Sentence examples for a commonplace one from inspiring English sources

"A forbidden one, a tragic one," but a commonplace one "at the end of the day"?

For better or for worse, in our brand-obsessed world, this is often how social change finally crosses from a radical idea to a commonplace one.

"These tales, about South Asian parents being disappointed in their kids becoming anything but doctors or engineers, has become a commonplace one.

It has become a commonplace (one that I've also relied on) to call the movie a screed against bourgeois life.

That life's a game that can be played well, or badly, is a very old idea and, at least in the last few centuries in the history of Western civilization, a commonplace one.

It is a dramatic prediction — and an oddly commonplace one these days.

And, despite A-list celebrity ads becoming more commonplace, one of the first of the Oscar-winning converts is out.

Indeed, across the thousands of pages, the often-breathtaking details of misconduct can seem commonplace: One worker at a home regularly slept outside the door of a bedroom where four troubled children, ages 6 to 10, sexually abused one another, and one administrator at a home said it never conducted head counts of any kind to determine whether all the children were present at night.

I seem always to begin with the apprehension of details, as if, among objects in a commonplace view, one or two had begun to glow or resonate with imaginative potential.

It is, by now, a commonplace, but one that bears repeating: in 1956, Lewis had the idea for a closed-circuit TV camera to be mounted beside the movie camera so that, as a performer, he (and not just the director) could see the effect he was achieving on-screen, and he submitted a patent application for such a system.

It is a commonplace that one can represent the same subject matter in different ways.