Sentence examples for a commonplace existence from inspiring English sources

Now, she is in the same predicament: the grief that accumulates throughout a commonplace existence has found her out, and she can do nothing but watch and wait while her geese disappear one by one, and the men around her enact their absurd rituals of possession and power.

This is exactly what Griffith (1926, p. 28) had in mind when he suggested that movies "lift [viewers] out of commonplace existence, and bear them … to realms of adventure and romance".

"For its ability thus to lift its patrons out of commonplace existence, and bear them hither and yon on Bagdad [sic] carpets to realms of adventure and romance, the [movie] depends upon pace" (Griffith, 1926, p. 28).

Many of Pascal's intuitions about the contingency of human existence were a commonplace in the period, especially among Calvinist theologians (Rivet, 1651).

This is becoming a commonplace across our connected world.

The existence of multiple forms of intelligence has become a commonplace, but however much elite universities like to sprinkle their incoming classes with a few actors or violinists, they select for and develop one form of intelligence: the analytic.

That is a commonplace.

It was a commonplace.

A Commonplace Book.

Handstands are a commonplace.

Today, she's a commonplace.