London: BBC Books) – we suggest that his work tends, perhaps unwittingly, to reinforce an unwarranted separation of the banal and hot processes that reproduce nationalism.
(love the references to philosophy!!!) DAVID DENBY: The process is astoundingly banal.
But in recent years, it has occurred to me that the process might be banal, like leaving for overnight camp.
Rather, I feel this way because I find almost all conversations about the college selection process to be banal, self-aggrandizing, self-flagellatory or punitive.
"It's impossible to think of something you can drag out from the land of naffness and make cool," Mr. Doonan said, referring to the process by which banal or out-of-date styles are brought back and, after much analysis and decoding and finally brand approval, become fashionable.
We were convinced that we and only we knew the correct way to process such ultimately banal pop culture ephemera as the Wu-Tang Clan, Flavor of Love, World of Warcraft, and Seinfeld.
They are like psychoanalysis: the process is revealing, but the conclusions are banal.
A very similar process that is gradually rendering interracial marriage a banal fact of life is taking place with regard to same-sex marriage.
"I find it reassuring that it comes full circle to this place where you can't even see the process and structure any more, and all you see is the moment, no matter how banal or sublime".
