| 单词 | banality |
| 例句 | Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Ashish shrugged, like he couldn’t be bothered with such banalities as figuring out where Dimple’s roommate was. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z After a few minutes spent exchanging earnest banalities, we went our separate ways. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her letters consist mostly of banalities—we are busy; Frau Elena says hello—or else arrive in his bunkroom so full of censor marks that their meaning has disintegrated. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Daylight, and the banality of family small talk, would dispel whatever impact she had made as a ghostly illuminated apparition. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Lydia felt actual physical revulsion at the banality of Dahlia’s problems in the great scope of things. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z We exchanged hellos and the usual banalities about the weather and where we were. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He is unaccustomed to the banality of domestic flights, the narrow cabin, the single bag he’s packed, small enough to stow overhead. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 He does not talk about purity any more but of the necessity of using common cultural sign systems to reflect the iconic banality of our times. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z William nodded, a little taken aback by the banality of the comment. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Ms. Prada reacts with a kind of squeamish delight to the banality of glamour. Fashion Review: The Closing Flourish Is the Campy Kind 2010-10-08T00:25:00Z While the action is savagely compelling, Yukio speaks with a weirdly numb banality. Summertime of the Dead by Gregory Hughes – review 2012-09-28T21:55:03Z If anything, she hones her work even more than Redmond, so apparent banalities – stripped wallpaper, a secondhand book – are given the attention usually reserved for religious icons. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z It's the inelegant banality of the lyrics, delivered with a tooth-aching earnestness that, on the title track, tip headlong into self-righteousness. Jonathan Jeremiah: A Solitary Man ? review 2011-03-17T23:40:01Z What I mean is that many poets never learn how to articulate death’s banality, one of the main subjects of “Summer Snow.” The Poet Robert Hass Is a Virtuoso of Common American Speech 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The ghost was gone, leaving behind the glorious, unblemished banality of health. Modern Love: My Illness, the Third Partner in Our Relationship 2014-04-24T19:30:01Z Through simplicity comes banality, a consideration rich with possibility in playwriting but much more difficult in opera. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z By melting down on the air and venting his rage against what another characters describes as television's "common rubble of banality", Beale becomes a hero to millions. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z If you’re thinking about the mind-numbing banality of the person next to you, there’s little hope that you will be receptive to art. How to view art: Be dead serious about it, but don’t expect too much The most surprising thing about dating apps for me wasn’t the ghosting, the “How’s your Monday?” banality or even the innumerable photos of Machu Picchu. Analysis | So you want to date someone who’s sarcastic? How original. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Text panels keep visitors focused on banalities: “What does paradise mean to you? A perfect vacation location? A divine light?” Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Post Malone is decidedly the latter, an avatar of algorithm culture that rewards pleasant banality over the creatively vexing. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z What he calls “post-human” buildings — whose boredom he finds “hypnotic” and “banality breathtaking” — represent, he says, a “new sublime.” Why Rem Koolhaas Brought a Tractor to the Guggenheim 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The light is dappled in an English Romantic way yet it falls upon a scene of banality, an urban suburb. Zadie Smith's London competition - your photographs 2013-07-17T12:01:08Z The film mostly takes place inside the school, yet its inventive and unexpected visuals manage to avoid classroom banality. ‘Try Harder!’ Review: California Overachievement Test 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z For Dolz, the banality of murder implied in Dumas's words becomes translated as murder's monstrous immutability. The Infatuations by Javier Marías – review 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Nonetheless, unerring in its processed landscapes and corporate culturespeak, it’s a Rosetta stone of the banalities pooling in the technology parks of Silicon Valley. "The Matrix" is basically a sci-fi "Office Space" 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Addressed to their fans, the words are simple, functional to the point of banality, but are refreshingly direct. The best No 1 records: the Beatles – From Me To You 2012-05-31T20:50:00Z Here, we find hints of the totalitarian banality of corporate life as portrayed in “Office Space,” but now set against the splendors of sprawling, decked-out tech campuses rather than drab office parks. ‘Silicon Valley,’ Mike Judge’s New Series, Debuts on HBO 2014-04-02T16:55:21Z An inevitable section on Kondo doesn’t find much to commend in her approach, deeming it a force for homogeneity and, like comparable books in the genre, “an exercise in banality.” ‘The Longing for Less’ Gets at the Big Appeal of Minimalism 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z But when I discovered the beauty of banality, I was able to capture Belgium in colour. Harry Gruyaert's best photograph – waiting for a Belgian parade 2012-11-14T16:11:14Z It’s a tribute to his inspired dive into oral-history archives that, despite the aesthetic and dramatic banality of his approach, the movie is, somehow, utterly absorbing and deeply moving nonetheless. “They Shall Not Grow Old,” Reviewed: The Indelible Voices in Peter Jackson’s First World War Documentary 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z As the hours tick by, these characters swing erratically from domestic banality to absurdist spectacle. Review | Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’ is an absurdist look at our technology dependence 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Men and women deeply yearn, in Lachman’s summary, for “an inner expansiveness, a release from trivia and banality, a sensation of more ‘life.’ UFOs, alien abductions, the occult: to one man, the building blocks of scholarship 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Way back in 1965, Susan Sontag observed that “we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror.” ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z The ultimate banality of the subject matter is an ideal foil for Craven’s painterly emphasis. Ann Craven, across many moons 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z And yet as she monologues blithely on — and on and on — with her chipper banalities, she emerges as a rather heroic figure, making the best of a bad lot, which happens to be everyone’s lot. Finding the Sweet, Stinging Salt in Plays of Confinement 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z And then, Anderson has set nearly all his films in Los Angeles, a place he has depicted in all its vivacious charm and dark banality. 'Inherent Vice' goes for Los Angeles as state of mind rather than destination 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Nearly every direct quotation from Ms. Lee is a banality: “Oh, bless his heart.” ‘The Mockingbird Next Door’ by Marja Mills 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The face she saw, famously, was a mask of bureaucratic blandness, summed up by her phrase “the banality of evil.” Movie Review: ‘Hannah Arendt,’ With Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer 2013-05-28T21:31:05Z It really is about the banality of evil. Alison Klayman: ‘Bannon’s into the Great Man theory of history and he’s certain he’s one of those great men’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt cauterized Nazism as “the banality of evil.” Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 2: Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis 2012-05-25T18:05:46Z The slow leaking of love out of a relationship is described in particular and terrible banality, as Costello's characters move about their ordinary rooms. The China Factory by Mary Costello – review 2012-06-07T07:00:01Z When "Master of None" braids banality with the transcendent in this way, it has few peers. "Master of None" returns for an unexpected third season with "Moments in Love" 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z When the banalities of the book got too much for me — not an infrequent occurrence, alas — I kept tuning back into the excellent music making. | 'This Side of Paradise': The Tormented Fitzgeralds at Theater at St. Clements 2010-04-23T22:52:00Z Like any conversation, the talk is sometimes bogged down by banality. ‘A History of Pictures’ — from the cave to the iPhone 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Times theater critic Charles McNulty described "Building the Wall" as an exploration of the banality of evil. 'Building the Wall,' Robert Schenkkan's anti-Trump protest play, is one of L.A.'s hottest tickets 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The correspondence is a grotesque, intimate look at total commitment to Nazism, horrific evil interspersed with the banality of upper-middle-class life. Following the Trail of a Nazi Mass Murderer Who Was Never Caught 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z It also showcased the banality of racism: it was a reminder that coffee shops, with all the dawdling they encourage, are a “white space.” The Summer of Coupon Carl, Permit Patty, and the Videos That Turn Cop-Callers into Mockable Memes 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z How did creative valuation descend to such banality? Calls for China Achebe Nobel prize 'obscene', says Wole Soyinka 2013-05-20T11:15:50Z The banality of the photographic images from an edition of 10 that were offered under the title “Mom and Dad” did not augur well. Auctions: In Contemporary Art Sales, Big Is Better and Famous Is Best 2011-05-13T12:00:05Z But it also reveals the banality of violence that has turned routine. A Writer’s Haunting Trip Through the Horrors of Indonesian History 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Pitt is telling them — telling us — how special and unique we are, but the banality of the pictures undermines this message. Review: ‘Voyage of Time,’ the Cosmology of Terrence Malick (the Short Version) 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z There are moments of toe-curling banality, but there are some fresh and impressive songs, too. After Oasis, Beady Eye begin their journey 2011-02-17T21:31:00Z A tapestry of a running man fire exit sign adorning a bedside tabletop hints at desperate escapism being compromised by the banality of health-and-safety regulations. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-22T00:06:54Z It was chronicled by Hannah Arendt in her controversial book “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” which popularized the phrase “banality of evil” in reference to the supposedly gray, bureaucratic personality Eichmann exhibited on the stand. Review: In ‘Operation Finale,’ the Agonizing Hunt for a Nazi 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z “The Bling Ring” is uncompromising in its portrayal of banality and shallowness. Why Hasn’t Sofia Coppola Gotten the Respect an Auteur Deserves? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The awfulness of Verbinski’s is that he has something to say, but it’s of a stultifying banality, and he says it through a cinematic megaphone with a crude and tasteless rhetorical insistence. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z This novel is about the banality of the evil that is systemic misogyny. In This Korean Best Seller, a Young Mother Is Driven to Psychosis 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z As the banality of the podcast would illustrate, it is a poor political project; doomed to fail with anyone who does not already adore both the former president and rock and roll legend. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z The lyrics were of pure cretin simplicity, the music was primal and stark to the point of total banality: in other words, a great rock 'n' roll album. An initiation into Iggy Pop – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-04-30T14:30:19Z Within a single year, there is not just horror but also oddness, even banality. 'LAPD '53': Snapshots of L.A.'s dark side 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The reader is frankly relieved when the band eventually settles into the banality of inconsistent live shows and tax troubles. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z One can only guess how the irreducible ideas of freedom implicit in flying birds, even amid such scenes of stinking banality, would have salved the spirits of these resilient men. Birds in a Cage: Warburg, Germany, 1941 by Derek Niemann - review 2012-12-20T08:00:01Z No, the hideous part about speaking on cellphones in cramped public spaces is subjecting everyone else to the banality of our daily lives. Social Q’s: Live and Love for Today 2014-04-17T20:01:03Z Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA I'm thinking about the banality, the fragility, the beauty and the heartache, the good and the not so good, all packaged together in the randomness of life. What I'm thinking about ... Thursday, the day that changed my life 2013-03-08T02:30:19Z Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about domestic horror, about movies that find monsters and demons at home, movies that reckon not so much with the banality of evil as with its awful familiarity. Review: In ‘Custody,’ a Father Terrorizes His Family 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Juliette Blightman deals in deceptive banalities that, through meticulously selective stage management, conjure moments of reverie on the time-honoured, irrepressible passing of time. