(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.
Threadbare
Definition:
(a.) Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
(a.) Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, due for renewal next year, was "threadbare" and that the existing nuclear powers would be in a much better position to tell non-nuclear countries not to develop weapons if they pursued deep cuts in their stockpiles.
(2) However, Australia are a threadbare side with absolutely nothing about them.
(3) Substitute Felipe Pardo scores twice as Olympiakos beat Dinamo Zagreb Read more Wenger’s options on the bench looked threadbare; Bayern’s rather less so and Pep Guardiola was able to introduce Robben in the 54th minute.
(4) The 57-year-old, working with a threadbare squad which contained just eight players and no senior goalkeeper when the pre-season friendlies started , has publicly questioned the club’s transfer policy on a number of occasions.
(5) Why keep daytime TV churning through the wastes of the day on both BBC1 and BBC2 when one channel could do the threadbare run of Angela Lansbury series and jumble-sale reality without anyone missing or caring?
(6) It is the point where the already threadbare veil of "meritocracy" falls off to reveal a fiscal system designed to reward already concentrated pots of wealth.
(7) With Tom Huddlestone, Jermaine Jenas, David Bentley and Danny Rose all unfit too, Tottenham's midfield has a threadbare look.
(8) But the reaction leaves BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s assertion that his policy is having its intended effects looking increasingly threadbare.
(9) Most of it is pretty threadbare, especially since photos exist of Boris and Zac with some of the same people.
(10) Pellegrini had criticised Uefa for allowing the match to go ahead on a threadbare pitch that he described as "unbelievable".
(11) 2007: It snapped up Coley Pharmaceutical of the US for a relatively modest $164m in order to boost Pfizer's threadbare pipeline of new drugs.
(12) [A few months ago, I signed a letter with Monbiot and others to British Prime Minister David Cameron, arguing that environmentalists were dressing up their doctrinaire technophobic opposition to all things nuclear behind scaremongering and often threadbare arguments about cost.
(13) The shutdown has closed national parks, museums and monuments, and reduced many government departments and agencies to a threadbare staff.
(14) 5.03pm BST 1 min: The pitch is threadbare but also unnaturally green - a jarring combo.
(15) The threadbare agreement thrashed out last night has not even laid the foundations.
(16) This was not the home debut David Moyes had hoped for when he succeeded Sam Allardyce last month but Sunderland’s new manager deserves praise for making the best of some extremely threadbare resources.
(17) Since I arrived in the Netherlands last December, I did not get any money to buy a single item of clothing,” says Fahmi, still making do with a threadbare jacket and boots given to him by the Red Cross in Hungary.
(18) Some professors hold on to their careers for dear tenure, eking out threadbare research material and desperately placing articles in whichever journal will take them.
(19) Even the Liberal Democrats have joined this rhetorical arms race, ripping apart their threadbare integrity.
(20) Not bad for an entrepreneur who recalls helping his mum colour in the pattern on the family's threadbare carpets with oil paints when he was a child.