Word: banally
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...movies, the jukeboxes and the radio had taken first the works of Tchaikovsky, then of Chopin, strung puerile words to them, given them everything from a boogie beat to a lush 150-piece orchestral overcoating. What had been most melodic in Tchaikovsky's Fifth be came the most banal, and no steady listen er of radio could hear the Romeo and Juliet overture without trying to banish Our Love from his mind...
...Sectarian belief in free and spontaneous prayer has a tendency to degenerate "into banal, sentimental, and chatty conversations with...
...Frankie down as badly as his partner did. Intended as a colorful has-been, Frankie merely seems like something that never was. And as a story, Beggars is no Better. The flowering of romance between Frankie and the supper club's leg-some cigaret girl (Dorothy Comingore) is banal and forced. When Frankie tries to act tough, Playwright Reeves lets comedy seep into scenes that should be hard-hitting theater, and they wind up as nothing. The best things about Beggars are its amusing glimpses of nightclub office management and Jo Mielziner's stunning office...
...wore spiked necklaces to mortify her flesh, built altars in the woods. She lived in a dreamworld peopled with overwrought heroes and heroines. But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda...
...production is particularly distinguished for its banal and at the same time boring dialogue. When a 30-year-old ghost dressed in the uniform of a Captain, AAF, falls at his mother's knees and cries "Mummy!", the time has come for a regeneration of something...