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-26T00:07:56Z In her review, Bahr wrote that Mills “has a unique way of blending everyday banalities with cosmic questions and ideas to create lovely symphonies of humanity.” New this week: ‘Lost Daughter,’ NYE in Nashville, Boba Fett 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z There was one banality: a blurb explaining that comics sometimes lend themselves to commercial products. Exhibition Review: ?Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics,? at Rubin Museum 2011-12-29T23:59:17Z We were looking for something that was unsettling because of the banality of the transmission. Arts & Leisure: All-Star Cast for Steven Soderbergh?s ?Contagion? 2011-08-26T21:36:34Z But his reënactments were—and remain, at twenty-seven years’ remove—deadening and trivializing, not because of their subjectivity but because of their impersonality, because of their dramatic and directorial banality. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Schnittke shares Hannah Arendt's belief in "the banality of evil", and the irritating waltz with which the work closes shredded everyone's nerves. BBCSO/Sinaisky ? review 2011-02-22T18:20:48Z What if the "common rubble of banality" is, in fact, us? How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z Mine were in tatters long before he came flouncing onstage for the last time, having been shredded by the comic banality of most of the material. Theater Review: ‘First Date,’ a Musical, Opens on Broadway 2013-08-09T02:00:09Z Their paintings disguise banality with fashionable postmodern aesthetic and irony. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z It’s this subtlety — the ordinary banality of it — that leads some skeptics to question how much everyday bias actually matters. ‘The End of Bias’ Says There’s Hope for Meaningful Change 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Her friend soothes her with all the banalities detested by the lovelorn: “Sometimes these things happen when you’re not looking for them.” ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s common practice when writing about a movie to offer at least a sketch of the plot; with “Song to Song,” that banality becomes an act of criticism—and of enthusiasm—in itself. “Song to Song”: Terrence Malick’s Romantic Idealism 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The attraction both in “Better Things” and “Louie” is that we are in the hands of terrific writers and actors who intuit the range of human banality and emotions like great jazz musicians. Pamela Adlon goes on to ‘Better Things,’ while Tig Notaro revisits the same old thing 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters. Television Review: Rob Schneider?s New Sitcom, ?Rob,? on CBS - Review 2012-01-11T23:10:47Z When Hannah Arendt wrote about Eichmann, she cast him as an archetypal figure, and she defined the archetype, forgivingly and inaccurately, with the phrase that has become such a cliché: “the banality of evil.” Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Ultimately, despite Stevenson’s efforts to raise the stakes, Agee’s story seems less about moral risk-taking or the wages of dissent than about what might be called the banality of betrayal. Do Whistle-Blowers Damage National Security? 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z But these banalities, which here are accompanied by glazed eyes, are also to the point: the world is burning, and all that some of us do is look at the flames with exhausted familiarity. ‘Cosmopolis,’ Directed by David Cronenberg 2012-08-16T21:29:47Z It’s the defining characteristic that endears him to his millions of adoring fans, but for critics who only find snore-inducing banality in his candor, it’s a high crime. In D.C., J. Cole’s heart was on his sleeve, right where it belongs 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Two judges, Douglas Woodlock and the future Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer, fearing that the new projects were doomed to cramped banality, contacted Mr. Feiner to see what could be done. Edward Feiner, 75, Dies; Revolutionized the Look of Federal Buildings 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z "Paranormal Activity" worked by lulling us, feeding the viewer banality and inactivity until a tiny thing — a door opening, a shadow — jolted you into awareness. 'Paranormal Activity 2': Poltergeist frights pack less punch in polished sequel 2010-10-22T16:24:00Z That everyone will be a little bit bored is the strange joy of holiday specials; the banality won’t overshadow the viewer’s own Christmas celebrations. A Very Murray Christmas is the Boring, Fantastic Christmas Special You've Been Waiting For 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z To say that a great novel needs reading with great attention is somewhere between a banality and an insult. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z To his credit, his most memorable phrases involved the dropping of names, supplying evidence that he is so well connected that all television producers should be delighted to slather his banality across their airwaves. Michael Avenatti and the Mooch Bring Their Blustering Banality to Stephen Colbert 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z I agree, but it's perfectly possible to avoid the abstruse and not fall into banality, either. Inaugural poem for Obama is a valiant flop 2013-01-22T16:29:35Z As in her earlier plays, “Vision Disturbance” and “Adult,” Ms. Masciotti mines the banalities of everyday chatter for heroic poetry. Review: ‘Social Security,’ the Heroic Poetry of Solitude 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z This is an art of absurdist banalities that, through careful staging and cumulative thematic hypnotism becomes visual poetry. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Her bland rogues gallery of characters — major and minor — attests, once again, to “the banality of evil.” Review | Paula Hawkins has a new thriller, and let’s just say it’s no ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z All produced ideas and phrases that have entered our moral vocabulary, most notably Arendt’s “banality of evil.” How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z In an unseen orchestra that bleats and blares, an urgent trombone chorus heralds every leap into banality. ‘Tomb Raider’ Review: Buried by Absurdity 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Graham loves nothing more than injecting such banality with romance. Latitude festival roundup: my theatre highs and lows 2011-07-18T15:40:33Z Judging art by the foibles of the artist is a slippery slope to banality.My favorite author is Faulkner. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z As the backstory of “Hitchcock” makes plain, the “real” story of a guy killing and gutting his victims is the very definition of “the banality of evil.” ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ doesn’t leave out the ‘massacre’ 2013-01-04T17:12:08Z McQuarrie seems to have no interest in any of the banalities that make these characters human. The Vacuum-Sealed Efficiency of “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z But at moments the true-life banality of delay and process threatens to infect the lifeblood of the novel itself. 'Alice & Oliver' is like 'Love Story,' but with more grit and less sap 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Enamored, I dropped everything to distance myself from the banality of university life and tag along. Modern Love: A Free Spirit Who Couldn?t Be Tethered 2010-07-29T21:55:00Z Inwardly, he dissects the absurd banality of his life while he observes, with an acute sense of cynicism and occasional brutality, the slow decline of his doting middle-age parents. ‘The Evenings,’ a Dutch Classic, Arrives in English. It Only Took 70 Years. 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z But like the deliberate banality of Magritte's backdrops, these familiar settings are always charged with something less ordinary. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z The result is a kind of prestige-TV version of Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil, in which fascist leaders are shown to be not über-villains but yet another version of the complex cable-drama antihero. Philip K. Dick’s Intellectual Vision for Living in a Fascist America 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z It was as if all Italian whites were the mass-market pinot grigios of today, which do an excellent job of carrying on the tradition of banality. From Campania’s Volcanic Soils, Whites in Multiple Colors 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z If the smile doesn’t compensate for the banality and poverty of the rest of the video, much of her work will seem equally insufferable. Review | Artist Sarah Lucas takes all the fun out of being naughty 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z But this banality is more glorious than any imaginary spectacle of an alien world where little green men drive motorboats up and down their glittering canals. Curiosity rover: why does sci-fi always look more marvellous than reality? 2012-08-08T15:05:34Z The banality of anxiety in motherhood is what makes it so dangerous, especially in a world so filled with fear. Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z They had similar layouts with short verses of amazing banality arguing their worthy cause. Poems on the Underground: copycats and controversies 2013-01-09T06:10:01Z Rock and roll started as a form of enchantment and has become, in large part, another symptom of the banality of our acquisitive society. The Beautiful Meaninglessness of David Bowie 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z A “perpetual blanket of banality” that leaves Yagoda asking, in his engaging but thin book “The B-Side,” “How and why, precisely, did pop music get so bad in the 1950s?” ‘The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z In a hatchback packed with college kids and one feckless millennial, the transition from youthful insouciance to settled-down banality couldn’t be more explicit. So wait, millennials aren’t the enemy? From “The Intern” to “Grandma,” the threat of looming intergenerational war has been greatly exaggerated 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The relationship was sometimes uneasy and often controversial, most famously in the case of her account of Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, in which she coined the term “the banality of evil.” The Philosopher in Dark Times 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z In Melody Maker, Richard Williams cut "McCartney" to the quick, describing the album's contents as "sheer banality," excepting "Maybe I'm Amazed," which was already a consensus masterwork among fans and critics alike. How "Maybe I'm Amazed" brought Paul McCartney back to life 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z His flat delivery of Mr. Cooper’s text communicated the banality of evil. Dance Review: Ishmael Houston-Jones and Yvonne Meier at Abrons - Review 2012-01-16T23:04:56Z Paper lends uniformity to everything, matching the scene’s banality to the blandness of the depicted surfaces. Thomas Demand undercuts what we think photographs show us 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Once the funny and not-so-funny start to flow, you might not care, though it would be nice if the Farrellys did care about the banality of their images, just a little. | 'Hall Pass': Man-Child in the Promised Land, for a Whole (Pant! Pant!) Week 2011-02-24T22:54:48Z But when I’m depressed by the banalities of daily life—e-mails, parking spots, twenty-dollar salads—I think of the life he offered me. The Man in Xinjiang: A Frightening Experience in Rural China 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Her eccentric eye and offbeat rhythm sustain “One Day” through its stretches of banality and mitigate some of its flaws. | 'One Day': Emma and Dex and July 15 2011-08-18T12:00:00Z The script sometimes plays artfully with the banality of these exchanges, especially in the semantic quibbles between Grange and Bromley. Theater Review: Lyle Kessler’s ‘Collision’ at Rattlestick Theater 2013-01-23T23:19:08Z It was the sad, tawdry banality of it all. The Killing Season Finale: A Semi-Semi-Defense 2012-06-18T18:38:57Z After three terrible Predator sequels, the Robert Rodriguez-produced Predators was a definite upturn earlier this year, if only because the series had previously plumbed the depths of tortuous banality. Can Ridley Scott's Alien prequels be a new species of follow-up? 2010-10-14T14:33:00Z Their time together feels both momentous and aggressively dull: awkward lunches, boring drives, stilted exchanges of banalities peppered with grand statements that strike Freddie as pushy and overly paternalistic. ‘Return to Seoul’ Review: Found in Translation 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Judging art by the foibles of the artist is a slippery slope to banality. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The exotic worlds he conjures feel deeply familiar, even to the point of banality, which is what makes them all the scarier and all the more revelatory. Theater Review: ‘Tender Napalm’ by Philip Ridley at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-30T02:00:15Z It’s a handsome package that never transcends the banality of its ideas, most of which involve how different people, including from Boulder, were affected by the case. Review: ‘Casting JonBenet’ Revisits a 1996 Murder 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z At such moments we need Mr. Sax’s Clown MC, who is missing in action for far too much of the second act, to swoop in and rescue us from banality. Theater Review: ‘Venice,’ by Eric Rosen and Matt Sax, Teems With Action 2013-06-14T03:18:01Z The banality of the movie’s sentiments is matched by the banality of its execution—its generically prettified and manicured cinematography and the earnest and tamped-down performances. