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- Dictionarybanal/bəˈnɑːl/
adjective
- 1. so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring: "songs with banal, repeated words"
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Jul 22, 2024 · We did, however, go to the SF Art Book Fare and I managed to pick up a couple issues of Manifest Reader that I didn’t have, including an issue with one of Rick/Dane Leather’s “Leather in the 90s” series which, despite the sort of banal name, is this sort of post-Parusha deeply religious in an Acephale sense construction of basically a leathersex secret society that suggests an actual ...
Jul 20, 2024 · His journey from military obscurity, to hero of France during World War I, to collaborationist ruler during World War II, led his successor Charles de Gaulle to declare that Pétain's life was "successively banal, then glorious, then deplorable, but never mediocre".
Jul 20, 2024 · On publication, three controversies immediately occupied public attention: the concept of Eichmann as banal, her criticism of the role of Israel and her description of the role played by the Jewish people themselves.
Jul 23, 2024 · Our art, music and literature are likewise increasingly banal and grotesque, trafficking in shock value and superficial appeals to race, gender and sexuality, monumental works of ages past having been cut out of canons and curricula on account of these same superficial characteristics—or, when all else fails, on account of their “elitism ...
Jul 21, 2024 · The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (/ t ɑː ˈ n ɑː x /; Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ Tanaḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/ m iː ˈ k r ɑː /; Hebrew: מִקְרָא Mīqrāʾ ), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.Different branches of Judaism and Samaritanism have maintained different versions of the canon, including ...
Jul 20, 2024 · What I want to talk about is the idea of slowing our photography down, changing our attitudes towards it and ultimately changing our imagery for the better because of it.
Jul 18, 2024 · Thus, she was used to seeing something noteworthy even in what was apparently most natural and banal; indeed, when the simplicity and ordinariness of life struck her to the core, it did not occur to her, upon reflection, or even emotionally, that anything she experienced could be banal, a worthless nothing the rest of the world took ...
Jul 22, 2024 · That means that if you define happiness as being number one, there is no way that you can get to 100% chances of getting happy. Because to be number one, you need to take some level of risk, and take some level of recklessness, which means that you need to accept a certain level of chances of ending up like my cousin.
Jul 19, 2024 · George Choundas on the aftermath of a murder-suicide in an idyllic small town. | Lit Hub Memoir. “Sometimes between midnight and daybreak, the old man began to dream, and the dream was so vivid that every smell and sound and detail was so real that his life became a blurred, half-forgotten dream.”. Read “The Dream” from William Gay’s ...
Jul 23, 2024 · Memories by Nicky Elisabeth, released 23 July 2024 1. Memories 2. The Lights 3. Close To You 4. The Game Off the back of an intimate album launch party in London, and recent DJ sets at Anjunadeep Explorations, Awakenings and Brooklyn Mirage, Dutch DJ/producer/vocalist and songwriter, Nicky Elisabeth, shares her beautiful new single, “Memories”.
