Sentence examples for make banal from inspiring English sources

A few examples that spring to mind are banaliser (to make banal), préciser (to make precise, or to specify), ironiser (to be ironic about) and concrétiser (to make concrete).

Would she call in the troops to make banal conversation when driving people back from a Pitcher & Piano in Fulham?

Diahann Carroll was the idea of integration made banal.

"Untitled" is not a "Family of Man" examination of emotions made banal by their putative universality.

Thus the great tragedy of the twentieth century is trivialized, made banal, instrumentalized, and perverted".

Our experience of art is being pummelled by a PR-led, high-concept populism that is trivialising and making banal what ought to be surprising, revelatory and even occasionally difficult encounters. Britain's top galleries are not serious enough or clever enough in the shows they feed a public they tend to patronise.

I am interested in the drama of daily life, making banal moments as dramatic and complicated as possible on the sublevel.

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.

It is to take the miracle of human creativity and make it banal.

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.