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Dutilleux's fight against banality was indeed to be chronic, and one of the things that made him a slow composer, to his own chagrin. Henri Dutilleux obituary 2013-05-22T17:43:25Z But it is in showing the application of that intelligence that “The Theory of Everything” tumbles into a black hole of biopic banality. In ‘The Theory of Everything,’ Stephen Hawking’s Home Life 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z These severed jackets and bubbly dresses, with their loud, clashing prints, may have been eco-friendly, but I suspect that she was also reacting to the banality of this kind of trendiness. | Fashion Review: A Good Time to Be a Realist 2011-03-07T07:51:48Z I needed something that would clash like a titan’s shield against the overwhelming banality of one of the poorest excuses for a myth in modern times: the myth of the Nordic Übermensch. Inspiration Information: 'The Whispering Muse' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z The playing with banality is a dare and a joke. Singing in the rain 2011-03-27T00:04:08Z Like him, I found the film hollow at its core, treating, as he said, "banalities as if they were words of wisdom." Readers respond after 'Boyhood' fails to impress critic Kenneth Turan 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z He romanticizes the lives of everyday people by seeing past our banalities. The Gaslight Anthem's Handwritten Is About You 2012-07-26T17:12:21Z At times the schoolyard chat does bottom out into banality. The Roost by Neil Butler ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:11Z She becomes alert to how the West “had brought its worst tendencies with it: bureaucracy, venality, banality.” Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Her patchwork quilt of a book interweaves occasional New Age banalities with real insight to achieve a somehow pleasing totality. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z There’s a thin veneer of stylishness over this choreographic banality that probably persuaded some members of the audience that they were seeing something new and daring. Dance Review: They Stumble That Run Fast, These Star-Crossed Shakespearean Lovers 2011-06-24T23:17:04Z In the film's necessary haste, they reveal only blurry banality. One Day: a waste of a good tome 2011-08-24T09:51:15Z The show also exposes the banality of the Spice Girls' lyrics. Critics savage Spice Girls stage musical 2012-12-12T11:58:09Z 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 A few pages later, Prose nails why cliched descriptions are so hopeless at conveying experience, explaining, for instance, why the sentence "Tom bit his lip" is a pointless banality. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose – review 2012-05-26T23:07:19Z In doing so, it finds the soaring, suspenseful music in even the most basic banalities of the everyday. Review: ‘Heisenberg’ Features an Explosive Pairing of Actors 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z It echoed the banality of the fake Frank Ocean Twitter account, still being retweeted by all and sundry until it was suspended this week. Fake Twitter celeb accounts: why do people bother? 2012-07-26T18:59:02Z Some shows reflect cacophonous social media timelines where inanity, tragedy and banality are all jumbled up together. 'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Aaron Reynolds’s “Creepy Carrots!” offered that perfect tension between banality and rascality — not to mention that it confirmed our hatred of carrots. Reading to your kids on Halloween is sweeter than candy corn 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z He named it "The banality of the banality of evil." Banksy's latest prank on New York art world hangs in thrift shop 2013-10-30T21:37:14Z Each character is given to pointing out the reductive sentimentality and banality in the arguments of the other, which conveniently allows Mr. Logan to stave off criticisms of being clichéd himself. Theater Review | 'Red': Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in John Logan?s Drama 2010-04-02T10:10:00Z Inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s essay “The Conspiracy of Art,” this work rages against mediocrity, unoriginality, banality and nothingness. Critic?s Notebook: Crossing the Line Festival 2011-09-20T21:15:12Z Only Whitney Houston and Albert Einstein surrender to the banality of the passport photograph, as most of us do when we're gearing up for our holidays. Celebrity passport photographs – a picture of true glamour 2013-07-29T16:19:51Z Politicians want bombast one moment – the Palace of Westminster, pre-fab tower blocks, the Greenwich Dome – and banality the next, especially when the financial going gets tough. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z In their San Francisco, the contusions of casual sex are pitted against the banalities of steady dating, and the romantic weather is always bad. “Looking,” Marriage, and the New Gay Sadness 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z His is the voice, not of evil’s banality, but of its plausibility. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Of course, there are also some banalities I still want to experience. G?nter Grass writes final autobiography 2010-08-24T13:25:00Z With the more plot-driven “Hunting Season,” the greater length allows for more development but also points up the staginess and slight banality of the material. Review: ‘Hunting Season’ on Vimeo Starts Second Season 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z What is 140 characters more than most people need to fully demonstrate their complete banality? Style Invitational Week 1253: Fashion x fiction — a fake-trivia contest 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Charlotte is an avid reader of soapy romances, and when we are in her head, it can be a purple storm of banality. A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The songs on his new album are well crafted but mind-numbing in their banality. James Blunt ? review 2011-03-02T19:01:00Z In revealing the venality, the banality, the crudeness, the prejudices of the men who made movies at M-G-M, Ross suggested the limits of what they could achieve—together. Lillian Ross’s Brilliant Chronicle of the Power Struggle Behind a John Huston Film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z It is nearly a banality to say she is an astute social anthropologist, given the preponderance of anthropologists in her novels. In Praise of Barbara Pym 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z But it commands attention as an object lesson in the banality of evil. Review: ‘Path of Blood’ Presents Terrorists’ Videos 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Zaza, the more overtly rebellious one, spurred on her friend, Beauvoir wrote in “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”: “It was only when I compared myself with Zaza that I bitterly deplored my banality.” Coming Soon: New Fiction From Simone de Beauvoir 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “The banality of ‘Love Story’ makes ‘Peyton Place’ look like ‘Swann’s Way’ as it skips from cliché to cliché with an abandon that would chill even the blood of a True Romance editor,” Newsweek wrote. 2010-01-20T06:41:00Z The lushest of orchestral accompaniments produced a backdrop for the banality of evil, and he had the perfect cast for that. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The horror of this story lies in its banality: An innocent man, happily married, who does all the right things to succeed, is nonetheless sidelined to a concrete cell. A Marriage Upended, a Life Destroyed 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The album is a mid-tempo exploration of the limits of banality. Charlie Puth’s show in D.C. was an exercise in the banal and inoffensive 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The ultimate restriction that binds “Freedom” is the banality of her ideas. Dance Review: Jasmin Vardimon Company Dances at Montclair State 2013-04-21T20:37:31Z I am just anti- the banality of the discussion that these otherwise decent, fun people devolve to when indulging, and my girlfriend does not share my disdain of banality, I guess. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He worries that every day after Jan. 1 will be 420 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The show also exposes the banality of the Spice Girls’ lyrics. Spice Girls musical not a critical darling 2012-12-13T00:49:36Z To some extent, “France” — the movie and its possibly allegorical heroine alike — is structured around the tension between the banality of television and the sacredness of cinema, and around the difficulty of telling them apart. ‘France’ Review: When the Journalist Becomes the Story 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The effort to disguise the banality of that plot, or to pump it up to earn the release of song, forces “The Mad Ones” into some overwrought detours. Review: A Girl’s Kerouac Dreams Go Astray in ‘The Mad Ones’ 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Three architects are competing for this plum job, and present their ideas in videos of stunning banality. Brilliant biennale 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z At the end of 35 minutes in which ex-reality TV contestants mined terrifying new depths of banality, the mystery of what Channel 5 is for was no closer to being solved. Rewind TV: OK! TV; The British Academy Film Awards; Champions League Football; Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence 2011-02-20T00:05:41Z Yet the comparative banality of Mirvis’s post-religious life reminds me of another Jewish aphorism: “If you are going to eat pork,” as the Yiddish proverb goes, “let the juices run down your beard.” Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z But his larger focus is the experience of theater itself — the way performance can enchant and disappoint us, reveal truth and obscure it, turn comedy into tragedy, and tragedy into banality. Dance Review: John Jasperse Company Performs at the Joyce 2010-06-18T22:13:00Z At around 250 pages, this isn’t a particularly long book, but it’s padded with such banalities. Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z But in the scenes that break with banality, there is a zing not only of originality, but of daring. Review: Los Angeles Through a Stranger’s Eyes in ‘No Light and No Land Anywhere’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Although sprightly in tone and merciless in its put-downs of the younger generation, this is really a play about postwar ennui, the sterility of the City and the banality of suburbia. The Breadwinner – review 2013-04-24T11:56:16Z Even the dozen decision-makers on the committee seemed amused by the banality of the situation. Seattle Asian Art Museum expansion plan heads to City Council 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Most come off as deeply puerile, jihadist Holden Caulfields, rejecting the banalities of American life and seeking refuge in a system of complete intellectual security. What drives Americans to join the jihad? The book 'United States of Jihad' explains 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z 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 For our part, we were bored senseless with the banality of the self-consciously Modern. Digested classic: Tarr by Wyndham Lewis 2010-06-04T10:05:00Z After many months of pandemic-mandated remote instruction, teenagers have come to regard such banalities as their classmates eating, slouching and parking badly as fodder for amusement — and, of course, content. The Latest High School Prank? It’s a Snooze. 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z “Angry Birds Goes Classical,” a chirpy piece of musical banality on disc, is an example Mr. Walker does not flinch from citing. Arts in Britain Weather a Financial Storm 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z All are enlisted in efforts to transcend their own banality in this exhibition at Gallery B. Review | In the galleries: Turning the commonplace into uncommonly fine art 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z 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 The cringe-inducing dialogue never even pauses, punctuating the mass murder with crass banality as you rack up dollars for decimating the locals. Army Of Two: The Devil's Cartel - review 2013-04-06T05:00:13Z Hannah Arendt's phrase "the banality of evil" sums up the events of 1612, which began as a feud between two families but escalated into a panic about maleficium. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z For vermin enthusiasts, the appeal isn’t showiness or rarity; it may be their very banality that resonates. The Cutest Animal on Instagram Is Possibly in Your Trash Can 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z There are occasional references to the larger themes of American life, its banality, its hypocritical public discourse, its predilection for war and violence, its toll on the natural world. Review | In New York, a blowout, blockbuster retrospective of Bruce Nauman 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But Zoe Waterman's meticulously observed production captures the deep revelation and curious banality of the therapy scenario: the artfully placed tissues, the cautiously leading questions. Shining City 2010-09-01T21:30:00Z Not so fortunately, what follows is no more interesting than the Southern-belle banalities of the show’s early moments. Review: ‘Z,’ Hardly the Last Word on the Fitzgeralds 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z But a lot happens before that sonorous end, as one tableau follows the other depicting vignettes of the banality of being. New Glass opera "The Lost" premieres in Austria 2013-04-13T00:11:09Z Aghast at the banality of her life, Ellinor decides to live with purpose. The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The dialogue is nearly comic in its banality: William Trevor’s Quiet Explosions 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Oddly, it is seldom “prayers and thoughts,” as though that formulation so violates the consensus cliche, the go-to banality, that it approaches syntactic sedition. