Sentence examples for banal actions from inspiring English sources

He dignifies the most familiar characters and the most banal actions with their strange particulars — which is to say, with the freewheeling fancies of his own imagination.

Routh's threatening behaviour at a family fish fry was analysed and even seemingly banal actions were probed as possible evidence of his mental state.

She records the ostensibly banal actions of car-wash attendants, restaurant waiters and a nightclub DJ with such forensic detachment and meticulous focus that their work takes on a hint of mystique.

Both unorthodox and banal actions are considered a symptom of psychosis.

With minimal dialogue and little exposition, Hulsing manages to elevate the more banal actions with vibrant, revealing animation to create something almost more real than a simple live-action narrative.

He is more of a Heckboy: a banal action-movie figure without the unexpected likability of his previous iteration.

People saw something that was banal in action, and banal in its colour".

Rizza has a mesmerizing ability to get into the brain of an Asperger's-ridden loner who may or may not be giving us the whole story about his intentions and his past, which makes even the most banal and everyday actions and descriptions carry a tense, compacting weight.

The story is hackneyed and the action banal, but Paul Bettany makes an excellent latter-day John Wayne, and Ms. Q projects intelligence and emotion while looking scorching hot.

Muriel's wickedness is so pervasive and embracing that it becomes an apparatus by which, as Mantel puts it, "every action, however banal, opened into a shrapnel blast of possibilities; each possibility tail-ended or nose-dived into every other, so that there was no thought, no wish and no perception that did not in the end come home to its begetter".

The cinema begins with action with the most banal yet most mysterious of actions, namely, walking, in the Lumière brothers' 1895 spectacle showing workers leaving their factory.