Z Walking around them this week, I was struck by how they divided between banal literalism and meaningless abstraction. London is now full of war memorials, but the oldest are still the best 2012-11-09T22:29:02Z Entitled William Eggleston's Guide, it was the first show of colour photography at Moma, a decision that incensed the critics almost as much as the supposedly banal and vulgar subject matter. John Szarkowski 2010-07-20T11:05:00Z “I wanted unromantic, unpoetic, unsanitized visions of death. I wanted the naked, banal reality of this thing that will come to us all.” Here Are the Nitty-Gritty Details of Death Nobody Wants to Talk About 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Despite his determination, his repeated actions grow banal. Review: Joanna Kotze’s High-Speed Chase at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps only Parr can bring this off: recognise the banalities as banal but also profound. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-11T00:15:00Z There’s a parody meme on Twitter to break any banal statement or quote into short lowercase lines and sign it “- rupi kaur.” Why Rupi Kaur and Her Peers Are the Most Popular Poets in the World 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z There’s nothing banal or benign about the hat, no matter its wearer’s intent. Perspective | The MAGA hat is not a statement of policy. It’s an inflammatory declaration of identity. 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He turned to a friend, a lawyer and politician named Aubrey Strode, who emerges as a fascinatingly banal character in Cohen’s account. The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z But, at some point, your inner monologue will devolve into more familiar and banal observations: The Museum of the Dog is unleashed in Manhattan 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z This outwardly banal scribble is code, the KPK alleged, for an anticipated kickback. Metallica guitar at centre of Indonesian corruption row 2013-05-29T09:50:04Z Obviously, Sheeran doesn’t worry about verbal clichés — though in these songs, the sorrowful tone makes them sound more unguarded than banal. Ed Sheeran Lets His Tears Flow on ‘-’ 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z This Great Phatsby wasn’t the exception, but rather a demonstration of the rule in motion: with an opportunity to do something daring they churned out something wholly and utterly banal. The Simpsons mixes The Great Gatsby with hip-hop in misfiring special 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z But the resulting film did not hit the mark — writing in The Times, Vincent Canby called it “solemnly self-important and banal.” Arts & Leisure: Walter Salles Adapts Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ 2012-05-23T23:42:34Z But television is done with being dismissed as a banal house-trained purveyor of predictable entertainment; increasingly its stories are not there to soothe but to startle and provoke. TV's alleged 'rape glut' may just be a more reflective reality 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The undazzling writing style now seems to me to correspond, profoundly and even ingeniously, to the plot: despite an unassuming, even banal or ridiculous appearance, the detectives work in unfathomably deep ways. Buying books is fun, with a glass in your hand 2010-10-01T23:08:00Z Instead, “Moon” is an elliptical drama that pieces together banal VHS recordings overlaid with spoken diary entries, tense familial encounters, and displays of solitary, existential angst rousingly performed by Kokkali. ‘Moon, 66 Questions’ Review: Daddy Issues 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Hoffman plays the bean-counting restaurant owner who pushes his chef into banal crowd-pleasing, a choice that elicits the bad review. Jon Favreau Serves Up a Smaller Film, ‘Chef’ 2014-04-25T16:51:47Z Art, it suggests, can be humiliating, banal, low. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti - review 2013-01-11T08:00:10Z But it's also a particularly tense and fraught kind of Groundhog Day, and just as in that film, repetition endows banal, forgettable events with an eerie familiarity and inevitability. Source Code ? review 2011-03-31T14:00:01Z There’s something exceedingly cut-and-dried about this case — something so banal in its evildoing — that it wouldn’t measure up to most of the episodes in “Law & Order’s” considerable library of reruns. Review | ‘Law & Order’ applies its style to true crime, but ‘Menendez Murders’ lacks allure 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z It suggests that war might lead us to see as banal the very horrifying act of killing other humans. Depicting war 2010-09-18T23:02:00Z Opportunism has never morally burdened her, which makes her self-interest seem both egregious and banal. Omarosa, the Tragic Narrator of Our Times 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z But the labored cheapness of the offerings by Ms. Young, Ms. Patek and others drags the festival into the determinedly banal. Dance Review: At American Realness Festival, a Range of ‘Fringe’ 2014-01-16T23:19:53Z These journals convey his impressions, both insightful and banal. New & Noteworthy 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The precious relics have been rendered banal, and history is all but smothered by the crude, irrepressible now. East Asian sculptors reshape tradition 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z In both films, it is the sheer abundance of banal, thoughtless cruelty that jolts, and “Disclosure” is careful to note how cruelty multiplies when transgender people are also black. ‘Disclosure’ Review: A Transgender Lens on Film and TV History 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z It probes the banal content of life to the point of exhaustion. Knausgaard’s Seasonal Book Series Continues With a Wintry Mix 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Still, the movie falls into “a banal, formulaic pastiche,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Portlandia’ and ‘Passengers’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But such interpretations can flatten poetry into prose and also serve as strategies to neuter artists, whose works of imagination are “revealed” as nothing more than banal facts. Movie Review | 'The Ghost Writer': Writer for Hire Is a Wanted Man 2010-02-19T05:58:00Z But the use of text was less compelling, even banal. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z Yet it's weirdly gripping, an authentically banal slice of life. Beeswax: Film review 2010-04-15T21:20:00Z Set to a series of svelte, mid-tempo country songs, she sticks to a message that’s both important and banal: Be yourself. Is Kacey Musgraves singing all this ‘be yourself’ stuff into the mirror? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z It aims to find in the in-between, the undefined, the transitory and even the banal a kind of architectural staying power. Compelling case for gray at Pomona College's Studio Art Hall 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z His monologue, however, remains standard fare, mostly banal topical jokes delivered in between familiar manic tics, like his string-pulling dance or his overreactions to ordinary audience responses. Critic’s Notebook: Gee, Conan, That Joke Seems Familiar 2012-11-09T23:47:19Z Its uses ran from the banal and domestic to the heroic and political. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z She is a whirlwind of rage and erudition, and she almost makes everyone else look timid and banal. Review: In ‘Maggie’s Plan,’ Greta Gerwig Aspires to Motherhood on Her Terms 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Performing at a presidential inauguration, once viewed as a banal honor, became a fraught gig in 2017. How we ended up vetting celebrities as carefully as politicians 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z In the last episode, a fringe character sums up what Beth has learned about life in a single, comically banal sentence. ‘Life & Beth’ Review: Further Inside Amy Schumer 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z But that, too, is terrifically sad: time renders love banal, ordinary, reversible. The Singularity of Adele’s Soul 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Popova notes, death is the chilling and banal end that awaits us all. Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z “Games Without Frontiers,” in many ways, is The Americans: tense, sly, sinuous, its lyrics contrasting the banal and the menacing, imagining world war as a kind of internationalist Lord of the Flies child’s game. The Americans Watch: It’s a Knockout 2013-05-02T09:45:37Z In an interview with British radio, the 43-year-old former supermodel turned singer says the pregnancy is "something very banal" - even if "great news" for her personally. Bruni-Sarkozy 'superstitious' about pregnancy 2011-09-26T11:48:11Z Even a “banal” story like this tiger-cub number admits “multiple interpretations,” and the prod to “reduce the work to a single idea” does a disservice to both reader and text. Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z In her latest poetry collection, Ruefle confronts the extraordinary yet banal fact that all of us die. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z They're for the most part phony, or empty-headed, banal and bungling. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z The nightmare is so familiar now it’s almost banal: what oh what would happen if someone, somewhere, treated us the way we treated them? The 5th Wave could be an apology for colonialism – but it's not 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z “It was this banal thing. Why would you do that?” Pour at Your Own Risk: America Warms to a Spill-Prone Wine Jug 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z “I made the reverse journey, from Morocco to France, which is much more banal,” Slimani, one of France’s highest-profile novelists, said in an interview at a private members’ club in Paris last month. Leïla Slimani Has Written About a Sex Addict and a Murderous Nanny. Next Up: Her Own Family. 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z Coffee mugs, newspapers and paintings share a motif of italicized loops, though whether this elevates the banal items or downgrades the artistic ones is hard to say. Art in Review: PAMELA ROSENKRANZ/ NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF: ?This Is Not My Color/The Seven Habits of HighlyEffective People? 2011-10-13T22:00:35Z The most banal answer is that Beethoven is box office. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z None of this cut very deeply, and not just because these themes are so incredibly banal, but because Rihanna keeps her affect on lockdown. Music Review: Rihanna at Madison Square Garden, Dressed for Battle 2010-08-14T01:00:00Z Calling her slogans banal is an insult to banality. A tale of two populisms: Do you want to live in Donald Trump’s New York or Bob Dylan’s America? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Devoid of the tormented strokes from Schiele’s Expressionist phase, which began later, the drawing is banal in its traditional handling. When Discourse Has the Upper Hand Over Art 2010-06-25T11:00:00Z What struck me about those lines in “The Boarding House” was how expertly they disguised themselves as banal. The Magic of Dubliners 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Singh attempts to compensate for a lack of comparable energy with accretion; in his hands images become inventory, but without the titillating weirdness or even the banal surrealism of “Evidence” or Mr. Ethridge. Art Review: ‘Alexandre Singh: The Pledge’ at the Drawing Center 2013-01-17T20:50:38Z Hallucinogenic and frequently absurd, they alternate between the barbarically cruel and the banally quotidian. In Munich, Young Directors Offer Horrors Both Real and Fantastical 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z But of the play, he wrote, “The setups are unlikely, the payoffs banal. Call it ‘Dangerless Liaisons.’” 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The sections on art and writing are, for the most part, banal — predictable musings about whether characters ought to be “likable” or not, and the pleasures of rereading favorite short books. Review: ‘Discontent and Its Civilizations’: Mohsin Hamid at Home in Three Lands 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z “Suddenly I found myself living through the most banal of stories, as the neglected wife of a faithless husband,” she writes. An Award-Winning Biographer’s Latest Subject: Herself 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The best part about the dance is Tamara Cobus’s white halter leotard; the relationship between the music and movement is more banal. Dance Review: Richmond Ballet at Joyce Theater 2010-04-08T21:51:00Z Soldiers on leave, gamboling with girls: What could be more banal? Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z One book is still contested—the most banal of the lot—precisely because it contains descriptions of sex that parents feel are unsuitable for tenth graders. What Kind of Town Bans Books? 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z But while it attempts to say something about the dangerousness of banal characters and the people around them, it doesn't quite make that case in a clear and compelling away. Four years into a scandal-pocked presidency, "Roadkill" just seems flat 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The guests all have something to plug, and no question is considered too anodyne or banal. Loose Women: more super than superficial? 2011-01-26T15:12:56Z His work with experimental drugs never seemed to involve anything as banal as protocols or controls. When the C.I.A. Was Into Mind Control 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z He is a banal guy who happens to be linked to something sinister. In knockout thriller "Catch the Fair One," a boxer infiltrates a ring of human traffickers 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z That "bit of fun", and the money behind it, is meant to override the fact that these polls are often banal and trivialising, ahistorical and subjective to the point of meaninglessness. Why is Stewart Lee railing against the Edinburgh comedy awards? 2010-07-21T16:04:00Z Then there are movie posters — the vast majority, in fact — so banal and unimaginative that they barely register even as one is looking right at them. 007 Movie Posters: Five Decades of Bond 2012-11-09T13:00:57Z Off set, Sheen is a sex-crazed whirlwind of a werewolf, torn asunder by what he mines for banal comic relief. Charlie Sheen hospitalized for being Charlie Sheen 2011-01-27T23:28:00Z There are nearly 20 beautiful if banal images inspired by the lessons, subjects and techniques of “The Joy of Photography.” Review: In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Piotr Uklanski’s Unblinking Gaze 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z It was the perfect moment for Darden to introduce a challenging line of questioning, but instead, the conversation retreated to the banal. Kodak Black Grapples With Tough Questions in His Music, but Nowhere Else 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The sequence takes a banal part of the modern landscape -- sliding elevator doors -- and makes them expressive. "The Good Wife's" exquisite season finale 2011-05-18T13:19:00Z To that banal end, he slips into his bulletproof, nearly soundproofed white stretch limo that’s both his office and something of a carapace, and from which he impassively watches the city slip by. ArtsBeat: After the Boos: Reviewing the Cannes Film Festival 2012-05-27T23:43:15Z Britain is in danger of becoming a Disney version of itself, taking historical themes and turning them into banal theatre. Arts head: Neville Brody, president, D&AD 2013-05-14T10:52:00Z Meanwhile, Simpson didn’t grasp this Wordle quirk until the day he missed “banal.” Wordle is our new drug 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Obnoxious, thumping music in the background can create tension and suspense, no matter how banal what’s going on in the foreground may be. Television Review: Economic Crisis Unfurls in Hushed Suspense 2011-05-22T21:06:40Z He stopped himself two minutes into a rousing but banal 12-bar blues, exercising a right as the keenest critic of his own work. Music Review: Keith Jarrett in a Solo Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-01-26T22:29:27Z It is shot in one take, from the middle distance, acted with a banal frankness which feels like eavesdropping. