Guillermo Francella, as the patriarch, brilliantly portrays not only the banality of evil but the evil of banality.
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If Please Like Me is a show about the banality of everyday living, it's also — and maybe even especially — about the frequent banality of living with a mental illness.
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How could she write about cancer without falling into banality?
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The hashtag exposes the sheer banality of rape in America.
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These nicknames alone are emblematic of The 5th Wave's banality.
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The superiority of experiences has become our era's reigning banality.
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She had a phrase for this: "the banality of evil".
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This banality of abuse also haunts the American movie industry.
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Sometimes banality can be the most revealing thing there is.
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Verging on Magrittean Surrealism, it's a monument to modern architectural banality.
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It's about not making the use of chemical weapons a banality.
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Much of Peterson's advice sounds to me like vague exhortatory banality.
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Most television was utter banality; most opera forgettable, vulgar and sentimental.
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That phrase "trans-Atlantic relationship" might sound like a diplomatic banality.
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Is this epic-length journey about the utter banality of outlaw life?
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All families, of course, can mask horror underneath cul-de-sac banality.
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It's because we all recognize the banality of so much stock photography.
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But Adamson finds a banality in the hyper-flexibility of "smart" objects.
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"The Bling Ring" is uncompromising in its portrayal of banality and shallowness.
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Which is to say banality, blankness, something sweet, neat, forlorn, and soul-killing.
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Instead, FSR is dedicated to the idea of banality having its own appeal.
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The mundanity of Frank E. Campbell's exterior reveals the true banality of dying.
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He gives you the full measure of life's weirdness and banality and terror.
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Both the forms and the motions are simple to the point of banality.
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In less skilled hands, such a sweeping analysis could quickly tip into banality.
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See what it feels like to be free from the tyranny of banality.
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Ms. Ushpiz is determined to rescue her subject from the banality of biography.
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But it commands attention as an object lesson in the banality of evil.
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For this reason — banality — talking about the weather has gotten a bad rap.
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As a philosopher of history, Piketty struggles to clear the bar of banality.
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Using euphemisms to cover for atrocities is the essence of the banality of evil.
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Helped cut through the natural banality of that montage, however right-on the ideas.
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An aspiring poet herself, Lisa is frustrated with the banality of her everyday surroundings.
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Black: Obviously, post-Hannah Arendt, "the banality of evil" has become a standardized phrase.
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Marriage, for better and worse, exists in between life's milestones, thriving in its banality.
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That said, Mouth Moods highlights the new banality of mashup culture as a whole.
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In the past, such an event would seem to me an exercise in banality.
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Nathan Lyons worked outside mainstream aesthetics, eschewing pomposity, while capturing wonderment amid everyday banality.
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"Sequins in a collection called 'Glitter,' " says Owens, making a face at such banality.
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Oh, and dealing with no less momentous a topic than the banality of evil.
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I think about the banality with which history, like clockwork, always manages to repeat itself.
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Clark: That's something we wanted to bring out: the ordinariness, the banality of it all.
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How does all this relate to her now infamous dictum on the banality of evil?
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To fault self-help books for their banality is to misunderstand how they actually work.
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To try to move things forward, instead of appealing to the banality of the day.
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But the repetitive, easy banality of the story is precisely the point: It desensitizes us.
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It was and is all an illusion, a brand built on selling banality with braggadocio.
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Altadonna's emotionless vocals coupled with the music's poppy vibe brings out the banality of life.
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From his Banality series alone, Koons has incurred a total of five copyright infringement lawsuits.
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But what is also striking about C.K. and Ansari's post-#MeToo material is its banality.
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But please, do not subject your colleagues to the banality of Smart Reply in Hangouts Chat.
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I was always making or drawing something, using it as an outlet to cope with banality.
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The perfect everydayness — the absolute banality of the objects Pati Hill copied — creates its own meaning.
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The movie is beautifully shot, which lends the banality of Mark's squalid realm a certain queasiness.
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I choose to call it "The Dichotomy of Evil" (as opposed to "The Banality of Evil").
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Talk of "banality," in my opinion, runs the risk of turning merely into a linguistic provocation.
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But really, it's the banality of Damien's last known whereabouts that make this story so frustrating.
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To break through the banality of late-night chatter, Watts routinely constructs spiritual and existential inquiries.
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Others, Britain's Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, for example, take the banality of evil to new depths.
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Concerns about cruelty to animals in such artworks is one thing, but so is their banality.
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"The Lucky Star" is gilded with the signature Vollmann brew of erudition, irony, mysticism and banality.
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The soaring banality of his rhetoric appeared to turn off as many voters as it inspired.
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The emerging theme seems to be an emphasis on banality, on the pleasantly comforting and invitingly harmless.
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Some gigs echoed the banality of the campaign trail—try the American Camping Association in Atlantic City.
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Check out the first single, "Vicious Cycle," a screed against the crushing banality of life under capitalism.
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The really awful thing about terrorism is the way it can suddenly, brutally, turn banality into significance.
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The 2525-inch platter has a reproduction of "Ushering in Banality," a 212 work by Mr. Koons.
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The book is crammed with tales explicating Darwinism, the Zen of apes, and the banality of evil.
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This pretend FBI is manipulative and power-mad, missing altogether what's most frightening—the banality of bureaucracy.
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For vermin enthusiasts, the appeal isn't showiness or rarity; it may be their very banality that resonates.
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Book Club transcends the banality of those stories, though, because it takes these women's lives so seriously.
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Yeah, there's kind of a fantasy and banality to a lot of my videos, which I quite like.
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And now we're here, in Soho, watching the colour bleed away, watching vitality transmogrify into vacancy and banality.
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When she spoke of the banality of evil, Hannah Arendt was talking about the bureaucracy of national socialism.
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The luxury car against the blackness of space is a perfect representation of the banality of human culture.
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It is horrifying yet somehow familiar: Tanning said that she wanted the scene to have an "old banality".
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It's just something we take for granted now, a banality rather than a radical political and aesthetic position.
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It's as engaging as any great serialized drama, while maintaining laser focus on the banality of passing time.
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What has motivated an acclaimed director like Scott to willingly board another flight into banality proves more puzzling.
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It has conceptual hints of Godard's "Alphaville" and a chilly through-line concerning the banality of human awfulness.
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They also appear to be significantly to the left of the centrist banality they are poised to nominate.
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Jeff Koons: Banality Oval Platter is a limited edition porcelain piece manufactured by Bernardaud, the French china company.
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" The profile, by Times reporter Richard Fausset, was a brilliant case study in Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil.
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What if these photographs, in all their bureaucratic banality, were presented alongside the photograph of two drowned people?
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She wanted to confront them—perfect strangers, even—with what she thought was the banality of their lives.
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Even when the camera is off, the banality of the streams themselves implies a pervasive feeling of unease.
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When she loses her virginity to him, though, she does register surprise — at the banality of the experience.
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Both movies focus on the men's psychology, not necessarily their killings, and draw attention to the banality of evil.
