Sentence examples for banal elements of from inspiring English sources
They also began recording in notes and photographs the chaotic, random and banal elements of the man-made landscape.
They waited on tables at night, did their work by day, began a never-ending love affair with hardware stores and started "making things out of what's out there". They also began recording in notes and photographs the chaotic, random and banal elements of the man-made landscape.
Later on, Löwenthal wrote, the profile "reduces itself to the private lives of the heroes," and, in particular, the most banal elements of those lives: a German field marshal likes "big black Brazilian cigars"; a journalist's pet peeves include "clumsily buttered tea bread"; and Mahatma Gandhi dines in the evening on "a few dates, a little rice, goat's milk".
"I painted the natural forms (leaves and branches) in gold to represent the preciousness of banal elements of nature that we ordinarily take for granted," she said.
Some of the biggest debates in the makeover involved a usually banal element: the color gray.
Its narrator, Henry Park, works as a spy for a private-detective agency, Glimmer & Company, in New York; Lee cleverly renovates elements of the traditional detective thriller, by making spying at once banal (one of Henry's jobs is to track a rising Korean-American politician) and emblematic of a wary immigrant caution, a sleeplessness poised between assimilation and alienation.
Elements of Algebra (1765).
We also struggled with distinguishing banal contextual elements from the significant ones.
Ms. Neiman seems to suggest that by the first part of the 20th century, "moral evil," like "natural evil" before it, had come to seem almost a banal idea, little more than another element of the natural world or a reflection of psychology or economics.
We argue that one way in which such an agenda can be furthered is through a promotion of the idea of everyday nationalism, which combines banal and hot elements in more complex and contingent ways.
