(1) The problem is no longer that it's brazen, but that it's banal.
(2) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(3) As human papilloma virus type 5 is known to have malignant potential, clinicians should be on the lookout for these banal-looking and distinctly non-warty lesions in renal transplant recipients.
(4) But neither Jalili nor any other candidate has so far offered much in the election other than banalities – despite Iran's mounting problems, which now centre on the reduction of oil exports from 2.2m barrels a day to 1.1m in the past year due to tightening western sanctions.
(5) Most of the macroscopically visible abnormalities of the placenta are of no functional significance, the major exception to this general banality being the uncommon large haemangioma which can cause complications in the mother, fetus and neonate.
(6) He does this quite a lot, and even fairly banal details about his personal life are injuncted the moment they're out of his mouth, which is frustrating but unsurprising, given his publicity-shy reputation.
(7) Instead a banally labelled Office for Students (OfS) is to be created.
(8) Achebe's writing isn't anything as banal as cultural relativism – something he has been accused of – but a powerful refutation of the fact that before the white man, Africa was a "blank sheet of civilisation".
(9) So Zhou Enlai’s famous reply was actually quite banal – yet is now universally reinterpreted as a gem of sempiternal Chinese wisdom.
(10) And, at a time when Apple was essentially reinventing home electronics, Fiorina’s spectacularly banal mission statement was, “ Invent ” which is probably why we’re not all calling all tablets “H-Pads” today.
(11) There is indeed evidence to indicate that signaling molecules involved in cellular communication are 'banalized': that means that their receptors are liable to be expressed in almost any tissue by a wide variety of cells.
(12) Particular difficulty was experienced with small (less than 5 mm), flat lesions, which can be banal or potentially malignant.
(13) “One could clearly see from the evidence presented that Mladić, Karadžić and others from the Serb leadership of the time were not mythical characters – neither monsters, as the Bosniak victim narrative paints them, nor heroes and “fathers of the nation” as they are presented by the dominant Serb politic – but banal, self-centred opportunists drunk on the unchecked power to command lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
(14) Alternatively, might it not suggest that quite apart from banal, administrative, bureaucratic "filtering" – routine chucking out cases sent by applicants many years after a final domestic disposal, or without any domestic proceedings having been undertaken – the court is already making extensive use of highly discretionary concepts such as "manifestly ill-founded" to pre-judge the interest of its caseload, and is already selecting cases which it regards as "serious" or "important"?
(15) It's a trajectory that is on the one hand explainable, even banal.
(16) It looks as if someone, in a great hurry, has crammed details of the most banal US shopping mall design of the late 1980s and more recent Chinese design into a laptop in their student bedsit, pressed the "print" button and then, unbelievably, convinced someone, in an equal hurry, to build them.
(17) Occasionally, Sting sings in the sort of broad Newcastle accent he has never revealed before, the one he has previously felt placed him back in the small terraced street he grew up in, a place he once described as an "enclave of banality".
(18) As for bacterial pneumonias they usually present as an acute lobar pneumonia with a banal organism but severe gram negative pneumonias are possible justifying a detailed systematic approach in certain cases.
(19) That is why May should throw away the banalities and try to address a fundamental truth.
(20) Therefore it is very important to inform all patients and their parents about the low, but lifelong risk of infection following splenectomy in order to begin the antibiotic therapy as soon as possible even in cases of banal infections.
Baneful
Definition:
(a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
Example Sentences:
(1) They want government to listen to their message, but ignore counter arguments coming from campaigners, such as environmentalists, who have long been the bane of commercial lobbyists.
(2) 1-26 August, 1.30pm, Assembly Rooms, £10 Jane Bom-Bane Musical mechanical hat woman.
(3) By the end of the 1960s he had a considerable reputation as a novelist (his first, Charade, drawing on his Crown Film Unit experience, and unrelated to the movie, appeared in 1947) and playwright, and had played an important role in the abolition of the death penalty and the passage of the Theatres Act, which saw off that bane of the British stage, the Lord Chamberlain's power of censorship – not that his own work had ever been in danger from this quarter.
(4) They argue that an elected mayor is chosen by everyone, not just the councillors from the largest political group (37 Tories in Banes’s case).
(5) On 10 March the citizens of Bath and north-east Somerset (Banes) will get to vote in a referendum on whether they should be given the chance to elect their equivalent of London’s mayor, Boris Johnson.
(6) The ruling Tory party in Banes, along with the Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Greens, have all united against.
(7) Predictably perhaps, Steve Jobs was ahead of the game when he said in 2010 at the launch of the iPad: “It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.” It is also reasonable to conclude that performing arts will no longer be the bane of parents who have traditionally told their artistic kids to “get a proper job”.
(8) Airbnb is a website that's fast becoming the bane of the hotel industry.
(9) Microbial infection of a corneal transplant is a complication that is a bane to all corneal surgeons, the sequelae of which can be devastating.
(10) As well as Forrest Bondurant in Lawless , the 34-year-old has played a number of men not to be messed with: the eponymous scourge of the British prison system in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2008 film Bronson ; a martial arts fighter in last year's Warrior ; and most recently the bull-necked villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises .
(11) Then there's the problem of English-speaking actors doing German accents, the bane of movies about the world wars since time immemorial.
(12) Two years later, a New York Times article noted: "Get-rich-quick and gambling was the bane of our life before the smash"; they were also what caused the "smash" itself in 1929.
(13) Reduction of P(p) temporarily arrested venous outflow since P(ve) < P(vne) < P(bane) for 30 sec.
(14) These data suggest that the cardioplegic baneful effect on cardiac function might be lost in the first 24 hours after surgery.
(15) They say the role would not work in a place like Banes, which is part-urban but also very rural.
(16) You overlook this and other absurdities because Bane is an entertaining villain.
(17) MTC has been shown to bind reversibly to the colchicine binding site of tubulin and to inhibit microtubule assembly in vitro (Andreu et al: Biochemistry 23:1742-1752, 1984; Bane et al: J. Biol.
(18) There's a great bit where they imagine a studio lackey asking Tom Hardy to make his Bane voice clearer on the set of The Dark Knight Rises ("Tom?
(19) Bane Case for : The Batman super-villain has been known to cause chaos at football games.
(20) Analysis of the early post-operative mortality causes and of the various post-operative myocardic complications did not reveal any baneful influence of this myocardic protection method.