Sentence examples for with a banal from inspiring English sources

The proposal to encircle Eero Saarinen's T.W.A. flight center, one of the most daring and beautiful examples of heroic architecture, with a banal McTerminal is an abomination.

Sadly, this flubs the landing with a banal and credulity-stretching finale that feels like a bad Twilight Zone episode, but the first hour or so is terrific.

A box has been checked off with a banal phrase that suggests, from the very start, the tone — simultaneously abstracted, distanced, and artificially sweetened — that affects the entire film.

This was on a stage in a theater, not amid pedestrian traffic, but not that much more traditional; it began with a banal incident of mall bullying and ended in a kind of enchanted forest, where an actor delivered a halting version of Caliban's final speech from "The Tempest," all set to a live free-jazz score.

At no point does it become a mere inanimate object with a banal material purpose.

Guitar-slinging son Ricky walks in the door, greets his folks with a banal and indifferent "Hi mom! Hi dad!" and grabs some fudge while they trade small talk.

The former professional footballer paused, annoyed with himself for fluffing a banal question about the vehicle.

Racial segregation, and the inequalities that come with it, have become a banal fact of American life.

Beaujolais's historic reputation as a juicy, joyous wine was at odds in the last quarter of the 20th century with its descent into a banal beverage more noteworthy for the marketing success of Beaujolais nouveau than for pleasure in the glass.

Then she sinks the heart with a deceptively banal image of a woman sitting at a sewing machine.

The resulting photographs — his latest work is on display at 303 Gallery in Chelsea — could be any office, anywhere, imbued with a surreal beauty and a banal sense of emptiness.