Word: banalized
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...accepts and celebrates this. In Thicket, 1990, his intersections run free variations on the notching, lapping and tenoning of practical carpentry in order to generate a curved form with straight balks of pine. The mysterious dark, shiny lump of Self, 1978, is one of those forms that would be banal in fiber glass or even bronze; but it is made of laminated and coopered wood, and its variations of sanding and cutting, the slight bumps and dimples of the black-painted skin, give it a peculiar organic eloquence...
...plot explores how the sins of the fathers are transplanted to sons and how past events recycle. Although the art that one generation deems revolutionary may seem banal to the next, the liberal themes of Ghosts shock modern audiences like liberal themes in the Victorian era shocked audiences then...
...play depicts a nouveau-riche family, the Tarletons, who has made its fortune selling underwear. When the Polish aviatrix, Lina Szczepanowska, drops out of the sky and into their home, their apparently banal existence is disrupted. Besides a few tangential plot twists--such as the miscellaneous antics of a son bent on revenge, an oversexed daughter and an amorous Lord--the play is a drawing-room comedy and consists mainly of idle conversation...
...Family -- the fidgety hand, groaning gate, turbulent books -- will be familiar from the TV series (1964-66). But there's an upscale imagination at play in this live-action film. Director Barry Sonnenfeld and writers Larry Wilson and Caroline Thompson can mine as hearty a laugh from the preposterously banal floral pattern on the Addamses' sofa, or from the picture-perfect contrast of bulbous-eyed Raul Julia (as Gomez Addams) and slinky Anjelica Huston (his wife Morticia), as they can from Morticia's order to her daughter: "Wednesday, play with your food...
...save money there will, of course, be trade-offs. Heart transplants that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, extend the lives of almost no one, and take away valuable resources from vastly more beneficial, if banal, activities like prenatal care, will be cut. Rationing will become an open element of the system. But the rationing will move away from its nasty classism toward a more rational ageism...