This work paired scenes from banal consumer life with text that reframed the implied motives of her subjects.
The wildly extroverted staging from Rupert Goold would make more sense if Mr. Bartlett's text (rather banal and thesis-mongering) offered a linguistic or thematic phantasmagoria to match.
Whether droll ("My stomach just/now made a sound/like a text message"), banal ("Kurtis spoke about/lava for several/minutes on the phone/from Oakland"), or full of art-film profundity ("When I turn on the/radio, often I listen to/what is not being said"), each one of Sarah Riggs's text-poems goes down easy — like hard lemonade.
Mina Curtiss, in her book on Bizet, dismisses the text as banal and imitative.
In some songs the sentimentality and derivative quality of the music makes the texts seem almost banal.
Much as his work seemed to summon intimations of the divine, it was squarely, and solely, statistical; if "Cycles" was a sacred text, it was Levitical, banal.
She then waves, blows kisses, makes banal emoticon-based conversation via the text box, reveals her bum and encourages you to jerk off.
She then waves, blows kisses, makes banal emoticon-based conversation via the text box, reveals her ass, and encourages you to jerk off.
The text by Stef Smith is banal, the storyline all too familiar and rote and no surprises or character development ever gets in the way of the rather obvious truth that sex trafficking is wrong.
But the use of text was less compelling, even banal.
