Sentence examples for certain commonplace from inspiring English sources

There are certain commonplace events that rarely make it into screenplays.

Instead, all these cases "contain" certain commonplace elements or cultural motives, which have been encountered in earlier cultural processes.

In this, the perfect book for anyone who does not already have enough to worry about, Ms. Lee accentuates the hazardous in certain commonplace objects.

It was a sequence of events that seemed to call into question certain commonplace Republican assumptions — that what's good for Wall Street is good for America, that marginal tax cuts are a sufficient method of generating broadly shared prosperity, and that supply-side economics usually pays for itself.

But other aestheticians have argued that certain commonplace, "morally shaped" human emotions, partly constituted by ethical judgments, are indispensable for the appreciation of narrative art.

The second, contrastively, is a song form, depending on an iconic formulation of knowledge: as in shamanistic ritual action that constructs complex images characterized by simultaneity and condensation of certain commonplaces that the tradition would transmit.

And of course, lurking in everyone's mind is the question of how much influence reasonable men of the faith have on their unreasonable brothers.As well as repeating certain familiar commonplaces and negotiating certain familiar taboos, participants in inter-faith gatherings do sometimes run into real questions, that make a difference to the world at large.

W.H. Auden, poet (1907 73), "Work, Labour and Play", A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)"A man's labour is not only his capital but his life.

Two poems from the book found particular admirers: Dooley Is a Traitor, a dramatic dialogue between the accused and his judge, was included by Larkin in his Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse; and Auden picked out Park Concert, a memorable evocation of an oompahing band and "their sort of stationary charge", for A Certain World: A Commonplace Book.

Many claims to epistemic privilege on behalf of particular perspectives with respect to certain questions are commonplace and uncontroversial.

A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970) was a kind of self-portrait made up of favourite quotations with commentary, arranged in alphabetical order by subject.