Hotels are by definition the antithesis of home, a space in which we can lead "a second life of a sort, an additional life story, a place somewhere between your everyday, commonplace life and a dream world where your every whim is catered to and your every appetite fulfilled".
She uses that news as a catalyst to look back on her commonplace life, her past boyfriends and her eventual marriage to a nice guy.
Unlike many Bildungsroman, where the hero often dreams of becoming a great artist but settles for being a mere useful citizen, the Künstlerroman usually ends on a note of arrogant rejection of the commonplace life.
It's a commonplace that life is getting faster.
Such a skepticism seems neither exaggerated nor ridiculous but a commonplace of life.
For John Updike, in the eighties, Howells was the original and still unvanquished prophet of the "anti-novel" — the American novelist who recognized the middling nature of American society, and who, rejecting both romantic hysteria and a too inward-turning formalism, made all that could be made of the commonplace life of the American middle classes.
I can best describe it as small, incremental reductions in self, particularly the ability to deal with everyday stresses and commonplace life and work situations.
Because of their universal recognition, batiks can represent commonplace life, culture, and society, yet they also highlight the many bright moments that stand out from the daily rigors, chores, and routines.
Violent death is a commonplace of outlaw life.
It is pointed out that reliance on hearsay is a commonplace in ordinary life.
