Fifteen years of wandering around sea-smashed, out-of-season beach resorts with a Dictaphone have taught me the banal but instructive lesson that generally in this country you gets what you pays for.
Its lesson is banal, that any group of people will live according to their means.
If the Times truly captures the essence of the advice Goldman is able to dispense, then would-be small business owners are sure to take away some pretty sophisticated business lessons -- if, by "sophisticated," you mean "banal".
"Lesser actors would treat Kneale's downbeat script with a certain detachment, but Keir is prepared to charge even the most banal lines with a terror that's both a treat and a lesson".
The characters' relationships are wonderfully vivid, and West's vagueness about their backstory makes "The Lesson" a very immediate portrait of grief that is at once keen and banal.
The lesson of America was that the grandest of visions could be derailed by the most banal of details, like the size of the retail footprint, or whether Congress set the depreciation allowance at forty years or twenty years.
This is a banal observation in machine learning at large, but in gene function prediction we are only learning this lesson now.
Unlike David Salle's enigmatic, difficult art, his life is the banal story of a boy who grew up in Wichita, Kansas, in a poorish Jewish family, took art lessons throughout his childhood, went to art school in California, came to New York, and became rich and famous overnight.
The lesson the late Marcus Messner learns from all this concerns "the terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result".