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Exemplar of banality that he was, Eichmann embraced the ideology completely, even though he had hitherto never hated Jews.
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Back when I read it, I marveled at the banality and weird dedication of such pitifully small-time behavior.
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In "Becoming Eichmann," Cesarani took Hannah Arendt to task for attaching "the banality of evil" to a mass murderer.
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"For a combination of smugness, banality, and towering ignorance, it is difficult to top Terry Gross," he once sniped.
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" Marianne replies with a banality that she acknowledges as banal: "you can never know another person, and so on.
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"The Clan," Pablo Trapero's wrenching, exciting new film, could be described as an examination of the banality of evil.
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We can't think of it as just a kind of Arendtian banality of evil with bureaucrats who follow rules.
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Even so, it requires all their considerable skills to stop this soapy family drama from sliding into complete banality.
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But in the scenes that break with banality, there is a zing not only of originality, but of daring.
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"Sex Money Murder" is not boy food, thanks to its faithful depiction of the dismal banality of gang crime.
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She marvels now at the petty banality of the fight the two of them had just before it struck.
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Some on Twitter lauded its "genius," while others ridiculed it as the latest example of conceptual art's plodding banality.
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Supposedly, cynicism or banality never set in, even when finding these heartwarming stories is how you pay the bills.
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The performance was titled "184 Seconds," and with it, DelGaudio obscured a virtuosic feat within a pantomime of banality.
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There's something about the banality of that struggle where you're not getting those big hits; there's no highs anymore.
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Pissed Jeans have always found the evil, the sad, the depressing, and the funny in the utter banality of life.
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The corporate malfeasance, the banality of human evil is just too much a part of the fabric of every scene.
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I keep silent, sobered and awed at the ability of humans to forge connections even amid the banality of shopping.
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The word is flattering to both the objects and their users, even as it threatens to become a hazy banality.
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But Mr. Chávez's parable is also a cautionary tale about voters' vulnerability to the spell of charisma and media banality.
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The more stylized, pearlescent and unpredictable the text and score, the better; banality creeps in whenever things get more naturalistic.
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I was struck by the banter, the banality of this recurring game of cat and mouse along the southern border.
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Ms. Prada knows that banality as an aesthetic default works only when you have skilled fabricators to realize your vision.
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" What he calls "post-human" buildings — whose boredom he finds "hypnotic" and "banality breathtaking" — represent, he says, a "new sublime.
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The accident has the novelistic pathos of what Barthes himself famously called the "reality effect," its banality proving its truth.
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Denying us any whiff of the violence to come, Dumont celebrates the innocence — and banality — of a young saint's life.
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Mika Rottenberg explores capitalist banality through video and installations centering international labor's "invisible people," using grotesque renderings of dystopian kitsch.
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With its soaring 13th-century cathedral, and charmless rebuilt central drag, Amiens is arresting both for its splendour and its banality.
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Posts of this sort were soon getting millions of views, encouraging more of them, and creating a feedback loop of banality.
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None of this is to say that Call of Duty is an overlooked and potent critique of the banality of evil.
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"A main idea with 'the banality of evil' is how easy it is to make evil seem normal," Ushpiz told me.
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It's the look of white patriarchy, of course, but that familiarity — that banality — is part of what prompts the visceral reaction.
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The filmmakers, like the photographer, seem mobilized by the belief that an overload of banality is itself a kind of novelty.
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But "Fire Sermon" ultimately reminds the reader of Emma Bovary's observation that there is "in adultery all the banality of marriage."
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It is nearly a banality to say she is an astute social anthropologist, given the preponderance of anthropologists in her novels.
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The new coronavirus breaks down the promise of the cruise ship as a bubble of independent banality of the open ocean.
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Which naturally brings us to Fierstein, whose play "Torch Song Trilogy" succeeded by forcing exaggeration and banality to share a bed.
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The songs that Trump has chosen couldn't be more banal, yet it's precisely their banality that makes them so incredibly effective.
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Or that, as the world has moved on, his ideas have been absorbed, run out of steam, or fused into banality?
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The ominous chords of a Beethoven adagio keep breathing in, making droll remarks about the volatile substance of banality and suffering onscreen.
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The banality of that room, which doesn't look particularly creepy when we first see it, somehow makes it all the more unsettling.
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The banality of Earth is too much for Natalie Portman in the first trailer for her upcoming movie Lucy in the Sky.
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For all the inherent strangeness in images of suburban banality transposed into an alien landscape, the book is not scathing or critical.
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Matt Neckers's Mobile Museum is a mimic which can also be read as a caricature and critique of the modern museum's banality.
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Between the sex on their apartment floor and their Waldorf salads, it is very easy to pick up the banality between them.
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Mr. Pitt is telling them — telling us — how special and unique we are, but the banality of the pictures undermines this message.
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Her father planned to build a new headquarters in New York, and the banality of the proposed building filled her with dread.
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All that repetition; that endless analysis that doesn't analyze, just mulls a point over and over until it drops dead from banality.
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In your work, you're making comedy out of the absurdity out of the banality of everything, though here it goes very dark.
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We start with banality and absurdity, and the only rational response to it is comedy because the alternative is to go mad.
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So it's apt that works from the artist's Banality series were chosen to launch the social media app's new AR art project, art.snapchat.
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Big Brother is all about creating the illusion of intimacy, about letting the public into the competitors' everyday banality in the surveilled house.
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The banality and routine of their lives is much like yours or mine, even though they're participating in a kinda fucked up business.
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Watching the Swedish EDM lynchpin's set back now in gloriously grainy quality on YouTube, I'm struck by the sheer banality of it all.
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At least the crushing banality of the real world can't rob us of our hope for a future chock-full of pill-popping.
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You do your best to extract meaning from the odd inkwell or hairbrush, but too often the banality of the material defeats you.
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Lit from above, each still life gains a dramatic, painterly feel, further transforming the banality of the food items into relics of eccentricity.
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Shana Moulton's hyperbolic self, Cynthia, is an alter-ego obsessed with consumerism and looking for spirituality within the banality of every-day commodities.
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Charlotte is an avid reader of soapy romances, and when we are in her head, it can be a purple storm of banality.
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Heartbreak is such well-trodden ground, so universal that, despite its certain devastation, it has become a banality in the world of storytelling.
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While the '60s had sci-fi, we have ASMR, with its alchemical way of turning "unremitting banality" into something sumptuous and potentially therapeutic.
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It's this correspondence between broad social and philosophical themes and the banality of daily life that instills Smith's works with so much complexity.
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Once inside, he snaps some photos of me in front of the mural, a painting which reflects social media culture in its utter banality.
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Sinclair explains that extreme submission provides a release from the banality of boring, everyday vanilla living while also helping her preserve her mental health.
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THE Nigerian edition of "Big Brother" has the same mix of narcissism, banality and back-stabbing found in every other version of the show.
