Word: banality
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...most meaningless and banal question in White House news coverage is when does the President's honeymoon end. If it is a honeymoon between President and press, the marriage never existed...
...play's strength lies not in its great insights into the human condition. It is a funny, sprightly musical that seems to say that love is absurd, that it has a way of sinking to the banalities of a badly written romance, but that love is allowed to appear banal, because it never really...
...assumed that every viewer has the lyrics deep enough under his pop-cultured hide that they are aroused just by the melody? Then Faith must sing it again--now translated into English--while alone in the bathtub, choked up by pain which is merely cheapened by rhyme. These banal songs are not merely the underpinnings of the sensibilities of these characters, but, sadly, the only form in which they can express themselves. Even when she's not singing. Faith utters profoundly empty phrases such as. "You helped me grow from a girl into a woman... I sang all the music...
...simplistic nine-page afterward. Mitchell's only efforts to resolve these enigmas of social responsibility are the graphic, tepid biographies of his heroes. With seven vivid examples of "mavericks who would not be silenced," the author whimpers through his point by implicit example. Unfortunately, the examples Mitchell chooses are banal and consequently they ring hollow. For example...
...Center; in New York City. Harrison was celebrated for his skills at organizing disparate groups of architects to work on grand municipal projects. Rockefeller Center is considered a prime, innovative example of modern design, but Lincoln Center and the Empire State Plaza in Albany have been widely criticized as banal and pompous. Harrison's bold, romantic impulses can best be seen in works like the Trylon and the Perisphere, which symbolized the confident mood of the 1939 World's Fair...