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Here’s what you can do with your ‘thoughts and prayers’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z I left “A Delicate Truth” informed by the banality of evil, intrigued by a story that flops, Mobius strip-like, into and onto itself and yes, eagerly turning pages to find out what happens next. John le Carré’s ‘A Delicate Truth’: a dark mix of motive and opportunity 2013-05-15T22:58:58Z The last scene at the diner offered a Hopper-esque insight into the banality and anxiety of American life. Open thread: tell us your favourite and most hated TV show endings 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z And most of what he describes — the camaraderie in the workplace, the Orwellian language of “corporate resources,” the company soccer team — is familiar to the point of banality. Theater Review: Ethan Lipton in ?No Place to Go? at Joe?s Pub 2012-03-22T02:30:08Z Wilson's judgments in "Hitler: A Short Biography" were "breathtaking in their banality." Review of "literary blah" memoir wins 2013 mauling award 2013-02-13T14:57:59Z “We hadn’t watched much daytime television, and Wynn was immediately struck by its banality and superficiality.” Unearthing a Celluloid Artifact of the ?60s 2011-04-08T23:38:27Z Judith Jamison, Ailey’s departing artistic director, must take the main responsibility for both sides of the company: the marvelous dancerliness and the expressive banality. Dance Review: A Physical Choreography, Turning Women Into Targets 2010-12-16T23:06:06Z Every so often, a filmmaker plays with these banalities, which I imagine is why Aaron Katz opens “Gemini,” a pleasurably drifty, low-wattage mystery set in Los Angeles, with an upside-down shot of a palm tree. Review: ‘Gemini’ Finds Murder in a Movie-Soaked Los Angeles 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z To try to move things forward, instead of appealing to the banality of the day. In the Age of the Yellow Vests, Designer Jeans. Really? 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z It’s a vivid tableau of everyday banality complete with listless customers, unflattering lighting and the rhythms of alienated labor. ‘Fallen Leaves’ Review: Love (and Laughs) Among the Ruins 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Comedian Marc Maron once compared the Internet to the CB radio craze of the 1970s, saying that neither amounted to much more than some weirdo broadcasting banalities from his backyard shed. Marc Maron ? news from the garage 2011-11-25T04:12:13Z There is a banality of evil with him. In knockout thriller "Catch the Fair One," a boxer infiltrates a ring of human traffickers 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Pride, 33, has set out to convey some basic insights about the heady miracle of life and the cold banality of death, from his own recent vantage. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z On a “spiritual quest,” toward the end of his life, he found only a handful of banalities—a version of early Christianity, nothing more. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Laboring to be poetic, it was merely sophomoric, troweling on cliche with such abandon that I found myself wondering if the libretto was deliberately trying to evoke the banality of Marnie’s world. Review | ‘Marnie’ is all too insubstantial at Met Opera premiere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z They are harbouring a cache of explosives, and must speak to one another all day in scripted domestic banalities, to keep government eavesdroppers off the scent. Double Feature 1 ? review 2011-08-04T21:30:05Z Acting as his own editor and cinematographer, Soderbergh will cut off extended dialogue scenes blankly, hinting perhaps at some essential banality or dreariness in Mike's off-stage life, and the lighting has a subdued, filtered look. Magic Mike – review 2012-07-12T14:29:01Z Despite its attention to the past, the movie isn’t an exercise in futile authenticity or a dreary compendium of biopic banalities. ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z What follows is a passage of comic genius spun from nothing more, or less, than the banality of everyday life. Summer journeys: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome 2013-07-16T15:52:40Z But just because a play comments on banality does not make it any less banal. 2010-02-16T22:39:00Z When she told him he was embarrassed about the banality of his own. Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia' 2013-07-23T16:41:00Z But to make up for Otis' annoying storylines, his best friend, Eric alleviates the banality of the boring protagonist. On "Sex Education," Ncuti Gatwa's Eric always shines, even in a disappointing final season 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The design takes banality and stretches it like taffy in the direction of monumentality. Maltzan's One Santa Fe apartment complex plays with notion of density 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Where there was nature of abundance and fertility, there is a culture of banality, exploitation and waste. Art Review: ‘Robert Adams: The Place We Live’ at Yale Art Gallery 2012-08-30T21:55:20Z He describes the mindless banality of going along to clinics and giving sperm samples, but also the nervous feeling that he had to give it his best shot. The male infertility crisis: ‘My failure at fatherhood ate away at my very being’ 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Fiction based on historical events — especially one as frequently retold as the Manson family murders — can easily slip into second-hand banality, a kind of nostalgia of horror. Emma Cline's 'The Girls' is a gorgeous, disqueiting spin on Manson family dynamics 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Threatening text messages either contemplate the banality of text messaging or embody the multiple possibilities of this new writing form. Books of The Times: Bret Easton Ellis?s ?Imperial Bedrooms? 2010-06-23T22:38:00Z “The Bling Ring” occupies a vertiginous middle ground between banality and transcendence, and its refusal to commit to one or the other is both a mark of integrity and a source of frustration. Movie Review: A ‘Bling Ring,’ Lusting After Celebrity Trinkets 2013-06-13T21:29:34Z That first line is a setup for the second one, but it steals the show with its peculiar banality. Divas, choirboys, songbirds, angels: None of them sound like Serpentwithfeet 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z More distracting than the emotional banalities are the verbal clichés: the hairs that “stand on end,” the chances that go “up in smoke,” the rugs that are beaten “within an inch of their lives.” ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z But the incisive acting helps paper over the banalities. A Revival of A. R. Gurney’s ‘Wayside Motor Inn’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Moreover, the novel advice that the authors offer is occasionally diluted by banalities such as keeping meetings short, teams small and yes-men out. Don’t be modest 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z 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 Seeing them performed in the flesh, it was sometimes difficult to get beyond the banality of their execution. James Blake's spacey R&B full of twists 2011-05-16T13:57:27Z Mr. Edwards’s ethos is chillier though, suggesting with banality and a hint of menace how we are framed and surveilled by cameras, interfaces and screens. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Some Team Shia accounts that join it in bringing home the almost hilarious banality of life at the sharp end of Trump-era discourse. ‘What’s the LaBeouf?’ Shia takes on the Nazis 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z So sad that they destroyed one of the most important interiors of the 20th century, only to replace it with banality. An Early Look at the Grill, in the Former Four Seasons Space 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z For their part, the creators said they simply enjoy the banalities of homemaking, be it making good food or keeping a clean home. Lessons From a Homebody 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z With their attention to the banality of the present, these photographs keep the show from becoming the kind of story de Waal is anxious to avoid, “some elegiac Mitteleuropa narrative of loss,” as he writes. A Hare and an Inheritance, Once Hidden, at the Jewish Museum 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z In “The Imagination of Disaster,” Susan Sontag’s classic 1965 essay on science-fiction movies, she observed that “we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror.” When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z They were worth commenting upon, either for their beauty or their banality. Books of The Times: ‘Bodies of Subversion’ Explores Women’s Tattoos 2013-07-03T15:41:14Z Toggling between past and present, the script jumps headfirst into both the nastiness of cancer and the banalities of married life, presenting a portrait of a family that is both completely recognizable and terrifyingly unique. When Some Critics Reject the Film That’s About Your Life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Articles about addiction and atonement often strain for sympathy against the banality of the circumstances: a talented designer wrecks his career by behaving like an utter fool. On the Runway Blog: John Galliano, A Second Chance, but on His Own 2013-06-07T18:39:00Z “The Lucky Star” is gilded with the signature Vollmann brew of erudition, irony, mysticism and banality. A Lesbian Who’s Not a Lesbian Walks Into a Bar, and ... 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Listen to a Philharmonic broadcast from Nov. 23, and you hear a Strauss not of banality but spirituality; what Downes dismissed as mawkish, Mitropoulos conducts as rapture. A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Dujardin calls some of these fictional constructions “memorials,” but it’s hard to tell what they’re commemorating beyond a grotesque banality or shrunken, apologetic sublime. A grassroots, handmade Venice Architecture Biennale from Alejandro Aravena 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Yet while the banality undercuts the element of the sublime, this artist's work is full of a sense of longing for what's been lost. Artist of the week 116: Tim Gardner 2010-12-02T17:32:00Z The more stylized, pearlescent and unpredictable the text and score, the better; banality creeps in whenever things get more naturalistic. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The EU's website is called Europa, but instead of Titian's painting its opening screen is a void of blue banality. Europe has been building a secret community of culture 2010-11-23T20:00:00Z He also told Bergman: “I call it the banality of evil.” ‘Rise and Kill First’ Shines Light on Israel’s Hidden Assassinations 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Her first reaction upon hearing her diagnosis was “embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness” in anticipation of the “preordained banality” that awaited her, she tells us. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z In its banality and self-importance, his work towers over all contemporaries. Rats! Banksy doesn't need more publicity 2012-05-17T16:29:01Z When the author does get a quote out of someone close to Merkel, it’s often a banality, such as “she’s funny as hell” or “she loves to read.” ‘The Chancellor’ Portrays Angela Merkel as a Droll Source of Sanity in a Mad World 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z For all of the technical originality of “Liminality,” what ends up staying with you is the banality of the stories and themes. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Exceptions like “Before Sunrise” notwithstanding, most people’s getting-to-know-you moments are, if portrayed authentically, remarkable only in their banality. Movie Review: ‘Falling Overnight’ 2012-07-27T01:05:24Z “In a Million Years” is an expanse of empty wine bottles in a Disneyesque style — skillful banality. Art in Review: Dan Colen: ?Poetry? 2010-09-17T16:47:00Z Actually, it is difficult to see why the BBC banned “A Day in the Life,” because its message is, quite clearly, the flight from banality. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “Hot Car in the Sun” is one of the saddest Bright Eyes songs in ages, because its sadness comes not from macabre imagination but from vivid banality. Bright Eyes’ Summertime Sadness 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z “It’s as important to document kindness, civility and generosity of spirit as it is cruelty, banality and indifference,” he said. Frederick Wiseman on the life of American institutions 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z There is a "dissonance" in Eggleston's photographs, Hickey notes, suggesting the tension of the moment that America, with all its "mass-produced banality", began to colonise the old south. Memphis greys 2010-12-03T12:22:00Z Some critics consider the film slight at 79 minutes and too focused on the banalities of being a teenager. All This Panic: the most relatable film about teenage girlhood ever? 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z “When They See Us” covers 25 years in its subjects’ lives, starting with those everyday banalities and dropping us suddenly into the brutality of their police interrogations. "When They See Us" demands we see the boys damaged by the Central Park jogger case 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Alas, what was most eye-opening about the program was how the astonishing banality of the musical selections — greatest-hits compilations sold on TV are more adventurous — was matched by the general awfulness of the choreography. Ezralow Dance Makes Its Debut in Los Angeles 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z But as the banalities pile up, Mr. Dinklage’s affectless delivery as a small, floating robot begins to make a perverse kind of sense. Destiny Is a New Shooter Game From Activision and Bungie 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps Mr. Jha’s point is that the system absorbs and corrupts outsiders as easily as it mouths banalities about poverty. | 'Raajneeti': Prakash Jha?s ?Godfather,? Bhopal Version 2010-06-03T21:19:00Z But Von Stockert is also at pains to show the banality and ephemerality of dreams, and such images pass by quickly, sucked into the rather amorphous shape of the whole. Masquerade ? review 2011-02-16T18:19:45Z Her sister Janice recalled that when they were growing up in suburban western Australia, anybody “who wanted to do something against the banality of suburbia would have haircuts like Bowie and would wear Bowie clothes.” Celebrating David Bowie, a Star Who Burned Bright to the Last 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Even so, it requires all their considerable skills to stop this soapy family drama from sliding into complete banality. Review: In ‘What They Had,’ a Family Bickers While a Mother Drifts Away 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “Sex Money Murder” is not boy food, thanks to its faithful depiction of the dismal banality of gang crime. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z This banality of abuse also haunts the American movie industry. Harvey Weinstein Is Gone. But Hollywood Still Has a Problem. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z 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 He sums up most of what he hears as “inert banality.” Theater Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Howard Barker, at Atlantic Stage 2 2013-07-17T21:11:30Z The worst will always confirm that banality knows no stylistic bounds. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z It's easy to overlook in the banality of the other rooms and trees with inoffensive subjects like Transportation and Wildlife. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z When I was 18, I worked two floors beneath the ground making cardboard boxes eight hours a day while being force-fed Radio 1 in all its 1980s banality. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z Thor’s banality even spoils an otherwise exciting scene where Harvath and some of his cohorts skydive into Lithuanian airspace, glide over the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, then parachute into a pasture at night. Review | Outspoken conservative Brad Thor takes aim at Russia in his latest thriller 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z At another extreme, Sartre risked lapsing into stoical banalities. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “Breaking Bad” is the most effective documentary of the banality of evil since the Eichmann trial. “Breaking Bad”: Walter faces the abyss 2012-07-23T02:59:00Z Ariel can be accused of many things, but banality isn’t one. Her Husband Is Kidnapped. Then Things Start to Go Downhill. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z The troupe doesn’t eviscerate so much as gently debone its targets, which can include lax parenting, filial rebellion, sexism, workplace banality, rock ’n’ roll worship and a reverence for feminine beauty, among other cultural practices. | 'The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town': Kids in the Hall, Dicing Society?s Foibles on IFC 2010-08-19T21:36:00Z “I think it’s as important to document kindness, civility and generosity of spirit as it is to show cruelty, banality and indifference,” said Wiseman in his speech. After 56 years, 200 films and innumerable injuries, Jackie Chan wins an Oscar 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Her interlocutors speak in long, arcing monologues that swoop from the minute banality of personal experience to touch on the great themes of human life and society and back again. “I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr Clover grapples gamely with the madness of the past, but sometimes lapses into banality, writing lamely of an émigré scholar’s “incredibly creative” period at university in Vienna in the 1920s. The in crowd 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z While the film mostly stays inside the school, July wrote, “its inventive and unexpected visuals manage to avoid classroom banality.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Try Harder!’ and ‘Sheryl’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z And everything is meant to increase self-esteem with promotional banality. Critic’s Notebook: Oaxaca, Mexico, Shows History Unvarnished 2012-06-15T23:47:51Z But as inured as we are to this banality, it’s still shocking to see Corporate America transform the message of organized labor into a sales pitch for…Corporate America. Corporate America’s newest union insult 2012-08-24T14:51:00Z It’s this very awestruck modesty that redeems the movie’s banality and, inviting wide-ranging speculation and invoking free-flowing wonder, sparks a surprising delight. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Eventually, in the easy shuffling of banalities, you are stuck with an ugly garment. | Fashion Review: Milan Shows How It All Makes Sense 2011-02-26T00:49:18Z Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z Like painters from centuries past, they enable us to look at the mundane from fresh perspectives or disorientate and reorientate banalities to form new image hybrids. This week's new exhibitions 2012-07-06T23:05:00Z What rescues the repetition of happy-ever-after from banality is the magic that is used to get there. Why 2012 was the year of the fairytale 2012-12-24T08:30:01Z Still true, but with the added wrinkle that nowadays it can be hard to distinguish banality from terror. ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z That includes how we incorporate the monumental and horrific into the steadily flowing banalities and necessities of daily life. Review: ‘This Flat Earth’ Traces Childhood Fears No Parent Can Allay 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z This banality was soon eclipsed by the Great Chapstick Debacle, when Fox anchor Shepard Smith dropped his lip balm while Wallace was speaking to him. Under the “circle of doom”: Fox News gives us the season finale of its Trump boosting coverage 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z 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 By 1997, reviewing Mr. Salter’s memoir “Burning the Days,” Richard Bernstein could write that it had “become almost a banality among the literati to describe Mr. Salter as the most underrated of American writers.” James Salter in The Times and Elsewhere 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z That example suggests that in spite of terrors like the Terminator, the smart money was always on banality. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Lil B would be more easily dismissible except that he alternates between the most base banality and thoughtful lucidity. Music Review: Rap?s Pied Piper, Lil B, at Santos Party House 2010-07-26T22:36:00Z The studios also placed narrow limits on overt artistic ambition and mercantile banality alike. There Is No “Genius of the System” 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The literature of the minimalist lifestyle is an exercise in banality. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z His characteristic deflationary swerve from the lofty to the absurd, from high seriousness to utter banality, struck me as the very definition of funny. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z This may be only natural for a company that prizes the way banality throws into relief the remarkable, but tedium is tedium. Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z This man is but a DJ, but he knows how to fly everybody’s kites on the twin currents of banality and optimism. Perspective | Is Tiësto the Wayne Newton of the 21st century? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z “There’s such a sea of banality that all you need is one spark,” Mr. Kane said before his superb show. Fashion Review: In London Fashion, the Olympic Glow Continues 2012-09-19T19:37:35Z Others, Britain’s Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, for example, take the banality of evil to new depths. The Opium War and the Humiliation of China 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Reined in by the banalities of the everyday, the characters and their difficult relationships are convincingly realised. You Came Back by Christopher Coake – review 2012-07-21T23:04:04Z Those other novels, by those cleaner-minded people, are about the banality of evil, and good for them. Nazi Comb-Overs 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z But these banalities are more often designed to allay the fears of the caregiver than those of the patient. This Life: ?You Look Great? and Other Lies 2011-06-10T17:10:41Z "Gob Squad's Kitchen" implicitly skewers the holier-than-thou coolness of Warhol's poseurs — deliberately chosen by the artist for their attractive shallowness — and the numbing banality of the unscripted screen opuses they wafted through. Gob Squad skewers and pays tribute to Warhol's Factory 2012-09-28T22:12:05Z Jojo Rabbit is a test of whether Waititi’s “comedy of mundanity” can illuminate the banality of evil, or whether it can only turn a swastika into a window. Taika Waititi: 'You don't want to be directing kids with a swastika on your arm' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Despite this, A. O. Scott, in his review for The New York Times, wrote that the film “tumbles into a black hole of biopic banality.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Miss Universe’ and ‘Rocky’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s often said that “My Struggle” is a book about banality, domesticity, and everydayness, but those aren’t its main subjects. Knausgaard or Ferrante? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Forget about Hopper's own pretensions, his abstract fancy-pants photos of street paintings, those candid snaps of his fellow myths in their heyday and his papier-mache banalities. For sale: Dennis Hopper's house 2010-10-04T19:30:00Z Of course, you want to hate the banality of it. Peppa Pig: how the ham-fisted cartoon butchered its charm 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Even when insults are flying, a heat flickers just beneath the increasing banality of the demands of parenting and work. Review | Rooting for Rob and Sharon as ‘Catastrophe’s’ simmering crisis points reach a boil 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z What they seem to forget, however, is auteur is someone with an actual artistic vision and something original to say, not simply a propensity for long, slow, listless treatises on the banality of life. Arab cinema is in crisis – it needs dramatic resolution 2012-10-10T07:30:01Z It’s an intimate, unmodulated voice, and what he says is often unremarkable to the point of banality. ‘The Card Counter’ Review: A Gambler’s Existential Solitaire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The provocation of “Sunset” is the banality of the situation that Katz proposed: soldiers and girls. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z But at its worst Cities Are Good for You is a pretty vulgar garment; an appliqué of Panglossian optimism and theoretical banality stitched together by stylistic cliche. Cities Are Good for You by Leo Hollis – review 2013-04-17T10:17:21Z Naples-born Sorrentino, 43, said Rome and the banalities of everyday life served as an inspiration for the film, which, although a drama, exuberantly pulses along with each shot accented by vivid color. A nod to past glory, Italy's 'The Great Beauty' vies for Oscar 2014-02-22T12:04:19Z There is a pause while he searches for the right words – he may dislike interviews because he tries to answer truthfully, rather than offer polished banalities – but he eventually manages a loyal thumbs-up. Tom Wilkinson: down with the big boys 2011-04-05T20:30:00Z With masterly comic timing — Mr. Elliott with a nasal deadpan, Goulding with booming authority — Bob and Ray mocked the cliches and banalities of newscasts, politics, sports and advertising. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Indeed, its utter simplicity - some might say even banality - is its strength. Review: ‘Boyhood’ _ simple story, stunningly told 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The renegade artist added a Nazi figure to the landscape painting, renamed The banality of the banality of evil. Banksy reworks charity oil painting 2013-10-31T11:06:30Z Given the potential rewards of emotional risk, Hull’s savvy acknowledgment of the penalty part keeps the work from indulging in sentimental, greeting card banalities. Artist Steven Hull takes a seat at the dark carnival of life 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Going from the depths of intimacy with my husband to the banality of chitchat over a glass of pinot grigio felt painful, almost profane. Motherlode Blog: Widowed, and Keeping Dates Like ‘Glamourpuss’ and ‘Crunchy Dad’ at a Distance 2013-07-14T14:02:31Z It is pleasing to see people talking back to the soul-insulting banality of conventional advertising. Art in Review: ‘Signs of the Times,’ at Jonathan LeVine 2012-08-16T19:58:30Z “The heightening of, and the zooming in on, the banalities of dating online,” Berlant added, and contorted her face to demonstrate a deranged exasperation. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z That tension, along with some astonishing visual images that arise from it, keeps “While I Was Waiting” on a narrow course between horror and banality. Review: In ‘While I Was Waiting,’ a Man and a Country in Limbo 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Cristi, operating in an ethical zone as gray as his wardrobe or the skies over Bucharest, is an enigma wrapped in a puzzle stuffed with banality. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z “Modern Family” endows us with a sort of comic banality. Frank Bruni's Blog: ABC's Gay TV Programming 2012-03-08T17:56:02Z Smaller voids, cut into the floors of the larger ones, spare the fountains from banality, though the symbolism of the drain has always struck me as odd, the opposite of uplifting. Finding Space for the Living at a Memorial 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z English prose, so one argument runs, must adapt to the new lexicon with all its grammatical violations and banality. George Orwell's critique of internet English 2013-05-20T09:55:44Z Of the first number, “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,” he wrote, “After a verse like that, sung to a buoyant melody, the banalities of the old musical stage become intolerable.” An “Oklahoma!” for Today 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Suddenly, the interview is over, and the minute or two that follow are almost comic in their banality. 'The Jinx' finale recap: 'Killed them all, of course' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z For all the melodrama, banality and silliness, it evokes a deeply mythic dimension of film to which millions are drawn as if under hypnotic command. Last Chance: Art Made Up of Movies Tells a Story All Its Own 2011-01-06T23:16:31Z The dialogue, full of 21st-century banalities, gives no clue that these were serious people in a serious time. Do artists need to be accurate to recreate history? 