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It understands the banality of our mobile screen time and gives you something to do that accomplishes nothing... just like a real social network!
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Not surprisingly, House members jest with the same banality when they spy senators roaming their turf on the other side of the Capitol dome.
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Another, named "Emma" (after Gustave Flaubert's tragic protagonist in "Madame Bovary", who wanted to transcend the banality of domesticity), is a disembodied round belly.
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There is something funny, in a banality-of-evil kind of way, about tricking a massive corporation's latest marketing scheme into praising Mein Kampf.
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There's nothing funnier than going high and low—have this crappy sitcom about a talking baby and then talk about the banality of evil.
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This sort of detailed information, combined with the pressure to generate traffic, has resulted in what Foer sees as a golden age of banality.
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But every time the score seemed ready to tip into perfumed banality, the music, without changing its character, took on a newly moving solemnity.
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Banality takes its place beside profundity, irony beside sincerity, and if one's impressions of the piece contradict one another, all responses seem nonetheless valid.
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There's definitely a banality to the day-to-day stuff, which reveals how persistent and systematic every aspect of policing is, even the brutality.
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His characteristic deflationary swerve from the lofty to the absurd, from high seriousness to utter banality, struck me as the very definition of funny.
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We're just trying to go to the bathroom, or school, or work, or the grocery store — what Namaste calls the "banality" of everyday life.
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On Adult Swim, Jena Friedman merged #MeToo comedy and prank shows, and downbeat loons like Joe Pera and Jo Firestone turned banality into hilarity.
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French director Bruno Dumont's latest, a ponderous experimental musical about Joan of Arc's childhood, celebrates the innocence and banality of a young saint's life.
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When I finally forced myself to look at the letters—there were three, dated in September and November—I was struck by their terrifying banality.
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But the patriarch, Arquímedes Puccio, played with regal sang-froid and deadpan perversity by Guillermo Francella, is also a study in the evil of banality.
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As a mature artist, Tim Burton's work married his love of the surreal to stories that stripped away the banality of everyday, politely civilized life.
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The banality of angrily insisting that the world is round makes it in a way far less true than the idea that it's actually flat.
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He understands full well that there is no date stamp on feeling stranded between regrets and hopes, between fancy dreams and the banality of existence.
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But for me, its very banality for those involved was the reason to show readers, who might never attend such an event, what it entails.
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Cults are fascinating—but one thing the Manson Family and the Lyman Family have in common is the banality of daily life inside these worlds.
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Meet Fox E: a singularly good Yelp reviewer, who has risen above the managerial-class banality of your average foodie to become a true legend.
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That tension, along with some astonishing visual images that arise from it, keeps "While I Was Waiting" on a narrow course between horror and banality.
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But after years of hearing countless addicts share tales of cravings, shame and despair, she realises that the power of these testimonies lies in their banality.
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It's a patriarchal vision that honours the religion of banality driven by capitalism that I refuse to accept, that's why I paint women in the city.
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The architecture is striking in its banality; bureaucratic, sterile, and repetitive, a detention center is a mind-numbing maze with few windows and omnipresent security cameras.
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Marker places Laura — a nondescript vehicle for platitudes about technology and war — in control of the narrative, dooming the movie to the banality of her segments.
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Cristi, operating in an ethical zone as gray as his wardrobe or the skies over Bucharest, is an enigma wrapped in a puzzle stuffed with banality.
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They give bodily form to a culture's deepest anxieties — about technological progress, about environmental destruction, about economic collapse and nuclear annihilation and the banality of evil.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Jeff Koons plagiarized a French photographer's portrait in creating a sculpture for his 1980s Banality series, a French court has ruled.
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There are dozens of causes of itchiness, yet despite its banality it remains notoriously difficult to classify its cellular mechanisms of action, and as a result, treat.
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Dad's weapon against banality and hypocrisy is his rumpled and ridiculous alter ego (the title character) who wears a hideous brown wig and novelty-shop fake teeth.
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These songs lend a sublime glow to the vicious banality on screen, letting us grasp how beauty coexists with madness and menace in the film's unhinged world.
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After all, who didn't experience the soulsapping sight of mates sat silently in pubs, flicking through the unceasing banality of their Twitter timelines over the festive period?
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Paratopic is powerful to me because it takes the ketchup bottles and the absolute banality of driving at night and fills them with the dread of anticipation.
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But its familiarity and banality — and the fact that the show really knows how to set up a good gag — is, I think, why it's so comforting.
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It was as if all Italian whites were the mass-market pinot grigios of today, which do an excellent job of carrying on the tradition of banality.
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It's a handsome package that never transcends the banality of its ideas, most of which involve how different people, including from Boulder, were affected by the case.
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Joker is a tightly directed mood piece with an unforgettable performance at its center, but it's not much more than a mask, with nothing but banality behind.
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In "Orange Is the New Black," his portrayal of a chummy middle-management type from a prison conglomerate became a queasy study of the banality of evil.
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But where Sherman's early work wielded the banality of femininity to uncanny effect, the portraits of Cahun clash masculine and feminine gendered traits to create something flamboyantly neuter.
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There are few writers better at capturing the banality of small talk than Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich), who also co-directed.
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But when he sees that the Instagram-like generic social network he's posting to is already saturated with sandwich pictures, the banality of his existence dawns on him.
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The threat of banality (or the lack of surprise) implicit in full machine curation reminds me of the seemingly random vocabulary meant to improve SEO on Craigslist posts.
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"Indeed, it's that combination—a genocidal killer at one moment and a caring friend the next—that truly encapsulates what Hannah Arendt described as "the banality of evil.
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At times the book veers dangerously close to the banality of an instruction manual (some passages will only bring true delight to the technically minded among his readers).
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That everything should be put into a video game simply suggests that the typically excluded banality of everyday life should not be underestimated as a source of meaning.
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Aden's peculiar disaffections and devotions emerge more naturally, out of secular American banality, and are presented, at this stage, without descriptive commentary; the reader has to catch up.
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Even more mesmerizing than racial hatred, the film suggests, is the banality of white supremacists outside the heroic cinematic representations that continue to linger in the American imagination.
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It's amazing that the developers at Osmotic Studios were able to put the player in a position of regularized banality while also embroiling them in an interesting story.
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The effort to disguise the banality of that plot, or to pump it up to earn the release of song, forces "The Mad Ones" into some overwrought detours.
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But as flawed and challenging as they are at times, no other books from our era capture life in all its banality and occasional transcendence quite like Knausgaard's.
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No one straddles that line between the banality of Bakersfield and the surreality of Chip's world quite like Martha (Martha Kelly), Chip's insurance adjuster turned accidental best friend.
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The deliberate attention that Gras pays to Kasongo's every move, and the slow pacing of the film, transform what might sound like banality into something mesmerizing and ultimately heartwrenching.
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The work takes its title from the 16th- and 17th-century genre of Flemish still life painting, rife with symbols of life's transience and the banality of earthly possessions.
