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...first round of courtesy calls, Miers had anything but a commanding presence, looking more like a prom date next to the confident Senators. Republicans said she seemed unwilling or unable to answer questions about whether she viewed particular cases as important precedents and said she offered little beyond banal chatter...
...what’s envisioned as your successor, Core, multitudinous choices and lack of focus will metastasize, not shrink. That important knowledge that might be a liberal arts education is, in truth, just a banal consortium of recommended “Harvard College Courses...
...movie also includes too many banal subplots that fail to humanize the stereotypical characters (who no one wants to see as profoundly human, anyway). The awkward moments of teenage self-discovery only further highlight the fact that, yes, the blonde ditz and muscular stud characters have the emotional depth of a Petri dish...
...course, I don’t speak the language, and every stilted conversation I’ve had over such meals makes the deficiency obvious. All my relatives speak English, but socially, I fail to get jokes and tend to fall silent amid idle chatter. I also find otherwise banal things overly amusing: that “super-sizing” your meal at McDonald’s is called “going big-time,” for example (and strictly biologically speaking, I begin to perspire on cue the second I leave any air-conditioned room...
...league as Kim Jong Il's gulag. But it's bad enough, and as Mahbubani points out, it has weakened the moral authority that the U.S. had at the end of the cold war. Alas, his brief chapter on what the U.S. can do about this flirts with the banal ("promote greater respect for international law"). Which means the ultimate message of the book is clear if, for Americans, depressing: in places like Guant?namo, the U.S. frittered away much of the world's trust in a painfully short period of time. It will likely take a lot longer...