Word: banality
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Then, just as the sweaty bowling shoes were beginning to feel comfortable and we were averaging more than five pins per frame, it was time to go back to the bustling but banal hub that is Harvard Square. That normally wise man, Anon., who said that “absence makes the heart grow fonder” had clearly never returned to the Yard after having gone to Alewife. We had set out to find an all-American evening but had choked somewhat on our soggy fries; yet now we felt more alive than our high-class Harvard nights...
...only downside to the Olympics so far has been that the games’ broadcaster, NBC, seems intent on spoiling the fun. Perhaps NBC should change the meaning of its acronym from National Broadcasting Company to Notoriously Bad Coverage, Nothing But Commercials or Never-ending Banal Chatter. Its coverage has been, in a word, awful, from out-of-place and uninformed comments to advertisements in obscene quantities...
...embarrassed. And I’m not trying to question the validity of spoken word or rap or any of those traditions. I just think that Cornel West has made a rather bad spoken word CD where he says a bunch of rather banal things that are not terribly interesting...
...American family. Oxman finds his ideal protagonist in Scooby Livingston, an apathetic, strung-out, futureless student who spends most of his time organzing his CD collection and dreaming of being Conan O’Brien’s sidekick. Oxman follows Scooby through his nonexistent college search and his banal homelife. And here is Solondz at his best, using vicious situations and dialogues to dissect the world of the suburban middle-class. Many of the scenes revolve around the Livingston dinner table where Scooby, his two younger brothers, Brady, a football player worried about his school reputation, and Mikey...
There are few things more banal and downright grubby than paper money and small change. In an era of electronic commerce, serious capital - the stuff that buys shares in companies, builds factories or pays a mortgage - flits unseen from one bank account to the next...