Sentence examples for In banal from inspiring English sources

In "banal strategies," "the subject believes itself to always be more clever than the object, whereas in the other [fatal strategies] the object is always supposed to be more shrewd, more cynical, more brilliant than the subject" (1983: 259-260).

They engage in banal conversation and banal ballet.

The flaws in "The Finish" lie not simply in banal observation, however, but also in tone.

A man walking is depicted in banal figural fashion and the artist badly missed out on one of the legs.

"Longest isn't shorter than longer, it's longer," says Alex Banks, another reader who clearly delights in banal wordplay.

In these times when everything seems entirely pointless, I've become interested not in banal reality, but surreality.

Gavin Smith, the Film Comment editor responsible for the Walter Reade series, says he included "The Sleepy Time Gal" because it takes "incredible risks with material that's been handled in really banal ways in the past".

My genes are in mice, and not in the banal way that Man's old genes are in the Beasts.

Well-intentioned in theory, banal and floundering in practice, Mr Santer promised memorably to "do less, do better".

Each contributor worked on her own square, to produce an uneven fabric, artful in some places, banal in others.

I'm interested in the banal, unguarded moments and the hairline fractures in a character that let the light through.