Yes, that was his reputation: my father knew it when they called him from city hall to offer him the speech at the Capitolio Nacional, that is, to ask him to deliver a few commonplaces in front of bored politicians.
Across the country in New York City, finding affordable housing is a constant struggle for many residents, and apartments going for a few million are commonplace.
Violence was commonplace a few months ago, but no attacks have been reported lately, and elections for a new provincial assembly on Nov. 17 were peaceful, surprisingly so.
Mr Sarkozy seems finally to have grasped this, stating this week that "what was commonplace a few years ago can today be shocking .As for French diplomacy in north Africa, this has not been its finest hour.
The anti-racist organizations have never been more vocal than they are today, and what passed as commonplace a few seasons ago is no longer tolerated around the stadiums today.
After the immolation, there were at least a few of the more commonplace Falun Gong protests on Tiananmen, which are by now regarded with only mild curiosity by Beijing residents.
At a time when Irish fiction has never been so fertile, I was pleased to discover a novel right up there with those of Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and Eimear McBride Mike McCormackk's Solar Bones (Tramp), which transforms the circumscribed and seemingly commonplace – a few hours in the life of a middle-aged engineer – into something universal.
They may be commonplace within a few years.
We eliminated a few proper names and some commonplace words that were apparently clicked inadvertently.
A few years ago, it was commonplace for more than 2,000 veterans and their relatives to show up at the sprawling campsite in the farming town of Cheshire.