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I've come to see simultaneous chaos and banality in these incidents, the result of a culture that makes it far too easy for violence-prone individuals to access firearms.
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The dialogue is imbued with both poetic archness and naturalistic banality, and you can feel the cast being drained and defeated by the strain of struggling between the two.
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Their earlier work explores themes of suburban banality turned on it's head, most notably, Thicker Than Water, which was featured in Res's own edition of MATTE Magazine in 2016.
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The horror of this story lies in its banality: An innocent man, happily married, who does all the right things to succeed, is nonetheless sidelined to a concrete cell.
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In a series of productions since 2009, its five core members, joined by others for individual projects, have built scripts out of improvisations on situations notable for their banality.
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Over a plate of poached eggs and a flat white, Sheen cheerfully discussed the banality of murder and taking psychopathy home, while also revealing a huge knitwear-related spoiler.
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When critics praised Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin's fruit, Edouard Manet's asparagus, or Paul Cézanne's apples, they contrasted the banality of these subjects with the artists' skill at presenting them.
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There is also a banality to the bathroom, and the potential for encounter — sexual, aggressive, congenial, it's a place to take a break, gossip, cry, talk on the phone.
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Under the laudable pretext of serving markets with lower mobile bandwidth, they have mercilessly trimmed away all the excess and banality, bringing a slick, minimalist, lightning-fast messenger into existence.
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Being five metres from a stonefish is a banality (treading on one—where distance = 0 m —is not) but it's a fabulously trivial distance to be from a black rhino.
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And in a book about football (where a certain amount of banality is inevitable), the writers repeatedly swap predictions about who will reach the final, which gets a little trying.
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This includes calling out the spectrum of the way race influences politics: from the banality of everyday racism to the structures of white supremacy, both in policy and in narratives.
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These events are not ''acts of God,'' but they are usually rooted, as Diane Vaughan said of the Challenger launch, in ''a mistake embedded in the banality of organizational life.
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It is deeply disturbing in its plainspoken and clueless banality, and tells you everything you need to know about why the crime of rape so frequently goes unpunished in America.
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" In a gushing review (rating: 9.1), Pitchfork's Jay Greene acknowledges the existence of Radioheadisms, writing that the band has "a unique grasp on how easily profundity can slip into banality.
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At any other café-cum-ice-cream-parlor in Berlin's largely gentrified neighborhood of Friedrichshain, in the old East Germany, this scene would've been unremarkable to the point of banality.
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Speaking with Hyperallergic, she noted how the artist originally set out to tell a global story about the importance of the internet and the implications of both connectivity and banality.
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Its banality—a family outing to the seaside, all blustery sea winds blowing through hair and a family dog cradled under the son's arm—is what paradoxically makes it interesting.
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Cornwall has an eye for the deadpan ordinary detail that lacerates with banality — shopping carts at the base store, the back of a Ronald McDonald statue, a pool-side chaise.
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"The idea was that, by gaining access to the weirder potentialities of consciousness, my basic stance towards existence would be altered: shorn of the tedium and banality," Rob tells us.
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"The idea was that, by gaining access to the weirder potentialities of consciousness, my basic stance towards existence would be altered: shorn of the tedium and banality," Rob tells us.
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Inwardly, he dissects the absurd banality of his life while he observes, with an acute sense of cynicism and occasional brutality, the slow decline of his doting middle-age parents.
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Too bad then that as the years slip away and Bilott's wife, Sarah (Anne Hathaway), continues to huff and puff about him and his work, the movie slides into banality.
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In the hands of Caryl Churchill, banality like this is more than enough to gut you, as their palaver is interrupted by bulletins from a dystopian (and oddly Dada) future.
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And it is his lion tamer's dance with banality, I think, that has led some of Knausgaard's fellow writers to praise him more as a stenographer than as an artist.
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It's a complete and utter shitshow, an album that forces you to contemplate both the undeniability of genius and the banality of rude, senseless provocation on a minute-to-minute basis.
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And my initial thoughts about Thanksgiving—that it's just a manufactured break in the banality of existence—didn't really change as a result of my weekend of living as a Pilgrim.
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But another turd clinker is Three Mile Island, the obsolete and obtuse description of time spent on the Greek island of Hydra, made no more interesting by flirting with its banality.
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Mr Clover grapples gamely with the madness of the past, but sometimes lapses into banality, writing lamely of an émigré scholar's "incredibly creative" period at university in Vienna in the 1920s.
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Philbrick skillfully depicts the sheer banality of Arnold's greed and self-interest, revealing the roots of his downfall: one part psychology and one part sensibility to at least three parts circumstance.
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Breaking down barriers between technology and art can raise technology to the level of art, but it also risks working the other way round, reducing art to the banality of an algorithm.
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America turns to the Kardashians and Jenners for many things: professional advice, dramatic narratives, fashion inspiration, and general escape from the insufferable banality of our own lives, just to name a few.
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Of course, Richard, who was just a child during the war, is guilty only of the evil of banality, the moral myopia that dims most of our lucky lives in the West.
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In this, Neiman is building on the ideas of Hannah Arendt, the philosopher who coined the phrase "the banality of evil" to describe Germans who participated in the Holocaust for mundane reasons.
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Recently, I've been clued into the fact that there are a group of rich people who sit even above the cumulous of wealthy banality who do not behave according to conventional logic.
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It does not shy away from making a statement about complicity as a choice, and the banality of evil that perpetuates systems which knowingly victimize women — and other vulnerable populations — for profit.
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The Twitter-style brevity of her sentences — with none of the Twitter-style banality — ensures that it's the reader who's filling in the gaps, not of story or intent but of language.
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This is not the first time Mr. Koons has found himself in trouble thanks to works that originally appeared in his landmark 1988 exhibition "Banality," based on images from advertising and magazines.
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Neither of them are going anywhere in life, a fact that Wilson seems to have made peace with, but Nuñez hasn't — he dreams of escaping the cyclical banality of life around him.
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As Midwesterners think about how to live decently together in a warmer, more crowded place, it is this history, not the myth of their own banality, to which they need to turn.
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The familiarity of these characters and their desires, all a concoction of Kevin's perspective, is, ironically, what makes the novel absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression.
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" Chris in New Jersey called the book's prose "an ugly mashup of instructional manuals for cheap electronics and obtuse postmodern academic criticism, with a healthy dash of straightforward banality thrown in to boot.
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When I'm on a long trip, especially when I'm sticking to the interstates, there's so much banality and quietude that there's a kind of hypnotism and meditative quality to the experience of driving.
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Like Thomas Friedman on a deadline, his commentary is a bottomless fountain of self-assured banality, the sole discernible purpose of which is to reinforce the mystery of life in the Global South.
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The cheekiness of Kac's media (the artist invites you to take a poster for a "wheatpasting campaign") and banality of the subject matter fall flat in comparison to other works in the show.
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Taken as a whole, the show offers a thoughtful look at what can best be described as the overwhelming banality of the present-day office, and in so doing achieves something much bigger.
