Sentence examples for banal scene from inspiring English sources

The seemingly banal scene has bewildered and disarmed Chinese because they are used to seeing their own officials indulge in privileged lives often propped up by graft and bribery and lavish expense accounts.

But Koudelka has composed the banal scene with exquisite care.

Until a box, a bomb and an old spy on Aisle 3 threaten to upset this banal scene.

It could have been a brutally banal scene from a 1950s Sam Fuller movie.

Beautifully skewering the banal scene-setting in TV documentaries, Cunk opens this segment on technology by asking: "Are we looking at the computers or are the computers looking at us?" She proceeds to get a computer expert to say "encephalograms" four times, and learns about advances in computer science that could render your mouse redundant.

Alternating with the stunts and drama are banal scenes of medical labs, brain scans, and the artist's distracted grandfather at a gem-and-mineral show.

While he feels that the app will face competition from Angry Birds, Draw Something; Colorize allows users to "turn banal scenes into something interesting".

Smoke obscures banal scenes and pristine vistas, and figures are dwarfed by the scope of Young's framing.

In El Becario (2010), a historical picture of a banal office scene is transformed into a witty psychological caricature.

Because Wallander is constitutionally drawn to wind-swept beaches and empty roads where a man can disappear in the dense fog and driving rain, he has contempt for the banal nature scene that his father, "a 'kitsch' artist," paints for a living.

Holstein's blunt photograph-based paintings of signs and diagrams and banal domestic scenes rehearse a promising style, to no great effect.