This bit of commercial intrigue provides the fairly banal material foundation on which Mr. Nolan's phantasmagorical world is built.
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.
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.
Working with banal material, Trujillo generates scenes that attempt walk a fine line between the ordinary and extraordinary.
Scientism tends to be a disease of the left, which is always trying to find banal material explanations for matters that might just elude CAT scans.
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.
Can you imagine if the Javits Convention Center in New York, instead of quoting 19th-century Crystal Palace exposition architecture in banal contemporary materials, had been designed like this? Iglesia de Iesu To learn about an architect's philosophy, sometimes it's best to start small.
However banal their material, they have chemistry.
