Word: banally
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...visual images are presented so quickly as to defy cognition. "Presence," in which the audience sits on a bench in a dim room while an audiotape of a woman's fretting over her childhood is played at varying levels of volume and clarity, is a tribute to the most banal of self-help confessionals, rather than focusing the audience's attention on a little examined sense, the nature of sound. "Interval", on the other hand, strips the audience bare of its expectations of cognition and easy assumptions. A video of a man bathing and one of unidentifiable, feral activities...
...year-old Liv Tyler. Her face, with its alluring Ava Gardner eyes and Halloween waxed lips reminiscent of her father's (Aerosmith's Steven Tyler), was plastered on billboards all over Cannes. It gave a clue to the triumph, at the Frenchiest festival around, of America the beautiful and banal...
...Dolores' well-loved grandfather). While songs like "When You're Gone" and "I'm Still Remembering" may cover old ground in terms of song lyrics, the Cranberries manage to present these well-worn ideas in such a way as to make the listener happily enjoy every little trite and banal moment...
...behavior. So society must teach those controls. And when it does not, then the human arrangement breaks apart." In the Leopold-Loeb case in 1924, Clarence Darrow argued essentially that crime (including the murder of 14-year-old Bobby Frank) was to be understood as a disease. A banal defense, but Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb got off with their lives...
...play and therefore cannot move an audience into fear and pity. They reveal little of the universal human condition that is at the heart of the play. This production of Hamlet gets lost in its choices, moving the play's action in to the domain of the banal...