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Fausset's intention, it seems, was to let Hovator's extraordinary views form a contrast to his ordinary lifestyle, thus demonstrating the old lesson about the banality of evil in a new context: contemporary America.
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The novelistic techniques of New Journalism succeed in putting him and the reader inside Gerald Foos's now-famous crawl space, but they never really extricate him from the banality of the peep hole.
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The scenes he paints, which seem at least partially inspired by real life experiences, mine different traditions for iconographies that might transform the banality of ordinary existence into something more poetic and thoughtful.
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The Nottingham duo excel at capturing the minutiae, banality, dread, toxicity and awfulness of life, then sync it to a grinding beat that twitches between gristly post-punk and electronic-leaning hip-hop.
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It was chronicled by Hannah Arendt in her controversial book "Eichmann in Jerusalem," which popularized the phrase "banality of evil" in reference to the supposedly gray, bureaucratic personality Eichmann exhibited on the stand.
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"This is a lesson in the banality of evil — that a practice could arise that so hurts people and so damages people, and the folks who are practicing it don't even notice," Fettig said.
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It can also be read as a caricature, a critique of the modern museum's banality: as if the only way to make contemporary art interesting to the general public is to scale it differently.
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Kelly spoke at length, and in detail, about what follows the death of a US soldier at war -- and the painstaking, awful banality of how the government delivers the news to their loved ones.
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Almost every beat of "Beach Club," after that, is pretty generic, an exercise in banality of the classic "I'm not here to make friends" variety that's familiar to aficionados of the unscripted-TV genre.
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Along the way, the audience is treated to the banality and inanity of white collar and food service work through now-memed phrases about TPS reports, a "case of the Mondays," and counting flair.
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Yet the comparative banality of Mirvis's post-religious life reminds me of another Jewish aphorism: "If you are going to eat pork," as the Yiddish proverb goes, "let the juices run down your beard."
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Lately, we've been hearing a lot about domestic horror, about movies that find monsters and demons at home, movies that reckon not so much with the banality of evil as with its awful familiarity.
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Yes, a war zone is fraught with the possibility of death, but the relative banality and tedium of being stateside carries its own unnerving terrors—the sheer absence of danger can be just as rattling.
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The following year's entry pared things back, with a story told via clipped snapshots of NBA banality: hallways deep under the bleachers, locker rooms, practice gyms (all have the added benefit of being graphically untaxing).
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I missed this cleverness, at first, because I was so focused on the blunt banality of the title: the staircase, in de Lestrade's series, is both a quotidian household feature and a potential death trap.
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Within these half-familiar surfaces are to be found the things we also recognize about our own world, its particular versions of violence, banality, injustice, greed, its uglinesses and most of all its human forms.
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Same-sex couples, thanks to the LGBTQ movement's staggeringly quick bending of the American moral arc, now have an easier path toward starting their own families and comfortably receding into the banality of family life.
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I want to resist any temptation to interpret these pictures, to reveal 'meanings,' in favor of acknowledging the ways that they underscore the strangeness of juxtapositions that routinely disrupt the banality of the workaday world.
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The same pancake breakfast switches from silly to depressing, focusing not on the banality of morning conversation but instead on Edgar's shaking hands, his increasing paranoia, his forced smile while his friends insult his cooking.
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But they're also a constant reminder that Kassandra is grounded in her world, that she is someone who is not above all of this, and that humbling banality is something that I find so refreshing.
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Sontag argued that science fiction films were one of her era's coping strategies: Their thrills helped distract from life's banality while also habituating people, via alien invasions and attacks, to the idea of existential danger.
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As far as name-fudging goes, "Wayne Tracker" is a total yawniker, and suspiciously so: It's a name that tries for don't-mind-me banality, but instead inspires what-the-hell-do-we-have-here bafflement.
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The rapidity, the montage, the running gags, the cultural pastiche, the banality of Marge's sports-commentary: "Homer at the Bat" is the distillation critical elements that made classic Simpsons an unstoppable, all-consuming, hilarious comedy beast.
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I fear that we are going to move from the race's current banality to an eventual, and most assured, sense of betrayal in which armies of voters see promises of radical change come crashing to earth.
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When I was younger, I had thought it was an #awkward "cringe-fest," but what I saw this time was a painful, incisive documentation of total banality and trying to escape it through any means necessary.
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Among the many exasperating lapses detailed in the New York Times' lengthy report on Russia's apparent interference with the 2016 election, one in particular stands out — the scale of its repercussions matched only by its banality.
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This is art serving the public interest, relaying poor governance as a brilliant example of Hannah Arendt's banality of evil, which describes the way bureaucratic systems can normalize wrongdoing on unimaginable political, financial, and criminal scales.
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On the closing "Ever Again," the plucked bass and climactically buzzing synthesizer establish a deadpan that mirrors her nervous resolution to "never be brokenhearted ever again"; she takes refuge in banality because it won't hurt her.
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There's a reason Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir is being hailed as one of the best movies of the year: It's incredibly personal, filled with moments so real in their banality that you feel like you've lived them.
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Execution-style shootings, especially on this scale of victims, are exceptionally rare—they seem more akin to gory, cinematic portrayals of American violence than to the tragic banality that actually claims most lives in US gun violence.
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Later, this would be what he remembered most about the job, long after the inconvenience of his morning commute, the banality of his days spent making spreadsheets, and the mediocrity of the cafeteria had faded from memory.
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With "Eichmann in Jerusalem" she no longer speaks of radical evil, but of the banality of evil, that matter of fact way that the officer Eichmann and other Nazis pursued the day-to-day operations of genocide.
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The banality of some counterterrorism efforts is evoked in a photograph of an indoor pool at the Spanish hotel where a rendition team stayed in January 2004, having conducted transfer missions from Morocco and Macedonia to Afghanistan.
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"The horror of this story lies in its banality: An innocent man, happily married, who does all the right things to succeed, is nonetheless sidelined to a concrete cell," Stephanie Powell Watts wrote in the Book Review.
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"As Hannah Arendt saw banality in the supposed evil of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann, I see in Joker an attempt to elevate nerdy revenge to the plane of myth," New York's David Edelstein wrote in his review.
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Beneath the white canopy tent that hid the mural from those passing by on the sidewalk was a painting exquisite in its manufactured banality, a pastiche of all the worst instagrammable street art trends of the past decade.
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What made Tate's criticism special was his ability to theorize outward from his encounters with genius and his brushes with banality—to telescope between moments of artistic inspiration and the giant structures within which those moments were produced.
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There was a banality to the proceedings in Tucson, which was a little bit unsettling, you know, this sense that everybody had done this a thousand times before, they were going to do it a thousand more after that.
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The facility is still very much operational and is just the sort of place Paglen has spent years looking for and writing about, a node of the defense-industrial complex hiding in plain sight, disguised only by its banality.
