We want them to feel moved". And people, in their thousands, even millions, are feeling moved by these banal expressions of male anguish.
Examples cited by the bank include sweet if banal expressions of ardour: "Gordis, my love has no price, Memo," was written on a 2,000 peso note, which is worth about 66p.
It's a rather beautiful ideal, even if — like most ideals — it's all too easy to make fun, as Cohen does, of its most popular and banal expressions.
Nothing wrong with that logic, but sadly she trots out (at least four times) one of the most banal expressions of the past decade to make her point--America, she says, is at a "tipping point".
Early in "Moonlight Mile," Susan Sarandon, playing JoJo Floss, the grieving mother of a murdered young woman, rages at the banal, awkward expressions of condolence she has had to endure from well-meaning friends.
Rainer was the most prolific and controversial of the Judson choreographers, and threw herself into a kind of anti-dance which favoured banal movements, non-expression, randomness and disconnectedness.
This text is an analytical proposition regarding a type of work and expression, simultaneously banal and particular, created in public spaces and surfaces of contemporary Chile.
But the split is just the expression of a banal truth: parties cannot be infinitely broad.
However, saying this is not yet enough to account for the best or excellent prose style, since clear linguistic expressions tend to be banal or flat, while good style should avoid such banality.
I wish my favorite line from the book, "It's okay to put a fish in your hair," could replace the banal phrase, "It takes all kinds," as an offbeat expression of acceptance.
Her face is a mask of banal contentment.