2011-02-28T15:19:06Z There, they deal with the same household banalities and conflicts as humans, a theme of both film and show. ‘Shadows’ sucks comedy from the everyday lives of vampires 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Note the sudden swerve from world-historical grandiosity to consumerist banality; the attempt to camouflage sincere confusion with winking insouciance; the obsession with generalizing a personal experience. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z He’s neither “depressed nor demoralized” by the proliferation of content made possible by the Internet, he says, yet attributes the reason he’s not on Twitter to the increasing banality of the chatter. Jon Stewart, now a feature film director with ‘Rosewater,’ contemplates what’s next Dressed in a sober gray suit, her blue surgical mask double-looped over her ears, she navigates a tableau of bustling urban banality, her own stress visible in her eyes and brows. ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Review: No Sex, Please, We’re Romanian 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z And you can't be responsible for the banality of other people's dreams. Susan Hiller: Voices from the sky 2011-01-31T21:30:01Z The blood, the dirty hits, the overdoses, the casual violence and the banality. Patrick Melrose captures heroin addiction perfectly – my memories flooded back | John Crace 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The energy vampire savors the prospect of this “smorgasbord of banality and despair.” The Giddy Thrill of “What We Do in the Shadows,” A Show About Bloodsucking and Bootlicking 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z In contrast, when Goodwin gets to her section on the four presidents’ emergency leadership, which should be the book’s pièce de résistance, she succumbs to the leadership genre’s vocabulary of self-help bromides and bullet-point banalities. The True Grit of Four American Presidents 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z I'm not typically a fan of banality, but the banality of the unglamorous life is precisely what I found so refreshing about America. 2010-02-16T17:53:00Z When “Harvey Milk” premiered in Houston in 1995, Edward Rothstein’s review in The New York Times called it “a rambunctious combination of banality and effective drama, posturing, playfulness and polemics.” An Opera About Harvey Milk Finally Finds Itself 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Rather, this Wonder Bread banality comes from how thoroughly Mr. Shankman has vacuumed his rock-scene simulacrum of anything recognizably rock, including the lust, juice, heat, bad behavior and excesses that characterize its real-life analogue. | ‘Rock of Ages': Review: ‘Rock of Ages,’ a Musical Starring Tom Cruise 2012-06-14T15:54:25Z Inspired music loses its inspiration as if death were but a trickling toward banality. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z “Part of it is just the very public nature of the death: The banality, the stupidity of it — the sheer awfulness of it — seemed to transform him into something else.” An Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Is it possible for an artist to converse with contemporary culture without being eroded by its banality? Locked in a Creative Struggle, With Rilke as Her Guide 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Sure, there were trends — for linear graphics, playful floral patterns, transparent or shiny materials and the ostentatious banality of “normcore.” Lacoste, Hood By Air, Public School and More Show at New York Fashion Week 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z His presence in the movie has the effect of dialing up both the terror and the banality, and creating a certain amount of suspense about which will win out in the end. ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z But like a Warhol factory film, the banality of the dialogue slowly worked its magic as you became absorbed in a world of spectacular tedium. Royal Wedding; Worried About the Boy; Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop; Ashes to Ashes 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z At his funeral in 1994, statesmen uttered some predictable banalities, but those meretricious words registered only because they conspicuously omitted or masked so much. Was Richard Nixon a Tragic Hero? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z And perhaps it’s appropriate that it should be in the part of a raging, uncompromising artist, as seductive as she is abrasive, whom the world does its best to wear down into banality. Review: ‘Scenes From an Execution’ Features Jan Maxwell as a Difficult Artist 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Keough is able, for long stretches, to overcome the script’s banalities; she gets Daisy’s mix of swagger covering for uncertainty, and she gives her a prickly, genuine personality. ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Review: Between Rock and a Soft Place 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet as a demonstration of the banality of evil, The Iceman is certainly effective and Shannon's performance gives the film its power. The Iceman – review 2012-08-30T14:22:32Z Bruce Wagner's published long-form oeuvre, a near-hysterical skewering of Hollywood in over-the-top, satirical prose, reads like a study of the banality of celebrity. Satirical rant against Hollywood goes over the top in 'I Met Someone' 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z There’s plenty of talk about the banality of evil, but I think mostly about the mundanity of trauma. When Adult Daughters Realize Their Mother Is Being Abused 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Over a plate of poached eggs and a flat white, Sheen cheerfully discussed the banality of murder and taking psychopathy home, while also revealing a huge knitwear-related spoiler. On ‘Prodigal Son,’ Michael Sheen’s Father Knows, and Kills, Best 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z This stupendous, staring banality is the final outcome for which we have sacrificed everything else. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z All this is conveyed discreetly as Malik experiences the banalities of prison along with its shocks, surrealism and spasms of weird comedy. Movie Review | 'A Prophet': Learning to Read, Murder, Survive 2010-02-25T23:22:00Z Fortunately, these banalities are outnumbered by the defter moments in Weller's storytelling. A gutsy trio of newswomen in Sheila Weller's 'News Sorority' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. The 2024 election one year out: Don't wait to panic about the polls 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z In her 25 years of making films, Sofia Coppola has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the banality in the glamour, the soul in the superficial. Sofia Coppola turns her lens on an American icon: Priscilla Presley 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Ours in an age where once-hoary clichés have been given new life by the rise of right wing authoritarianism: "The banality of evil." Mike Johnson's Satanic panic: How evangelical delusions trained Republicans to love Trump's lies 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z I've realised that on life's journey, if you find happiness in the banalities of day-to-day life, then it's usually a good place to stop and pitch your tent. Reverse migration: Why I'm moving from France to Algeria 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z At home, Luke spirals, sputters and loses himself in self-help banalities, while Emily tries in vain to re-energize their sex life, a subplot that puts maybe too fine a point on her fiancé’s professional impotence. Review: Bedroom and boardroom intrigue abounds in Netflix’s wickedly entertaining ‘Fair Play’ 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z That banality, by the way, included a sustained violence that's intrinsically part of the modern border system, as geographer Reece Jones argues in his book Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. The real border surge: The end of Title 42 and the triumph of the border-industrial complex 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z "The reason for the proliferating theories and versions, supported by the notorious 'confidential' data of the local intelligence community, is simple to the point of banality." Russia says West trying to confuse the world over Nord Stream culprits 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s very much about the banality of evil, an apt if overused term that Hannah Arendt coined while writing about the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of Höss’ bosses. With two essential films, Cannes finds haunting new prisms on the Holocaust 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Britain's BBC broadcaster and the Telegraph newspaper both gave the film perfect scores, with Telegraph calling the film "horrifying in its banality." 'Zone of Interest' star: watching myself as Auschwitz commandant frightening 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Hayakawa is interested in the logistical mechanics of the Plan 75 operation up to a point, but what she wants to leave us with, more than anything, is a sense of its cruel banality. Review: In the eerie dystopia of 'Plan 75,' a mass suicide program takes effect 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z This banality of celebrity, with its distinctive architecture — lackluster real life, set against rarefied online latticework — is what makes someone like Posobiec, at least in this current moment, inescapable. "Hyenas are communists": Right-wing story hour, part 1 — the banality of celebrity 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z If all WBC players will return to banality, Ohtani could find himself returning to something even worse if the Angels do not transform into winners this season. Analysis | Shohei Ohtani ascended in March. Imagine what he could do in October. 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Scraps of dialogue overlap to reveal both banalities and fleeting epiphanies: Working with the poet who told us to ‘Praise the Mutilated World’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Anguished by the banality of a life spent on “sex and teaching, kale and NPR,” she abandons herself to an affair with a queer, polyamorous editor, thereby breaking the trust he had shown her. Review | ‘Couplets,’ an erotic novel in verse, explores the ferocity of desire 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z In that spirit, then, let me rebel: When it comes to the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., America loves to conjure up half-assed banalities in the name of “social justice.” Opinion | Boston’s ‘Embrace’ holds fast to the whitewashed view of MLK 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z It’s hard to square this familiarity, bordering on banality, with the technological magical realism. The last satirical novel from a tech-world alum? It's got a bug 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z As a classicist, he frowned on rock and roll as an "expression of base passions" and once called popular music a "cult of banality". Factbox: Former pope Benedict, his papacy and resignation 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z This meticulously staged world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse offered a new way of understanding Hannah Arendt’s idea of the “banality of evil.” Best theater of 2022: So many L.A. bright spots in a challenging year 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Lipstye clearly knows this universe from the inside out; his characters are charmingly naive, self-conscious dreamers, their heads full of Marxist critical theory, their art a bulwark against the creeping banality of modern life. Sam Lipsyte's new ’90s caper novel is a glorious, grungy Gen-X swan song 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Today’s political conversation is dominated by tone-setting minority factions who would be improved by banality. Opinion | Why toxic politics thrives in an age of plenty 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z After she won the competition, Lin would be forced to add inscriptions that trafficked in the usual banalities of memorial verbiage: “Our nation honors the courage, sacrifice and devotion to duty …” Perspective | Maya Lin’s Vietnam memorial blazed a path in 1982, but no one followed 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Political theorist Hannah Arendt called this "the banality of evil." Christian nationalism is getting written out of the story of January 6 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Who, skeptics wondered, wanted to swap the banalities of life with strangers all day? BeReal Captures Our Nostalgia for a Time When Social Media Was Boring 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z She coined the phrase “the banality of evil” when reporting for the New Yorker magazine on the Nuremberg trial of Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The pictures provide a haunting illustration of what the philosopher Hannah Arendt famously called “the banality of evil.” Review: The banality of evil is central to a disturbingly resonant 'Here There Are Blueberries' 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The 1995 Korean War Veterans Memorial is centered on figurative sculptures; the 2004 World War II Memorial regurgitates classical architectural banalities — arches, pylons and wreaths — on a scale worthy of Albert Speer. Perspective | Maya Lin’s Vietnam memorial blazed a path in 1982, but no one followed 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z While major social media giants cling to uniformity and standardized posts, cohost throws all of this corporate banality out the window. These "CSS crimes" turn social media posts into games 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Another song — “Jhelum,” named for Kashmir’s main river — became an instant hit for contrasting the banality of daily life in Kashmir with the ongoing mourning for the dead. In Kashmir, ‘conscious music’ tests India’s limits on speech 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Describing himself as a small cog in the state apparatus who was in charge of train schedules, his professed mediocrity gave rise to the philosopher Hannah Arendt’s theory of the banality of evil. Nazi Tapes Provide a Chilling Sequel to the Eichmann Trial 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z But the threshold — or a “significant quantity,” in the IAEA’s terminology — was “not a banality, it’s a very, very important thing,” he said. Iran will remove 27 cameras from nuclear sites, U.N. watchdog says 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z It is a banality of the modern day to say, “Nothing is sacred.” On Strawberry Fanta and Other Treats Imbued With Divine Status 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z In our memories, a trip becomes a series of small, vivid moments, sometimes mysterious for their apparent banality. The Road Retaken, and Thus Seen Anew 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z It also connects violence to the banality of American aspiration. Review | At the Whitney Biennial, mostly serious work for a serious age 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z We're very much facing down what Hannah Arendt described as the "banality of evil," where outright fascism is getting normalized and legitimized. Sorry, New York Times: Republicans aren't "concerned" about democracy — they want to destroy it 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But what gives the scene its authority, its too-good-to-be-scripted dramatic force, is its undertow of bureaucratic banality and ineptitude. Review: 'Navalny' gives a brave Russian dissident his taut, suspenseful close-up 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z At the very least, they thought it would lose its ability to wound as it became ordinary, its edges blunted by its banality. Can I Utter a Racial Slur in My Classroom? 