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Between their keen sensibilities, a mountain of reference material and a painstaking juxtaposition of the everyday glamor and banality of showbiz, Becker has been delivering an exhaustively rendered Hollywood that begs for rewinding and rewatching in each new episode.
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Atomikylä is a definite supergroup—mining the combined talents of Dark Buddha Rising's Vesa Ajomo and Jukka Rämänen and Oranssi Pazuzu's Toni Hietamäki and Juho Vanhanen—but has the sense to use its powers for good instead of banality.
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" In a new interview in the book, de Havilland cites the lessons she's learned from Parisian women: "The importance of tact, restraint, subtlety, and the avoidance of banality," and the tenets of what she calls the "Paris principle": "1.
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It teeters on the uneasy threshold between prettiness and banality and has little of the poetic invention of the two major sculptures hanging in the store's atrium, both lyrical and epic, of grouped boat shapes that lavishly float overhead.
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It's a narrative replication of that same push-and-pull rhythm core to the game's combat: The world is caught in a fight for its life, wavering between being health and illness, between war and peace, between banality and divinity.
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At least outside academic circles, her posthumous fame — or notoriety — rests on "Eichmann in Jerusalem," a piece of extended reportage she wrote for The New Yorker in 1963, and on a single phrase associated with it: the banality of evil.
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Yet here we are: But the banality of the god of progress, the idea that the best life is writing explainers for Vox in order to make the world a better place, never quite slakes the thirst for something deeper. Rats.
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A sonata is usually allegro, so for all the density of detail there's a cracking sense of pace, and the themes themselves are as haunting and sharply contrasted as they should be — love and lovelessness, heroism and banality, vision and narrowness.
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Like much of Mr. Solondz's work, "Emma and Max" (named after Brooke and Jay's children, who appear in the show only as projections) tiptoes between pathos and satire, between tragedy and the banality of urban life — sprinkled with his acidic humor.
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Based on the novel "Caging Skies" by Christine Leunens — and featuring Waititi himself as Johannes's goofball fantasy-Führer — the movie filters the banality and evil of the Third Reich through the consciousness of a smart, sensitive, basically ordinary German child.
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On the air constantly in buildings around the city, at Police Headquarters and City Hall, in diners and doughnut shops, elevators and waiting rooms, NY1 has provided a certain visual accompaniment to the chaos and banality of life in the city.
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Taking in all the destruction, cruelty, waste and banality of contemporary material culture, Ms. Vieira shows them as contained within a larger aesthetic system — one that might, in 1,000 years, seem to have had an alien beauty of its own.
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The opera stops short of accusing Arendt, who coined the controversial phrase "banality of evil" to help explain the crimes of the Third Reich, of giving the Nazis a free pass because she worshiped German culture (and its great personification, Heidegger).
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If many of the paintings in this exhibition remain visually fractious, with one style refusing to capitulate to another, the delicately knitted, moodily shimmering surface of "The Enchanted Island" suggests an integration of divisiveness that avoids both banality and Babel.
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You could argue that in airing (intentionally or not) the dirty laundry of "America's most eligible bachelors," the show is becoming a kind of Trump-era reality check for some viewers about the banality of white supremacy among the country's straight white men.
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This morning she dropped the video for album opener "Elevator Operator," one of Sometimes I Sit and Think's most memorable tracks, and, as with "Pedestrian at Best," Barnett is in the center of the shot once again, tolerating other people's anger and banality.
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In 22008, she showed up in person at a radio station to unveil a new single, "Mona Lisa," which she said was going to be part of an album she wanted to call Original Doll, alluding to the banality of her Barbie aesthetic.
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Not only do the recent celebrity-graced commercials for the Google Assistant, Alexa, and Apple's Siri-powered HomePod emphasize the simultaneous banality and convenience of these interactions, they also communicate each company's worldview about how human users ought to relate to intelligent machines.
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Unlike most shows, they deal less with the glamor and fast money of drugs than its banality -- treating it, as an Esquire piece observed, like "just another business," with evading the law as just one of the particular operating costs of the enterprise.
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In a world where instant access to Tinder, YouPorn, and even Google Images at least feels honest, turning up for a Miss World contest is like being in the live audience of The Bachelor: inherently creepy and mild to the point of banality.
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The banality of the activities was belied by the precision with which the team carried them out: a rigid protocol dictated when each gas burner could be lit, how hot the frying pan should be, and at what setting to toast the bread.
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And expressions of discontent—you think in the car, sitting in front of your own house now—no matter how beautiful, never solve the riddle of the world, or bring the banality of sequential reality to a location of deeper grace. ♦
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It's a sour taste that the young developer collective at Sundae Month know all too well, and one reason why their latest game, the"anti-adventure" Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, can find such beauty in the banality of a truly awful job.
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You can visit them and live an unforgettable experience for life," it drones on with wondrous banality hammered home by additional tautology — right before switching gears and dropping this unexpected last liner: "Jimmy Singh is connected with Wonders of The All World.
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It's a sour taste that the young developer collective at Sundae Month know all too well, and one reason why their latest game, the "anti-adventure" Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, can find such beauty in the banality of a truly awful job.
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Mr. Ruizpalacios's first feature, "Güeros," set during the student protests of the late 1990s and shot in austere black and white, was also about young people revolting against the banality of their lives and trying to take hold of something noble and grand.
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It was just so much for the characters to deal with, and the show's frequently sitcom-y jokes didn't help; it often seemed like they were written with enough extra space for a live studio audience to laugh and punctuate their banality.
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There's a kinetic New York magic that Hoby taps into — whatever that mysterious force is that allows the Brooklyn rooftops, Manhattan galleries, downtown art parties and other privileged spaces of this novel somehow to be the clichés they are and yet resist banality.
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In April, when reviewing this comedy of dreams deferred, Elisabeth Vincentelli praised the playwright Aaron Posner as understanding "full well that there is no date stamp on feeling stranded between regrets and hopes, between fancy dreams and the banality of existence." wheelhousetheater.
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"Bradley is not just giving us the most disturbing images — that's certainly there — but also paying attention to what is the banality of war, its everydayness, little moments where you are just looking up, at a beautiful arrangement of light," Dr. Mirzoeff said.
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In April, when reviewing this comedy of dreams deferred, Elisabeth Vincentelli praised the playwright Aaron Posner as understanding "full well that there is no date stamp on feeling stranded between regrets and hopes, between fancy dreams and the banality of existence."wheelhousetheater.
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" The agony of ruined lives radiates from the page, as does the repetitive banality of legalese: "It is the policy / of the City to jail / people / It is the policy / of the City to hold prisoners / until / extinguished / It is the policy.
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" So: Roger Stone, a contemporary conspiracy monger and Trump political consultant; Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher; Niccolò Machiavelli, a Renaissance Italian political scientist and public official; and Hannah Arendt, a 20th century political theorist who coined the phrase, "the banality of evil.
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I'd anticipated the logistical and physical challenges of drawing there, but not the psychological and emotional ones: the grieving families, the killings and torture, the journalists reporting the horrific details year after year, and the bizarre banality of daily life in Guantánamo Bay.