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z At the same time, “The Chi” doesn’t present its characters as unrealistically pure of deed; even banal transactions and conversations seem fraught with wariness and moral qualms. Review | ‘The Chi’ is best when it gives life to a community known mostly for its killings 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z How do you write a play about the British royal family without making its members seem risible, banal or irrelevant? Mike Bartlett Turns to Shakespeare to Voice His ‘King Charles III’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The vividness of these exchanges — the banal vernacular of the teenage girls and the techniques of their much older interlocutors — make for some of its most compelling chapters. Rebecca Godfrey, Who Found Humanity in Teenage Violence, Dies at 54 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The transference she experienced with the animal kingdom was something more than a banal idea of “oneness”; it was about the mutual acknowledgement of pain. Mary Oliver Helped Us Stay Amazed 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z There’s an echo of Luis Buñuel’s “The Exterminating Angel” in “The African Desperate,” though Palace’s stuckness in her off-putting milieu is less surreal than tragically banal. ‘The African Desperate’ Review: Double Speak 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The cinema begins with action—with the most banal yet most mysterious of actions, namely, walking, in the Lumière brothers’ 1895 spectacle showing workers leaving their factory. Cinema’s Walking Cure 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z News spreads fast, but the truth is more banal, and more heartbreaking, than the townspeople’s gossipy suppositions: The child is Desiree’s daughter, Jude, the product of an abusive marriage to a man in Washington, D.C. A Novel Imagines the Fate of Twin Sisters, One Passing for White 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Even if his writing was banal, the public remained enthralled with Mr. McKuen and his seemingly endless body of work for more than a decade. Rod McKuen dies at 81; poetry and songs sold millions and drew critical scorn in the 1960s and ’70s 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z McDonagh has long coaxed comedy from the friction between the idiotic, the unthinkably painful and the banal. Why Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z In the film sequences, actors speak lines so banal my neighbour was writhing in his chair. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z Leisurely sequences of the younger women drinking, trash-talking and, theorizing about the communal, do-it-yourself nature of their scene, in between happy excursions to the Off Ramp and other happening clubs, get banal and sloppy. ‘These Streets’: guts and glory, but little story 2013-02-27T22:58:32Z But the Church of Latter-Day Saints disavowed polygamy in 1904, and Ashworth's characters are banal, straight-laced, monogamous folk who also happen to be Mormons. The Friday Gospels by Jenn Ashworth – review 2013-01-18T08:30:01Z Auerbach recalled that Bacon was full of opinions, “some inane and banal, many of them absolutely inspired and illuminating.” At 91, Frank Auerbach Is Still Searching for the Perfect Image 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The scene that Berg describes is one of exquisite tragicomedy, of the fusion of life-and-death passion with banal accountancy; it’s also a scene in which side characters are incongruously essential. The Odd Factual Gaps in Michael Grandage’s “Genius” 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z He ran a thriving studio and brought an avant-gardist’s sense of composition to even the most apparently banal endeavors. When Color Was Vulgar: Paul Outerbridge’s Avant-Gardist’s Eye 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Or is there some less-definable expressive quality that turns the banal into the beautiful? Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z The media versions of “Frankenstein” were so thoroughly ingrained in me, I had dismissed the book as dated and banal. For Years, a Literary Villain Made Joe Ide Wary of Nurses 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z He draws out blips of insight, slips of memoir, footnotes on craft, old lines stored deep in the files, spontaneous riffs on banal business, and passing glimpses of private selves. “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” and Jerry Seinfeld’s Identical Layers 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Evil here is not banal; it is jaw-droppingly bizarre and eclipses good. 'Dietrich & Riefenstahl' raises questions of good and evil 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z “I’m saying frighteningly banal things, but that’s what a goddess does to you.” An Appraisal: An Alluring Beauty Exempt From Fashion?s Rules 2011-03-24T02:58:02Z It is, it wants to be, a moral novel, not merely unfolding but inventing itself through its hero’s minute choices — some banal, some life-changing. An Undocumented Immigrant Has Information About a Murder. What to Do? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Sometimes touching, sometimes banal, it's when the music is put first that the reservations drop away. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-28T21:00:00Z Look in detail into the lives of people such as Lorraine, and the falsity of such distinctions is apparent: how can difficult, tragic lives be sorted into banal and subjective categories? Social deprivation in Britain: how a writer's life turned to tragedy 2010-10-17T15:00:00Z The title of the movie, filmed on a minuscule budget, is cruelly double-edged, for on the surface there is nothing notably strange or new about Wayne’s monumentally banal existence. | 'Everything Strange and New': Bye-Bye, Happiness; Life Is a Trap 2011-02-25T01:03:32Z For reasons that are still mysterious and which, perhaps, if revealed, might seem banal, in the eighth year A.D. the poet Publius Ovidius Naso was banished from Rome by the Emperor Augustus. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z The hotel imposes on the inmates a bland collective culture of banal romantic pop songs and didactic playlets that dramatize the virtues of couplehood. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z You get a stream of banal corporate spam. Datebook: Statue selfies, new Nazca Lines, the whitest superheroes 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z To those of us who have experienced moral distress, Grayling's homilies will seem breezy, superficial and banal; but they were not really meant for us. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z The book, interestingly, opens with the banal. "Design and Violence" begins with the history of the simple box cutter — the tool of terror from 9/11. Devising death: 'Design & Violence' portrays real tools of violence and they are chilling 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The fairly banal title, which refers to the famously hedonistic New York gay haven, reflects the degree of originality deployed by Andrew Ahn’s “Fire Island.” ‘Fire Island’ Review: Oh, the Summer Nights 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z How does that banal motif accomplish these lofty goals? Children's book author Jon Klassen and the morally ambiguous universe of hats 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But just as many sequences are banal — kids filming themselves watching TV as if they were streaming on Instagram Live. ‘Un Film Dramatique’ Review: Students Record the Paris Suburbs 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z On paper, these elements sound exasperating, baffling and banal – and that's certainly how they were received by some. Cannes film festival: Kiarostami's scenes from a fake marriage 2010-05-18T21:00:00Z Widely studied and taught, Beard’s masterpiece swerves from the banal to the sublime with profound humility and unvarnished detail: Review | Jo Ann Beard, best known for her New Yorker essay about a shooting, returns with a beautiful new collection 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Stick tirelessly to the most banal of Midlands housing estates as your subject. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-19T00:05:56Z Phrases like those are clichés, examples of the kind of banal, flattened language Williams avoids the way her characters avoid permanence — temperamentally and also programmatically. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Those who went for blank verse seemed to think that anything, however banal, Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Capturing the pandemic and protests in poetry 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z But doing so negates the truth: These murderers, while evil, are often fairly banal people who get caught because of their own errors, or stay uncaptured because of others’ mistakes. Following the Bloodlines 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z In fact, looking back at photographs of Times Square in the heyday of neon, the spectacle seems tame, banal, laughably wholesome. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z It sounds so banal, but I loved my life, maybe the most in my 34 years. Modern Love: The View From the Victim Room 2013-06-27T20:45:27Z Mr. Desyatnikov has defined his style, intriguingly, as “the emancipation of consonance, the transformation of the banal, minimalism with a human face.” What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Into this banal life steps a mighty insistent spirit, the shade of a dead woman who seems unhealthily interested in the little girl. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z New York magazine’s art critic railed at the “banal, nouveau riche” Sculls, whose “greed,” “shamelessness,” and “sheer, unadulterated chutzpa” killed contemporary art “not with a whimper but with a bid.” At Acquavella Galleries, Robert and Ethel Sculls? Legacy of Pop Art 2010-04-09T23:33:00Z Famous athletes and movie stars are also using social media to share their experiences of both the banal and the larger injustices surrounding fatherhood. Making Room (on the Web) for Daddy 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s not evil that is banal, but its machinery. Books of The Times: ?God?s Jury? by Cullen Murphy - Review 2012-01-18T22:38:44Z The simple answer is banal — something to do with a mean comment Christina had made — but the bigger picture fills out as Meier tracks Margaret’s efforts to reconnect with her family. ‘The Line’ Review: Family Boundaries 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The film was a banal, cynical and passionless rehash of a masterpiece, an embarrassing reminder of why Hollywood should be cautious in remaking French films. Letters: ?Breathless?: Don?t Buy American 2010-05-28T14:54:00Z “Strolling the streets, riding the Métro, or at work, the observation that France is a culturally diverse, global society is so routine it seems almost too banal to mention,” he added. Dipping Into a French Melting Pot 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Luxuriating in the measured accumulation of banal small talk and abstruse clues, I reflected comfortably that I had still only read 32 of the 34 Hercule Poirot novels. Buying books is fun, with a glass in your hand 2010-10-01T23:08:00Z If it sounds banal to an outsider, for her, as for many others, the takeaway is profound. Ayahuasca: A Strong Cup of Tea 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The point—that entertainment excuses evils, and that we don’t process truths unless they entertain us—is both banal and impossible to emphasize enough. The Productive Ambivalence of Aziz Ansari in His Comeback Netflix Special 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Khmeli-suneli, a fragrant, faintly bitter spice blend, perfumes a soup of beef and rice and exalts an otherwise banal ensemble of cucumbers and tomatoes. Hungry City: Old Tbilisi Garden in Greenwich Village 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z 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 Even the strutting pomp of Ziggy and Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs and Young Americans seem rather banal now. Old music: David Bowie - Cygnet Committee 2012-05-29T10:54:13Z I was fed up with writing banal copy but, in a city where I was otherwise anonymous, there was something comforting about the office: its murmur of chatter, bleeping phones and familiarish faces. Is it just me... or does everyone lose friends in their 30s? 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Wallace-Wells avoids the “eerily banal language of climatology” in favor of lush, rolling prose. In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z He hired a Rolls-Royce and was, said a fellow writer, "a master at gathering banal quotes from silly girls down to the last burp". Michael Winner 2013-01-21T17:28:09Z Or even, at our most banal, how we gawped our way through the royal wedding? Kathryn Hughes: rereading Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner 2013-03-23T07:00:15Z “No question was too extraordinary or too banal” for the pair, Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim’s chief curator, writes in the show’s catalog. Fischli and Weiss: Anarchy at the Guggenheim 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z A man walking is depicted in banal figural fashion and the artist badly missed out on one of the legs. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z The story of her marriage’s eruption, she tells the student, is “so banal that she barely had the energy to describe it.” In ‘White on White,’ the Traditional Landlord-Tenant Pact Is Ruptured 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z But when Sang began his career, the radio station interview was by and large a banal format, a back-scratching relic of old power structures. Zach Sang, the Ryan Seacrest of the Youth, Wants to Save Radio 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z “It’s banal” to make Shakespeare politically correct, she sniffed. Denzel Washington, Man on Fire 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z The fraud being examined is actually pretty banal. | 'Road to Nowhere': Trouble Ahead: Director Falls for Leading Lady 2011-06-09T22:50:55Z A scene in which two characters converse at a bar can be filmed in a banal way without revealing more about the director than a mere professional incompetence. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The voice was “neutral, banal, oddly companionate,” and when she told doctors about it, they linked it at once to schizophrenia, resulting in a period of institutionalization that did more harm than good. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z But Slabbinck’s skillful manipulations of perspective and proportion, and juxtapositions of color and black and white, turn banal source material into scenes of whimsical confusion. A Belgian Artist’s Collages Come to Life and Trick the Eye 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z “It becomes, somehow, more banal and routine, but also more intimately bonded at the same time. So that’s the piece I wanted to write.” Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z She unearths what’s wise in absurdity and shows how something that might appear banal can suddenly become luminous. But Is It Art? In the Case of ‘Doggie Hamlet,’ Yes 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Twenty pages later, No. 167 turns absurdly banal: “Bedroom. Lovemaking. Outside the window is an inverted enamel saucepan.” Art Review: Conceptual Works in ‘Images of an Infinite Film,’ at MoMA 2014-01-02T21:51:10Z "It's about the ideal of the banal being a lunching point into the cosmic," he said of one Brel track. Behind the Brel ? The Story of a Musical Genius | Radio review 2010-03-17T06:45:00Z Materials we think banal and boring — paper, concrete, glass, plastic — hold hidden wonders. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z In this life of the pop composer who was called “American music,” Kaplan argues that Berlin’s work represented “modernism on the hoof: startling formal innovation smuggled into a seemingly banal idiom.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Desserts like flourless chocolate cake with green tea are not the usual banal afterthoughts. Spice Market Chef Puts His Spin on Chinese Food at Chaan Teng 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z The characters speak plainly and obliquely, chatting about food, weather, architecture and other safely banal topics, as well as about love and work. ‘The Woman Who Ran’ Review: Conversations With Friends 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The world she inhabits — a banal, familiar world of meetings, PowerPoint presentations and awkward collegial socializing — seems designed to strip away personal autonomy and integrity. At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The id laid bare is banal, and especially in the current political context, disappointingly tame. Review: Faye Driscoll’s ‘Play’ Channels a Howl Into Fun and Games 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Very often Beethoven’s materials and themes are banal, very simple, not very interesting, but he made huge artworks out of these small cells, small motifs. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z As banal as Ms. Oberfelder’s vigorous choreography is, her full-bodied twists and darting kicks require fleetness and control. Dance Review: ‘4Chambers’ Offers an Artsy Embrace on Governors Island 2013-07-07T21:55:08Z Rosetta’s antisocial and self-destructive behavior expresses a desire that is at once primal and practical, banal and profound. The Dardennes Explore Their Theme in ‘Two Days, One Night’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The torso she modelled for is a strangely banal piece of work; it lacks the spontaneity that people love about Rodin, but which to me always seems a little brutal. My hero: Gwen John 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z The verses with the sharp and often ornamental guitar licks unfortunately devolve into the most banal of choruses - like a television tune with a Rick Springfield refrain. Review: The Virgins fall short on 'Strike Gently' 2013-03-11T18:27:09Z After all, aren’t most of us trapped in the same day over and over again, trying to find meaning in the banal? The Tao of “Groundhog Day,” Onstage 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z “But at times, the overall message is pretty banal.” The Survivor 2011-06-01T20:37:21Z The concept is as banal and superficial as is its realization. “Apollo 11,” Reviewed: A Found-Footage Documentary With No Sense of Discovery 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z In her review, Manohla Dargis of The Times called it “a horror movie about the agonizing, banal surrealism of everyday life.” In ‘The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T,’ Practice Makes Pandemonium 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Somehow, even the most banal possibilities — an empty hole in the ground, a trove of worthless junk, a find worth fighting over — are weighted with dread and suspense. Review: In ‘The Treasure,’ Digging for Something of Value in Romania 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z War photographers often seek to overcome the otherworldliness of war by focusing on the banal and familiar. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z His Twitter feed presents a perfectly dull person with perfectly banal thoughts. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z The trick, insofar as there could be said to be one, might be to render the inevitable spectacular by imagining that our exits will at least not be banal. Michael Holden's All ears 2011-07-22T23:07:59Z Caspar Harlan’s three daughters, on the other hand, seem more baffled than uncomfortable, dismissing the movie as a bourgeois melodrama that is “so cheesy and really banal.” Nazi Film Still Pains Relatives 2010-03-02T04:04:00Z And this time Claudel admits his defeat not by making a joke but by becoming banally explicit: "… you probably cannot live happily without stealing the happiness of someone living somewhere else." The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z High-level conspiracies may be banal and unconvincing, but they fuel the craving to watch and see what happens. Katherine Heigl Stars in NBC’s ‘State of Affairs’ 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z A few months ago, I was driving her someplace, keeping up banal, one-sided banter. Perspective | My mother has forgotten everything, including me. But her love is still here. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z He tells us that his preliminary excursions into Church’s letters suggested only the most banal of existences, but that as the pieces of knowledge fell into place, a wholly fascinating human being took form. | 'The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church': Prolific Communication From an Isolated Man 2011-01-12T23:00:51Z Dialogue that seems banal in English — as the production’s supertitles frequently make plain — is as gorgeous and physical as sculpture when signed. Review: Sound, or Silence? A Passionate Debate in ‘Children of a Lesser God’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z "I want a cheeseburger. Simple, banal, uncool. Cheeseburgers are delicious. I think a lot of people just want a cheeseburger." Why the utterly uncool food on "Avenue 5" is my favorite part of the show 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z The writing is so fresh and delightful that Orr may forever change how readers view banal tasks and happenstances. Review | Five new books of poetry explore the American experience, for better or worse 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Mostly, the Master is a witness to myriad stories, some quirky and other seemingly banal, all of them affecting. Need to Escape? Stream These 12 Great Foreign-Language TV Shows 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z More banal were the female dancers who mainly served to back him up with their glittery red lips and attitudinal walks. Dance Review: Monstah Black?s ?Black Moon,? at Dance New Amsterdam - Review 2011-09-19T22:35:22Z In this respect, The Plot Against America confronts its viewers with the most peculiar and crucial quality of a dictator’s rise, which is that it’s all so banal until it suddenly, horrifyingly, isn’t. 'It can't happen here': the horrifying power of The Plot Against America 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Its sense of repulsion at the banal, ever-calm Laurie, whom one character calls “the worst man in the world,” insidiously sticks with you. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2016 So Far 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The second “Inside-Out” was held online and brought renewed appreciation for a category often dismissed as banal or frivolous, but lately identified with a breath of fresh air. A Panorama of Design 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Instead, check the “attic” and its stacked and piled-up multitude of reasons a person might refer to his home as “not being presentable,” from the banal to the bizarre. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A sibling withdraws, rolling up the welcome mat for family 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The 300 objects on display in the exhibition range from the banal to the beautiful. Stuffed Dormouse and Fish Gut Sauce: The Flavors of Pompeii 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Their exchanges didn’t reveal anything new about Ms. Winfrey, who skillfully played her host, pretending to be caught off guard by mostly banal questions. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: A Timid Beginning 2011-01-18T12:08:34Z Some commentators noted the contrast between Mr. Mitterrand’s erudite prose and elegant deceptions and the current, seemingly more banal presidency of François Hollande. In François Mitterrand Letters, an Intimate Portrait of the Other Woman 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z “The hatred of a group qua group is, after all, the most debased and irrational of hatreds, the weakest, the most banal,” she writes. In ‘Intimations,’ Zadie Smith Applies Her Even Temper to Tumultuous Times 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Laptop and Piano, Dispelling Traditions Tune in to any pop radio station today, and the ubiquity of electronic music is evident in the Auto-Tune vocals and programmed beats of even the most banal hit single. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Carl Stone at the Stone Space 2010-08-04T22:28:00Z One of the main themes of the film is the balance between the creative and the banal, the artistic and the everyday. Cannes: Timothy Spall a grunt no more in Mike Leigh's 'Mr. Turner' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z It isn't a good book if it's poorly and erratically written, or structurally banal. Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso ? review 2011-04-10T05:30:01Z Stare hard, Eisenberg tells us, and watch the banal world transform into marvels. In a New Collection, Deborah Eisenberg Returns to Say the Unsaid 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z “It also reminds me of dreams,” she said, “where your mind takes two potentially banal things, smushes them together, and renders something that feels deeply wrong.” How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s false and unhelpful, and it lacks even the polite symmetry of the equally banal “It is what it is.” Review: ‘A Million Little Things’ Gets Few of Those Things Right 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The wonder that kids exhibit at the simplest things, the most banal of experiences. ‘They take over your life and then, one day, they walk off with it’: life before and after children 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z He also shows people engaged in the banal activities of daily life: a woman washes her hands; people sit on a couch and talk. | 'Port of Memory': Stillness Amid A Shifting World 2011-02-13T22:59:50Z With these, he transforms banal government safety messaging into almost dadaist tableaus — if only the old dada artists had enjoyed access to ironic clip art. How a federal bureaucrat uses astronaut babies and dogs riding pigeons to try to save your life 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z She also found that they opened up to one another, with conversations on the lifts flowing easily between banal topics and serious ones. Female-only ski classes are helping to grow the sport among women 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Feigning a return address with a relative’s name from Washington, I hid my love note in the midst of a banal family update. My twisted rehab sex life 2012-12-20T23:41:00Z He specialized in increasing the banal pleasure of the crowd. The Productive Ambivalence of Aziz Ansari in His Comeback Netflix Special 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z When we have seen it, it’s been a lot of Jenna songs, and Tracy throwing up as Star Jones, and the occasional intentionally banal political thing. Urban Fervor: '30 Rock' Shares Details of Its Live Episode 2010-10-12T14:10:00Z These productions feel forced: talky, infelicitous and banal. In ‘Languages of Truth,’ Salman Rushdie Defends the Extraordinary 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Nor is it his material, which sticks to deft takes on relatively banal subjects like chain stores or hipster attitudes. Critic?s Notebook: Todd Barry at Caroline?s Comedy Club 2012-03-21T20:54:48Z The imagery not only took attention from evocative, riveting sound, but it added banal underscoring of the score's most obvious points. Salonen and Philharmonic see America anew 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Still, “Princess Crocodile” is more banal than offensive. Dance Review: ‘Princess Crocodile,’ New Work From LeeSaar the Company 2014-04-13T21:40:49Z Rather than being rare and spectacular, violence should be ever-present and banal, a constant presence shadowing life. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z Yet within its ambition to convey the meaning of life, The Tree of Life is also boring, cliched and banal. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:43Z That smug role offers no surprise, though, even during a TV interview, and Tannahill’s dialogue wears you down with its predictable positions and banal swearing. Review | Sex, politics and art painted in broad strokes in ‘Botticelli in the Fire’ 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z There is something oddly relaxing about a banal item inexplicably shrunken into a fetish object. The Grocery Store of the Mind 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Sincerity can be bad, or banal – and the sincere can be completely wrong. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z Single-mindedness usually serves Mr. Watanabe well, but the innovative use of almost banal fabrics helped recharge fashion’s battery. Fashion Review: Céline, Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto, Junya Watanabe: Fashion Review 2012-10-01T01:35:05Z But the version now streaming — directed by Anna D. Shapiro, who stepped down as Steppenwolf’s artistic director in August — does away with the illustrations, which strike me in any case as banal. Review: Tracy Letts Brings Out the Long Knives in Short Plays 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Like many of the plot points in Solomon’s recently released, breakthrough account of the struggle for marriage equality, “Winning Marriage,” the decision seems at once fateful and banal in retrospect. Gay marriage’s long and messy road: What we misunderstand about this tortured legal saga 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Other quotes worthy of note for their sheer oddness or banal hyperbole, do share in the thread, please. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-03-12T16:10:04Z Though a bit uninspired, one of the book’s primary messages is that magic can be found in the everyday, the seemingly banal or benign, the here and now. Magic Mountains: Novels of Appalachia From Natalie Lloyd and David Barclay Moore 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Luce’s visit to heaven to see her mother and daughter, in a song called “An Interesting Place,” is as banal as that title. Review: In ‘Flying Over Sunset,’ Getting High With the Stars 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z There he found a landscape in which a rich Italian history crashed into commercial, personal or just banal modern life. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z It occasionally slips past the spare into the plain or the generic, and from there to the intentionally or ironically banal. Boring architecture? Yes, please 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z It’s just bad, and the scene is pointedly ordinary until it explodes into fantastical lunacy, then returns to the banal. | ?Hysteria? and ?If That?s All There Is?: The Ordinary Can Pave the Road to Insanity 2010-12-19T22:49:44Z Critics said it lacked the "va-voom" of The Spice Girls and labored under an "insultingly banal" script, poor performances and a gloomy set. Viva was not forever for Spice Girls as London musical closes 2013-05-02T10:22:00Z While keeping a stalwart female perspective, “Simple Passion” follows an arc so standard it could be called banal. ‘Simple Passion’ Review: An Ordinary Erotic Tale 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The well-guarded little secret of recently built New York apartments at swank addresses is that the interiors are often banal and the construction iffy, the result of developers designing buildings with their calculators. Simply Sustainable 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But the opinions expressed are consensual, bordering on banal. Imran Yusuf – review 2012-11-12T18:27:59Z The show, he writes, contains “banal manipulations,” but the third section, featuring the testimonies of the real migrants that inspired the project, is worthwhile. