Word: banalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think something is being done against this evil. I am going to try to send 500 marks to Zurich. I would be very unhappy if I believed that I could have begotten valuable progeny with another woman. But if I look around among my own family and see the banal people, tolerably healthy though they are, then it seems to me that my contribution to this pitiful business mustn't be valued that highly, either. I console myself with the fact that life still goes on through the fruits of labor. The happy consciousness of having really acted productively...
...What kind of rights are they deprived of? Some are remarkably banal. For instance a stepparent can't sign a child's school report card or field-trip permission form. Others are significant. A stepfather can't include his stepdaughter on his family health insurance plan, for example. And she can't inherit from him when he dies...
...their heads. S?bastien Leclerc's 17th century engravings representing a range of emotions face off with an interactive portion of the exhibit in which children can assemble magnetic eyes, ears, noses and mouths on a wall to create faces that make Picasso's Femme au Chapeau (1935) look banal. Says American museumgoer Anne Stetson of her two young daughters: "Typically they last about 15 minutes at one of these exhibitions." One-and-a-half hours later, Stetson's children were still busy turning their own faces into digitized kaleidoscopes on a computer installation. With all its sculpture, video, paintings, death...
...heads. Sébastien Leclerc's 17th century engravings representing a range of emotions face off with an interactive portion of the exhibit in which children can assemble magnetic eyes, ears, noses and mouths on a wall to create faces that make Picasso's Femme au Chapeau (1935) look banal...
...same time that Saunders pokes fun at such bombastic statements of tautology, and at politicians’ unreflective pieties, he also alludes to the threat of violence that lies just below the surface of so many apparently banal pronouncements in praise of our freedom and values—or, as “Ed” puts it, the human right “to prefer this to that...