His miracle cure was a commonplace experience for many of Cairo's Jews who sometimes called it the "Jewish Lourdes".
Living alone for the first time is a commonplace experience in terms of the realisation, and acceptance, of unopposed selfish- ness.
Who of us has returned to a childhood home or a city that may have figured prominently in his biography without knowing full well that seeing it again was bound to be an experience at once exciting and sad? "Haunted by the past" is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience.
Who of us has returned to a childhood home or a city that may have figured prominently in his biography without knowing full well that seeing it again was bound to be an experience at once exciting and sad? 'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience.
Feeling alienated from contemporary architecture is a commonplace experience: the pleasure that leaches out of your afternoon stroll when you have to walk along a big building with a flat, smooth, featureless front; bafflement at another magazine spread celebrating a conglomeration of soul-less boxes.
At the same time, though, she warns that aging is such a "commonplace experience" that nobody should "behave as though … uniquely afflicted".
The bedtrick may not really be a commonplace occurrence, but it is a commonplace preoccupation.
The Affordable Care Act roll-out was plagued by bugs, certainly a commonplace experience with large-scale digital launches.
It's a less commonplace experience, though, to feel yourself becoming actively less well-informed as you read, as if the celebrity's words were eliminating your brain-cells, one by one, like bubble-wrap being popped.
Coming into contact with pornography is a commonplace but often unwelcome experience for children and young people.
