Word: banally
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...started on Friday night, with Yale’s cacophonous band and embarrassingly unimpressive cheerleaders attempting banal chants such as, “Let’s get fired up”—“We are fired...
...inhabits a house in the backfields filled with oddities such as a massive tree decorated with whiskey bottles from her younger days. Her too-obvious name, describing her flyaway hair and mismatched rags, makes for another trite attempt at cleverness by the writers of a banal movie...
...inhabits a house in the backfields filled with oddities such as a massive tree decorated with whiskey bottles from her younger days. Her too-obvious name, describing her flyaway hair and mismatched rags, makes for another trite attempt at cleverness by the writers of a banal movie...
Underneath the façade of stock predictions and banal results, however, lurks an interesting subplot...
...Towers became banal because they lost their sense of surprise and joy," Libeskind says. "Over time they became formulas. The architectural element was reduced to questions like 'What patterns are we gonna use for the windows?'" Now the formulas have all been cast to the wind. The past decade or so has been a time of virtuoso architects, not just Libeskind, Hadid and Isozaki but also Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano and many others, all of them working in very different styles but with the common impulse to knock apart the familiar glass-and-steel...