Sentence examples for common except for from inspiring English sources

Reynolds the classicist, Parmigianino the anti-classicist, with not much in common except for extreme polish and high culture.

These subjects don't have a lot in common, except for having enjoyed brief periods in the limelight.

"We have, as they say, nothing in common — except for one essential trait: we are both rather contemptible individuals".

But the fact remains that gay men and lesbians appear to have little in common except for being vulnerable to bigotry and discrimination.

The sidelines incubate a certain intimacy among women who have nothing in common except for having watched one another's children play soccer, game after game, season after season.

Competitors, who on the surface have little in common except for their seemingly colliding desires to be the best, forging lasting friendships.

Whether they spend their days in the office towers that line the Avenue of the Americas or in classrooms on shady suburban streets, donors to the fund have little in common, except compassion for the less fortunate.

Campanell and McIntyre had little in common, except that, for a semester, they occupied that little room in Graterford.

Beyond that, they had little in common except dislike for the pattern of views that has constituted the mainstream of evolutionary thought in recent decades, which is sometimes called neo-Darwinism.

The two men have little in common, except their support for the road map and their desire for Labour to rejoin Likud in a government of "national unity".

Yet with nothing in common except a passion for yo-yo tricks, Slim and Jim hit it off.