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The mix of banality and magic is on the money. Review: Dark side of Walt Disney brought to weird life in Lucas Hnath's drama, now playing in L.A. 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z It captures the banality and listlessness that can fill a room even when it heaves with muffled danger. Opinion | In Russia, I Learned, Threats Were Always Real 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z By writing and talking about this problem as if it were normal partisan politics, journalists are contributing to banality of the evil. Sorry, New York Times: Republicans aren't "concerned" about democracy — they want to destroy it 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z That kids-show sheen is somewhat unfortunate, because it undercuts the film’s darker themes, bubbling under the cookie-cutter banality. Review | ‘Butter’ review: Movie about bullied teen is, like its hero, sweet and likable 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z As for the cast, Audley is a perfect everyman, his old-fashioned appearance mirroring the banality and decay that surrounds him — and a strong contrast to Bella’s garishly colorful quirks. Review | In this movie, our dreams, like our phones, are filled with ads 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Times and technologies may change, but the banality of capitalist evil never does. Review: Steven Soderbergh's HBO Max thriller 'Kimi' is 'Parallax View' for the pandemic era 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Indeed, the very banality of this material can help us understand how this system survived, and thrived, for so long. Opinion | We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Her aloof demeanor — barring nearly imperceptible smirks — consumes her until the fateful friendship with the teen reframes the banality of her life’s ornamentation. Review: Panamanian drama 'Plaza Catedral' is an insightful look at race and class 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z "That's why I'm calling for a bonfire of the banalities to bring down the number of announcements passengers are forced to sit through and make their journey that little bit more peaceful." Trains told to get rid of torrent of 'Tannoy spam' 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Nickerson: One of the things that we found so horrifying about this death was the banality of it. 'Yellowjackets' creators break down 'heartbreaking' finale — and your fan theories 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z “It’s very easy to blame the individuals who committed the banality of evil,” a user called @IWillNotResistIt wrote on Weibo, the Chinese social media platform. The Army of Millions Who Enforce China’s Zero-Covid Policy, at All Costs 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z If you care about banalities such as lumens, embedded OSes, supported streaming protocols, and other such minutia then this projector clearly isn’t meant for you. Samsung’s tiny Freestyle projector is fun so get over it 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Perpetual happiness will be realised when the world stops the vicious circle of the banality of evil and so does not recognise the Taliban or any other evil. BBC 100 Women 2021: Who is on the list this year? 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s not that his music filtered out the banality of being human but that he had an uncanny ability to make his human flaws into something useful. The Canonization of Saint John Coltrane 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z He has a unique way of blending everyday banalities with cosmic questions and ideas to create lovely symphonies of humanity. 6 movies open before Thanksgiving at Seattle-area theaters; here’s what to see 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “The banality of evil” is a concept Chinese intellectuals often invoke in moments like Xi’an. The Army of Millions Who Enforce China’s Zero-Covid Policy, at All Costs 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z “The mindless and hysterical banality of the evil presented in ‘The Exorcist’ is the most terrifying thing about the film,” he writes. How Black Horror Became America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The banality of evil is, for Handel, too banal. Review: Los Angeles Opera imports a starry Handel extravaganza from London 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z But an extraordinary life does not necessarily birth extraordinary insights, and banality is what “My Body” ultimately suffers from. Emily Ratajkowski explores her growing pains in ‘My Body’ 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z These corporate judges, who epitomize what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil, now routinely make war on workers, civil liberties, unions and environmental regulations. The corporate state came for human rights lawyer Steven Donziger — and we're next 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z So are a lot of basic practical logistics, and “Mass” takes care to ground its emotionally fraught story in the banality of the everyday. Review: 'Mass' powerfully explores the emotional aftermath of a school shooting 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z But it's typically at ancillary meetings of these events that the religious banalities of public rhetoric give way to the political candor that emerges behind closed doors. What was Rep. Juan Vargas, an LGBTQ ally at home, doing at an anti-gay Christian event in Ukraine? 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The game can be aggressively aggravating, especially given the banality of its dialogue. Review | ‘Twelve Minutes’: Grueling repetition with an interesting payoff 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Allergic to pretense, he reveled in mocking the banalities of celebrity interviews. Jean-Paul Belmondo, jaunty star of New Wave classic ‘Breathless,’ dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z For the mixed doubles pairing from Beijing that emerged victorious, the match this week had the banality of any other domestic competition. As China absorbs Hong Kong, why do both get Olympic teams? 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Franz Novak, the icy young SS officer who organized those trains, is quoted on an exhibition wall, putting the banal in the banality of evil. Opinion | Auschwitz comes to the middle of America, with a powerful warning 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z There was a familiar banality of the circumstances: The victims were simply people who showed up for work that day, like herself in 2008. ‘This could have been me’ Our summer was, on the whole, quite modest and absolutely banal, but I think modesty and banality are good when you are facing such unprecedented and difficult times. Friends Who Summer Together 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Hunter calls that faux scandal cooked up by Trump and his cronies “the decade’s biggest political fable . . . most remarkable for its epic banality.” Review | Hunter Biden’s singular memoir of grief and addiction 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z In The Washington Post’s 2019 review, the portrait of the controversial artist was described as “airbrushed into banality.” New movies to stream this week: ‘Roe v. Wade,’ ‘Every Breath You Take’ and more 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Can we now remove our blinders and see clearly the dawning truth in time to break our silence, reject the banality of evil, refuse to be a leaf blowing in the whirlwind of time? Escaping the "Mussolini moment": Trump's enablers and the banality of evil 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z He is a master of reserve, a man of surface banality who talked about his seventh Super Bowl victory in terms as neatly shaved of emotion as his chin. Perspective | Tom Brady still has the itch, and it’s taken him places no football player has been 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z McGarrahan’s story renders the tawdriness and banality of crime, the frustrating limits of witnesses and evidence, the hazy frontier between truth and lies, the slipperiness of culpability. Opinion | The death penalty is in the death throes 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z His disdain for the movie — which he variously liked to call “S&M” or “The Sound of Mucus” — was widely shared by critics for its banality amid the Nazi rise. Christopher Plummer, dashing grandee of stage and film, dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Their collection of couture-referencing outfits offered “an escape from the banality of our realities”, and suggested “a life anywhere, but inside our homes”. 'An escape from the banality of our realities': eight autumn/winter menswear trends – a photo essay 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z There were a couple of really strong female performances — “An Unmarried Woman,” “Woman Under the Influence” — but also things like “The Cremator,” which was stirring for the moment we’re in, just the banality of evil. Carrie Coon delves into the dynamics of marriage in 'The Nest' 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Much of her film is told through the power of suggestion — a series of micro-aggressions and slights that underscore the banality of evil. Kitty Green constructs a woman-centric story of office harassment in 'The Assistant' 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z I could speak of it only in platitudes and banalities. Opinion | What Would David Bowie Do? 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z What began in banality ended in sublimity as the subject everyone was skirting — death — was finally approached via Bach’s Mass in B Minor and the deep listening of Maryann Plunkett’s performance. Best in theater: In a year to forget, virtuoso performances to remember 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Amid the vast country, from Kinshasa to Goma, the protective mask is at once a banality, a shield and – for the trendy – an affirmation of liberation and individuality. Congo in Conversation | a collaborative chronicle 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z “The Act of Killing” demonstrates the banality of evil in ways that I don’t think any piece of prose ever has. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Be mindful of the language used to describe the exploitation of animals 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z “He sat in those rooms, in those councils of power, and allowed the banality of evil to work its way through America. Heroism isn’t silence until it’s convenient and personally advantageous,” he tweeted. Miles Taylor called ‘a liar’ on CNN for previous ‘Anonymous’ author denial 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z As the bird with the air brakes demonstrates, Lowell could rise to sublimity and fall to banality within a single phrase. Clive James: 'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life' 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z The banality of evil, in the way that she wrote about it, it’s not what you think. 'Mayday!': Artist Susan Silton asks us to send Donald Trump names of our COVID-19 dead 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Hannah Arendt famously talked about the banality of evil – unspeakable horrors are often perpetuated by unthinking people simply “doing their job”. Trump's 1776 commission is proof America is spiraling toward facism | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z The solution to the banality of evil is, for better or worse, the banality of good. Column: I thought the Apocalypse would involve fewer Zoom meetings and more lava. Lessons of 2020 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z This way, Cline hit a series of targets at once: a new emotional window onto the banality of evil; an homage to a literary hero; and a squarely landed blow across the bogeyman’s glass jaw. Emma Cline was a literary darling, then a target. With 'Daddy,' she takes aim 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z To counteract the increasing banality, the everydayness, of automated racialization, the harms of biometric surveillance around the world must first be made apparent. Why are US companies buying tech from Chinese firms that spy on Muslims? | Darren Byler 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z People that do evil are often times just following orders and that’s what the banality is. 