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"I can't understand why people prefer the grossness and banality of a Hollywood or a European Art movie, as against the illuminations and ecstasies of an Avant-garde Film," Mr. Mekas wrote in an essay in The New York Times in 22000.
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In the Twitter storm that followed, the film critic Firat Yucel dejectedly claimed that Turkey would have forced Hannah Arendt to "[re]write the Banality of Evil," saying that anyone "moved" by the tone-deaf installation bore no consideration for its incomprehensible ignorance.
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Phil and Connie's relationship plays out exactly as the audience would expect, and its banality is matched only by the tepid "mystery" that ostensibly drives the film — except for the inconvenient fact that the audience will likely guess the ending within the first 30 minutes.
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Much of it is matter-of-fact almost to the point of banality — Ms. Sheil studies her character's life and tries to approximate her looks and personality, as any serious actor would — but there is an almost superstitious undercurrent of menace running through the movie.
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They're confections filled with everything Warhol: beauty, celebrity and perfect control, with hints of irony, banality, and detachment, unique works of art but also artifacts of a time — a place and a vital artistic community now mostly dust except for the work left behind.
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His photos—of cherries in orifices and knives and forks poised above delicate areas, of nude women lying on vertiginous ledges, of genitalia placed into all manner of compromising situations—set our idea of the human body askew and celebrate the banality of sex.
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Mr. Rau, the Swiss-born director of the Belgian theater NTGent, is no stranger to laying bare the banality of evil, with past works inspired by wartime atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo or by the Belgian child molester and murderer Marc Dutroux.
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This retrospective, with more than 80 paintings in his stifled palette of gray, olive, blue and sour pink, reveals Mr. Tuymans as an artist who examines media imagery like a forensic scientist and who uses a surface of banality to suggest horrors out of frame.
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In contrast, The Bachelor keeps getting too real in ways it isn't set up to handle — as with the multiple racism controversies, the latest musical guest episode, or with the gratuitous "mean girls" drama that just highlights the gendered banality of the flagship show's premise.
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The characters in Disco Elysium go back to the banality of their districts and their jobs and their lives in the shadow of what we've seen, but the insulindian phasmid is meant to be a guarantor of the numinous qualities of the natural world.
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If only the true banality of our day-to-day lives in Russia or the US these days were as wry, bitter, and endlessly amusing as the writings of the "unofficial" or "non-conformist" Soviet poet Igor Kholin (1920 – 1999): Today was Yodkovsky's birthday.
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Either way, the presence of so many of them in this collection reinforces the "story" that is being told here: the attempt to make meaningful art out of irony, appropriation, banality, quotation, and self-reference is an enduring strand in late 20th-century art.
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To trace this thread to the present and this country, there is first Hopper, where one finds a deracinated private view where only the light and the lassitude remains, then California's postwar painters, for a twinning of exoticism and banality that harkens back to the Delacroix work.
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From that point, American Honey is about Star's escape—from violence, banality, brutality, and routine—and the grand, sickly machismo of Brice's "I Don't Dance" makes for a sinister soundtrack to the claustrophobic sequence that prefaces the moment when Star's fight-or-flight instincts kick in.
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But it is a reminder that the gratifyingly long honeymoon period of discovery and scrappy underdog status is long past — Minecraft is no longer a buggy, funky, open secret among gamers and kids and modders — it's a global platform owned by Microsoft and ripe for banality.
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But perhaps the most striking thing about the men of Blue Man Group, which began as a nebulous let's-do-something-weird response to the banality of downtown culture in the late 1980s, is how comprehensively they have moved from the fringes to the mainstream, and beyond.
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Marston is working in English for the first time after his well-received features Maria Full Of Grace (in Spanish) and The Forgiveness Of Blood (in Albanian), but the banality of the dialogue in the film's first half makes his words seem wasted in any language.
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The urban environment is a cloaca of hypnotic, animated signage, sounds and image streams that follow us into taxicabs and hospital waiting rooms, and in turn, any banality, from a misspelled street sign to a funny advertisement, is considered suitable to become an image on social media.
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"Gervais highlights that a key element of the Harvey Weinstein story — it's not just that he himself was a horrific monster, but that banality of power in Hollywood made it perfectly acceptable to cover up his crimes that didn't even stop at his business associates," Enjeti said.
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While the novel in its own right was a popular success, Flynn's depiction of a woman driven to great lengths by the banality of her domestic life soon seemed to inspire many other thrillers, often featuring unreliable female narrators and with "Girl" or "Woman" in the title.
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As usual, the drama of potential cyber-apocalypses, Live Free or Die Hard style, is belied by the banality of the current threat landscape: If anything is going to bring down the North American grid, it'll be closer to Rocky the Flying Squirrel than Mr Robot.
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Unfortunately, their perceived banality masked the fact that these attacks were in many ways as terrible as those that drew widespread notice: The Baltimore attack had the greatest number of victims this week, including a three-year-old girl and her father who were mere bystanders to the violence.
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" And then there are her at-times puzzling analogies: "He keeps talking, like his words are rocks and speech is their momentum down a hillside"; "It's as if they see El Dorado in the banality of the other"; "Tessa and Brian are like scared gods in a bleached sea.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is one of American literature's most famous and crystalline examples of using the "banality of evil" — a theory put forth by Hannah Arendt to describe Nazi Adolf Eichman's role in the Holocaust — to shock, enrage, and, hopefully, instruct.
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MURRAY'S MENAGERIE' I'm not sure anyone could have imagined a duller setting for a play than a high school faculty meeting, yet in "Miles for Mary," the theatrical collective called the Mad Ones turned the banality of the break room into a hilarious and ultimately galvanizing Off Broadway hit.
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The Osbournes, on that day when only Sharon and middle daughter Kelly bothered to turn up to the Emmys, were some of the first to pilot the kind of TV that we're so used to now: cameras following families around, shooting the banality of life in their homes and wider suburbia.
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French director Alexandre Moors's low-key 2013 exploration into the DC sniper attacks of 2002 is terrifying in its banality, in the way it captures the paranoiac feeling that at any moment, seemingly out of nowhere, your life could be ended by a single bullet fired from a ways away.
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And perhaps they can't be, maybe that's just really unpleasant to play in, that we have been so conditioned by eight generations of game design that we would reject the simulation outright if they were built from the accumulated stuff of human elation, misery, imagination, and the vulgar banality of capitalism.
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In a homily earlier on Monday, Francis said everyone should look after their soul by taking a moment of silence every day, "to keep our freedom from being corroded by the banality of consumerism, the blare of commercials, the stream of empty words and the overpowering waves of empty chatter and loud shouting".
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The exhibition begins at the end of story: featuring excerpts from a 1979 documentary by David Perlow in which Ross recounts his testimony at the trial of Adolph Eichmann, who came to represent the feeble-minded depravity — or the "banality of evil," as Hannah Arendt understood it — of bureaucrats in the Nazi regime.
