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banal adjective colorless, common, commonplace, conventional, deadly, drab, dreary, dull, hackneyed, familiar, flat, insipid, lifeless, matter of fact, mediocre, mundane, pedestrian, platitudinous, simple, stale, stereotyped, stuffy, tedious, timeworn, traditional, trite, unimaginative, uninteresting, unoriginal, usual, vapid, worn See also: insipid, lifeless, mediocre, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, stale, trite, usual How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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You see, he wants Leth to fail, and every time the equally strong- willed older filmmaker comes back with a successful experiment - or, at least, one that cleverly fudged its way around the letter or spirit of a given obstruction - von Trier says things like, ``Jorgen, you're looking great, that's not good'' or ``I want to banalize you. On the twentieth-century scale, exile is neither aesthetically nor humanistically comprehensible: at most the literature about exile objectifies an anguish and a predicament most people rarely experience first hand; but to think of the exile informing this literature as beneficially humanistic is to banalize its mutilations, the losses it inflicts on those who suffer them, the muteness with which it responds to any attempt to understand it as "good for us. From the very beginning there were successful attempts to trivialize and banalize the Palestinian tragedy, as though Palestinian victims were fatherless, motherless, childless, nameless, faceless. |
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