Word: banally
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...Rehearsal, by Jean Anouilh. The world will ferret out purity and destroy it-this is the theme that obsesses Anouilh. In The Rehearsal, the worldlings commit an "elegant and sophisticated crime," the murder of the true love, as undeniably transfiguring as it is seemingly banal, that exists between a jaded French count and a virginal governess. Around this crime Anouilh has fashioned a subtle, scintillating, and bitter black comedy. The ironic gaiety is inverted mourning, the unseen tears are those that disillusionment sheds over its lost illusions...
...casual eye, West and East seemed much the same. And why not? A soup can is a soup can, whatever the clime. Like their New York counterparts, California pop painters gaze not upon nature or the human form but upon the most banal man-made objects or the most routine images of everyday life-a milk bottle, an advertising trademark, a scrap from a comic strip. These things are the same all over the nation; here indeed is expectable conformity. But upon closer scrutiny the Californians shared common aspects and a sort of group triumph: their stuff was even drearier...
...issue about how much the reader already knows about any event or subject. These days, when so many words fill the air, when car radios repeat the news hourly on the hour and TV commentators rehash what the camera has already shown, we see no point in repeating the banal rituals of the communiqués. Sometimes, as in this week's cover story, the most significant part of the news may have escaped readers too busy to wade through columns of testimony in those newspapers which gave the subject much attention...
...friends," says the other), but the Russians have been cut in the re-writing. The ensuing anti-American tone is heightened by Brice Weisman's snarling caricature of an American military man. But in general, Thomas Bissinger's production is as sophisticated as Miss Laski's political vision is banal...
...begin, "like a thing that goes inward for emotion, not responsively, because intellect is bad for what I do." Such thoughts always bring her to a helpless "Know what I mean?" And no one ever does. But when she sings, everyone knows exactly what she means; even with a banal song, she can hush a room as if she really had something worth saying...