commonplace

Whether programs of poetry and music will become commonplace is anyone's guess.

Not sure what view she would take of it, he limited himself to commonplaces.

That's a commonplace of any practical philosophy in the Beyond.

And we are going to talk of nothing but commonplaces."

But the extent to which split screens have become commonplace is a major change.

His famous "all the world's a stage" was in fact a Renaissance commonplace.

It was a change to see them and exchange a few friendly commonplaces.

They joined it, and at that point, kept their conversation to commonplaces.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

In your case, however, the commonplace does not apply.

Not one man in a thousand makes even an apparent escape from the commonplace of animal life.

But until now it had consisted entirely of surface commonplaces.

At first, his questions were about commonplaces, but eventually he got up the courage to start asking more personal things.

Such a recognition was, of course, a commonplace of the faith.

A longstanding Windows design flaw makes that sort of thing commonplace.

Someone brought wine, and across the cups we exchanged the commonplaces of the meeting.

I kept thinking, What commonplace couldn't be touted as a "statement about our society"?

But it's time that this hoary, old commonplace was overturned.

Was he trying to reduce his admirably individual and ambiguous work to a television commonplace?

Imaginary time is already a commonplace of science fiction.

He steered the conversation away until it ran easily among commonplaces.

It gets me when people cite the commonplace of piracy as justification.

She looked up and smiled as though we had exchanged some acceptable commonplaces.

It is in our primary schools that potential above the commonplace is likely to be first identified.

These are the commonplaces of the subject which must come in (for what else is there to be said?)

As if it were the most commonplace thing in the world.

But that is commonplace when you go through a season like we did.

They are commonplace today, and many work without health insurance.

They're commonplace in Europe during the season but have been much less known here.

But anyone who has tried to start a commonplace book knows how difficult it is.

Few things are more commonplace than the abuse of women.

Then, the trouble that has become almost commonplace for him began.

As a rule, people who act lead the most commonplace lives.

That may sound commonplace, but wait until you hear the film.

"Clearly this sort of thing is quite commonplace for you."

This technology is now commonplace in music production around the world.

The phone was still relatively commonplace into the early 2000s.

All the more commonplace items were of course at hand.

What seems commonplace today may be of great interest to the next generation.

I With nothing else to think about, especially on the block, is were commonplace.

"I want to write this down in my commonplace book."

She knew such things went on, were commonplace even in certain circles.

That night the pretty little flat seemed a commonplace thing.

The thing was incredible and commonplace at the same time.

It looked like everything would end in a commonplace fashion.

"I think it will be commonplace a few years from now," he said.

It is all too commonplace and, what's more, often not particularly worth reading about.

Here was a man, a boy, really, who had a short, commonplace life.

What works for him one year is bound to be commonplace the next.

But it is now commonplace, and not just on cable.