Sentence examples for banal settings from inspiring English sources
Surveillance feeds have opened thousands of such spaces, transforming the most banal settings into potential crime scenes.
Barbara Hershey is tormented and raped by an invisible assailant in this obscure 1982 film, whose "banal settings … accentuate the unnerving quality".
Malick finds his vaulting spans in immediate vision: he films in a quasi-documentary manner, mixing his world-renowned stars with local residents and filming them on location with a devout attention to the natural landscape and modest, everyday, even banal settings (strip malls, tract housing, offices and stores, laundromats and restaurants of small-town streets).
The scenes are closely based on photographs taken by Paul Fusco, a photojournalist who was aboard the train and show Americans of different ages, races and demographics in settings variously pastoral, banal and gritty.
In fact, a casual lyricism crops up at various points in this collection, a selection of stories from the last two decades, with nearly all the poetry invested in the sort of in-between American settings we normally think of as banal -- parking lots, strip malls, fast-food franchises and apartment complexes.
It is no accident that the settings of both Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train are banal.
He regularly performs an unorthodox "hack comedian" stand-up routine in live settings, in which he takes on the persona of an open-mic comedian with banal observations on things like Coke vs. Pepsi and the differences between men and women.
