Word: banalizing
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...ideal solution might not be some brilliantly designed, singular project but a broad-based effort to heighten campus awareness and facilitate community dialogue. Organizing panel discussions might seem banal or trite, but it would probably be more effective than setting aside a lump sum of money for a yet-to-be determined project. Community outcries, such as the pledge signed by Mather House residents following homophobic vandalism on the door of a gay tutor, might lack tangible results but go a long way toward reminding us to be ever vigilant against bigotry in our community...
...first to sense this with his translucent Brancusi-esque dollop of a toothbrush for Fluocaril in 1989. Now pharmaceutical companies have released a plethora of toothbrushes--ridged, twisted, tapered, with bands, dots and swirls. The same philosophy applies to dozens of products we used to regard as banal--garbage cans, toilet brushes and cheese graters. They're cute, they're cheap and they're disposable...
...lecture series and on-site concerts. These efforts, they hope, will turn the public's detached admiration of art into active aesthetic engagement. However, the typical experience of an art museum remains much like our reaction to the year's first snowfall: first it's impressive, later it's banal and finally, we just wish it would go away...
...island and for prisoners, the idea of flight. The feather has to do with defying gravity, up or down. Also, the feather, white feathers particularly, can be a symbol of cowardice. I like the story of Icarus flying into the sun. It seems like a very banal, everyday object; they're floating everywhere. I think I have one from the Alamo, you know, famous sites...I travel a lot. If you're traveling, you can't carry much with you. Feather, dust, tarnish rubbing--those things are easy to collect and they're not things that people mind you taking...
...StairMaster more" or "I'll be more patient with my kids"--just don't seem to pack enough vision and gravitas. But we must all fight this false sense of obligation to make grand, magnificently philosophical resolutions. As citizens, let's not allow our customarily banal and petty hopes for the ensuing year to be swept away by hyperbolic pomp...