Word: banalized
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...fine to offend," Gammons said. "It's a good thing, a fine thing to take something to an extreme and incite a reaction. We have too many apathetic people in this world, too many things that are just banal...
Indeed, there are few things banal about The Little Friend. One of its articles urges the wearers of cowboy boots--"Boots of Blood"--to consider what such footwear may represent to others: conquest, imperialism and patriarchal oppression. Another suggests that Harvard men try going a whole year without speaking...
...Palma has succeeded in the more difficult task of finding a cinematic equivalent for the novelist's singular style. Using unconventional angles, lenses and light, he accomplishes on the screen what Wolfe achieved on the page through deliciously exaggerated dialogue and deadpan parody. De Palma lifts us out of banal realism but stops short of forcing surrealism's affectations upon...
...scales do not exactly fall from the reader's eyes, it is because Sheehy does little to distinguish between what is banal and what is distinctive in her findings and her arguments. There are also problems that undermine reader confidence. Early on Sheehy writes, "Did Gorbachev change the world or did the world change him? I took as my premise the second interpretation." So how come the title of her breathless book is The Man Who Changed the World...
...groups link themselves with the most banal and commercial of today's pop stars--people like George Michael and Phil Collins whose primary lyric is "I miss you, baby." With their pleasant, sleep-inducing hum, a cappella groups sing in a manner reminiscent of Muzak, that great piped-in music so often heard in certain Woolworth's branches...