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The dialogue is woefully banal — these are essentially teenagers, people — but there are hints of Palinesque fireworks to come. The Week Ahead: June 17 — 23 2012-06-15T18:42:32Z Jacob says to the one with frosted tips, interrupting a banal lament. Loss haunts the gay Arab San Franciscan at the heart of Rabih Alameddine's new novel, 'Angel of History' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z That seems like a banal thing to say about any opinion writer, at a time of ubiquitous punditry and as many button-pushing opinions as there are Twitter accounts. Christopher Hitchens, RIP 2011-12-16T14:27:21Z If the sculptures were rather clumsily modelled, then the artists' handling of both the banal and the grand was becoming increasingly sophisticated, and was soon to find its greatest expression in The Way Things Go. Fischli and Weiss: the art of humour 2012-06-05T12:03:00Z Fanned by newspapers, sectarian tensions increased to the point where a banal incident involving the theft of some grapes was enough to trigger a murderous street brawl between Arabs and Jews. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-05-08T10:30:01Z When something is just banal — when it is about hype and nothing else — it’s depressing. Perspective | Beeple’s digital ‘artwork’ sold for more than any painting by Titian or Raphael. But as art, it’s a great big zero. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z For Romanian Nobel Laureate Herta Müller, the constancy implicit in this banal fact is an inspiration and a godsend. ‘The Fox Was Ever the Hunter,’ by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Colen manages this with only seven works, but the problem is that three of them are found-object sculptures, big, ostentatiously banal and acquired or moved at obvious expense. Art in Review: Dan Colen: ?Poetry? 2010-09-17T16:47:00Z “It’s banal to call her work feminist, but it’s about loving your own body.” Up Close: The Mannequin Also Speaks: Up Close With Narcissister 2013-01-16T15:54:06Z A mixture of the banal and the surreal, there's only the vaguest narrative shape behind it. Postcards from Dumbworld ? review 2010-10-22T21:31:00Z It was a life I found too banal. True Tales of ‘Sex and the City’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Social media provides ample proof that people will alter their lives in pursuit of quantified approval, entirely out of their own volition, and for utterly banal reasons—mostly boredom and narcissism. The Eerie, Mundane Thrill of Being Watched on the Internet 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z He noted that the lag was attributable to a more banal factor. Cannes Film Festival: Why Hou Hsiao-Hsien made 'The Assassin' so elliptical 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The footage is at once banal and remarkable, for it captures the couple’s very first meeting and conversations. Instant Chemistry, Caught on Video 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z And as the evening wears on and banal pleasantries rub shoulders with more pointed exchanges, secrets spill with almost comical regularity. ‘The Humans’ Review: Reasons (Not) to Be Cheerful 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z As my colleague Alessandra Stanley put it in her excellent review of the show last week, “The Affair” dazzles by mining something mysterious out of the banal. 'The Affair' Recap: When 'She Said' Is More Believable Than 'He Said' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z It is also what led some critics to write that McCullers was “before her time,” that most banal and patronizing of descriptors. She Found Carson McCullers’s Love Letters. They Taught Her Something About Herself. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Either way, processing such profound disagreement is valuable, if only because it offers a visceral experience of a banal truth: that all art is radically subjective, and the rest is interpretation. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: In the Minority 2013-04-18T18:08:01Z His career began aged 11, with rhymes about even the most banal, innocent topics. Ones to watch in 2013: Scrufizzer 2013-01-01T10:00:04Z But it may be better understood as what Rovelli called “a glimpse of reality, a little less blurred than our blurred and banal everyday view of it.” Perspective | The black hole image is beautiful and profound. It’s also very blurry. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z What is striking is how banal these statements feel, for all their horror. A Prize-Winning Blend of Fact and Fiction Makes Itself at Home in the Minds of Killers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The same few banal themes are recycled atop formulaic note-spinning from the solo cellos, who have cadenzas at the beginning and end. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z Ruefle “confronts the extraordinary yet banal fact that all of us die,” in this poetry collection. Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z In "Love and Information," she explores with characteristic insouciance the way an endless stream of data — some of it dazzling, much of it banal — has altered our relationships to one another and to ourselves. A big 'like' for Caryl Churchill's 'Love and Information' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z It gives emotional and philosophical weight to what might be a perfectly banal question: What do these women see each in each other? Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The book reminds us that evil is not only banal; it is also completely arbitrary. Book Review Podcast: A Rare View of North Korea 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Then, as banal background music gave way to a marching band, Mr. Lawrence abandoned the whimper for a bellow. Eddie Lawrence, Comedian, Actor and Pitchman, Is Dead at 95 2014-03-31T00:10:54Z The key factor in our mutual pleasure was that we enjoyed each other’s company, which, banal though it may seem, is the fundamental explanation of any successful and enduring union. ‘Sweet Caress’ review: A portrait of a photographer’s tumultuous career 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z But at some point, when confronted by so much cuteness — two days of squishy faces and wagging tails and bellies to rub — cute becomes banal. Puppy Bowl: Cuteness becomes a cash cow 2013-02-01T03:34:14Z That ordeal cauterizes his heart, but, what’s worse, it inspires such banal realizations as, “Loving one another does not necessarily lead to happiness.” Review | If Flaubert reimagined ‘Cougar Town,’ this is the novel we might get 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z She regarded all of them as banal, even “A Star Is Born,” which was nominated for an Oscar. The Literati: Mr. and Mrs. Dorothy Parker’s Arrival in Hollywood 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z While Breitbart produces its share of original content — it ran an essay by Ann Coulter ridiculing whining celebrities last week — most of the conservative media outlets doing this work are scrappy, spammy and surprisingly banal. How Conservative Sites Turn Celebrity Despair on Its Head 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z After all, all that heady spirituality would be a bit much without a healthy grounding in banal absurdities. This week's new exhibitions 2011-03-19T00:06:46Z Sometimes, I don’t want to let a movie’s banal, casual sexism ruin my good time. What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Once, West’s unpredictable behavior was shocking; by now it is utterly banal. Kanye West’s White House Monologue Flirted with the Language of the Men’s-Rights Movement 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z I'm sure many Guardian readers will find these "revelations" wearyingly banal, but they're exactly the kind of detail of ultra-famous lives that many of us unashamedly lap up. Jonathan Ross's final Friday Night: an insider review of his last big BBC show 2010-07-16T06:30:00Z That sounds like the faintest of praise, the most banal of observations—the punch line, even, to a joke. Visions of a Nazi America: How “The Man in the High Castle” both sharpens and blurs the lines between “us” and “them” 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z And several parking garages by Jasper D. Ward, another local and underappreciated architect, reimagine the most banal of building types as concrete sculptures, unusually alert to their urban context. Louisville Wrestles With Freeway Dilemma 2012-09-26T14:52:51Z Your team is a dispiriting clutch of nonentities, carefully drained of character until they're mere cyphers, filling the gaps between gunfights with banal reiteration of plot points. Fuse - review 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z The breaded, boneless breast wrapped around bacon mousse reminded me of banal banquet fare. Farm-to-fork fare 2011-08-25T18:07:05Z We'd like to illustrate our report of the event with your images of tall buildings – the beautiful or the banal, not just in London but wherever you are. Tall buildings 2013-04-16T08:11:11Z He turns bureaucratic procedure into a kind of poetry, and finds both comedy and profundity in the banal idioms of governance. 10 Great Movies at the New York Film Festival You Can (Mostly) See Online 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The end is the rather banal observation that it is natural to feel solidarity with one’s kin. In-work dining at Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook causes spike in divorce rate 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z “You could lose yourself this way,” Candace says, “watching the most banal activities cycle through on an infinite loop. It is a fever of repetition, of routine.” The End Is Near in Two Dystopian Debut Novels 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But if the Conchords concept is looking shaky, the songs are solid as ever: masterpieces of bathos that unite earnest musicianship with pedantic and gloriously banal sentiment. Flight of the Conchords 2010-05-11T20:35:00Z But failing that, what you’re seeing and hearing on screen is not only routine, but banal, despite the fact that the script is telling us exactly the opposite. ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and entertainment’s classical-music problem 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Whether it manifests as racism, bullying, or subliminal conditioning to self-harm, "Evil" shows us how ordinary and banal most diabolism is. The power of "Evil" compels us to celebrate the monstrous reasons it speaks to us right now 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z His repetitious observation about proportionality might have been banal — if so many leaders, many of them geniuses, had not forgotten it. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z It was a questionnaire that started in the banal and tried to touch on larger themes. Tate Modern's waste of space: why won't interactive art leave me alone? 2012-08-16T14:06:12Z This, of course, from an artist whose persona — an oeuvre in itself — was built upon banal utterances and a demeanor suggesting that the whole being-taken-over-by-robots experience wasn’t such a bad thing after all. Art Review: ?Pop Objects? and ?1960s Monochrome? at Guggenheim - Review 2012-01-12T21:55:15Z This is magic minimalism as Santo transforms the most banal of utilitarian objects – an oil drum, a shirt box, a lightbulb – into miniature sculptures made of silver, granite and copper. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z From one point of view the history of astronomy and space exploration is the story of how the universe became banal. Curiosity rover: why does sci-fi always look more marvellous than reality? 2012-08-08T15:05:34Z “The only characteristic Nabokov trait that one recognizes in this uneven and sometimes banal translation,” Wilson opined in his infamous hatchet job, “is the addiction to rare and unfamiliar words.” When Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson went from friends to enemies: 'The Feud' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Pink's musical default mode is a strain of spirited yet ultimately unremarkable power-pop; the banal if infectious U + Ur Hand is rock'n'roll rebellion as practised by Hannah Montana or the kids from Glee. Pink – review 2013-04-25T17:02:35Z "Unfortunately, the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly cliched that 'The Casual Vacancy' is not only disappointing — it's dull." Rowling's adult novel lacks magic, some critics say 2012-09-27T10:54:26Z I didn’t think a place as utopian as Sweden — with universal health care, five weeks of paid vacation, 480 days of parental leave — could have a problem as banal as mean girls. Preteen Angst, Swedish Style 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Is the title a comment on the ubiquity of banal information these days? New band of the day – Ratking (No 1,362) 2012-10-01T16:51:57Z The mode and style of the film are taken for granted, borrowed from conventional and unexceptional documentaries, and the effect is to render something wondrous banal. “Apollo 11,” Reviewed: A Found-Footage Documentary With No Sense of Discovery 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z When evil is banal, and banality becomes a norm, then evil becomes numbingly routine. 'Michael': Artful pedophile tale captures two brave performances 2012-05-10T20:29:10Z Ms. Peterman and Mr. Asner do the best they can, but the writing is too banal and heavy-handed to disguise how pale an imitation “Working Class” is of older, better sitcoms. The TV Watch: Old Boys? Network? Hardly. How About Lots of Tired Geezer Channels? 2011-01-27T23:14:39Z But also here is Hanson’s hefty, exultantly banal “Housewife,” slouching in her housecoat among cigarette stubs and magazines. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z These two new translations bring another opportunity to enshrine the singular talent and mischief of this writer, whose late novels are insurrections against the novel itself, against its tendencies toward banal realism and earnest piety. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In its haste to tie up loose ends as efficiently as possible, “Passengers” becomes a banal, formulaic pastiche of dozens of other like-minded space operas in which the human drama gives way to technological awe. Review: Two ‘Passengers’ Trapped on a Spaceship Find Love Amid Despair 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z He’s a schlub, a loner from down the block: totally banal, totally evil. A Gifted Writer Returns With a Supremely Harrowing Novel 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z In some ways, it may be the most banal introduction — an inverse cliché with a slight reversal of gender roles. "Anatomy of a Fall" inverses the formulaic whodunit and shows the "limitations of a courtroom" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z “Epic” belongs to what might be called élite brospeak, a collection of idioms that together reach for grandiose adventurism from a position of the comfortably banal. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z But the play is more banal biography than firsthand reminiscence. Review: In ‘Mr. Toole,’ Trying to Remember Teacher 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z With its extremes of experience and banal slightness of content, Brady Corbet’s rock-world melodrama “Vox Lux,” portentously labelled “A Twenty-First Century Portrait,” is an exemplary latter-day entry in the realm of cinematic camp. “Vox Lux,” Reviewed: A Tale of Star Power That Misuses Natalie Portman’s Star Power 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z What, you may reasonably wonder, are you to glean from a banal 21st-century image like that of a surveillance camera, particularly when Mr. Geyrhalter doesn’t offer any obvious explanation? Movie Review: ‘Abendland,’ a Documentary by Nikolaus Geyrhalter 2012-07-26T22:43:14Z The living and the dead converse calmly and matter-of-factly, as if nothing especially unusual were going on, and this undramatic blending of the bizarre and the banal is one of Mr. Weerasethakul’s signatures. | 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives': A Farewell to This Life, and All Its Ghosts 2011-03-01T22:56:29Z Thanks to Waltz's performance and Menke's editing, almost unbearable tension was wrung out of the most ostensibly banal subject matter. Sally Menke: the quiet heroine of the Quentin Tarantino success story 2010-09-29T15:24:00Z It goes on, every bit as fun, fast and flat as you'd expect from this artist who has made the shifting surfaces of banal consumer culture his playground. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-12T00:05:41Z It’s not a real solution, though; the often-beautiful imagery has the side effect of making ordinary perception, unenhanced by pharmaceuticals, seem banal. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z What comes across, wandering among these works that take the most banal of found images and raise them to the monumental, is a sense of huge energy and compulsion in the pair's search for ephemera. Gilbert and George: Postcards from the sluice gates 2011-01-12T21:45:01Z With the Freudian mystique of the 1960s and ’70s on the wane, and the language of psychotherapy reduced to the banal pop scripture of reality television, the Age of Sondheim may be fading. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z Would they stay away from eye-catching ensembles, in favor of the forgettably banal and the bland? On the Golden Globes Red Carpet, a Night of Statement-Making 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The show’s energy stalls when Mr. Leguizamo slides from sharply funny satirical highs to puddles of banal confession about self-esteem problems and his inability truly to connect. | 'Ghetto Klown': A Queens Guy Toughs It Out in Hollywood 2011-03-23T02:01:03Z When writing “Into the Little Hill,” Crimp had, at the back of his mind, the idea of incorporating banal language from everyday life, words like electricity, concrete and refrigerator. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Everyone craves a moment of fashion emotion, lifting the banal into something stirring. Fashion Review: Going to Extremes 2014-02-09T15:28:04Z In the cultural lexicon of modernity, self-will is often banally understood as brattish, selfish behaviour. Why parents should leave their kids alone 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z “It is comprehensive and detailed without being tedious, practical without being banal, impeccably well judged and unusually rigorous. But the main title hints at a sensibility deeper than friendly advice.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s common knowledge that reality shows are heavily produced and edited to create narratives and drama, but many fans believed that the artfully banal “Terrace House” was realer than most. The Fall of ‘Terrace House’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z “I keep Sam pretty in the loop about even the most banal things in my life,” Mr. Marder said. How to manage a long-distance friendship 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z However, Berlin's sentiments, his view of the world, I find banal; I don't love his songs the way I do some of Hammerstein's and a lot of Porter's. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z It is also about raising brattish teenagers, dealing with a cheating spouse and being slowly worn down by the banal irritations of domestic life. From The Sopranos to Twin Peaks: the best TV isn’t timeless – it’s prescient 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z To me, what results is an awkward, cramped, banal pastiche of tiers facing claustrophobia-inducing windows, built around a space-wasting atrium with a curved staircase more suited to a Las Vegas hotel. Critic’s Notebook: Norman Foster’s Public Library Will Need Structural Magic 2013-01-29T23:35:04Z The war ended, and some version of normalcy returned, but Zbanic takes no consolation in the banal observation that life goes on. ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Review: Life and Death in Srebrenica 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z In an interview with Tank magazine, the head of PC Music, the producer A. G. Cook, described pop music as having “the potential to be overwhelming, extravagant and banal all at the same time.” Review: PC Music and Sophie in a High-Concept Extravaganza at BRIC House 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z This is a way of dramatizing or raising the stakes on even the most inane or banal exchange: You don’t just look cute. Cultural Studies: Crafting Fictional Personas With the Language of Facebook 2010-08-13T20:15:00Z Sometimes, he combined all those modes into piquant stews of high and low, banal and profound. Michel Majerus Saw the Future— 20 Years Ago 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z After attentively reading a book you shouldn’t really have any questions for the author, aside from the most banal: Do they write in pen or on a laptop? Why Olga Tokarczuk Likes to Read T.S. Eliot in Translation 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The 'insights' the play provides into global misogyny, dislocation, the human default position of loneliness, whatever, were banal and trite. Reader reviews: your take on Three Kingdoms, Snow White and Henry IV 2012-05-18T09:56:45Z It was an attack on everything that passed for normality and decency in 1970, and also on the banal peace-and-love ethos of the hippie counterculture. John Waters, revolutionary: “Multiple Maniacs” is much more than camp 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Both artists take banal, electronic clip art and render it curiously unsettling. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Bellinger understands the power of multiple voices at once, how a choir can turn the banal into something sublime. The New R. & B. Is Here, Reflecting Confused Modern Love 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z We get the irony, or rather, the sarcasm: Metal’s grandiose racket seems completely disconnected from the banal lives endured by some of its listeners. ‘Days of the Bagnold Summer’ Review: 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Among the seven offerings are “Feelings,” about a man who loves a swan, and “Minor Monuments,” a look back at a failed relationship and the banal objects that defined it. Spare Times for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z You see it in some of his most banal jokes, like one about President Biden’s age. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Her descent is marked by the usual signs of addiction: an eroding sense of limits, a stream of banal lies, a metabolic incapacity for contentment. In ‘Adèle,’ a Young Woman Pounds Champagne, Spurns Hermès and Destroys Lives 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Despite that and a banal theatrical reliance on bathos, more than a little of Glass’ larger-than-life Disney emerges. An opera about Walt Disney, in commuting distance of Disneyland 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z It’s almost banal to say it, it’s so obvious. Back at the Ranch, Thomas McGuane Has a New Novel 2010-10-20T16:23:00Z That was shocking at first; today it just seems banal. Poland's artists now speak to the world 2011-04-04T21:00:00Z Finally, she gave what she called “a most banal and bad answer.” Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Death mingles the epic and the banal, the momentous and the ephemeral. My husband has ceased to exist – I still can’t understand how 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z 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 The tension between this director’s methods and his intentions — between his exacting, sometimes amazing craft and his resolutely banal ideas — may ultimately be a problem of audience and genre. Movie Review: The Mob Work Is Tough; Then He Has to Go Home 2010-12-28T22:45:33Z Entitled “Somewhere in America,” the theme was quintessential suburbia, beginning with banal activities of everyday life. Coach turns back the clock with NYFW Fall-Winter collection 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Photography inspired 19th-century European painters like Gustave Courbet and Edgar Degas, who were fascinated by the banal posing, flattening, and cropping in technical images. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z It seems hardly surprising that the brilliant is being appropriated alongside the banal, but, in this case, it seems more an odd form of admiration than disrespect. Mishka Henner's erased images: art or insult? 2012-05-23T14:49:29Z It may even have been his most banal. Why Steve Jobs Chose This Designer’s Turtlenecks 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z A common idea about the art is that the music transforms banal words and unbelievable situations into sublime emotion: that it’s purely about performance. Theater Review: ‘I Am an Opera,’ by Joseph Keckler 2013-04-25T00:14:49Z “I used to dislike them for their banal conformity until I realized they were ripe for corruption; once I decided to almost parody them, they became essential to me,” he said by email. From Humble Sneaker to Luxury Icon 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z “Almost everything on the site is banal and horizontal,” Mr. Kapoor said. London’s ArcelorMittal Orbit Leads to Controversy 2012-06-01T19:22:38Z YouTube is home to many videos of people describing what they have gone through in the night, from the banal to the chilling. ‘A dark presence squats on my chest’: the waking nightmare of sleep paralysis 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z After reading Joyce, banal conversation is suddenly comical, fascinating and strange. Embracing the Ordinary by Michael Foley - review 2012-07-18T07:00:02Z This creates an awkward new dynamic that is expressed in the amusingly banal dialogue that this script maintains. Theater Review: ‘Space//Space’ by Banana Bag & Bodice at Collapsable Hole 2012-06-17T22:09:07Z She also chronicles the knotty contradiction of grief, a form of suffering both unique and banal — banal in the sense that grief happens all the time and to everyone. This Memoir About the Contradictions of Grief Plays by Its Own Rules 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Not only are the 16 songs banal, but they’re untheatrical: Virtually all of them are here’s-how-I’m-feeling-right-this-second power ballads that stop the action of the show dead instead of pushing it forward to the final curtain. ‘Pretty Woman’ Review: Super-Safe Sex on Broadway 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z And the people who decided this “forgot that for something to be universally accepted, it must become as banal, as non-threatening and ineffective as possible.” The Case Against Contemporary Feminism 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Six years ago, the city rebuilt the Libbey Bowl shell and did an embarrassingly banal job. Elders and the next generation convene at the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z It's so irresistible, it ought to be banal – except that, rather than generating an evening of competitive pyrotechnics, the concept has inspired each of the companies to explore fresh, even surprising options. Dance GB – review 2012-06-20T17:21:13Z The thing begins to pall, even to become banal. ‘Mortality,’ by Christopher Hitchens 2012-08-31T22:50:05Z The stunt is mostly understood as a knowing self-juxtaposition of the artists’ own integrity with the banal popularity of the hit songs they are covering. Haters Gonna Hate: Listening to Ryan Adams's "1989" 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Writers throughout history have often simultaneously exulted and despaired at the way that their lives turn into their art, but having your life turn into a content mill seems like a new, unpleasantly banal twist. Freelancers are totally screwed: What today’s cultural treadmill means for writers 2014-02-04T17:44:00Z But just because a play comments on banality does not make it any less banal. 2010-02-16T22:39:00Z We can reject them — offensive or damaging, simplistic or banal, ugly or shallow. Perspective | Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino and the costs of auteur worship 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Is the world of work plus the leisure offerings of mass entertainment now so banal and unsatisfying that creative writing offers a fight-back? Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing 2012-05-18T21:50:01Z The goose is unapologetic in her appetite for misery-making, but the misery itself is quotidian, banal. The Joy of Being a Horrible Goose in a Time of Moral Crisis 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z One of the most consistent takeaways from this anthology is just how banal extraterrestrial life might be. ‘Aliens’ Asks: If the Universe Is So Vast, Where Is Everybody? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z In "Knight and Day," the movie's absurd physicality is played as effortless clowning replete with repartee that is supposed to remind you of 007 but in fact is embarrassing flat and banal. "Salt" adds flavor to summer movie menu 2010-07-18T17:58:00Z Without a trace of didacticism, she finds humor in the messy, confusing, sometimes banal experience of an unwanted pregnancy and an abortion. Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The boxy, drab exterior, set a few steps up and back from the street wall, looks almost belligerently banal. The Housing Situation Is Dire. But Progress Is Still Possible. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z “Life is far too short to be banal.” Shopping with the pros: The Madcap Cottage team chooses favorites from Terrain 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Yet every word spoken, no matter how banal, seems to stretch your nerves closer to snapping. ‘Is This a Room’ Review: Why’d She Blow the Whistle? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Unaccessorized, however, it is a simply a sweet, rather banal picture that any number of street photographers around the world might have taken at any point over the last four or five decades. Art Review: Ephemeral Events, Annotated 2011-05-06T06:00:07Z “I was struck by this apocalyptic upside-down vision of the banal and cheap ‘nice, fake and cozy’ interior of the overturned ship,” he writes in an accompanying artist’s statement, sounding like a more professorial Warhol. Art Review: Thomas Hirschhorn Exhibitions at Gladstone and Dia 2012-09-27T21:44:23Z The scenes are closely based on photographs taken by Paul Fusco, a photojournalist who was aboard the train and show Americans of different ages, races and demographics in settings variously pastoral, banal and gritty. Art Review: ?Philippe Parreno? and ?At Home/Not at Home,? at Bard 2010-07-01T22:39:00Z What we see of him is curiously banal — no hint of the Svengali-like figure others describe. Review | Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein docuseries honors his victims and their stories, but the creep still gets away 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z That's the kind of deeper truth that good fiction can convey, even as it obscures the more banal question of facts. Whose truth? On "House of the Dragon," what is unseen often matters more than what's onscreen 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Hopefully readers who expect more from a wine book than banal and simplistic narratives will find deeper pleasures here. Five Wine Books to Give This Holiday Season 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Because the museum — not the trustees, not the staff — doesn’t own the Rockwell except in the most banal sense. Should the Berkshire Museum sell its art? Why the answer matters to museum-goers from coast to coast 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The consoling scene after Anna's suicide, which is obviously intended to send us all home clucking over the triumph of love over death, is quite banal and vulgar. From the Observer archive, 6 October 1935: Greta Garbo in her element as Anna Karenina 2012-09-29T23:05:46Z I wanted to explore one of those situations where an apparently banal event suddenly exposes the fragilities of a relationship and forces people to change and grow. This Week in Fiction: Tim Parks 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Some suggest that Beethoven deemed the banal theme so insulting that he composed his tremendous set of variations — 23 at first, and eventually 10 more — in an act of colossal hubris. Music Review: Beth Levin Plays Beethoven Variations at Bargemusic 2010-07-04T21:51:00Z The interrogation outside Winner’s house, led by Simpson’s Agent Garrick, comes across as both banal and calculated; no doubt the technique would seem less effective with a less garrulous target. Review | Reality Winner’s arrest transcript becomes a scintillating Broadway show in ‘Is This a Room’ 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z The works are thoroughly contemporary still lifes, showing familiar and banal objects that form the detritus of a relationship. What’s Right About The Wrong Biennale? 