Word: banally
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...Hetty Green's servant. Der Grosse Tenor (UFA). Possibly his panoramic countenance and the slow elaboration of detail to which Cinemactor Emil Jannings is addicted have helped to convince critics that his characterizations are more searching than they really are. Nonetheless, he often contrives to take a banal situation-in this case that of an opera singer who loses his voice-and make apparent the underlying values which have caused it to become banal. The great tenor is a debauched and frivolous celebrity who calls his fox-terrier Lohengrin, enjoys entertaining ladies in his dressing room, and goes...
...promised a "job for every man," grew rhapsodic over "the home," vowed that only his election could perpetuate Republican prosperity. One might have thought he was running against thin air for all the notice he took of the energetic, loud-speaking, issue-raising, far-traveling Brown Derby. His cautious, banal campaign was unsatisfying to those citizens who prefer a direct discussion of immediate issues to a lofty dissertation on the abstractions of American idealism...
...Their phrase [attributed to Mussolini] that 'Fascismo is not an article for exportation' is not mine. It is too banal. It was adopted for the readers of newspapers who in order to understand anything need to have it translated into terms of commercial jargon. In any case it must now be amended...
...fail to tell their friends about him. Work in the mines gave him a physique such as few tycoons possess; 16-hour mine days gave him an enormous disdain for the eight-hour office day. He speaks briefly, forcefully, never detours issues. His formula for success is simple, not banal: "I have not cluttered my head with things not in my line...
...Iliad. He even attempted to get into the mood of the Greek drama but-somewhere or other he has learned that the needy catchword for the theatre of Sophocles is "simplicity." He tried, yes and diligently, but whoever could attain quiet and simplicity amid the thundering cement-grinders, seemingly banal excavations, and unutterable chaos mixed with modern Georgian architecture which has flooded the Cantabrigtan shores? His advice is to take "The New Criterion," and call...