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Brûlé's stylistic vision has reproduced itself to the point of banality: Whether due to his own efforts or to the changing tide of taste, Danish furniture, clean cafés, shared offices, and artisanal food and clothing can now be found everywhere, attracting a floating tribe of international consumers the way flowers attract bees.
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And, then George Zimmerman killed a young person, a young black boy, gets to go home free, and it just shows this juxtaposition of the banality of a quote "criminal justice system," that has not been run to prioritize black people's health and wellness, and it's sort of amplified in that moment.
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In addition to checking in periodically on Frank in his lonely senescence, the movie repeatedly jumps back to a fateful road trip he and Russell took with their wives (Stephanie Kurtzuba and Kathrine Narducci), a journey as intoxicated with the banality of midcentury, middle-class married life as a John Updike story.
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One is also curious to know where Dean stands on Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem," a 1963 meditation on war crimes that was incendiary because of its problematic phrase "the banality of evil," and a tone so cold that Arendt's friend the Jewish historian Gershom Scholem thought it flippant (some used the word cruel).
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The childhood abuse, the alcoholism, the affairs and breakups are the stuff of many a memoir — a genre that, curiously, doesn't figure at all in the numerous digressions on literature that dot the landscape of intentional quotidian banality here, even though "My Struggle" has far more in common with memoir than it does with fiction.
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Unlike, say, Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton — who were torn between family and work, and whose art was inspired by this tension — Morton did not suffer from debilitating mental illness and did not seem to have a tortured life at home: It was the sheer banality of domesticity that seemed to drive her from it.
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Idolizing João Gilberto, he nonetheless felt the need to tear bossa nova to pieces and mix the fragments with musique concrète and rock in "a struggle against the imminent obsolescence of a past so beautiful as to be on the verge of banality" — a better explanation of the anxiety of influence than I learned from Harold Bloom.
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I know I promised this column was all about vacations and not the banality of contracts, but I just want you to take a look at Waiters here wearing a shirt with himself on it, on a bed on the front of a boat, and think again about how bad failed human hairstyle Kelly Olynyk is at vacations.
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" And this is from the start of the review by the novelist and critic Stacey D'Erasmo in Rolling Stone: "Ever since Joni Mitchell spread her free-verse wings, many a female singer-songwriter has tried to master the introspective idiom only to sink into the swamp of banality or shoot off into some chilly, abstract emotional ozone.
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The work resonates in Mely Barragán's soft sculpture which spells out the word "Macho" in filigree cursive and captures both the quotidian absurdity of daily gender inequity and the banality and redundancy of calling out the machismo of Mexican culture, as though it were only ensconced within that particular national imaginary and not an international point of concern and contention.
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The video deftly shows the banality of evil in the boots of U.S. Army soldiers—there for our "protection"—gathered around their armored vehicles waiting for something to shoot, and the idleness of bored cops checking their phones and leaning against barricades lining the streets of D.C. Flags with Trump's bloated visage wave as tourists nervously perambulate around the capital.
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It has been almost a month since the 12-year-old Syrian arrived in Canada as a refugee, rescued from Kuala Lumpur's International Airport in Malaysia nine months after he got stuck there, and only because he caught the attention of the outside world through constant social media updates that captured the absurdity and banality of living in an airport terminal.
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Originally published as a series of articles for the New Yorker and later, in 1963, as a book, Eichmann in Jerusalem coins the overused and oft-misunderstood phrase "the banality of evil," an idea that sparked a tremendous backlash against Arendt, with many accusing her of using the concept to humanize and to some degree exonerate Eichmann and others like him.
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The wondrous thing about being human — the beauty and banality of it — is that we all tend to dwell in the same handful of elemental struggles, joys and sorrows, which is why a book one person writes may help another process her own life a century later, and why a "blog" by a solitary stranger may speak to many other solitary dwellers across time and space.
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Nor that the even less tolerable Father John Misty had Macaulay Culkin "crucified" by Ronald McDonald clowns in a recent music video for "Total Entertainment Forever," ending up as some hamfisted, No Logo-inspired mess about corporations and technology and sacrilege that only a guy who ranted at a festival crowd for 20 minutes about the banality of entertainment before storming off stage would ever feel comfortable delivering.
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To provide scholarly context for these two approaches, Dimsdale briefly explains developments in neuropsychology and psychopathology (for which malice is "categorically different") and skims through the usual suspects in social psychology (which views malice as part of "a continuum"): Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil, Stanley Milgram's and Philip Zimbardo's experiments on obedience, Kitty Genovese and studies of bystander apathy (controversies surrounding some of these are relegated to endnotes).
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It's wrong because he tills every square inch of the surreal journalistic soil available to him during his own seven-day Caribbean cruise aboard the now decommissioned Celebrity Zenith (which he redubs the Nadir), but after 98 exhaustive pages of skeet shooting, conga dancing, fruit eating and existential despair falling, he fails to unearth what I believe is the flowering root of the widespread appeal of cruises: their unapologetic, gleaming banality.
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In later essays, Wang examines various types of delusions, from the banality of children's imaginary games to the immersive experience of an IMAX film, and lays bread crumbs from these familiar landmarks most of us have experienced to the most exotic forms of psychosis she has suffered (Wang once became convinced that she was dead and living in an eternal hell in a rare syndrome called Cotard's delusion).
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We're treated to a glimpse of André Breton at a party, fashioning an impromptu brooch from a dead bumblebee, though the novel's emphasis is not on charming details but the banality of a certain kind of evil made up of bureaucrats, bribery and lines of desperate people waiting for a lifeboat in the form of a visa that will never come, faced with exclusionary American immigration policies not so different than those in place today.
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Hannah Arendt has a cameo in Hamburg, singing a Baudelaire setting to Benjamin as he takes his life, but she's the leading lady in the picturesque Bavarian city of Regensburg, where the Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff's new opera, "Die Banalität der Liebe" ("The Banality of Love") dramatizes the famous — or infamous — romance between Arendt, the great political theorist, and Martin Heidegger, the towering German philosopher and member of the Nazi Party.
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So for a while, I knew only the hazy outlines of the story: that Patrick Melrose, the main character (loosely based on St. Aubyn himself) is an opiate addict living in 1980s London (and later, a reformed man grappling with the banality of sobriety), a child of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of his aristocratic father, and also a pretentious blue blood with a permanent snarl and a scathing bon mot never more than a sentence away.
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The episode rises above the banality of a premise as old as Grendel, and some creature effects that are truly risible—even to a ten-year-old in 1973, the homicidal Horta looked like an ambulatory slice of Stouffer's French-bread pizza—by making an honest effort to imagine nonorganic life and then, in the characteristic turn that gives the "Star Trek" franchise its enduring beauty and power, by insisting that fear and prejudice were no match for curiosity and an open mind, that where there was consciousness there could be communication, and that even a rock, if sentient, had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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