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Tóibín himself is said to have described the book as "quite low key, about somebody very ordinary" and the details he attends to are everyday, even banal. Guardian book club: Brooklyn by Colm T?ib?n 2010-09-07T09:32:00Z In its place, “Four Ways” had Fast Forward pacing the stage, offering snappy, misleading responses to banal questions posed by female cast members: “Where is the Upper East Side?” Music Review: ?That Morning Thing? at the Kitchen for Performa 11 - Review 2011-11-23T23:38:54Z Ms. Gordon is magically adept at fusing the banal and the mythic in a creature like this. Books of The Times: Some Time at the Races, With Luck and Change 2010-12-01T22:57:00Z At once banal and mythic, these later images cast an ambiguous light back on the soup cans. Review: A ’60s View of Warhol’s Soup Cans, at MoMA 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z For years before he even began writing his novel, he painstakingly collected the banal and innocent objects that would pass through his fictional lovers’ hands. | Sentimental Journey 2014-03-21T21:21:20Z It illustrates two truths at the same time: law enforcement fails victims routinely, banally, devastatingly; there are also good actors who do the work. Unbelievable: the quiet power of Netflix's fact-based rape drama 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z One suspects that jumbled structure was used because a linear account of Gotti’s criminal career would reveal little beyond banal tawdriness. Review: John Travolta Has the Dapper Look, but ‘Gotti’ Is a Mess 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z But while that first blast is jarring, later moments of violence on the EP are deliberately banal. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Pleasing, exasperating, poignant and coy, “What Do We See” is a loose, exceedingly leisurely meander through a series of momentous and banal moments that take place during an amble through the Georgian city of Kutaisi. ‘What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?’ Review: But I Digress 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z And for the most part his encouraging words aren’t banal platitudes so much as credible, witty nuggets of folk wisdom given a personal twist. Movie Review: ‘The Magic of Belle Isle,’ by Rob Reiner, With Morgan Freeman 2012-07-05T22:10:44Z The banal frustrations of call centres are subverted and advertising campaigns afforded the power of subliminal influence. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z Our entertainment industry is trivial and banal: glitz, glamour and an illusion of perfection and enjoyment that’s very far from the truth. 'Trump made me do it': director Nicolas Winding Refn on how the American apocalypse is fuelling 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z We use “Kafkaesque” to describe encounters with banally evil customer-service agents; it’s the shorthand that op-ed writers use to protest the dark dealings of the state. What Color Were Kafka’s Eyes? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z That may be rational, but it's also dramatically reductive, erasing the teasing ambiguities of Henry James's novella and Myfanwy Piper's libretto, and putting only a rather banal case-study of Victorian female hysteria in their place. The Turn of the Screw - review 2010-10-06T13:30:00Z Banter = “banal” + “chatter”: The “Morning Joe” show is known for the banter between its two stars. Style Invitational Week 1241: Less taste, more fill-in— our not-crossword 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z On the banal “Undercover,” she sings, “Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.” Critic’s Notebook: The Diverging Musical Paths of Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus 2013-07-24T21:18:26Z Yet, even there, the clipped montage of the moments leading up to Dibs’s erotic experience and fantasy eliminate the banal, even potentially comedic, mechanical aspects that risk breaking or foreclosing the mood. “High Life,” Reviewed: Claire Denis’s Disappointing Journey Into Space 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The former short-order cook became known as the General, by prisoners and interrogators alike, and was subjected to exaggerated punishment even by the standards of this banal hell. The General: The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantánamo by Ahmed Errachidi – review 2013-04-08T07:00:06Z I find 90% of this art form to be boring, banal and unimaginative. Street art is dying ? and it's our fault 2011-08-25T15:04:58Z Up to and including its cheap shock ending, “The Lie” invests all its meager stock in the facile, simple-minded idea that depicting banal, outwardly genteel people behaving abominably sheds a profound light on human nature. ‘The Lie’ Review: A Child’s Crime, a Parental Conspiracy 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z If you think this is a rare, banal setting for “Hausfrau,” take a look at that title. Review: Jill Alexander Essbaum’s ‘Hausfrau,’ a Good Wife, With a Few Caveats 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z In “Dunce,” her latest poetry collection, Ruefle confronts the extraordinary yet banal fact that all of us die. A Death-Haunted Poetry Book Mulls Life’s Reversals of Fortune 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z After all, a banal goodness is all we really require. Nazi Comb-Overs 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Kavanaugh veered between yelling and weeping as he testified about seemingly banal memories, like lifting weights with his friends or keeping calendars. John Oliver dedicates entire episode to exposing hypocrisy of GOP on Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z As well-known quotations go, this one strikes me as especially banal. Riff: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 2012-08-15T15:40:06Z What should become of this Dr. Palmer, who thought a mere camera shoot banal? Style Invitational Week 1139: 64 different ways to lose! 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z By failing to address collective suffering, and systemic change that might remove it, they rob mindfulness of its real revolutionary potential, reducing it to something banal that keeps people focused on themselves. The mindfulness conspiracy 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z In an alienated world, the utterly banal can be ominous. Review | In the galleries: A sizzling exhibit crackles with creativity 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Against these forces — the banal and the diabolical alike — “It” assembles a squad of early and preadolescent ghostbusters as varied as an infantry platoon in a World War II combat picture. Review: ‘It’ Brings Back Stephen King’s Killer Clown 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z I'm interested in how to liberate ourselves from this banal reality. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z Usually she catches banal lawbreakers — underage kids trying to smuggle a little booze. Review: Sniffing Out Guilt in a Strangely Engaging ‘Border’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z She isn’t especially likable, at least by the banal standards of mainstream cinema, which is very much on point. ‘Anaïs in Love’ Review: Portrait of a Woman on the Run 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “A twenty-year-old girl who makes images of herself—that can be very banal. At the start, I didn’t understand the magnitude. I came to understand, eventually.” The Opposite of a Muse 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Stern wants the truth to be more complicated and less banal than it is. In ‘My War Criminal,’ the Bad Guy Controls the Conversation 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Despite the central mythology's very bad men planning very bad things, the show focuses on an idea of evil as essentially banal, accessible, part of our everyday world. Mulder and Scully at San Diego Comic-Con: the 13 best X-Files episodes ever 2013-07-18T12:00:00Z “In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?,” the story wondered. Joshua Bell is playing in the Metro again. This time, maybe you won’t pass it up. On that banal high street lived the booksellers. The transformation of publishing 2012-11-09T22:54:01Z By unburdening itself from any obligation to be a story about gay rights and gay issues, “Looking” makes even the most banal personal crises seem freshly tragic. HBO’s ‘Girls,’ ‘Looking’ and the delicate balance of vignette 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z In addition to numbers, Klout indicates areas of expertise, some of which may seem a bit banal. Klout Scores Sort Out Social Media Stars 2011-11-18T22:31:53Z And ultimately it's from the more banal narrative threads of corporate opposition where the most instructive antagonists of the "Catch and Kill" story emerge. Ronan Farrow's high-wire act: Why it matters that "Catch and Kill" is such a page-turner 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the 'Oh, how banal.' An inspired evening with Arcade Fire at KeyArena 2010-09-30T19:52:00Z The vast number of indifferent paintings from every period and of banal objets d’art in every category underlines the intractable problem of dwindling supplies. Fairs: Resplendent Diversity at the Maastricht Fair 2011-03-25T12:30:04Z Politics and sports have long been associated in the nation’s capital, and fans of Washington teams are used to suffering, not only on the field but through banal political jokes, as well. First in war, first in peace, first in the National League 2012-10-05T16:28:00Z Still, I welcomed the division, because the script is otherwise appallingly banal, taking as its format the line of least resistance: a “concert of a lifetime” in which Ms. Summer recalls her highs and lows. Review: Hot Stuff Turns Cold in ‘Summer: The Donna Summer Musical’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s seen as illustrating not only the Nazi invasion of Russia and the rise of Stalin, but also, more generally, how banal repetition can lull an audience into submission. The many ways pop culture warned us about the 2016 election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The stories behind these indelible brandings vary from the fascinating to the oddly banal. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z A lounge lizard in grubby white suit, bottle in hand, staggers in and performs a banal trick with a red silk handkerchief. Carmen; the Manson Ensemble; the Nash Ensemble – review 2012-11-25T00:05:46Z The film begins slowly, as a series of apparently banal and disconnected episodes, not to mention a shambling, comic quest for the most dismal and painful moan in the history of movies. “Reality”: A mind-melting journey into the subconscious of ’70s cinema 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The scenery was lovely but the conversation was banal; the books in his library were fakes. Perspective | The messiness and meaning of Caroline Calloway 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Not bare or messy — that might be interesting — just banal. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-07T23:58:25Z When it turns to the past, though, a sense of duty creeps in; the more it tries to “entertain,” the more banal and less entertaining it gets. Review: A ‘Nutcracker’ Taps and Swings 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z In the spirit of the combination of the banal and the heroic in Twomey's project, before its recent restoration the space was a staff lavatory. Cake, children and cocktails: legacy hopes of 1,000 men in pottery exhibit 2013-01-21T13:45:17Z Jack Fessenden’s war film “Foxhole” is really three short war films spliced together, each revolving around a banal moral dilemma. ‘Foxhole’ Review: A History of Violence 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z One set, The Handbag Project, records expensive handbags in apparently banal settings that turn out to be charity shop-bought cast-offs of wealthy white women, here rendered affordable for the generally less wealthy black community. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z The prevalence of the electronic sound often made it seem banal, but it had brawnier, moodier ancestors. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z Mr. Rodrigues transformed the often banal sardine into a worthy piece of sushi, placing it on a finger of rice with a dash of sweet sauce. Choice Tables: Lisbon?s Culinary Golden Age? 2011-03-11T19:55:00Z Sometimes the banal and sophomoric, delivered right on time, becomes urgent and profound. Sympathy for the devil: To overcome Donald Trump, we first have to accept that we created him 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s the sound of the banal workaday current from which the secret spark is struck—the one that lights the sacred flame of obsession, passion, invention, creation. Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z In the Hitchcockian context, moments of banal consumer frustration ripple with implications of domestic horror. | 'Double Take': Grimonprez Makes Hitchcock a Symbol of Cold War Era 2010-06-01T22:24:00Z Doctors in the 1950s were concerned only with harvesting the cancer cells — a selfishly banal act — while Deborah and her family struggle throughout the story to grasp the basic science. Review | In ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,’ science gives way to an emotional process 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Instead, it's the most banal kind of dance-music clip, with writhing bikini babes and terrible haircuts. Akon banned from Sri Lanka for Buddha statue video 2010-03-25T10:30:00Z "It's either totally crazy, or utterly banal, but never what we're expecting." Random International installs torrential rain in Barbican gallery 2012-10-03T13:05:23Z Death, in the case of Earl, can be a banal, slow decline. Andrew Holleran’s Work Has Traced the Arc of Life. Now, He Takes on Death. 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z And it seems a banal thing, but it was debilitating, particularly as it was a time I was in the public eye. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z Instead, there’s space dedicated to grindingly banal details like how morning and afternoon meetings were crucial to the show’s success. When Fake News Was Funny 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Pamela Paul herself seems to be responsible for a particularly empty weekly Q&A interview feature with celebrities and other banal sorts about their love of books. The New York Times Book Review's retirement plan 2013-04-29T15:03:00Z “I’m always really anxious when I start a film. I never feel I can rely on my professionalism; I worry a film’s going to be a bit vulgar, a bit banal.” Jacques Audiard: ‘I wanted to give migrants a name, a shape… a violence of their own’ 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Cherry and Nat don’t speak about the uprising until it has already begun, and what Cherry says is so banal and generic that it might as well not have been said. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Seinfeld worked the superego, picking over the conventions—snooze button, eyeglasses, dry cleaners—that govern the social self until even the most banal assumptions of normal life seemed ridiculous. Festival Dispatch: Life Lessons from Larry David 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z When Ms. Awad explained the songs in English or translated passages, the sentiments tended to sound banal. Music Review: Mira Awad at the Metropolitan Room 2013-06-05T21:59:30Z What a monstrous disappointment that such a fascinating yarn should end in a banal question about wedding gifts. Is Extra Help Hurting My Friend With Autism? 