It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you.

这老生常谈的事，但你并不能支配艺术，是艺术在支配你。

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Its superficiality and banality could be interpreted as a critique of shopping.

它的肤浅和平庸可能被解释为一个购物的批判。

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This ultimately results in a tension in contrasting pairs such as forced banality vs. a romantic scale on the outside and constructional pragmatism vs. "heroic" exaggerated construction on the inside.

这在人们的观念里最终导致了在对比中的一个矛盾，例如被迫的平庸与外部浪漫主义的尺度的相对以及构造上的实用主义与内部“英雄般”夸张的建造物的相对。

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For him and everyone else, death is only a banality.

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Its images of death have a soothing banality, like a greeting-card message from the world beyond.

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Pirate cosplay allows people to escape the banality of work-a-day life, he said.

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