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  • Bombs are going off all the time, but we could call it a "banalization" of violence: people sitting in one room no longer pay attention to the bomb going off next door, so to speak.

    Iraq on the Edge Hiltermann, Joost R. 2009

  • And that is the banality — or "banalization" — that we face today.

    The 'Problem of Evil' in Postwar Europe Judt, Tony 2008

  • Btw, searching for the word "banalization" to check if it existed same in english as in spanish, I encountered this article gadfly. igc.org / liberal / genius. htm

    The J Curve 2009

  • Btw, searching for the word "banalization" to check if it existed same in english as in spanish, I encountered this article gadfly. igc.org / liberal / genius. htm

    The J Curve 2009

  • Skeptics complained that including a cook signaled the banalization of Documenta.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Skeptics complained that including a cook signaled the banalization of Documenta.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Against what he calls the " banalization of sexuality, " Pope Benedict offers a message: There is a better way.

    The Pope and the Condom William McGurn 2010

  • She understood that over-familiarity breeds the risk of stripping luxury of its power through banalization.

    The Return of Luxury 2009

  • The banalization of the genocide of the Jews by the Nazi regime and of its horror are unacceptable for us.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • No painful contractions, no needle inside the baby's heart, no consideration of the individual's worth: it's the complete banalization of human life.

    The Preemie as Former Fetus Suzanne 2009

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