Sentence examples for a commonplace he from inspiring English sources

Mr. Matheson's story and the previous film versions were all set in Los Angeles, but Mr. Goldsman's biggest stroke was to relocate it in New York, where the absence of pedestrians is a statement, not a commonplace, he said.

In a commonplace book, he jotted down the advice Shackleton had given after the sinking of the Endurance: "A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground".

No distinction was made between private interest and factional selfishness; in 1786 the future Girondin leader Jacques-Pierre Brissot was expressing what had become a commonplace when he wrote that "the history of all intermediary bodies proves, in all evidence, that to bring men and to bind men together is to develop their vices and diminish their virtues".

He's the frontman of doom metal legends Cathedral, and someone who also has an interest in going to a coven meeting being commonplace – he founded Rise Above Records, a label with long-standing ties with the occult rock movement.

"We accepted pornography, prostitution as just commonplace," he said to a conservative audience in Washington last spring.

Neither should junior scientists submit a sensational, ground-breaking idea, at least until Registered Reports become more commonplace, he recommends.

To be sure, he had no musical aptitude and a commonplace voice, but he was forever whistling the latest hit tunes, as though this might somehow lead him closer to his ambition.

"These charges are commonplace," he said.

When you achieve your ambitions they become commonplace," he said.

Drivers are considered untrustworthy, and accidents assumed commonplace, he says.

"The green-building movement is now commonplace," he said.