Sentence examples for banal work from inspiring English sources

This is a huge price for a rather banal work on paper by an artist of secondary importance.

The foundation's most banal work is with vaccines, but those programs have already given out vaccines that will save 300,000 lives.

Sontag, for her part, used science-fiction films to illustrate her ideas about midcentury depersonalization because the '60s artists she supported — people like Jack Smith or Paul Thek — didn't make cool, banal work.

Nothing if not astringent, Mr. Markovics smartly concentrates on the concrete particulars of Roman's life — on his humble belongings, the faces of his morgue co-workers, the curiously banal work of caring for the dead — which keeps the film firmly tethered in his everyday experience.

No one benefits if relatively banal work is buried in a sea of validatory documentation.

To that, I would say 'give me a break': his sculpture comes across as the most banal work from this celebrity artist.

Even banal works that are commercially desirable can now find takers despite bad condition.

To some, he is a genius who elevates the banal into work powerful enough to alter our imagination and to rekindle childhood wonderment.

"It's insane how really banal the work is — I don't feel shocked by it, and that makes me feel like, I can imagine being thrown in jail for doing absolutely nothing," Ms. Stoner, 33, said.

MARILYN MINTER: PRETTY/DIRTY The last venue in a touring exhibition of Marilyn Minter's paintings, from the banal, photorealistic works of the 1970s to her close-ups of women's eyes, lips and feet in which beauty products and accessories become grotesque and sometimes torturous.

The shows that run at the TCC gallery range from brutal to the banal, with works featured in almost every medium.