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The setup of “Language Lessons,” even without reference to Covid, is familiar, even banal. ‘Language Lessons’ Review: Who’s Zooming Who? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Seemingly banal in its conceit, wildly startling in its execution, it tracks a film crew that, like a detective squad, investigates what became of an ordinary man. Movie Review: ‘A Man Vanishes,’ Directed by Shohei Imamura 2012-11-14T22:56:23Z “I do worry that, when I tell the story, it sort of feeds into this cultural moment, into this anxiety about ‘catfishing,’ and it starts to sound a little banal,” she said. The Inappropriately Intimate Exchanges of Barbara Browning 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Mnemonics are useful to keep track of the banal titles: “Hard Kill” followed “First Kill”; “Trauma Center” takes place in … a trauma center. The Bruce Willis Journey From In Demand to On Demand 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Yet where Foster finally trips up is in failing to convince that this potentially dubious conceit offers an productively imaginative way to examine depression, and in handling banal homilies as if they were dynamite insights. SXSW 2011: The Beaver - review 2011-03-17T10:10:14Z The E! channel has documented his sugar granddaddy lifestyle in The Girls Next Door, now in its sixth season, which offers a banal window into his tudor-gothic Shangri-La. Hugh Hefner in six volumes 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z He described the conclusion of “Salome” as “masterly” in musical technique but, “in sentiment, the most banal sound in the whole opera.” Joseph Kerman, Colorful Critic of Musicology, Dies at 89 2014-03-25T04:23:17Z Of course, the shuttering of some other arts organizations does not seem a looming catastrophe if you view the art they are producing as hopelessly banal. Trump Arts Plan: No More Money? 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Yet the content of their conversations is contemporary and drably banal, dotted with references to Facebook, Volkswagens and discount mattresses. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z But the most banal details, often of a scatological nature, are the most disturbing. An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z It sounds banal – and of course it's an over-simplification – but on a deep and almost zen level, it's an incredibly profound idea. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z Dasgupta's book examines the moments where banal reality and fantasy converge, and was called "breathtaking" by judges, despite taking narrative risks. 'Risky' book takes writers' prize 2010-04-12T16:16:00Z One is to show that all relationships are in some way banal. The Growing Transgender Presence in Pop Culture 2014-03-12T22:38:10Z But this anodyne sentiment is too vague and banal to explain anything, much less carry a book, and Gladwell knows it. Who’s Lying to Us and Who’s Telling the Truth? Malcolm Gladwell Has Some Ideas 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z I'd usually tell her the banal details of my life, which my five-year-old self thought was gripping. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Hammerstein's lyrics, he writes, could be verbose and nonsensical; Lorenz Hart was "mediocre", Irving Berlin's worldview "banal" and Noël Coward "posturing". Stephen Sondheim: A life in music 2010-12-20T08:00:00Z The album stumbles somewhat when Hawkins isn't using his voice to its full range and sings bland lyrics about banal domesticities, making cups of tea and getting taxis. Review: The Darkness return, offering 'Hot Cakes' 2012-08-20T16:59:11Z “Daytime TV does not make meaningful statements. You begin and end with the banal.” Chuck Barris, ‘Gong Show’ host, author of ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ dies at 87 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z But even the most banal profiles offer valuable context. Whereforeart thou, rock gods? 'Uncommon People' has the answer 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z 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 Paik found many ways to mess with the banal monitors, which were stacked, worn, and, famously, plunked opposite a contemplating Buddha. ‘Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV’ Review: Art Onscreen 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Minter's painting of course chronicles none of the specific events but just as clearly references the episode — as both banal history and burnished legend. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Her prose — densely though never overly descriptive, rich and bursting, verdantly Appalachian — puts you vividly in this world, where the banal is rendered strangely and tenderly. A Girl Goes Missing. A Loner Takes Her Place. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The aggressiveness of the banal comedy overwhelms the show’s emotional core, about a woman who longs for contact but isolates herself for a reason. ‘#DateMe’ Review: Not Feeling a Love Connection 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z She chronicles banal, everyday debacles on up to shameful cultural crimes. Kathleen Henderson's drawings are as searing and tough as ever 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z But the Madoff who emerged from his brief confession and several books is a banal, unrepentant liar who acted largely on his own. Bad Business = Good Entertainment 2010-04-22T18:09:00Z Another passion is digging through peoples’ things, “the more banal and the more seemingly unnecessary the better,” he said. Theaster Gates Is a Toast of the Fashion and Art Circuit 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s a marvel and a menace, a banal fact of life and a force for incalculable change. Review: ‘Lo and Behold,’ the Danger, and Potential, of the Digital Revolution 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Images such as this communicate layers of complexity with a starkness that while simple is never banal. A Season in the Congo; Too Clever By Half – review 2013-07-20T23:05:43Z But I suppose for this particular story, it combines both drama and New Zealand's sense of humor, where you find the humor in the really silly, small, banal things. After a dystopian "mandemic," the wacky "Creamerie" pokes at the remaining "inequities among women" 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Otherwise banal artists can show a real talent here; beefed-up reputations can show their weaknesses. White Cube drawing show: The thin grey line 2010-07-20T20:31:00Z But the risk of looking to another televisual culture for inspiration is always that only the most banal aspects are transplanted. House of Cards meets Borgen, literally 2013-04-08T18:32:19Z I don't fret about smoke in our lungs, or refugees in the storm, or the banal anxieties of a wedding. Queer wedding planning at the end of the world 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z This juxtaposition of the exotic and the banal — and the evidence of sad human longings within it — is clearly meant to elicit strong emotions for the audience. Review: ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z In fact, it’s the creation of a heightened atmosphere of suspicion around those banal “crimes” that leads, eventually, to the real ones. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z It sounds a little banal, but getting into a routine where you get settled in, and then wake up in the morning and immediately start a workout routine. ‘It’s Almost Three Years Since I Had a Proper Vacation’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Penciled in comic book frames in a deadpan, illustrative style, they detail banal and bizarre episodes with an equal lack of affect — as if they were made by a police sketch artist. Jim Shaw at the New Museum: A Kaleidoscope of Giddy Delirium 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Time served: 6 years,” even as the women do something as banal as heading off to the manicurist or carrying a fruit plate to a friend’s party. With ?Mob Wives?: Silent Partners No Longer 2012-03-28T21:24:05Z Anne Tyler’s novels tend to walk a narrow line between the moving and the sentimental, the sympathetic and the maudlin, the evocative and the banal. Anne Tyler’s 20th Novel, ‘A Spool of Blue Thread’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z When One Direction bantered banally before presenting the award for Best Pop Video, it took only one short pause in their script for the directors to cut to Swift, whose ex-boyfriend is in the group. Viewpoint: At the VMAs, Real Stars Kept Off Stage 2013-08-26T22:03:08Z The short scenes, which vary from the banal to the lyrical, are like impressionistic fragments of a collage. The Hard Man ? review 2011-04-04T20:29:00Z Except there is no unsolved crime to be dissected here, only utterly banal everyday conversations that become strangely entrancing as Ms. Kobayashi illustrates their cultural context with videos, slides, audio clips and even costumed re-enactments. The Detective Was a Performance Artist. The Evidence Is Now a Show. 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z A box has been checked off with a banal phrase that suggests, from the very start, the tone—simultaneously abstracted, distanced, and artificially sweetened—that affects the entire film. Generic Teen Spirit 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Slyly turning natural verbal rhythms into eccentric choral numbers, Mr. Cork creates a serial-killer opera whose genius is to transform the banal into something exceptional. Review: 5 Murdered Prostitutes and an Anxious City in ‘London Road’ 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z It just doesn't happen, and they end up not together in the most banal of ways: the timing's off. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z Then a banal march tune steals in, seemingly innocuous except for the insistent drumming. Music Review: ‘Shostakovich for the Children of Syria,’ a Benefit Concert 2014-01-14T22:39:52Z If life at all the companies Hampton DeVille represents seemed cruel and dispiriting before, now its craziness only underscores the banal insanity of operations and the power we assign them. Sick of working from home? "Corporate" will remind you of how lucky you are to escape your cubicle 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z His groundbreaking colour photographs from the early 70s showed us a vernacular America that was so everyday as to be almost invisible, an almost banal place of brightly lit diners and dowdy motel rooms. Writing and photography ? is a picture really worth a thousand words? 2010-08-04T05:00:00Z Rifling through Instagram feeds, they register with half yawns the sponsored posts and thirst traps, the Throwback Thursday selfies and banal memes of cats. Who Is rg_bunny1: An Instagram Whodunit 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z The songs that Trump has chosen couldn’t be more banal, yet it’s precisely their banality that makes them so incredibly effective. Authoritarian hold music: How Donald Trump’s banal playlist cultivates danger at his rallies 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z On a larger scale, I try to write about those seemingly banal or innocuous but secretly significant things that surround us, hoping to model a practice I wish were more widespread. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z You sometimes have to be banal, tedious; make the rhythm go soft and slow, give the mind a rest. ArtsBeat: Drawn From Life: Sheila Heti Talks About "How Should a Person Be?" 2012-07-11T15:44:33Z “I am looking down at you, at you and yours,” he writes in “What One Must Contend With,” “Your stories and friends, your banal ludicrous dreams.” This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Stalin was never one of Serge's intimates, though he makes a brief early appearance "trying to catch Zinoviev's attention" at a Comintern meeting – "frightening and banal, like a Caucasian dagger", in Serge's memorable phrase. Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge – review 2012-08-17T21:55:02Z It might interrupt the usual flow of collective consciousness, diverting minds from routine compliance with the banal order of things and opening up ordinarily hidden vistas of imaginative vision. Art Review: Work by Niki de Saint Phalle and Bruce High Quality Foundation 2012-08-23T14:00:00Z Sean contrasts his TV reporter wife’s glaring brightness with a fatigued nonchalance, as if he’s better than all of this – the shaky wife, the trappings of domesticity, even this banal conversation with a domestic. "Servant" is M. Night Shyamalan's slow stroll through the horror of first world problems 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z But you also gain a kind of ecstatic anthropological insight into rituals that are both banal and outlandish, and an initiation into the mysteries of human psychology. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z He's describing the creepy mix of banal and poignant YouTube clips that can be played almost like an instrument on the Video page, each clip responding to where your cursor is. Outfit try stardom on for size 2012-06-15T23:03:00Z The “Portrait of Dora Maar Pensive” is a banal, rather soppy image, and the others are not much more original. When Discourse Has the Upper Hand Over Art 2010-06-25T11:00:00Z He also has an unsentimental, sometimes chilly sense of the ways that ordinary human amorality, ethical confusion and sexual longing can turn banal circumstances into the stuff of high comedy. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z Highly dramatic incidents are juxtaposed with comparatively banal ones; particular attention is given to tales of doomed love affairs. Books of The Times: ?Parallel Stories,? a Novel by Peter Nadas - Review 2011-12-04T21:04:45Z Second, my grossest training swimming suit – pinkish grey where chlorine has bleached it – steeped in banal memories. Leanne Shapton: 'The idea for my new novel came from my raging jealousy' 2013-04-28T09:30:01Z “The premise — one woman’s attempt to go on summer vacation — is almost laughably banal,” J. Hoberman wrote in The New York Times on that occasion, adding that the film “may be Rohmer’s most mysterious.” 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z And can it be an influence without its inducing nostalgia or banal references to Mom’s closet? Fashion Review: Down From the Stratosphere, Gaga-Free 2010-09-15T06:45:00Z These are enacted in dialogue that, by Mr. Bartlett’s standards, often feels surprisingly banal, as if recycled from a century’s worth of country house dramas. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The disharmony in the Schisa household is comically banal — an all-but-unseen sister monopolizes the bathroom; an aristocratic landlady bangs on the ceiling with a broom — until Saverio’s infidelity cranks it up to melodrama. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z In the first three episodes, the men bring nothing more surprising than intensity to their roles, which are familiar to the point of banal. 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Do these tasks, no matter how banal, and the game world will reward you. In Fantasy Life and Other Games, Jobs and To-Do Lists 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The idea of urbanites pining to throw off the shackles of soul-corrupting civilization and to found a rural utopia is certainly believable, even banal. Theater Review: ‘Cherokee,’ Lisa D’Amour’s New Play, Opens in Philadelphia 2014-01-31T22:22:10Z The ramshackle walls and surroundings of an abandoned hacienda-style house are plastered with printed blowups of sordid Twitter feeds that the artist scavenged for tales of banal indulgences in sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The uncloaking of an affair he’d been enjoying with a neighbor’s wife has sent him scurrying back to “that most banal of refuges,” the house where he was born. ‘The Blue Guitar’ review: An artist’s heartbreaking crisis 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z In the case of California’s sequoias, the discoverers would gaze in awe at a tree, then spend three weeks cutting it down, sometimes turning it to banal human use. Review: In ‘The Cabaret of Plants,’ Richard Mabey Demonstrates Their Richness 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Begun following the couple's escape from war-torn Yugoslavia, it documents strange beds and banal views from the windows of loaned rooms. Artist of the week 102: Breda Beban 2010-08-25T16:16:00Z Near the end Ms. Wallen lavishly embraced a banal theme from a television commercial, only to jilt it for a last twirl with “The Girl From Ipanema.” Music Review: Jazz Meets Classical at the Miller Theater 2010-07-25T23:55:00Z Slater, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and current FastCompany contributor, repackages those banal truisms as vaguely alarming yet exciting developments. