In the often banal world of social updates, it could be seen as a blessing that messages self-destruct after a few seconds.
The two then worked on subsequent drafts both alone and together, shaping the film's claustrophobic tone and disturbingly banal world into something that manages to be funny and bleak at the same time.
For her, Troilus is unable to achieve the equilibrium of a tragic hero despite his learning experiences, because he remains a human-being who belongs to a banal world where love is compared to food and cooking and sublimity cannot be achieved.
Portnoy's Complaint, which made him a celebrity, is an iconic book that changed everything, pitching him headlong into a world of banal public curiosity.
Portnoy's Complaint is the novel that made Philip Roth an international literary celebrity, an iconic book that changed everything for the writer, pitching him headlong into a relentless world of banal public curiosity.
Variously entitled "The Jewboy", then "Whacking Off", then "A Jewish Patient Begins his Analysis" before finally emerging as Portnoy's Complaint, the novel that catapulted him into a world of banal public curiosity has a lot to answer for.
They may seem perfectly banal to the world, but to you, for whom they are intended, they have the force of revelation......
"It sounds banal, but the entire world is in 3-D," says Mr. Yukhin.
As he says to Jake, "You make from the world a banal comedy, and you are a spectator.
He's selling maps to Hollywood celebrity homes, but, as often happens in Mr. Pettibon's world, the banal and the mystical get confused.
The bad news is that "The Color Purple" 's rendition of the African-American world is banal and, even though God is invoked and beseeched throughout the evening, strangely soulless.