'Mayday!': Artist Susan Silton asks us to send Donald Trump names of our COVID-19 dead 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “Just because we keep living doesn’t mean we stop hurting,” Booker says, a line that the soft-eyed Schoenaerts nearly rescues from banality. Review: 'The Old Guard,' starring Charlize Theron, breathes fresh life into superhero cinema 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Veterans like hearing the kids talk about lockdown in all its banality. French teens, Normandy vets swap stories of life in lockdown 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z In holding the tape recorder up to our own small talk, Nelson risks a banality of the theatrical kind. Zoom plays? Sure, fine. But this theater critic doesn't need more stories, not now 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z “So much so that she trusted even in the banality of daily life.” Bullets, virus: Fears multiply for Colombia’s ex-rebels 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z And that’s what was banal for me: the quotidian banality that becomes news. 'Mayday!': Artist Susan Silton asks us to send Donald Trump names of our COVID-19 dead 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z He admits that even in places of great splendor, there is repetition and banality. Review | Studying the world’s coral reefs, he finds dazzling beauty and serious science 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z On “Saturday Night Live,” Will Ferrell played the Actors Studio host as verbose, self-involved and prone to making grandiose claims about forgettable careers and praising a guest’s banalities as wisdom. James Lipton, host of ‘Inside the Actors Studio,’ dies at 93 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z You can reject much of the banality swirling around her, but somehow watching her never grows old. Review: 'Wendy,' Benh Zeitlin's loose retelling of 'Peter Pan,' soars and stumbles 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Actual ghosts circulate in the village halls where travelling medium Alison channels messages from the dead, striking only in their sheer banality: exhortations to get an eye exam, compliments on kitchen renovations. My favourite Mantel: by Margaret Atwood, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and more 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The president’s partisans are expected to leap up with a roar at every boilerplate banality, while the opposition is to sit politely as he attempts to dig their political graves. Opinion | Congress should put an end to the State of the Union. For good. 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The nation's leading manufacturing group announced an award to Ivanka Trump with language sounding an awful lot like one of the president's glib banalities. Ivanka Trump honored for boosting manufacturing jobs "like no one in government has ever done" 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z “I am drawn,” says Hugo, “to the fabulousness of the banal and the banality of the exotic.” The big picture: Pieter Hugo turns his camera on Mexico 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Stoppard respectfully curbs his own penchant for sparkling wit, remaining faithful to the play’s deliberately fractured, matter-of-fact banality of oppression. Review: City Garage opens a window to life behind the Iron Curtain in 'Largo Desolato' 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z This was no mere platitude, no mere parroting of “never again” banalities. 'Thou shalt not be indifferent': from Auschwitz's gate of hell, a last, desperate warning 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Through memory, informed by creative intelligence and guided by the beacons of great works of art, Proust transmutes the banalities of everyday existence into dazzling beauty. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z The Wych Elm by Tana French The banality of male entitlement is exemplified by protagonist Toby Hennessey, a “lucky” young Dubliner who is nearly beaten to death when he interrupts the burglary of his apartment. Top 10 books about toxic masculinity 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Their kinship is couched in the usual procedural banalities, in the pressing issues of last meals and last rites. Review: Alfre Woodard gives one of the year's great performances in the stark, haunting 'Clemency' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Yet much of the rest seems random or irrelevant, producing an overall impression of banality. Column: Farewell to the immense, disappointing Newseum 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Over on Fox News, Sondland’s admission prompted the conservative channel – which is not normally associated with banality – to put forth the limpest text possible. Fox News' take on Sondland's testimony: nothing to see here 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z That Morey’s job was ever in question over such a banality is as shameful as it is revealing. NBA's China reaction shows the league is only woke when it doesn't cost money 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z It sounds like the cruelty of “It” crossed with Arendt-style meditations on the banality of evil, an intersection King’s explored with humanity and fearlessness in some of his best work. What the Pacific Northwest is reading: Spooky season is upon us, and we’re choosing our books accordingly 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z What is striking, beyond the political bombshells and alleged high crimes, is the initial banality of the call. Trump’s call with Ukrainian leader is unlike anything presidential scholars have heard before 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Her report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, coined a term that become controversial, if not notorious: “the banality of evil.” Caged children and everyday evil 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Amis once accepted that his metier is “banalities delivered with tremendous force”. Martin Amis novels – ranked! 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z The choice of Gustave Flaubert’s tragic heroine who is passionate and bored with the banality of provincial life but trapped in a mediocre marriage, was not, Besson thinks, an accident. Philippe Besson: ‘I told Macron he had zero chance of becoming president’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z What other poet drew such inspiration from the banalities of the built environment. Remembering David Berman: 'We’d never been promised there would be a tomorrow' 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Yes, online dating can be deeply demoralizing, a parade of indignities that throws into relief not just our self-absorption and banality, but our nihilism too. Opinion | In Praise of Online Dating 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z And then of course there is just the banality of evil which explains Donald Trump, his supporters, and allies too. Does Trump want a race war? Tim Wise on right-wing terrorism and our president 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The movie shows us Hawkins’ professional failures not to complicate our feelings toward him — there is no chance of that — but rather to suggest his banality, the transparent mediocrity that lurks behind his moral void. Review: Jennifer Kent's 'The Nightingale' is a brilliant, horrifying tale of revenge 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z She wanted to confront them—perfect strangers, even—with what she thought was the banality of their lives. “Canvas” 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z In each of Russell’s stories, the price of a character’s banality, fear and delusion is painfully magnified by the writer’s unceasing inventiveness with settings and visionary conflicts. Portland author Karen Russell explores human frailty in ‘Orange World and Other Stories’ 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Because that's the worst job for a grieving misanthrope — when you have to go out into the community and talk to people about the banality of life. Ricky Gervais melds comedy and death in ‘After Life’ 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z It took Generation X to cast the Carpenters in a new light, to manipulate and critique the group’s bruised banality in ways old fans might not have appreciated. Yesterday once more: The feel-good sadness of a Carpenters fan convention 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Both men defaulted to vendetta banalities; the numbers presumably tell you who should be more afraid of whom. What Netanyahu and Hamas Are Really Fighting for in Gaza 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Cults are fascinating—but one thing the Manson Family and the Lyman Family have in common is the banality of daily life inside these worlds. My Childhood in a Cult 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The predominant mood was one of indifference towards this last embodiment of inherited mediocrity – it is indeed in the blood, this passed-down banality. Militias, chaos and starvation: Britain 10 years after Brexit 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Trump and his administration's physical and psychological warfare against nonwhite immigrants, migrants, and refugees is a combination of philosopher Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" mixed with craven greed and raw, unadulterated right-wing ideology. Beto O'Rourke is correct: Trump's immigration rhetoric is straight out of the Third Reich 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z He’s not given to banalities, and he’s too rigorous in this thought process—and too realistic about himself—to pump himself up with thin platitudes. Jordan Spieth's long anxiety dream takes new twists and turns in the run-up to Augusta - Golf Digest 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z “But I just realized a few weeks ago,” Klayman recalls, “in that scene, as he started to edge closer, thematically, to the ‘banality of evil’ — well, that’s what this movie is about for me.” Documentarian Alison Klayman takes the long view on Stephen Bannon in ‘The Brink’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z “The question is how to develop ways to accentuate those contradictions, to interrupt their banality and to move them somewhere.” Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z That earlier movie is not a perfect picture, but at least it hasn’t been airbrushed into banality. Review | Robert Mapplethorpe was edgy. A new movie about the controversial photographer is anything but. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z His knowing mockery of such tropes — in one skit, after Noelle rebuffs his sexual advances, a wounded Mat overcompensates by buying an absurd number of guns — saves his work from rah-rah banality. Meet the heavily armed millennials of Instagram 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, made remarks in on Friday that make even clearer how this lenient sentence displays the banality of American injustice. Paul Manafort gets a slap on the wrist: American injustice in action 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z “It embraces the banality, the fact that as an occupation it’s antisocial, requires an unhealthy level of obsession, and is essentially lonely night-owl work,” says Jenkins, who names it as one of his all-time favourites. Badgers, coke and Zac Efron: why Hollywood gets club culture wrong 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z The impeccable timing, especially in scenes of dialogue, captures the banalities of Clay’s life in a way that both disgusts me and breaks my heart. The dark brilliance of Bret Easton Ellis, by Ottessa Moshfegh 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z But while Twitter is so cheap and painless it invites banality, a telegram was reserved for important messages, often hand-delivered by a sharply dressed young man. Perspective | In 1969, someone sent Robert Fink a telegram. It was finally delivered last month. 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Or would you have been as shocked as anyone by the mundane face of a beast, startled by the banality of evil? Opinion | What the Liam Neeson case teaches us about evil 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It's just, when pressing a speaker or brand what they actually mean on growing the game or becoming more eco-friendly, what follows is not a blueprint but a stream of banality. Could this concept solve golf's time dilemma? - Golf Digest 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z With his regal presence, calm demeanor and quiet lethalness on the mound, Rivera always rose above the banalities of his era. Analysis | Hall of Fame voters were unanimous on Mariano Rivera. Next, maybe steroid-tainted stars have a chance, too. 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z But now our partisanship and pettiness is so extreme that even this banality may not survive. Welcome to Bosch’s infernal barbeque 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z It offers a means of release from the grind and banality of politics, money and work. How The Scream became the ultimate image for our political age 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z There have been decades of debate, now, about what Hannah Arendt really meant when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.” Opinion | What the Liam Neeson case teaches us about evil 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “Is this a campaign to protest the banality of Internet fame, a celebration of the beauty of your menstrual cycle, or proof that your potential offspring is cuter than Kylie’s?” Perspective | Do all those kids really like eggs? Or do they just like fame? 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Still, when an interviewer asked about the seeming banality of his source material, he replied, “It’s all evasive action.” An Artist’s Life, Refracted in Film 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z An ordinary writer can, in truth, sometimes camouflage his banality in colloquial color: pure voice can do a fair amount of the novelist’s work. A Début Novel Captures a City on the Boil 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Wilson regards the future of conservatism with a mix of honesty, generality and banality. Anti-Trump conservatives want to reverse the GOP’s destruction. But they helped light the fuse. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z |
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