Sentence examples for banal material from inspiring English sources

Still, Susan Stroman has assembled a skilled group of actors, including Joanna Gleason and Hunter Foster, many of whom find shades of nuance even in banal material.

This bit of commercial intrigue provides the fairly banal material foundation on which Mr. Nolan's phantasmagorical world is built.

The intimacy Wynonna established with both her audience and her sometimes banal material, did not shrink her presence in the least.

Those disturbing, intimate battle images overshadowed more banal material of marines prepping for battle aboard ship, or the most recent material available this evening, a single, rather static photograph of soldiers loading bullets in front of a Humvee, sent by Jim Hollander of Reuters.

While much of the so-called quickie quota fare was substandard, Mr. Vorhaus's work drew accolades for breaking the stereotype with its exciting handling of banal material, fast cutting, seductive location shots and humane characterizations by actors like Merle Oberon, John Mills, Ida Lupino and Margaret Rutherford.

At no point does it become a mere inanimate object with a banal material purpose.

Philip Corbett, the standards editor, said most of what Kouwe lifted, which also involved Bloomberg News and The Financial Times, was "pretty banal stuff," often background material.

However banal their material, they have chemistry.

Mr. Maybury's attempt to tart up the story visually suggests that he knows just how banal the material is.

But Slabbinck's skillful manipulations of perspective and proportion, and juxtapositions of color and black and white, turn banal source material into scenes of whimsical confusion.

Sammy Slabbinck's manipulations of perspective and proportion, and juxtapositions of color and black and white, turn banal source material into scenes of whimsical confusion.