Sentence examples for banal ideas from inspiring English sources
Such banal ideas do not lend any real gravitas to the creepy tale of Katherine the cannibal.
He pads these banal ideas with various homiletic tales about his precocious youth -- how he turned his parents' SoHo loft into a cutting room and so forth.
Dismissed as a self-help evangelist, shallow and obvious, with smarmy and banal ideas by critics in this newspaper, he divides opinions and is certainly intriguing.
Sitting uneasily with this striving for gravitas is the fantastically irritating whimsy by which banal ideas are illustrated by pseudo-logical flowcharts, graphs and diagrams.
The tension between this director's methods and his intentions — between his exacting, sometimes amazing craft and his resolutely banal ideas — may ultimately be a problem of audience and genre.
Blair's arguments were, at their worst, technocratic, incremental, managerial: they are one of the reasons why Brexiteers and Corbynites have been able, in contradistinction, to paint their conservative and banal ideas as novel, radical and revolutionary.
His gentle yet passionate tone could add lustre to the most banal musical idea, but I doubt whether he has had a banal idea in his long career.
After her wake, when the in-laws and sons have cleared out of the house, Mick lights on a banal idea: "You keep on.
An Algerian critic argued recently, in a review of Sandra Smith's 2013 translation of L'Étranger, that the title The Outsider is politically scandalous, for it effaces the ambiguity in the French word "étranger" and substitutes a more banal idea of someone being "excluded".
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.
Sensation art, or Apocalypse or Intelligence or Turner Prize art is based on a formula where something looks startling at first and then turns out to be expressing some kind of banal idea, which somebody will be sure to tell you about.
