Sentence examples for banal subject from inspiring English sources

Even a U2 sceptic must grudgingly admit Bono can knock out a tune about the most banal subject.

Mark Rosenthal, the curator credited with conceiving the exhibition, devotes his long introductory essay to various artists' "dialogues with Warhol," particularly on the topic of banal subject matter.

14 The reclusive Italian painter Giorgio Morandi, who died in 1964, did for bottles what Cézanne did for apples, transforming a banal subject into still-life paintings of luminous, almost mystical grace.

In pastel on paper works like "Two Pears" and "Apples & Pears," where he reaches a sort of stark perfection, Mr. Brenner manages to breath life into an otherwise banal subject.

But whereas the best-selling "Jarhead" tackled the life-and-death experience of war and its impact on a young Marine — and did so with both searing immediacy and melancholy retrospection — "Hotels" deals with the more banal subject of a midlife crisis.

Luckily, Carey has a habit of turning banal subjects into extremely funny and oddly affecting books.

Nor is it his material, which sticks to deft takes on relatively banal subjects like chain stores or hipster attitudes.

Of the painters, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke most astutely register Warhol's plunging of art into the torrent of industrial image-making, by investing frankly vulgar and banal subjects with the afterglow of decrepit European traditions.

The massing of remote private symbols, whose decoding Mr. Johns invited by devising them, then said missed the point, alternated with the most obvious and banal subjects, which were easy to read on the surface.

In the twenties, he made frisky collage-paintings of banal subjects, employing materials such as matchsticks and hairpins, as well as grotesque, wildly inventive paintings, in crude industrial enamel, of women and of loving couples.

Mr. Rastani's very public online life includes frequent posts to Facebook and Twitter on banal subjects related to stocks and the market that appear to indicate he is either not a political prankster or a very dedicated one capable of a highly elaborate, years-long set up for a hoax.