In many respects indistinguishable from the speculative office buildings of the same era, they illustrate the notion that even banal structures can sometimes be made more compelling by the act of multiplication.
It is tempting to think of the revived franchise as the sort of misbegotten renovation that can take place when an architectural landmark, say, the original Pennsylvania Station, is replaced by a banal, anonymous structure.
And yet, as other critics have noted, his focus on banal industrial structures presages much of the Minimalist sculpture of the following decades.
Mr. Maxwell's halting, banal scripts are as structured and calculated as anything written by, say, Harold Pinter.
That 1997 $52 million structure is shockingly banal.
Recent research on banknotes shows that images printed on money support the production and maintenance of national narratives, thus helping to legitimize power structures in the finest tradition of "banal nationalism".
I would have preferred the film to be structured differently, emphasising at the beginning the banal and non-horror tensions between family members that are in fact dramatised rather interestingly.
Banal et al. investigated the formation mechanism of this ridge structure in an AlN/sapphire system and found that the AlN ridge structure formed because of the enhanced migration of Al atoms by an alternating source supply [30].
In addition, his postmodern universe is one of hyperreality in which entertainment, information, and communication technologies provide experiences more intense and involving than the scenes of banal everyday life, as well as the codes and models that structure everyday life.
Every day I arbitrarily see buildings and houses and odd structures that go from the beautiful to the banal," writes Moby, who's clearly had better luck finding strange architecture than he has locating his "shift" key.
