This much-trumpeted shocker from France, written and directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi from Despentes' novel, about two young women on the run from the law, does indubitably deliver numberless scenes of 100% guaranteed genuine penetration, fellatio and erect penises in the commonplace hardcore idiom.
The best essays, like George Orwell's, are tough but not fanatical, delight in the commonplace and ambiguous and can see the world as easily in a ham sandwich as a morning rose.
Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose sometimes bleak but graceful work explores themes of isolation, emotion and identity while remaining rooted in the commonplace, won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
Like much of Joyce's work, the stories participate in a tradition linking Charles Pooter and Alan Bennett, working their quietly eccentric magic by finding strange seams of feeling in the commonplace and the underdog.
Other Emersonian ideas-about transition, the ideal in the commonplace, and the power of human will permeate the writings of such classical American pragmatists as William James and John Dewey.
Yes, boom, boom, boom -- a rock band! - Sharon's blog, Leaning Into Life, finds encouragement in the commonplace and has beautiful photos.
An economic meltdown can camouflage itself in the commonplace.
Seeing soft beauty in the commonplace.
Yet here we are in 2003, and the commonplace cam-recorder isn't here yet.
Still, reviews in the Philadelphia Inquirer were not glowing, "The artist, in dealing so boldly and broadly with the commonplace in nature, is working upon well-supported theories, and, despite somewhat scattered effect, gives promise of a conspicuous future" (4 ).
