Sentence examples for through banal from inspiring English sources

There are victors and spoils, rare moments of illumination followed by long marches through banal clothes.

Thinking about Edward Snowden on Sunday, it wasn't much of a leap to imagine him and his colleagues working in some version of Oceania's Ministry of Truth, gliding through banal office gigs whose veneer of nine-to-five techelpedtoc normality hideed theirde their more sinister reality.

In the city of their thesis work, evoked with regret and hope, appears another type of space that extends through banal practices of investigation and regulation towards an ill-defined, but more inclusive 'population' that inhabits the nation.

Nico's palpable isolation cuts through the banal commentary.

This pump breaks through the banal definition of conventional pump and driving source, and eliminates the maladjustment between conventional pump and new driving source, as well as between new function and old principle [3].

And as I got over my own teen and early 20-something bitterness, it was easier to appreciate what Letterman did uniquely well – not just his dadaist sense of humour expressed through willfully banal gags like Stupid Pet and Human Tricks, but his at times bracing honesty.

Through such banal details emerges a sense of entering terrain unexplored by inquiry and regulation.

As the Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina brilliantly satirised in his Granta essay "How to Write About Africa," most of us can only think about this continent of over a billion people through the prism of banal stereotypes inherited through the generations.

And it seems this old 60's lefty, despite appearances, could well be in the thick of a potential revolution through the seemingly banal Charter Revision Commission, where he is executive director.

He says that another parent asked, "Why should I vaccinate my child for Hepatitis B, which everyone knows is contracted through sex?" Burioni responded, "It is contracted through saliva, blood and other biological liquids, and can easily be picked up through something as banal as a simple cut".

I knew that the whole purpose of the freezer project was to confront me with what Father called "the laundry of life" (although Mother always did his laundry) — to have me live through the kind of banal, quotidian operation that constituted my parents' existence and see that such operations were necessary.