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z But it might also be related to age: the banal fantasy of turning young people into pop stars is losing its shimmer. ?Dancing With the Stars? Keeps Rising in Popularity 2010-04-19T22:23:00Z That’s the thing about needle drops: Even the brilliant ones threaten to make banal what was once the private pleasure of a select and discerning tribe. Perspective | Filmmakers are making their soundtracks do all the work, and it’s getting a little lazy 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Other than a large illuminated cross and few pieces of comfortingly banal statuary, this might be a lookout in Griffith Park, with easier parking. Pacific Opera Project's Forest Lawn 'Falstaff' has an offbeat charm 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z He’s in danger of becoming that most banal of things: prolific. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Using an array of nonsense jargon, banal chatter and surreal advice, Jackson encourages his audience to embrace the gospel of pointlessness. This week's new comedy 2011-01-01T00:05:55Z Yes, that is the most banal sentiment available, but that's the kind of mood the movie puts you in. 2010-02-12T05:15:00Z By taking on this young man’s perspective, I wanted to show how tragically banal and ordinary this act can be. Leïla Slimani on Living with Unbearable Secrets 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Reduced to a laptop screen — “a recording is always a diminished experience,” the show’s director, Alexander Devriendt, says as the video begins — the show’s exploration of banality often becomes merely banal. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Their banal conversation is only to avoid making eye contact with Ryan, who is wearing a teeny tiny square neck undershirt of indeterminate origin. The Bachelorette Watch: How Do You Say Love in Croatian? 2012-06-19T12:30:17Z Utterly devoid of wit, replacing that required virtue with banal repetitions and entirely predictable humour. Russell Brand to tour mosques and synagogues with new comedy show 2013-06-11T15:52:08Z That we yearn for neat, book-sized solutions to the problem of being human is understandable, but strip away the packaging, and you’ll find that the messages of such works are frequently banal. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z It unfolds as a series of vignettes, each one a droll, seemingly banal snapshot of the lives of a mother and daughter — fashion divas both — in the northern Spanish city of Gijón. New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z In an alarmingly banal prologue, we see silent archival footage of a 1970s "scientific seance" in which a table levitated. 'The Apparition': not a ghost of a chance of being good 2012-08-24T17:26:04Z His shows are a reminder of how rarely you see banal details of city denizens doing their jobs on prestige television: The unglamorous everyday of real estate agents, construction workers, commuters. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Another work, “scapeG.O.A.T.,” is a light box with a banal photograph of an empty basketball court reminiscent of Jeff Wall’s light boxes. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z He’s a terrifically descriptive writer, particularly when illuminating the banal suburban world around him. When It Comes to Writing, Cheston Knapp Is His Own Harshest Critic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Thus, an empty room with a folk song playing in it is not likely to be dismissed as kitsch – it may be fairly banal, but it is not vulgar, ostentatious, garish. Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z “Games Without Frontiers,” in many ways, *is* The Americans: tense, sly, sinuous, its lyrics contrasting the banal and the menacing, imagining world war as a kind of internationalist Lord of the Flies child’s game. The Americans Watch: It’s a Knockout 2013-05-02T09:45:37Z Soloists often sing the same melody two times, once with banal lyrics about their day at the beach, and once tending toward the poetic, the cosmic, the climatic. Review: In ‘Sun & Sea,’ We Laze Away the End of the World 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z In my potato salad experience, at its best, the dish is banal and under-seasoned. The genius potato salad that converted a potato salad skeptic 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Faddish taste may be interesting for some, but for others it will devolve into the banal, as cultural history as well as entertainment. Movie Review: ‘The Secret Disco Revolution’ Has a Political Subtext 2013-06-28T04:23:11Z “Klara and the Sun” takes place in the uncomfortably near future, and banal language is redeployed with sinister portent. A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Do we really need yet another show that revolves around a bunch of vain alcoholics who can barely read and their banal shenanigans. MTV Searches for ‘Jersey Shore’ Magic on the Florida Panhandle 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z It ended up at £289,500 — setting a world auction record for banal Spanish provincial furniture. Auctions: When Catalog Descriptions Dictate Value 2011-06-24T12:00:06Z His current paintings are like washed-out photorealist vignettes: tough, banal and perhaps a little bad in their refusal to celebrate painting — or life. Review: Independent Fair Is More Conventional, but Still Eye-Catching 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z There are scenes of combat in flashback, but most of the film is Bravo company being ushered from photo op to photo op by banal media apparatchiks. Hollywood's war on terror: why audiences prefer gung-ho Iraq films 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z There have been so many high-stakes blockbusters where the destruction of the Earth is threatened that it’s become banal, but Jarmusch says he wasn’t consciously responding to that. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I shy away from sex in my films. It makes me nervous’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The drums thunder as though they’re dead-serious about proving that women can make an expensive adventure that’s every bit as banal as the ones that boys crank out every month with basically the same plot. ‘The 355’ Review: Exile in Bondville 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Stacked silos of speculative development, the worst of these banal blocks should be banned. Should views of the Gherkin be protected? 2013-06-18T12:59:20Z Thus, despite various protests and enforced relocations, Love Parade continued to grow until it looked set to become a global fixture, resembling a more banal, mechanised version of the Notting Hill or Rio carnivals. Love Parade's tragic final chapter 2010-07-27T08:00:00Z Her book is brave, dignified and painstakingly honest, even when it comes to the banal particulars of how she stayed afloat. Books of The Times: A Captivity No Novelist Could Invent 2011-07-17T21:24:39Z But “Kochland” suggests that the truth is much more banal — and maybe more unsettling for it. ‘Kochland’ Measures the Reach of a Politically Influential Corporate Giant 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z This frequently startling documentary begins with some fairly banal observations about the nature of a contemporary sickness. ‘Queenmaker’ Review: Society Blogger to Self-Made Celebrity 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z I don’t enjoy Andy Warhol’s art myself, I think he’s banal. Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z Such accounts — many banal, at best — turn interesting, even significant, when read together and regarded as a wave of testimony. In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z A central drama arrives at its anticlimax when Mark’s sympathy for a cancer-ridden student devolves into banal administrative frustration. In Two New Novels, the Trouble Is Academic — and All Too Real 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Mingling the banal and the profound is one of the author's many gifts. Diane Williams is at her unconventional best in 'Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine' 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z They speak directly to the eye of Mr. diCorcia, with their capacity to excite and disturb, and to seek truth about human behavior in the most banal of scenes. On the Runway: Q & A: Philip-Lorca Di Corcia 2011-02-11T15:44:28Z These questions led Butler to explore settings banal and fantastical, brutal and tender. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z In relatively peaceful times, this approach could seem banal, as if the films are arguing for pieties that everyone already agrees on. Review: Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam War’ Will Break Your Heart and Win Your Mind 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z In her hands, a banal sketch about desperate singles meeting up at last call in a bar is transformed into a screwy performance with baroquely filthy innuendo. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Gears Up for an Anniversary 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z On this unconventional runway the “banal is beautiful” idea so alluring to the designer had its high moments: Perfectly tailored camel coats or brief leather jackets worn by mop-haired guys of different ages. At Prada, Check Out the Bourgeoisie 2013-01-13T18:43:55Z There's no doubt that without the lilting commentary flitting above and below the surface of things the piece would have been too banal for, um, words. Rewind TV: The Apprentice; The Song of Lunch; The Genius of British Art 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z This kind of evidence is surprisingly sparse and often resoundingly banal. It's my habit to share relics 2011-03-22T19:30:00Z He insisted that the individual “be bound to something higher, and capable of sacrificing something, in extreme cases even everything, of his banal, prosperous private life.” Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z These first 90 seconds of “National Gallery” perfectly sum up Mr. Wiseman’s art of revelation, showing, among other things, how the sublime and the banal are inextricably connected. Frederick Wiseman Turns to National Gallery in London for His Latest Documentary 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z He thrives on the moments that some would call banal, because that’s where he finds resonance. Richard Linklater’s career has all been leading up to his ‘Boyhood’ masterpiece She stacks up miniature versions of banal furnishings — a chair, a sofa, a rocking horse — glued one on top of the other. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z But it did surprise me that some of the more banal aspects of news reporting received so much attention. Films once were an escape from work. Now, they celebrate it. What gives? 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z I found “We Are Still Watching” disappointingly banal. ‘We Are Still Watching,’ by Ivana Müller, Compels Participation 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The "banality of violence," Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in "Between the World and Me," "can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal." 7 great books and bookish events for fall 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Set in 70s Michigan, in a suburbia that’s both recognisably banal and at times ethereal, The Virgin Suicides opens with a suicide attempt. The Virgin Suicides at 20: Sofia Coppola's debut continues to haunt 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The late Robert Hughes wrote his own epitaph in his 1993 polemic Culture of Complaint, where he inveighed against the banal politicisation of art and championed instead the importance of quality. In praise of … Robert Hughes 2012-08-07T19:42:13Z He wouldn't have taken seriously the many banal, pompous utterances of French politicians describing the team's humiliations as if this were a second 1940 fall of France. Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z But for Los Angeles’s European acolytes, the affection is less business and less banal, more personal. Los Angeles Is Becoming Paris Amid the Palms 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z But mostly the film presents a banal rehash of established facts and well-circulated rumors about Monroe’s life. ‘The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes’ Review: Gossip Girl 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z They veer from the ridiculous to the sublime, the utterly banal to the infinitely touching. Life and Times: Episodes 1-5 – review 2013-05-27T16:39:07Z A restless intelligence and energy pulses under the surface of these essays, even when the topic is as banal as the deliciousness of French chicken. ‘Eat, Live, Love, Die’: At 89, Betty Fussell’s hard-earned recipe for happiness 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Murakami is far too playful and allusive an artist to be restricted by a banal criterion like that one. Books of The Times: ?1Q84? by Haruki Murakami - Review 2011-11-09T19:28:08Z Though we never learn the details of that story, we grasp that it’s banal enough to convince Meg that life is just a big, cosmic, pencil-related joke with the punch line, “It’s pointless.” ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2, Episode 9: Nothing Can Stand in Her Way 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Its finale, an anthem called “Bring On the Monsters,” would be laughably banal if it weren’t so aggressively false. Review: ‘The Lightning Thief,’ a Far Cry From Olympus 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “Beauty is very banal in music as well,” Mr. Sveinsson said. Testing German Ideas of Beauty 2014-02-19T14:22:11Z The cover designs for various print editions of "High-Rise" imagine the building as an anonymous late-modern tower — always with a flat roof, hiding its secrets and violence behind a banal façade. Our edifice complex: 'High-Rise' and its dystopian architecture hit the big screen 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The surface is bright, even banal, but something is off or sending mixed messages. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z In these times when everything seems entirely pointless, I've become interested not in banal reality, but surreality. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z Workshop, which we understand to be a sort of microcosm for what Ives later denounces as the “banal hypocrisy” of institutional American life at large, has worked well for Loudermilk. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The boys, like so much in “Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow,” are never addressed by Ms. Fiennes, perhaps because to do so might force her to employ banal documentary strategies, like identifying people. | 'Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow': Touring an Artist?s Pre-Apocalyptic Realm 2011-08-09T22:26:33Z We’re not entirely sure why it was rejected by the imperial theater directorate, but the main reason may have been a banal one: The piece lacked a major female character. Review: After a Met Opera Milestone, ‘Boris’ Brings Another 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z To tell this surreal story, Cao used the city's real-life landscapes: banal concrete esplanades, anonymous condo towers and neighborhoods so new they seem to materialize on the horizon like a mirage. Object Lesson: Cao Fei's Beijing zombies in L.A. serve as a riff on modern China 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z |
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