The Coda looks normal to the point of banal, a Toyota-ish family car indistinguishable from anything you would find in a suburban cul-de-sac.
With a skeleton crew, he documents the banal comedy of a book tour and takes unannounced side-trips to corporate offices.
That's evident in the movie's best scene, when Elena and O come face to face as captor and captive, and O, revealing a sweetly banal attitude toward life, rambles on about her days at a community college and her charmed existence with Chon and Ben.
Arriving at the McMurdo base, he discovers such banal appurtenances as a bowling alley and A.T.
But that's better than a banal life -- the thing, she says, she fears above all.
This was an issue for the Telegraph's critic, who said Saunders' script was "insultingly banal" with a heroine - played by Hannah John-Kamen - it was "hard to warm to".
Of course, the deep pockets necessary to afford such a thing mean the typical clientele is corporate giants like Hyundai and Siemens that host their company retreats in the village-wide venue, forgoing a banal conference centre.
He performs a constant sacrifice of the banal, everyday object, as though it were a newfound Christ (the cult of the object is a new religio).
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These creations allow for a fun way to send a usually banal, paper present.
The honest emotion it produces out of what might have been banal tearjerker material is a small but real wonder.
After all, Mr Purewal's death could have had a more banal explanation.
Whether or not he actually said "God is in the details, " the deceptive simplicity (nothing is more difficult than simplicity) of his rigorously stripped-down style -- "almost nothing, " in his own words again -- suffered a dizzying decline from exquisite to pedestrian to irredeemably banal in the hands of those who exploited it as a cheap, uncomplicated and highly profitable way to put up big commercial buildings.
Where Sherrod was heading slowly and awkwardly was a simple, almost banal, unobjectionable goal.
Raymond Vernon's career followed a path that was almost banal in its Americanism.
Despite the fact they have more than enough money to spend the rest of their lives on their yachts, many mega-rich professionals devote more than 40 hours a week in jobs that are oftentimes banal and stressful.
He has never presented his views on politics or economics in a coherent form, and typically resorts to banal rhetoric.
Those familiar only with the banal 20th-century examples made for the tourist trade are in for a happy surprise.
It is a mistake, for example, to judge computer games by their banal plotlines.
High drama rarely descends on the banal business of housewares, but it does when the business is run by a driven huckster like Joseph Galli Jr.
It is a useful reminder that this is the real stuff of politics not the banal theatrics of presidential debates.
Adults have this neurotic relationship with death, it gets blown out of all proportion, they make a huge deal out of it when in fact it's really the most banal thing there is.
It sounds banal to write of an end of an era for Japanese politics, if only because that era, a dizzy mixture of brilliance and corruption, has been so reluctant to come to an end.
Though rendered banal by years of TV ads lamenting "the heartbreak of psoriasis, " the skin disorder actually is a serious immune disease, affecting 7 million people in the U.S. In more than one-third of patients it mars 10% or more of the body surface (the palm of the hand counts as 1%).
He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary (the Constable sketch), sometimes banal (the cup of tea, the Old Spice), and sometimes momentous (the death of a parent), but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone.
Then again, Carmona and I were at a conservative event, and the unfortunate response of most conservatives to the obesity issue has been stunningly banal, if I may use that oxymoron.
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