Word: banalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tutorials can be minimized by increasing the merit of the tutorials which remain. The history department, for example, eliminated one of its two junior tutorials this year, a class which, in spite of the spin put on it by the senior professors in charge, was nothing more than banal busywork dressed up as vital grounding in the science of research. And I have no doubt that many other departments would benefit from similar addition by subtraction...
...compliment her woeful selections, Stone offered a variety of banal snippets of advice. “There are two qualities that make a wine good: balance and complexity. If a wine has both, it is in the top 5 percent of wines in the world,” she explained—without, of course, explaining anything. “I love to smell wine for five or 10 minutes before I take a taste of it,” she added pretentiously...
...Return Of The King, the third of the three films re-creating J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series of novels, towers over the banal concerns of our everyday lives [Dec. 15]. Finally, entertainment of the highest order! Self-effacing heroes, alternately dauntless and fearful, doubt ridden yet determined and selfless in devotion to the purest of friendships. If we are to have heroes, then let them be like Toklien's, grand and glorious! MICHAEL K. MALONEY Colorado Springs, Colo...
...Fox’s banal “The Simple Life” has contributed anything to society, it’s making clear in a blunt way that a cultural divide exists between East Coast types and the “simple” folks of the West, Appalachia, Deep South...
...when you’re buying standalone songs. Cover art generally refers to albums as a whole, not single songs. And anyway, you miss all the other art, lyrics, liner notes, credits, pictures of the artist, shoutouts to parents, friends and God—all the unnecessary, obscure and banal goodies enshrined in the familiar CD booklet...