ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BANAL
From Old French: relating to compulsory feudal service, hence common to all, commonplace; from banban².
10 QUOTES WITH «BANAL»
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banal.
A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BANAL»
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banal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly written book.
This book has five short stories that range from the deadly obscene to the unthinkable!
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New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Wayne Kvam "Banal Story" first appeared in the Little Review, the spring-summer
issue of 1926,1 and after slight changes and additions it was reprinted in Men
Without Women, published by Scribner's in 1927.2 Perhaps because of its brevity
...
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Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age ...
Cultures of Mass Tourism discusses how mass tourism has brought about new social and cultural formations that mix global, national and local influences and offers a series of insights into some of the key sites.
Dr Mike Crang, Pau Obrador Pons, Penny Travlou, 2012
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Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction: New Perspectives
With George Monteiro's consideration of "Banal Story," we move out of In Our
Time and into the contents of Hemingway's second major collection of short
fiction — Men Without Women. Written during the winter of 1925, "Banal Story"
has been ...
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Address at the bar of the Legislative Assembly of Canada: ...
And not banal. To say that a mill was banal, was to say a great deal more than
that Censitaires, thereto bound by special contract, must go to it. The mill need
not be banal for that. The word banal was a word, the meaning of which was well
...
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The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust
In certain contexts, 'simple' and 'banal' are interchangeable. We might call a shirt
both banal and simple and mean in both cases that it is plain. However, if the
narrator described these things as 'banal' rather than as 'simple', the sense of the
...
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Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives:
Banal Activism, ...
This highly readable book is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as Party political activism more generally.
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Socrates in Jerusalem: Figuring the
Banal in Hannah Arendt's ...
This thesis examines the rhetorical significance of Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963).
Andrew Aaron Fransblow, 2007
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Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg
The meanest tunesmith, who looks harder at his notes than into himself, is
capable of 'making' a banal theme interesting with a few strokes of his pen. And
most interesting themes originate in this way — just as every painter can avoid
trashy ...
Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein, 1975
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BANAL»
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How to Separate Yourself From the Competition
But as her example shows, one important strategy entrepreneurs can follow is reframing your expertise so that what's banal in one setting ... «Entrepreneur, Jul 15»
44 real-life pop-culture siblings you (probably) didn't know were …
Emilio has gone on to work behind the camera as a director; Charlie favors tiger blood and #winning and sitcoms set to “banal.” But these ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jul 15»
Redesigning This Somerville Highway Underpass Is More About …
... goods at Super Stop & Shop with ease and digest a dose of local arts and culture in an otherwise banal and even sketchy public space. «BostInno, Jul 15»
U.S. Women's World Cup star Carli Lloyd is bundle of contradictions
But as a profile in the Wall Street Journal also made clear, Lloyd's basic approach to soccer is actually pretty banal: She just works harder than ... «Charlotte Observer, Jul 15»
Joseph Cornell, Wanderlust, Royal Academy of Arts, review …
At his command, the banal could become marvellous: his small boxes leave us with the head-spinning sensation that they contain not ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
The 5 Worst TV Shows on Monday Nights
It's the same ridiculous drama with a consistently circulating group of mostly banal women, all of whom have way too much time to gossip and ... «The Cheat Sheet, Jul 15»
The umbrellas of Sousse
For precisely that reason, what Tunisia needs today is not another banal reminder about overreacting to security threats, but rather some fresh ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
A call to debate seriously
But since then, this crucial presidential race, at least when it comes to the economy, seems to be shedding its banal skin and has turned more ... «Buenos Aires Herald, Jul 15»
'Orange is the New Black' is fast becoming a feminist classic
... it doesn't look or sound much like anything else on US television. In a world saturated with banal, airbrushed images of women, this is a treat. «Raw Story, Jul 15»
Guest post: Corporate lawyers under the microscope – the 'more for …
Such banal business-speak he suggested was a cliché, which is unhelpful and drove a process of negative incentives. He worried that HR ... «Legal Business, Jul 15»
