Word: banally
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...trials of unthroned royalty seems a banal topic, but Anastasia might have had possibilities, especially in a portrayal of the renewal of a wartorn psyche. Instead, Marcelle Maurette has choosen to emphasize the pure romance of the story and, even worse, clouds the romance with her allegorical reflections. For this reason, Anastasia is dramatic, but, on the whole, not worth the trouble...
...sexual energy, although he notes in a well-bred British way: "The more passionate side of married life subsided with him earlier than it does with many men." Neither does the analyst get much help from the periods of Freud's greatest creativity. These are marked by a banal anal factor. His productivity, the great man once wrote probably had much to do with the "enormous improvement" in the activity of his Konrad...
...city of Fukui (pop. 120,000), for instance, the educators prepared a collection of what they called "good, wholesome, invigorating" songs to be sent out to local education boards and parent-teacher associations, with the recommendation that they be plugged on every possible occasion to drive out the "banal, vulgar, nerve-destroying" mambo. Then the educators rolled up heavy artillery in the form of a symphony orchestra imported from Tokyo. It got a respectful hearing, but this week Cherry Pink and Cerezo Rosa were beating harder than ever against Fukui eardrums. Said one local music critic sadly: "Fukui...
Thus Painter Everett Shinn summed up the turn-of-the-century standards: idealized nudes wrapped in cheesecloth, banal studio models posed in quaint period costumes. Into this world rushed a group of artists who, by the genteel standards of the day, behaved like sandlot hoodlums bent on showing only America's dirty face. Their talented and dashing leader was Robert Henri, goad and teacher to more than a dozen leading American painters. Last week, with the biggest collection of Henri's work to be shown since 1931 on display at New Jersey's Montclair Art Museum, tribute...
...groupers who lumber about the sea floor after them with the doggy devotion of submarine St. Bernards, begging with śoulful looks for a handout. The color throughout is poetic and covers an amazing range. It is a pity that the commentary is bad Swinburne, and the musical score banal, like woozy echoes of Tchaikovsky in a conch...