Word: banality
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...market with its own momentum," says Wassyla Tamzali, director of UNESCO's women's-rights department. "You have an infernal race between the client and the pimp to expand the boundaries, to find the newest experience possible. Selling a 14-year-old girl has become so commonplace, it is banal...
...level, the issue in all these cases is simple, even banal: How will the artifacts of leisure be distributed? But the outcomes of all the corporate scheming and sniping will powerfully shape the way we live our 21st century lives. The proposed Macy's channel isn't causing much of a ruckus since no one is seriously threatened by it, even though TV shopping is already a shockingly big business (about $2 billion in annual sales). But until TV is fully interactive and viewers can browse through any sort of merchandise they want at will, home shopping will remain...
Whenever it happened, I decided I would probably learn a lot more from whatever it was I wanted to be doing at that moment rather than whatever banal academic task I was supposed to be doing...
Schine continues in a tradition exemplified by Joyce Carol Oates' Black Water and Auberon Waugh's waspish commentary for the Spectator. All attribute numerous undesirable traits to the young people who populate their work. These unfortunates are uniformly slothful, vain, banal, (place your vice here) revealing that while these authors may have read about and taught young people, they may not actually know any young people...
...ruthless stripping away of banal protestations of love in a romantic relationship reveals this durable fact. Feminism's greatest triumph lies its success in helping us to understand and accept this. We might thus be inclined to think of contemporary romantic relations as love in the time of choler...