Sentence examples for banal forms from inspiring English sources

Terrorism is sometimes fuzzily thought to have a sort of intellectual respectability that more banal forms of violence lack.

With the rise of militarism, the visual arts were largely conscripted for straightforward propagandistic purposes or allowed only in thematically banal forms.

Whereas for separatist movements independence is primarily a goal aspired to, in existing states independence/sovereignty is used to bring together hot and banal forms of nationalism which are mobilized in reproducing the discourses/practices related to the purported national identity.

Mainly it reveals a pre-Richard Prince Richard Prince: an artist who leaves few stones unturned as he progresses from generic to original to radical, carrying with him a fascination with language, photography and a range of printing and printmaking techniques, as well as the more banal forms of urban postwar Americana and a disconnected, decidedly male blankness.

Regular doses of avoidance/diversion, supremely banal forms of self-repression, are not only self-administered, but we pay for the privilege.

It could be argued that increased participation in hate groups is a backlash to the isolation of modern life, or that this siloing of Americans has incubated more banal forms of racism and morphed them into something more extreme.

There's a disconcerting prettiness to it all, as she takes the banal form of the cigarette and repeats it ad nauseam.

The 22 smallish paintings that ring the walls range from the sacred to the profane to the banal, forming a Currin medley that also reads as a kind of installation.

The curve on the escalator redeems this most banal form of motion, redolent as it is of shopping malls, by imparting a sense of mystery about its destination (and no, it hasn't been done before, laughs one of the architects delightedly, why would you want to curve an escalator?).

The best that could be said for the way David Cameron tried to put down then shadow Treasury secretary Angela Eagle at prime minister's questions in April 2011 was that it was a terribly misjudged "joke", stolen from that most banal form of "comedy" – a TV advert.

Her job is to deal with placebos in their most literal, not to say, banal form -- she hands them out to patients, and she makes sure the patients take them, and she notices that the dummy pills the companies provide always look and smell and taste just like the real ones (there is no sugar in them anymore), and that neither kind has any telltale writing on them.